The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-26

and to Continental ports. To Liverpool grain
was engaged in bulk and bags at Cd. lOd., and in
the clipper ship Racer at lid. in bulk. Cotton was
taken at 3D. Rates to London were also frmer. To
Havre, as high 81 per Dbl obtained for -four,
andone cent per Id. for cotton. To Bremen, cotton
was engaged at one cent, and rice at Acc.
NM. fierce's European Diplomacy-Two
Faces-Omcial Instructions versus Private
Lctters-Projet OF a Russo-American AEli-
ance on the Danish Question.
A most remarkable feature of our news Of
this morning, from Washington, is our cor
respondents letter defining the double-dealing
European diplomacy of Mr.. Pierce. If these
disclosures be true, and we have no reason to
the powers of Europe with two faces-one
open and undisguised, that of Marcy as pre-
mier, and one under mask, that of Mr..
Pierce as President of the United States. Our
position towards the European belligerents, as
nation at peace and amity with all the parties,
is that of impartial neutrality. This position
Marcy has officially attempted to hold, but
what is it worth, when the President, under
cover of private letters to individuals visiting
our ambassadors to the courts of Russia,
Prussia and Austria, seeks every available &C.
casion for organising Russo-American ALI
ance against the Western Powers, in view of
the possibility of rupture between the Uni
ted States and Denmark
Were there any necessity for this thing, in
anticipation of such rupture, we might find
precedents enough in eytenuatioR of the trick
among the European monarchies, from the
examples of Napoleon the First to the hvaria-
BILE policy of the Hapsburgs of the present day;
but such precedents are no justification of a
similar policy on the part Of the government
of this country. Duplicity and double-faced
temporizing are never consistent with our
frank and honest American system, foreign or
domestic. The late Emperor Nicholas pro-
posed to Sir Hamilton Seymour the disposition
Of the effects of the ''sick man" of Turkey, under
private arrangement as "betwesn two gen.
tlemen." This may have given the cue to Mr..
Pierce and his private correspondence to our
ministers at st. Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna;
but if the official instructions and advices of
Mr.. Marcy are thus to be superseded by fami-
liar letters of introduction to Tom Dick and
Harry, the office Of Secretary of State may as
well be abolished, or our premier may as well
retire to his estates But Marcy will not thus
be superseded. The President may amuse hi IN.
self with diplomatic intrigues, and plan and
suggest the most beautiful schemes, but his
courage will fail him at " the sticking point"
and Marcy will pronounce the decree.
1t would be difficult to credit this alleged
junketing of our Executive with Russia and her
German neighbors, but for the antecedents Of
Mr.. Pierce's Spanish negotiations. 1t was be.
tween these two stools Of official instructions
from Mr.. Marcy and private hints from the Pres
ident that Mr.. Soule in his Spanish diplomacy
fell to the ground. The private wishes, the
confidential insinuations the secret sugges-
tons of the President in relation TO the beauti-
full island of Cuba, were naturally regarded by
Mr.. Soule as safer guides for his conduct than
the unmeaning official papers of the State De-
partment expressly prepared for exhibition,
sooner or later, to the public eye. Marcy,
however, appears to have been kept in the
dark, touching these private views of the Presi-
dent, all the way through to the Ostend con-
ference, and thus innccently and ignorantly
pursuing the even tenor of his way, he finally
brought the contumacious Soule to the wall
upon that notable manifesto of Aix-la Cha
pelle. Mr.. Pierce, at that point, had gone too
far to confess the game which he had been so
adroitly playing, through special messengers,
bearers of dispatches, and what not, and so he
quietly succumbed to the regular working of
the case, as between the Secretary of State and
his subordinate. We should not be surprised
at a similar issue, from the same operations of
cause and effect, in the case of our Minister to
the Gar. Let Mr. Seymour, therefore, act
upon the Presidents private views and incli-
nations with great caution or Marcy may
make of him another sacrifice to the rigors of
the law.
Mr.. SoulG will probably throw much add-
tional light upon this subject in his forthcoming
book on bis late mission to Spain. Strange
however, it appears to US that the
administration, after the collapse of the
Spanish experiment, should attempt the
same conflicting process of official dispatches
recommending one line of action, and private
letters authorizing another, in reference to the
baHlsu Souhu uihiculty. we snoulu ike 10
have an explanation from the Cabinet organ
upon this business, with the permission of the
President unless at this time the same should
be deemed incompatible with the private rela-
tons of his Excellency with our ministers at
Copenhagen, St Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna
Meantime, from the very pacific letting down
of Mr.. Pierce upon the Cuba question, the
Central American imbroglio, and upon the af
fairs of the republican end of Hayti, we feel
authorized to say, for the comfort of the
Western Powers, that there will be no war be-
tween the United States and Denmark for
year or two to come.
RAcHELs PRIcEs.-On Monday, the first day
of the reduced prices, the Metropolitan was
thronged to hear Madame Rachel in Tisbe. No