The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-25
summing Up the Years History-Interesting
ana Curious Catalogue of Foreign Events.

| ana Curious Catalogue of Foreign Events.
In closing up the business of the memorable
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ffty-five, we publish this morning an in
teresting catalogue Of the leading miscellane-
GUS events which have marked its history
among foreign nations, excepting the incl
dents and accidents of the Turko-Russian war,
which we have reserved for special chapter,
to be published hereafter. We also reserve for
another day therecapitulation Of the prominent
| events, Of all sorts, in our domestic history
since our last annual publication of the same.
| In the foreign twelve months epitome, which
| we spread before our readers this morning.
there are some very curious and notable things
| We find another Cuban revolution nipped in
| the bud, (ncluding some bloody executions in
| the island,) through the extraordinary yigi-
| lance of Mr.. President Pierce and his Cabinet;
and we find our Commodore McCauley feted
| and treated at Havana like o prince, in con-
siJeration Of the devoted loyalty OF our gov
eminent to the interests Of the Spanish crown.
| We find Louis Napoleon in 1851 a special
| constable in London, dating ia 1855 an
| imperial decree from Windsor Castle
| and Queen Victoria doing penance Tor st.
| Helena at the tomb OF Napoleon the First. We
| see the government of Sardinia annnllng the
| privileges and 'confsca.ing the properties Of
| The Catholic church by wholesale; and the
| hitherto most reliable devoted and infatuated
| Catholic government of Spain revolutionized
| hy the same heresy, and doing the same work
of "robbing Peter to pay Paul y while the
| ''perfdious Hoasc of Hapsburg," faithlessin all
things else, comes up at this crisis in special
| and most remarkable "coDcordat," TO the res
| cue and the protection OF the Holy Father at
| Rome.
We look around US, and We see that military
| revolutions have been the general order of the
| day--that from Mexico down to Cape Horn
| our Spanish republican neighbors have been
much more active this past year in cutting
each others threats than usual, and that the
result is still the same-anarchy and continued
civil war. In Nicaragua we find Col Kinney
and General Walker especially the GeneraD,
making an excellent start in the introduction
OF the Anglo American order Of things, il
spite of the administration at Washington,
and man denounced by it az filibuster, :
sending an alleged associate flibuster TO treat
with Marcy as the representative of de Jacto
sovereign and independent State. Whatever,
too, may be the acquisitions of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty, the Monroe doctrine, the Koszta
letter, and Cushing's letters on our neutrality
laws, we can't help thinking that this Walker
and Kinney movement has very much the LOOK
Of ''manifes. destiny"
On the opposite side Of the world, among
the celestial anthropophagi of the Antipodes,
we find the French bombarding Shanghai; the
Americans and English fighting affectionatey
together in the extirpation of the pirates of
the Malay seae, and the Chinese imperialis.s
executing the rebels at Canton, lin quantities
equal to the hogs butchered in December at
CincinDati) with Americans, English and
French complacently looking on. We find
Johnny Bull up TO his head and ears in his
wars with the East India border ruf1ians'
while Brother Jonathan is occupied in enforcing
treaties with the Know Nothings of Japan, and
American ladies are dancing in a temple OF
japanese idols, with the faces of those wooden
deties turned to the wall, that they may not
blush at this dissertation Of their sanctuary by
these beautiful outside barbariansn We find
our sailors relieving the shipwreeked Russians
in the japanese seas, and our merchant ships
doing good service to all parties in this Russian
war; for where there is cash, merchandise, or
market, there American enterprise " goes in"
We find Commodore Breeze stirring up bluff
British Admiral at Constantinople, and our
Minister at Athens hailed as sort of deliverer
against the Turks and their allies.
In casting about us for the natural phano-
mena cfthe past year, we discover by our re-
cord that, like the nations around us, the
earth has been feverish,n excited and shaky
Our schedule of earthquakes win prove an in
teresting study to Professor Merriam, and the
accompanying volcanic eruptions, especially
in Japan and the Sandwich Islands, will doubt
less receive much of his attention Inunda-
tions, shipwrecks, storms, fires, explosions,
finance breadstuffs, &c, &c, FIJI up this most
curious and memorable chapter in the history
Of the outside world for the twelve months
now drawing TO close.
We commend this summary to the attention
of our readers. There is much in It worthy Of
remembrance and reflection, and useful in
guiding our speculations for the future. With
the chapter in preparation on the Russian war,
and the chapter We have also in progress upon
our domestic affairs since the first Of last Janu-
airy. we shall have posted up the books for the
" an 1866, and be in readiness to enter upon
the "heavy business" Of the momen.ous and
still more important calendar Of 80, upon
he threshold Of which re are standing. With |
out Speaker, or a sign ola Speaker, without
ire Presidents Message and without aoy very
satisfactory prospect Of peace az tone or
atroad.