The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-01
The Nicaragua Cannl-BrfsisA I"srsgses n
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| CompsDy, ard the Clay ton anu oui"er treaty, sno
| the Webster and Champion treaty, npon which ths
ship canal of way and monopoly rested, have all
i tumblsd 10 the ground tegetner. The Clayton
treaty after being openly volsted IN the most OUT
rsgeous manner, on repeated occasions, by Brit
ish agents and emissaries. was superseded by the
Webster treaty, which proposed TO establish sort
OF JOINT professionals, between Great Britain and the
United States over all the States Of Central Ame-
riea. This treaty being rejected, and the canal
monopoly 10 Vanderbilt & Go. being annulled by
the State OF Nicaragua, every thing in Central Ame
rica is again asEft, viii be, in the natural
| order OF events
| Cur Nicaragua correspondent informs MS that
the ulng Of the Vanderbilt charter for the ship
canal will have worse effect than the opening Of
the SAN Juan river and the Nicaragua lake, TO the
greater advantages TO the public of free naviga-
ton; and that Gae project Of ship canal, connect
| ing the river with the lake. and the lake with the
| Pacific, is but
| The airy fabric of a vson,'
and as such, is destined to vanish away. We
think differently; and that capital though it
may require thirty or forty, even fifty sixty
| millions Of dOllays-can make that ship canal
practical existing fixed fact; and that there is
abundant water in Nicaragua lake for any amount
Of lockage, towards both oceans II therefore
| becomes a very important matter to know, whether
the State of Nicaragua has annulled, or intends to
annul, TO all practical intents and purposes, the
! Vanderbilt contract IL would not be surprising,
| after what we have seen in Mexico, if Nicara ala
were to follow, had followed, to the same
| ultimatum, the example of the Tehuantepec
| treaty. We have no doubt the same secret British
machna lions have been at work to bring this thing
about. The control and management of the Mica
Tagua canal, by an American company, would be
| just Objectionable TO the English, the occupa-
ton, by the New Orleans Company, of the Tehuan-
| tepec route. Her Majesty's agents and stock
jobbers would prefer to have both these routes
under their own control. under the entire
osensible control of the States in which they lie.
1t does not suit the policy of England TO surrender
| to us those isthmus passages to Asia without
hard struggle.
The mission of Thomas Barring to the United States,
it has been publicly announced, has direct reference
to this Nicaragua canal. II is well known, that
when Mr. Vanderbilt went over 70 Lonlon, year
two ago. to procure subscriptions to the capital
! stock Of this company, that ne met with anything
| but fatteriDg reception by the powerful house of
the Barings. They stood in his way-they threw
cold water upon the erterprise-they did what they
could to defeat it and break it down, probably be-
cause they We're more directly interested in the
| Panama route. Now, it is not unlikely that Mr..
| Thomas Barring ard company may have had some
direct or indirect agency in the repeal of the Van.
derbilt contract In any event it is evident that he
has been duly informed of the proceedings in Mica
| ragua upon the subject; and We may reasonably
suspect that bis object in visiting this country is
as far as rel ites to this inter oceanic CANAL with the
view of turning the present available circumstances
| to the best advantage for the house of Barring
| Brothers and the British government. And this,
as far it goes, is but part-and but secondary
part-of the system of British diplomacy in rela-
ton to the several great isthmus between the
Atlantic and the Pacific. And we must remember,
that since the extraordinary discoveries of gold in
Australia, these routes have become important in
tenfold degree to the tide of British and
emigration-tenfold more important to US, and to
the interests of the whole civilized world.
| In the annulment Of the Vanderbilt charter for
the construction of this Nicaragua ship canal, we
doubt not the British intrgues at the bot
tom that comprised and accomplished the rejection
Of the Tehuantepec treaty in Mexico limo quarter
of the world is the Machavellian policy of England
pursued with more INSCRIPTIONS perseverance and
| consistency than in Mexico and Central America
All the ends and aims Of her treaties with the local
authorities. and Of her delusive negotiations with
our government, have been directed with singular
skill, zeal, and activity, to the exclusion of the
United States from the commercial passes and
facilities of those countries, and to the securing of
permanent and sovereign foothold and monopoly
Of the continent, from the isthmus Of Tehuantepec
to the isthmus Of Panama. The permission to build
trading post, a fort for commercial purposes
among feeble people, is generally foothold enough
for John Bull to the ultimate possession of the
country, and all the contiguous countries, if nothing
is done to check his INSCRIPTIONS rapacity land
robber. His troops Of miibtSterS, secret and pub.
lie, officials and emissaries, backed up when re.
quired by cooperative ship Of war, and at times
by whole squadrons in both oceans have for several
years past kept all the little States of the American
isthmus in continual hot water.
The same agencies, far as deep laid intrigues
| are concerned, have been equally successful in
driving the affairs Of poor and helpless Mexico into
condition of hopeless and inexp,icable confusion
| The devil is said to be fond of fishing in muddy
waters; and England makes it her ruling policy of
| dominion and colonization The local squabbles
| aud revolutionary disturbances which her agents
have stirred up, aud kept in pretty active efIerges
cence in Nicaragua, Honduras, San Salvador, Qua.
temala, Costa Rica, ard the Mosquito coast, are all
operating to her advantage. Her royal protege Of
the MOSQUITO coast and her newly declared colony
Of the Bay Islands, are but the beginning Of tho
ending. There is receding in the colonial policy
Of England; but steady, untiring, forward move
ment, inch by inch, rather than give it mp, where
once footing has been gained. Her objects in
Central America are the command Of those isthmu,
passages, the local trade markets for her man
ufactures, colonization, dominion, and new Offices
for the swarns Of Office hunters which infest the
realm-those younger sons of her greedy and mono.
POLLING aristocracy, for whom there are no remain
ing sinecurcs at home.
The treaty joint protection concluded between
| Mr. WeheInr nd Mr. Int nknI hrr