The New York herald., 1851-11-29


delivery to the two houses, We shall be enabled,
under the arrangements of the Postmaster Gene
raj, to lay the Presidents Message before our
readers.
The most interesting feature Of the message, We
doubt not, will be upon our foreign relations, and
in the statement of the late events 10 Cuba, and in
the views action and official correspondence efthe
government in relation thereto. Upon this branch
of the message shall look for good deal Of in
teresting information. The accompanying
respondence between Mr. Webster and Mr. Calde-
ron will unquestionably throw food of light upon
the point of etiquette, which at enc time assumed
such q warlike aspect. II was, perhaps, entirely
owing to the discretion Of Mr.. Calderon, and the
prudence of Mr.. Webster, that war was not pre-
cipitated with Spain. We remember very well
how near q paltry quarrel with Poussin came 10
provoking a rupture with Louis Napoleon. Had
he not regarded the whole affair as ridiculous
bdgateAe, or bag of wind, We should have had awar
with France on the spot. And so, when the organs
of Mr.. Webster began to thunder on the Cuba
question, be gan to be alarmed for the peace of
the country. Doubtless the official correspondence
will throw some light on this mystery. And We
shall be disappointed if it appears that MIR. Fill
more has done nothing for the poor lads captured
from the remnant of the Lopez expedition, and
now the prisoners of Spain. 1t will bs rather
sorry settlement with the Spanish government if it
shall turn out that the whsle of the late negotiations
commenced and ended upon the puerile punctilio of
a salute to the Spanish dag. But, in any event, We
may count upon this branch of the message elcting
q very thorough and exciting discussion in both
houses. Indeed, the President may as we'll make up
his mind at once for merciless overhsuling in
reference to the fifty prisoners executed at Havana
and the less that is said in the message in justfcs
ton or paiation of his neglect Of duty in that bu
siness, the better.
Considerable light will also be required to illum
nate the darkness which las enveoped the proceed
ings of Queen Victoria's agents in Nicaragua, San
Salvador, Costa Rica, and the other Centrai
American States and the state Of things in Mexico
will certainly call for some recommendations to
Congress Indemnities will probably be recsm-
nended for the depredations upon the Mexican set
Elements by our unruly Apaches and Camsnches
The operations on the boundary line will require
little clearing up. AS far understand it, Mr..
Bartlett is not the man, for we learn that he has
spent the whole years appropriation of hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, and has done nothing but
quarrel with his astronomers He ha, doubtless
collected large supply of insects fossils, and curl
GUS geological, mineralogica, and vegetable speci-
mems, Wnlcu Will De useIul 70 science out having
been commissioned to run the Mexican boundary,
if the President cannot render in satisfactory
port on that heal, a known to be competent for
the work ought to be detailed to do il.
We are prepared for hattering exhibit of the
finances and the public debt, and reconmen-
dation to Congress Of the Forthcoming protective
tariff document from the Secretary of the Treasury.
We shall also look for some report of the oommis-
idity of those tremendous claims, after the money
was paid oat by decree of an incouuphble board Of
three distinguished politicians. But, report or no
report, that subject is too tempting to escape the
scrutiny of Congress.
We count upon another appeal for the river and
harbor bill. 1t is good whig thunder, aad may
create considerable amusement among the demo-
cratic candidates for the White House in the Sc
nate. A hundred thousand or two to clear out the
Hudson river obstructions would be useful and We
should like to the Presidential candidate that
would dare to oppose it. That's all.
The message will probably exhibit falling of
in the receipts from the new postage laW but that
ought not to prevent its reformation in very many
Important particulars.
Additional appropriations will be recommended,
most likely, to our postal ocean steamers, and to
steamers in the navy but we may well doubt the
disposition Of the democratic msjority on this sub
ject. The extent Of the applications for mail
steamships will be very apt to defeat all appropria-
tiops, even to those lines which are eminently en-
titled to, and deserving of, government aid Butw
shall see.
The disturbances and trials growing out Of the
Fugitive Slave law will call fer . passing notice.
and in all probability the President may venture to
recommend additional legislation, the more efsc-
tually to enforce this bran,h Of the compromise.
His Excellency will not occupy very large space
in the message in the ecapitulation Of the
excursions Of himself and his cabinet. Upon that
conspicuous branch Of the proceedings Of the go
vernment during the long interregnum, he will save
time ahd trouble by turning over the attention of
the two houses to the columns Of the NEw YORK
HERALD
In conclusion, Of one thing we may rest assured
that with the delivery Of the message and
the accompanying documents to the two houses,
there will be plenty Of work cut out for Congress
and the newspapers, to occupy all hands to the
meeting Of the Baltimore Convention. Will there
be war;
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