The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-16


End brief sket,h Of Cen. G. n another column.
The DiploaAacy q tho ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
covexy or y Perfect Gold Mine I'm the State
Department..
Our elegraphic advices rom Washington,
which We publish to-day, d sclose the discovery
Of perfect gold mine the State Department
in relation 10 the di lomacy Of the Pierce admin
istration and the doing Of 1t NJ nisters abroa :.
This discovery sh .uld mmsnd the immediate
and per>evering sttent on OF both houses of
Congress, with view to enlightened and ju-
dicious legislation upon all tn; various questions
which may come up fer their action or discus
sion in connection with our foreign affairs in
all quarters Of the world.
1t appears that no less parsonage than our
Minister TO France, in Q letter on the files OF
our Premier, cOrrobOrates all that we have said
touching the agency Of Belmont in the expert
ment OF loan from the Rothschilds for the
benefit of Russia and that the negotiations to
this end were detected and stopped by the
French government, 1t also appears that the
elder or younger Souls had incurred the espe-
cial displeasure of the French imperial court
because Of certain alleged dispar aging remarks
concerning the Empress And this is
probably all that the world will be permitted
10 know for sometime of this letter, which en-
bodies the cream of the rupture between S0ule
and J. ouis Napoleon. 1t is laid by with the Of
fetal narrative and correspondence of the OBJ
jects and the doings OF the Ostend Convention.
A peremptOry demand must be made Tor this
information, or Congress and the country must
continue in the dark.
The correspondence of Soule in reference to
his official transactions at Madrid, it may be
wise to withhold rom the world for season
When he shall have acquired Cuba we shall,
no doubt, get it all in black and white. But
we protest against the poverty OF the Message
on this subject, when the State Department was
so full of it, To be sure, the President could
not very well have said that Soule went out
with peremptory instructions concerning the
Black Warrior and other shat he acted
upon those instructions, giving twelve hours
notice for an answer-tbat he received fat
negative, and was about to pack up aud pack
of, when the Espartero revolution breaking
out he was induced to await the npshOt of the
.explosion--that he did wait accordingly, and
received, meantime, softer Instructions from
Marcy to reopen negotiations upon the sooth-
ing system-thst our Minister put these iu-
structions into his pocket, and was again about
coming home, and this time to expose
the sbilly- shally policy Of Marcy, when
he was diverted from this purpose t,
the magnificent tilibustering and revola-
tionary programme of the Ostend Conven-
ton. It might not have been prudent to say
all this in the Message but something was
expected concerning the progress Of our Spanish
negotiations, and so We have felt bound to sup.
ply the deficiency. II Copgress would know more
let them call for the correspondence, or send
up committee to Marcy to ask the privilege
Of private Inspection of the documents.
Not a word in the Message was said about
Capt. Gibson's case. Why not? Is it Pot
abandoned? We are informed that BelmooT.
according to his instructions, made bold de-
mand for indemnity, (Slo0000}-that the
Dutch government were frightened, and 10
their fright delivered to Capt Gibson all thei,
own confidential, toge her with his papers, on
the subject-that subsequently,, either with oc
without instructions, either from design or
stupidity, Belmont informed the Dutch au-
thorities privately that there was no occasion
for alarm, and that accordingly they pucked
up courage, Dutch courage, and plumply re-
fused to pay. The President need not have
said all this, but he mi ght have said that the
| case of Capt. Gibson vas in bad way, and
that it was TOO late now to mend it.
| Upon the aff airs Of Central America the Mes
sage informs Congress that no progress ha~
been made; but we can inform them, from the
documents said to be on Marcys Giles. that Ba-
chanan could do nothing in London on account
of the negotiations of Marcy at Washington,
| and that in the settlement Of the fishery ques-
ton the difficulties of settling the affairs OF
Central America have been increased, and that
the Monroe doctrine is fable and fiction.
Marcy might also be able to inform any mem
Der of either House confdentially, that Soule,
Sickles and Sanders have very much INFER
Tered in Mr.. Buchanan's diplomacy, and that
the Ostend Convention has completely be-
logged him.
The Message gives no information about the
Sandwich Islands. Why not? Is it not in
portant that Congress should know that the
great difficulty to this annexation is whether
the roy al family of the said Islands and the ma
tives are 10 be classed among our white or
colorcd population? What tribunal can settle
this question, if it is beyond the territorial
jurisdiction of Congress?
And why has the President, we should like
to know, kept back the fact of the mission Of
Mrs. Cazneau to the Dominican end Of the
Island of Hayt? This mission, it appears,
comprebends the project of moral and "ma-
teral add 10 the Dominicans against the black
Emperor of the opposite end of Hayti. The
mission involves the contingency Of a war on
our part against the black Emperor; whereas,