The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-11-28

Tue NICARAGUA QUESTION People are await
ing with great deal OF interest the arrival at
this pert of Sir Henry l.. Bulwer, the newly APP
pointed British Minister to the Uaited States, for
1t is presumed that he mas been directed to enter
upon the settlement of the question which has
sprung up between the two countries within short
time, on the Nicaraeuan business. All our other
difficulties with European nations have been
settled and disposed of. The French President
has received Mr. Rives, and there will be no fur
ther trouble with that republic. This Nicaragua
question is the last of the SERIES and there is an
Increasing desire among the people OF both coun-
trts to have il peacesbly settled and arranged at
as early day as possible. An interesting letter
from our correspondent in Leon de Nicaragua, in
which English aggression in Central America is
the principal subject, will be found In our columns
To- day
There is every probability that soon after Sir
Henry Bulwer's reception at Washington, this
question will be taken up, and an effort made to
adjust it IN a manner that will be satisfactory to
both countries, and on a basis similar to that which
is shsdowed forth in the influential English Jour
nails of recent date. If the United States show
no disposition to monspolize the inter-oceanlc
communication, which Is proposed to be made at
thet point, but will consent TO make it free to the
commerce Of the world, and place it under the
Joint jurisdiction OF the Mosquito and Nicaragua
governments, there will be no difficulty ia arriving
at a satisfactory settlement. Such a solution of
the question has been indirectly submitted aad no
doubt will be accepted. From the givings out OF
the Washington journals, it is not unlikely that the
course pursued by Mr. Squier, the American Min
lister TO the different States that part OF the sonti
nent, will not be acknowledged by the administra-
ton; for IL is stated that he had received no nstruc-
iions. and acted more on hrs own hook than what
he was empowered TO DO. This will transfer the
question to Washington, where II can be disposed
OF by Mr.. Bulwer and the cabinet, provided the
English Minister do not make such demands as
could not consistently be oecededto by the Am ri
can government We do not believe, Judging from
what has been published in the London journals, to
which we have referred that he is prepared to take
such course. II would appear as # England had
taken great deal Of unnecessary trouble IN this
matter. To suppose that great commercial
ton like the United States would be lost to its
own interests, as TO construct canal and forbid
ohercounes the oft, little less than absurd.
Although we are not as old nation as many, still
we question II there is any other on the face of
the globe that is more alive TO ITS own interests,
or more up to the spirit Of the age, which is ia fact
nothing but the embodiment of American progress
sion, a. we understand the term. That spirit has
thrown down the obstacles which ignorance placed
IN the way Of international commerce, in ages
when II was not understood, az 1t is IN the present
day, that the interests OF every country are dcnt-
peal, and that what Injuries has the same ten
dency IN another. This is what IN modern days
is called free trade, the destroying Of inpedi-
menis in the way OF free interchange of commo-
dlties ard productions between all nations Now,
we question NJ the American citizens who procured
The grant Of right of way ia Nicaragua to con.
struct a chip canal to connect the two oceans had
ever any idea Of excluding the commerce of any
county from 1t: and. II We are not much ms
taken, there is special clause IN the grant pro-
hibiting them from doing so, were they 80 inclined.
There lie, therefore, nothing in the way OF sa-
tsfsctory adjustment OF the Nicaragua question;
and II is not TO the interest Of either nation raise
any fresh obstacle. We shall, however, soon
know more about the matter. for the new British
minister caruot be very far distant. There cannot,
however, be doubt that The United States will
not look on with indifference on English argres.
zion and interference on this continent, unless we
are prepared to abandon the Mosroe doctrine. 80
frequently alluded 20 since this Nicaragua dis
cussion was commenced.