New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-07
THE NEWS FROM TIE OLD WORLD
BY THE NIAGAh.A

dense all tnelr lnLclugenCe WHICH mas not OSIOlc
appeared in our columns by Telegraph.
President Fillmore's Message is published at
eDgth and largely commented on by the London
papers The Times devotes to it the leading
article in three successive days. This paper thus
begins its dispositions:
The last address of an Executive chief present
ed TO the world was that of Louis Napoleon, who
only the other day was in lodgings IN King street,
ST. James but who now by the expulsion OF an
elected King presides over the fortunes OF france.
The address which this morning occupies so many
Of these columns is from Millard Fillmore, former
ly linen diapers shopman, and now,by the death
Of bis superior, the Federal head Of the United
States OF America A century age, IN the days OF
Louis Nv. and George III. the widest magma
ton could not have fOreshadOwed two such dOcu-
ments two such personages, and two such trains
of events as have placed them where they are. IL
it was then somewhat less improbable that num-
Der of British Colonies should win their indepen-
dence and form a Federal Union than that the
grandson of then existing advocate in Corsica
should be the President Of q French Republic, on
the otherhand the Message Of the American Presi.
dent is on the whole a greater more compre-
hensive%and more significant marvel The Mes
sage Of the French President seemed to exhibit
him as healing the wounds and consoling the
eriefs of an ancient and distracted monarchy as
allaying its tumults and repairing its resources,
planning the future The document now before
us is eminently prospective and hopeful. 1t is
full of new opportunities, creative energy, and
expanding empire. The days Of Washington,
Franklin, and Madison are already ancient IN the
annals of a Republic which within five years has
established its now undisputed sway from the st.
Lawrence to the Rio Grande and from ocean to
ocean, and within three years has planted a
wealthy and populous State on the shores OF the
Pacific.
The Morning Chronicle rates Mr.. Fillmore for
not being Free Trader, but slips in the follow
ingsentence among its criticisms:
Compared with the ignobe immortality OF Pre-
sident Tyler's addresses and with the unprlnci-
pied violence of Mr.. Polk, the unassuming and
even corteous language OF Mr.. Fillmore towards
States which, like Portugal, have been embrolled
with the Union, will stamp its author as poltI-
clan immeasureaby advanced IN some respects
beyond the recent level of American Presidents.
The Daily Ners too, though astonished at find
ing the "expoded humbug pat forth in so sensi-
bic paper, does such justice as this to the au-
thor Of the Message:
President Fillmores message to Congress is
characteristic of the msD 1t is the composition
of one who has attained the position he holds IN
bis party and in the State by substantial hard
WotK; 9y one aS prsotidsl good sense not by
snowy defamation. 1t is temperate IN language,
perspicuOus in conception and arrangement
From some of its views we utterly dissent as
narrow and antiquated, but it is document such
as could emanate from no one but an experienced
statesman who sees clearly within the range oil
his mental vision, though that range may be
somewhat of the narrowest.
A public dinner has been given Hon. Abbott
Lawrence at Liverpool, when as matter of
ob ,ich il ad or
length in the English papers. Mr. L. rejoces IN
the commercial alliances between England and
America; reioices in the goodness and greatness
Of Commerce; in the repeal of the Navigation
Laws; in the maritime competition between the
two countries; in the rapid growth Of the United
States, and in the certainty of peace being main
tanned in the great Anglos Saxon family. Each
branch should strive to learn and adopt whatever
of good belonged to the other. The speech was
received with great applause.
Mr. Golden has been challenged by Admiral
Sir Thomas Hastings and has refused to fight. 1t
seems that some two or three years since the Ad-
mral ade himself ridiculous before Committee
of the House of Commons, of which Mr.. Golden
was O member. A French bishop had told him
he thought the French would like to fight John
Bull, and he thought this worth telling, as rea'
son WHY the Parliament should lay out more
money in preparations to fight the French. But
the friends of the Admiral obtained the suppress
ion of the record ofhis folly in the evidence before
the Committee. However, the story was too
good 10 be lost Mr.. Golden told it to Mr.. Bright,
who told it to the people Of Manchester. The
speech of MIR. Bright is reported in the newspa-
L. rl,o ko1A Mr.
Bright says Mr. Golden. The Admiral then In.
forms Mr.. Golden he must retract, or fight. Mr..
Golden laughs and considers the propriety OF
naming, as his second, his friend Mr.. Punch"
But before be could call in bis friend, the Admiral,
Sir Thomas Hastings, cuts him in letter signed
Yours, with supreme contempt Then MIR.
Golden publishes the whole correspondence, and
thus the matter now stands
Mr.. Alexander Mackay left southampton on the
Goth ult. by the steamer, for Malta and AleXan-
dria, en- route for Bombay, in order to prosecute
the investigation into the condition OF Indian agri
culture, especially as connected with the cutlya-
ton of cotton which he has undertaken on behalf
of the trade of Lancashire, and under the direct
auspices and sanction of the Manchester Chamber
Of Commerce
In FRANCE there has been wonderful debate
in the Assembly on the amendment of usury laws
but nothing has been done or probably will be-
1t is said union has been formed between De
Falloux, the present Chief of the Legitimists
and Guizot, as Chief of the Orleanists, both being
convinced that q Restoration cannot take place for
some years yet, and so joining together to keep
NAPOLEON in check 1t seems, on the other hand
that at banquet given on the 10Th ut. by the
President of the Assembly, Louis Napoleon hint
ed that if disunion should occur between the Gov
eminent and the Assembly, the latter should be
responsible for all the ills that might consequently
befall the country.
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