The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-03
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WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1851.
The Rsrcnues--Coptain Gibson and the Dutch East
Isc'ses--6reGt BIitain and the "a 40 Xrcaiy-
Sandsrich Eisnds- The Know Noih,ngs.
The estimates for toe next fiscal year are reserved
for the special information OF Congress. II il sup.
posed they will be delivered ON Monday. Taey eau
not well be brought hun sixty milio1s Of dollars
If they i1cude al the items in the probable cxpen
citufe Of the year. The reveaues from oil the usual
sources wiz be diminished by more than Ten millions
duicg the cur ent year, compared Fith the last.
The Duties will fall vG because the inp0rt trade
must share In tie general depression of business,
and the receipts from public lands will be me What
reduced, because large propartiou Of the entries
will lie CT the descriptions Of lands falling uuder
those Provisions OF the Graduation act VIII h re
duce the prices TO the merely nominal rates of
twenty-five aud twelve-ard-s half cents per acre
Nh tho greater pNt OF al tie public lands ia tie
States cast Of the Mississippi viii be entered under
these cGuses.
It is alm st superfuouS to contradict; the foolish
story Of az intended hostile demonstration against
Batavia and other possessions OF Holland in the Fast
Indies for the purpose Of enforcing the demand for
indemnity In Capt. Gibson's case. For the i1'Orma
ton OF merchants trading with those places Is may
be as we'll 10 etate that no such design has been
thought Of by the administration nor by nybody
connected with IL. rDe rumor is so wholly wauton
and oheciles' IS to warrant the presumption that
it was intended 5s q hoax.
The correspondence wsa G. eat Britain on ques
tons growing out Of tbs treaty OF 1916 has received
oew impulse, Ard there IL uoV some prospect that
-
ton Il the approaching session of Congress. by
which shall re,)ser come, II not ALL he terrific
res and advantages we surrendered Ia the capitu-
a;on referred TO. MIR. Buchanan 10 xious 10 atore
for lis error In that negotiation but 1t Is supposed
that the arrangement will DO perfected az Washing
ton. In 1916, urder the gui1aacs OF Messrs. Polk
and Buchanan, we retired from "a deg. 10 min.
without light, and 1t Is hoped We may return to
that line in 1856, also with out oDe.
II is singular fast In the history Of our various
territorial expansions that the incorporation OF the
British Provinces on the North with our Union was
oncs proposed by the administration as measure
OF Cancellation to the No tbern States aud was re-
jected. During the war OF 1912, while the Hartford
convention was In session, Mr.. Madison sent
General Jessup 70 assure the leaders of tina. body
that The government was not only anxious to pro-
tect All the rights Of New England, bat would spu
Late " desired, not to conclude peace without the
acquisiuon OF all the lower or maritime provinces
OF British North Ame, lea, the possession Of which
was then considered essential 10 the security OF the
navigation trade, and general interests OF cur north
ern commercial States General Jeesup ia sill alive
and the circumstances Of this singular episode In
local and general history are doubtless til pre-
5. .vs so, y him. and will at some time be given TO
The offer Is represented TO have made little I'm.
preston on the men to whom 1, was idressed Per.
haps tbeg doubted whether the pledge could be re.
deemed; perhaps their minds were too much exas.
perakd by sectional contention and party passion
to appreciate it's importance.
The King OF the Sandwich Islands seems to bs in
the dilemma OF the sptnsters at Imail, who won.
dered when the ravishiDg would begin. He has
with the violent seizure Of his domInioos. In 1872,
or nesr that tire, they cursoriy taken up, 10
pnssingl by Sir George Simpson and an Eoglish
feet. The deep sensation instantly produced in the
yo~ sRs Bss snos ss ms
tae Frncb the Russians, the fillibusters, aud now
stly, the United States government and snerai
= uer, Her British ksjesI's Consul, have threat