Demoine courier., 1855-12-13

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contains 10000 acres Of fertile land
In Yucatan. Great Britain has ob,aine,
possession of addiiiona! territory, to IN,
extent OF 1900 square miles.
Add 10 This the pro,ectorate Of IN,
Masqdiso Understanding Ave hand
red miles from the Roman river 10 IN.
Cairqui Lagoon. and embracing $1,000
square miIes-anG the result is, tina
Great Britain now has practical possess
ION OF about sixty thousand square mile.
in Central America, or one-.hird Of ahe
whole. That she intends TO hold On
thai she has got, 10 now certain, and CIR
cumstsnces are favorable to her acquis:.
ton Of all the rest--snd thai. TOO. in
the face and eyes of the Monroe doc
trine, TO say nothing of the CLAYTON.
Bulwer treaty.
The difficulty has been aggravated by
tho expeditions Of Walker and Kinney,
and this may be a pre,ex. for furshes
British pretensions. But our govern
men. endeavored to arrest Walkers ex.
pedition, and having failed in that, they
have now stopped his r~einforcemsnis
from San Francisco. Walker il now
acting in suboldina.ioN 10 the Nicaragua
Government de facto. bu. will not long
De able to retain even that position
The military enterprises Of Kinney was
arrested ia New York by the Govern
mens, and he 10 culiivating corn and cab
bsge, AZ q peaceful squatter. II San Juan.
Again. il is said tina, Mr.. Gushing has
writtena very indiscreet letter to the U.
nited States Dis.sics Attorney in Phila
deiphia, in which he has spilled vi.u-
peraave terms to the British Govern.
menf. Il is true enough that il was no,
the b~usiness Of Mr.. Gushing 10 discuss
our foreign relations ia a correspondence
with a Districs Attorney. IL was sufi-
Client for him TO point out what he deem
ed The District Atorney's duiy; he should
have leh Mr.. Champion, with whom he
had nothing 10 do, 10 Do handled By the
Secretary Of Stale. But the British
Government has no concern with what
Two law officers Of the American Gov
eminent may say by way OF parensLe-
sis, WHEN they happen 10 write 10 each
other. Mr.. Gushing may have made
remarks which were ~indecorous, for
which there was no occas,on- which
were even unjust-which, Il addressed
to the British Government. might pro.
perry be regarded % insuliing-yet, in
asmuch az they we're o addressed 10
that Government, il can lake no notice
Of them. /: mighi a. well lake notice Of
= parsgraph 10 The Coshocton Spy. which
Il choose 10 regard % offensive. An
Eng'ish Journalists may put himself into
40 toweriaga passion 40 he pleases with
Mr.. Gushing, if he fnds his letter in
print, but !, 10 an affair for the Journal
lists only.
his view Of The causes OF causes az
difference between the Two countries. We
think. will show our readers pretty clear
~ that we cannot have a war yet, how
sver desirable sou.e may think il Moth.
ing has bean done on either slice for
which eiiher country can have the face
to G. 70 war-there u no Injury which
war can heal, no insult offered for wal 10
wipe out. war in such . case would be
naked. wan.on homicide, without tho
ehadow Of an apology. II 10 not Al an
strange. therefore. thasmany should think
he getting up Of this exciiemen, q mere
s:ock!ober's trick, OF something Of the
sort. s