The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-21
Our Washington Correspondence.

wAsHNoros, Nov. 10, 1856.
~ What End AHgiand Concentrating Io,ecfi f7e,i il
he Amoican Uaing;
This que stion does to be Of difficult uton
to any one who reflects that trade ia opening chan
nels Of ncaicusbe the American sthmua
and that the control Of this highway Il Of equal import
England and the United states Our people would
be satisfied with the perfect neutrality Of the thmus
routes and their entire freedom the general trade Of
the world. Hence ready acq escenc. in the Clayton
Buser treaty. In that convention the two Powers
tualy guaranteed TO protect construction and transit
and TO maintain ihe neutrality and Independence " all the
s'stl mus communications from Tehuan.epec 70 nnfien
bat this plan too moderate TO suit Bsllh ideaa 1f
commercial empire. While the Clayton. .3ulser treaty
s,i IN orcesinee neither party have proposed Il.
abrogaiion-Fngland seizei and coonised the Rgatan
slsnds equally in defiance Of it, obligations and Of the
sovereign rights 81 the state o. Bonduras Of who ter
rtory he then took and stI holds orctls and unjust
possession.
The object u this sudden military colonization was the
command q the route across Honduras which
squires Just then brought before tho public.
The route proposed by Squire. outlets 10 from,
o those islands and with them In possession strong
maritime power could open close AZ will that gate o.
the rsciGc 20 its The value Of this
Bri,ish Bay Island Colony I, eIemphed in the notice
brought out BY the Pacific that SIR Charles Fox and
Black t2q., of London, have taken the contract for
building the Honduras Railroad to the Pacific.
This railroad over the American sthmns-commane neef
by friiih colony and to be owned by Bfihh capital
kts-~h worth being protected 5y British feet, aud II
may explain the semioffcial announcement that the
large naval force Il sent here a. 10 be- hand when
wattedu
The Nusguito protectorate IL the sister ~ the BAY
Island Colony The territory Of the Musquio savages
wa. stretched than hundred miles beyond any
limits claimed befofe and ihsn formally taken
der British protection In order 10 cover the port OF san
Juan del Norte.
In this way England secured the control n the exins
Nicusgua transit as completely as she has anticipated
the command of the Honduras line.
The present rtssiled state Of affairs at san Juan and
the possibiy II he Jni'~l States aiding and
aging Nicaragua : her sovereign gbts Fan
Juan "dsgusts England. The feet may, therefore, be
iept at hand, ~ the British press inmstes 20 cool
the arrogant preensions of the Americans" respecting
the freedom of the sthnus trade.
without atverting 10 the European interference AZ ~.
Domingo and other places have here two distinct In
ffingemens OF the Monroe doctrine poin a vital in
teest 10 American commerce, and "a the freedom
f Accommodation With states the Pacific, which
must t~ met in some way very Taking the.s se1
10 their natural relation with the cool repution Of tho
Clayton Bulver treaty, and the appearance ~ strong
neef 20 Tar from their ports and hsv.aside
the signihcant tons of the British prer.--~uHcieu.
grounds 10 suspect that II IL here to lntlndate our
government into tncit subnssioa to these ishnn en-
croschmsnts, which win thus beceme firmly es.sbahet
Eurofsn Dependencies 81 the expense u the
system. isTHMrs