The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-09

have suffered severely.
The money stolen from the Peninsular Bank Of
Detroit amounting to between six and seven thou
sand dollars. was afterwards found in the yard Of
the cashiers residence.
The sales Of cotton yesterday reached 1000
$500 bales The market closed at one eighth of q
cent advance, especially on the better grades
Common to good brands Of State -four advanced I2a
cents per barrel. Other descrip ions were firm,
without material change in quotations. White
Michigan wheat sold at 81 60. Indian corn was
firm. and yellow advanced one cent per busheI.
Pork advanced l2t cents per BARREL while all other
provisions were firm, with tendency to higher
rates. Cuba molasses advanced half Q cent per
gallon. Freights for England were more active,
and among the shipments were about "a 600 bushels
OF corn, in bags and bulk, at about I'd. 2td, and
considerable lots of naval stores There was, also,
Q fair amount of engagements made for the Cont
nent. The first canal boat through from lake On
tare reached the city day before yesterday, but
brought no great cargo. The receipts Of -four for
the day by the river and railroads, only amounted
to about IL 900 barrels, which did moi amount 10
much more than the aggregate sales for the day.
The French EmpeI or's Anti-SIavcry Speech.
The closer Napoleon's speech to the Lord
barrassing and equivocal does it appear. This
will best be seen from q careful perueal of the
whole. Omitting the mere phrases of compi-
ment it runs as follows
FlatterDs your praises accept them, because
they addressed much to France tnan to myself
they addressed to nation whose interests
TO-DAY every where identical with your a ppaus
hs are 70 an army sna ~
newed applause) They are addressed to the policy OF
the two governmental, which s based on truth on mo-
England and France naturally united all the Srea.
questions Of politics and Of human progress that ogate the
World From the ahores the Asntic those OF the
Medteranean-from the Baltic to the Black 5ea-fron
the desire to abolish sldUcry to hopes for the ansorG
no. a &c ogG far o , ONIONS one onrse s1
end. (AppAuse IL is then only by un vortoy con-
sideratons and ptfu rvaries that our union could be
discovered. II We follow the dictates of common sense
alone, shall be OF the future cloud appause)
You right 10 interpreting presence among ~
in the prosecution Of the war; If fail obtaining
he honorable peace applause Should We 50 faa, a.
and sailors of tried vaor-Do only do two countries
possess within themselves unrivaed resources, but
above anand hers lies their superorityit is because
they are in the of all and enlightened ideas
The eyes Of al who suffer nstinctively turn to the
from the opinions they represent than by the armies
and fleets they have at their command. (Great ap.
plause)
to abolish slavery" have reference ouly to
Europe. But the context furnishes very many
against this construction. The in
innate union in which the Emperor glorifes
extends to ''all the great questions of politics
and Of human progress that agitate the world"
among which the slavery question in the United
States must of necessity be included. We
know how this question is viewed by the British
aristocracy; if Napoleon is united with them
thereon, it must be in "a desire to abolish
slavery" Again, the sentence following, con-
sidered dramatically, contains three antithesss.
In the first, "the shores of the Atlantic" are
opposed to "those OF the Mediterranean" In |
The second 1.-THE Baltic" is opposed to s'the
Black sea-" The grammatical inference would
be that the third member of the sentence was
constructed on the same plan, and that "the
hopes for the amelioration OF all the countries
of Europe" were opposed to "a desire to abol.
ish slavery" the latter consummaton being
naturally viewed by European abolitionist as
equivalent to Gan amelioration of the United
States of America" If the slavery n'sought
to be abolished was European, the Phrase would
be faulty in grammatical point of view, and
the antithesis clumsy and incorrect.
There can be very little doubt but the Emps-
ror's address to the Lord Mayor was the joint
production Of Napoleon and his faithful coadju-
tor and slly, Lord Palmerston. The consam
mate skill with which it is drawn; its compre-
hensiveness, and at the same time the exquisite
tact with which everything offensive is avoid
ed its apparent candor and confident tone,
certainly entitle it to the very first rank in CO.
temporary political literature, and render it
quite worthy of the Emperor's sagacity aud
experience. Even if the credit of
the performance were wholly due to the for
mer, it would still be safe to say that its con.
tents were known to Lord Palmerston before
hand, and approved by him. At go critical a
as the present, neither of the allies
would take any important step without the
knowledge and approval of the other; above
all, step on which the duration of the alliance
might hinge. An unguarded expression in the
speech might have reused all the old
British enmity against his race and his nation :
policy must certainly have rendered it impera
tive that speech Of such vital consequence
should be submitted beforehand to those best
calculated to Judge of its effect Altogether,
the circumstantial evidence may be cons-
dered conclusive in favor of Lord Palmer.
ston's associate authorship and responsible
ty. And Lord Palmerston as is well known,
is perhaps the biterest enemy this country
ever had an uncompromising abolition
list, fierce for war upon slavery to the knife,
and servile insurrections an ardent mouarchist,
deeply imbued with hatred of republicanism
and popular power; cloaking under liberal
disguise, q tory mind filed with respect for all
oligarchies and titles and trappings man.
besides, whose age and rank are complete guar
antees for his conservatism and for his thorouch