The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-25

lite treaty, wherein the cabinets Of England
md France proposed to. the United States that
zach of the three contracting parties should
unite in a. Joint declaration to each other never
to appropriate, or to attempt to appropriate to
itself the beautiful island of Cuba; but that,
under triple alliance, the separate sover-
eighty and allegiance of Cuba should forever
be maintained. Mr.. Everett, as our Secretary
of State, very properly rejected these friendly
overtures promptly and decisively; and, with
equal honesty and candor, confessed that it was
beyond the power aud opposed to the policy OF
our government to make the sacrifice demanded
of our claims and expectations concerning the
aforesaid beautiful and important island Of
Cuba. There that matt n rested; but the sub
sequent confidential disclosures of Mr.. Rives to
Secretary Marcy prove that our refusal to en-
ter into this Missouri restriction" of England
and France has only knit those two Powers
more closely together to enforce our obser-
vance of the interdct. The last letter of Lord
John Russell upon this subject in reply to Mr..
Everetts rejection of the proposed tripartite
compromise, very fatty forewarns him of the
folly of any designs on our part upon Cuba,
from the compact still unbroken between France
and England.
Still later evidence upon this point is not
wanting. 1t is quite possible that the late di.
plomstic disturbances at Madrid may be traced
hey ond their alleged origin at the ball Of the
Marquis dc Turgot-quite possible that certain
jealousies and apprehensions excited concern
ing the political antecedents, associations, pro-
clivities, and designs of Mr.. Soule and the
administration at Washington, may have been
at the bottom of this diplomatic imbroglio.
Leaving this matter to pass for its current value
in the interim, we are quite willing to rest its
ultimate solution with the fiual issue Of MI.
Soule's official sojourn at Madrid.
The following extract from the speech of
Lord Clarendon on the opening of Parliament.
on the 3lst January, is in itself perfectly con-
elusive in establishing the correctness Of the re-
presentations OF Mr.. Rives to our Premier. In
the course of his speech, developing the general
policy Of the British cabinet at this crisis, Lord
Clarendon said =
erur faith fay represented by
French Ambassacor At court (aear heal Tie two
seurly-osrcouis have orIosd as were, one ,ast
y0ur lordship that there have been
differences between these two govsznmsnts 10 united
Than TO b. feunc ia cabinets OF
#, m the cppoit bennhes and general lsugh)-dn
eer-pces That sst ever exist smorg aoss
pct each Other and which have only the effect OF eahAs
ing the harmony among them as . cabinet. (.1ear.
hear" from hs Ministerial bsoches) oil. farther add
that the union between tho 70 les It bsen
III n q II r
good un6erstsrdrg bets cen France and England have
oesn xsndsd beyond Eastern policy to the p,li,y aHot
ing AL arts Of the world aud am heartily Jejoed tdy
hot here Is portion oo hemtspaeres ioM re1ari 10
uhieh e policy Of The too countries Heretofore anta
goninc Is sof noU ." e"fre harmony (ohss's)
Now. the question arises what has been and
what is the policy Of the present administration
touching the balance Of power upon the Amcri-
can continent? Thus far the official transac-
tions of our legations at London Paris, Madrid
and elsewhere, have been limited to petty and
ridiculous squabbles upon costume; thus far,
it appears, the administration is satisfied to
take things as they come. When Mr. Rives
made his confidential exposition of the policy
of England and France upon American affairs,
our Premier was too much occupied in the dis
tribution of " the spoils' among his free soil
allies of the North to pay much attention to
other subjects; and Mr.. Marcy, for months after.
had too many irons in the fire. too many con-
fictipg claims for the plumber upon his hands,
to think seriously of the budget of Mr.. Rives.
But now, the plumber being substantially
divided to his satisfaction we may ask of the
Secretary of State, what is the policy of the adj
miaistration? Lord Clarendon boldly an
nounces in Parliament that England and France
have not only united to settle the affairs of
Europe, but that they are as cordially Joined in
everything relating to all other quarters of the
world, including the whole American hemis-
phere and that in everything there is "entire
harmony" between the government of Louis
Napoleon and that Of Queen Victoria.
How contemplate, how paltry and humili-
ating these petty little squabbles of our Euro
pean diplomats upon coats and breeches appear
when England and France are not only shaping
out the destinies of the European nations, but
the limits OF our territorial expansion at the
line of demarcation beyond which, 10 the Gulf
of Mexico, we must be subject to the DEGREES of
those two great European Powers. But few
months ago the Cabinet organ at Washington
was laundering away the fulmnations of the
government concerning the rumored African
ization of Cuba under British management.
Then formal notice was given that Gen. Pierce
would never permit the British to carry out
their abolition projects in Cuba. That innocent
gentleman. Mr.. Champion, the British Minister
at Washington, was much annoyed at these
warike threatenings, and is said to have COM
planned OF them and their false allegations to
the Secretary of State He must have been
surprised at the suddenness with which this
Cuban agitation was dropped when the more
important issues of the public plumber of Con-
gress interviewed. Mr.. Champion has since dis
covered, no doubt that the Cabinet agitation of
the differentiation of Cuba was but sham.