The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-02
One Of the Great Commercial Movements
OF the Age.

tTransla ed from the Paris journal DIES Debats May 81
In our days, even the children have already been
witnesses Of many revolutions. They win yet sec
several Others for humanity never stops; ana just as
nature has horror of the vacuum, so has the mind
horror of immobiity. While old Europa i9 !ls
again her tired wings, aud appears to accomplish
upon herself concentrcal work, the immortal law
OF progress opens other ways in its favor, and the
spirit Of Him who walked upon the waters, pursues
through the seas the work OF expansion AMI propa-
CATION, which cannot be flashed but ~ no END OF
!, time. :" You 60 on the right, go on Tho len,
says rroverb; as the earth is turning Tound we
will comc to meet each other one day Wen, these
words will be accomplished and they shall be So in
our days. by the children OF that adventurous aud
race VIII CHI scattered over the universe,
and Of which il had been SAID 1910 dt1ssos @oe
Britanaos. The two great currents issued from the
\ Anplo-Eaxon race, the English people aud the Ame-
sican people, put themselves in march, one towards
the east and the other towards the wess in order to
find themselves together and be united after having
cross cd through the world The place of that solemn
rendezvous is that fabulous empire which had been
deuomnated the enphe of the middle, fabulous
earth and which we can call with the poet: the
womb # the world. In order to join their hands to
make the turn, there is but q single obstacle to be
overcome: it is the last defence Of the old world
the great wall Of China. Now, before
long time, the British and the Americans, running
Is winds from two opposite directions, with steam
and gunpowder will attack that last rctrenchment,
and under their repeated strokes the great wall will
very have been destroyed, rs the walls OF
Jericho were annha.cd at the blast of the trumpet.
II We do not write n fable. 1t is indubitabe and
Co. escen that the English will sooner or later take
possession Of China. S~Eill not take her voun-
4 taEily, more than they nave voluntarily taken
tho Indian empire; but the extension and the
forced condition, or to speak, the fatal condition
OF their conquest, longer permits them to stop,
ana to say TO themselves -" Thus far shalt thou
co. All their increase OF territory in Asia, have
beon acts more the result Of necessity than amb.
sicn. A the same time, every progress Of indus
sTy Of the European continent pushes England
towards the regions Xplored and not speeuated
upon up to that time. The most far seeing political
men have also declared that she must henceforth look
for her future and her fortune to her colonies Europe
which she kept in kind of industrial guard anship,
arrives, shall arrive, one day, to emanc;pation
The English commerce needs other markets. Whea
the Dutchmen wers invaded by Louis XIV, they
thought for mesaent to transport their republic to
Batavia, after having broken OF their bikes, and
rendered to the ocean the soil which they had taken
from it, The Epglishman possesses, also,
thor greater country, and less liable to be seized
than that called England He possesses the sea.
Threatened by rival industries, disposscssed Of
monopoly, 10y concurrences OF circumstances, the
English industry viii emigrate the Dutch re-
public wished te do. Is not the ocean her kingdom
England was thus destined to complete, sooner or
later, the conquest began by her in the extreme
East. But, more yet. new events which are pre-
pared, or which are already in way of execution,
will peshaps, force her to this than che should
visa
Fer, while the English are walking to the assault
OF odd Asia, in taking the way either of the Meai
terYanean and Red sea, or of the Cape OF Good
4opo, the Americans, the othe. side Of the
world, going also there by the Pacific ocean.
Tbe government OF the United States sends one
rguadIo to Japan aud it ri likely that before few
days shall tue Americans making, with their
calDons directed against that mistaken mass,
81 large hole, the English did in China. These
unsuitable and bold pioneers have thrown glance
f uoE these territories, fnf EFF rich
sness, which shst from them. Their whalers
which sail by hsxdre2s upon those unbc unded seas,
have been acquainted with and nave marked the
road of their future eonqucsts. But till now, they
had appeared emily rs scouts; to-day, theyare going
TO present themselves powerful naticn.
The Engshanen end the Americans are not
civilization, humanity, public rights, seaabilty
in word, of Christianity There is yet, and will
be always, tkc struggle between the old end modern
worids-she Struggle between the cid religions
and the Christian religion. The Chinese and the
Japanese wish mot TO recognize the other part Of the
hun an world; the foreigners denounced by them
AS barbarians and enemies. They close up their
ports, and kll tbosa when q storm throws them in
their hands 1t is the principle of the Jews, who
wanted not to recognise the Gcntiias. 1t is the
principle Oethe hecthens, who called foreigners and
their enemies by the same single n:llne-hostes On
the other side is the principle which says that all
mon are ssns.of the same family, ard mus. assist
each othor that no nation cithcrEhut her ports
70 shipwseoked men, nor refuse them succour and
projections that Hospitality is duty &c an asylum is
right that peoploas the right living part from
the genepS society and OF escaping from the
union tsat all have to fulfil, towards each other
duties of which they may mutually ie plore and
quire the accomplishment. 1t is the Christian prin-
ciple the prnciyaecf charity of fraternity and of
union. j. is real combat which isabout to take
place in theold Asiatlc world. 1t is the struggle of
prog ess against innobility of the spirit against
the lettar, of me7ey against the law How
should H. end be doubtful! What tire Americans
are doing now is The realization Of the dream of
Christopher Columbus. 1t is said tho. Columbus,
WHOM he,zailed for that voyage in which he disco
vercd America. believed himself going to the other
aide Of as s a he war looking for snother way
thought he had arrived Mt India 1t was the
New Wcrld he had encountered. The Chris
tian civilization seated itself in passing: it took
possession, of it. and planted its ocass 1t to-
to-day is lseginning ~ ain its eternal pilgrimage,
which continues the circle of it's revolution. From
the new ssarld, where l. acquired a vigor, it
takes its star., 10 fall again upon the I'd world, OF
which it will complete the dissolution. II may be
that several years will DO necessary fer he accom-
plishmentsf that werk a. conquest ahss, ntion, aud
assimilation. Joseph dc MAESTRO used t&.say-ss No
doubt nGtssne single de is {al--chdren
know that themselves; br5 all have succeeded, and
this is wt,as men wish notao sce." ThuEsye do not
zee anything commence orAanything done nder our
eyes, beca,,s, perceptions extremely little.
Ten yeaIs--swenty years-swhat is that ayphor in
the number of centuries But it will be, in the
future, ef the most pos.ical and the Host epic
sFectacles of history, that g. the two peoples, chill
dren Of single and same nsce, and of sole and
only God, advancing one towards the other through
the continents and the seas in order to join and
They are in rsarch, and notaing can stop saem.
The breach is opened, and by that breach vii. pass
the tide of gospel, of which it has been said that it
should renew the face Of the elrsh
Commercial Relations bAtsyeen England
and Slam
The Manchester Commercial Association. through
fheir PRESIDENT has directed the attention Of govern
Snent to the state cf our commercial relations with
siam. On the 18th of March, Mr.. Turner wrote to
tho Earl Of Malmes&rry, in the following terms =
Ny Lord-On behalf ef the directors Of tic Manchester
Comnercal Association, have the honor 10 solicit your
sorfhps attention to the following subject In the years
2649 and 1880 urgent addressed
Her jeys govcrnmert by this association, pointing
out the unsatisfactory poon Of our trade with Siam,
and sting the importance of cndcavorirg to
permanent footing in TINT country by OF
cai treaty and her Majcs,ys government your lord
n1ip will be aware, subsequently, directed Sir James
Brooke TO proceed to Siam eherged with the aton
a. tAcaty Of amity and between her Britain
mic Majeety and the king VI That country, which, how
ever unfortunately proved aboxt4ve not any