The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-25


plomatac Movements In Warrington.
We learn from Washington that fears are en-
tertained by the British Cabinet that Mr.. Blu
chanan will recommend, in his coming message,
the abrogation Of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty,
and that in order to delay or defeat such pos
sibility Sir William Gore Ouseley was sent to
this country, and is to be followed by new
French Minister, appointed also to the Central
American republics-Louis Napoleon having
joined Palmerston in the policy Of adjusting the
equilibrium of America.
The sudden Importance which Louis Napo-
leon has discovered, Of having an agent in Gen.
. trail America, where heretofore France has not
been represented, and this sending him to his
post by the way of Washington, together with
the attention that has of late been given by the
French journals to Central America, are direct
evidences of the part France has agreed to play
the new Palmerstonian programme for check
ng the southwark progress of the United
States. Palmerston, in fact, stands just where
Lord John Russell stood when the Clayton
Bulwer treaty was negotiated and has chung
with great pertinacity to the British interpre-
tation Oft which he yet hopes to carry, through
the policy Of delay. His only fear is that Mr.
Buchanan will take an open stand in favor of
its abrogation by this country, as during the
discussions last spring. the Secretary of State,
in view of the discordant Interpretation put
upon it by the two governments, proposed this
should be done. Such course is not at all
relished by England, for then this country would
be left entirely free to form its own policy in
regard to those republics, while now, ifthey can
but partially secure the British Interpretation of
the treaty, our hands are tied by the joint
action.
The idea of balance of power in America is
an old one with English and French statesmen;
but hitherto it has met with signal defeat 1t
was the prime motive of the Elliott intrigues,
of white hat notoriety in Texas, during the dis
cussion there of the question of annexation. 1t
was the game that Chatfeld was sent to Central
America to play when he seized Tiger island,
and Bulwer wrote him the celebrated letter tell
ing him that the Cabinet at Washington was a
weak one, and he could play boldly 1t stimulated
Pakenham. the British Minister in Mexico, to
arrange with Trist, through Manning Mackin-
peace, by which our conquests there were given
up, to the great chagrin of the Mexcans them
selves and to the retardation Of our progress
for fifty years at least 1t caused the seizure of
the Ruatan Islands from Honduras, and the i'm
posing of conditions upon their return that
looked only to their possible future admission
into our Union. 1t has been the cause of every
effort to get us into Joint meddling in Central
American affairs. the Webster Champion pro-
ject, the Clayton-Bulwer ENHANCEMENT, the pro-
posed joint protectorate for Mosquito, and nu-
merous other schemes, out Of all which we have
happily got, save only the unwise Clayton-Bul-
wer scheme, which is still an incubus to our
government
This, however they wish and hope to fasten
on us, according to their own Interpretation,
too, and accordingly have selected gentleman
who is supposed to be personal friend of Mr..
Buchanan to 60 first to Washington, to befog
the question there. and thence to Central Anne
RIGA, to carry out still further the intrigues of
Mr.. Wyke, the acting Charge of England in
these republics. The new British Minister
to Central America has been selected not be-
cause he belonged to the ruling political clique
in England-which he does not-nor because
he is distinguished for any diplomatic ability
which he has not been-but purely because he
was supposed to be less distastefu to us IA he
married an American lady; and because, being
a personal acquaintance Of the President, he
might, perhaps, find out what he intended to do,
and perchance induce him to say nothing
against the Clayton-Bulwer treaty in his next
message.
Mr.. 0useley is to he assisted, however, in
Washington and Central America by a cunning
agent from France, who has won his way to
imperial favor by abusing the United States
and praising the much more advanced civiliza-
ton of the Central American communities.
Mons Felix Belly will go out charged with in
structions from the French Minister of Com
merce. a. well as from the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. His principal recommendation for this
post seems TO have been the publication in the
Rerw Contemporaries, for June 1856. of an article
entitled "On the Anglo-American Conflict,
and the Equilibrium Of the New World
which has since been republishcd, with
additions. In pamphlet form. In this
article the policy Of the United States Is cha
racter1ed by every odious epithet of which
language Is capable; and the American charac-
ter is painted in the most repulsive colors
The United States, he afirms, lis the hot bed
Of religious alterations. where the most mon
strous sects find ready aderents; where the peo-
pie are divorced from every moral sense and
every Christian sentiment; where the elections
are carried revolver in hand: where the public
law of Europe Is trampled under FOOT" and
where, in short, every vice aourishes and every
virtue dies! On the other hand, this amiable
philosopher finds nearly every conceivable vir-
tue, the elements Of the most exalted morality,
sound Christianity. true conservatism and the