The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-06-12

the alterations OF the United States Senate go to the very
root and principle OF the arrangement with respect To
Central America From Lord Palmerson's statement we
gather that the article OF the treaty relating 10 the Bay
lnds reced the convention for the cession OF those
lands 70 Honduras wuh me conditions thereof ana ,nen
the article went on to provide that 1rea, Britain and the
United States .houd recognise those islands part Of the
territory Of Honduras The object OF this mode Of pre-
pairing the treaty Sufficiently obvious The only motive
OF Great Britain In cedng the Bay Islands to Honduras
10 provide for their positive nentraly-fo prevent
their becoming the property Of powerful State and TO
forbid their being fortified, occupied In any way as
military po iton For the reason. the purport OF
tina, con veuton included in the Dallas Clarendon
State interested in occupying The Bay Islands
What have the Senate of the United States done under
these circumsauoeS They have taken the course exactly
calculated the proposed arrangement aud that
too, with aectaon OF innocence whish deepens and
ntensihes the injury The Senate Of the United States
have retained those parts Of the treaty which bind Great
Britain and the States acknowledge the Bay Islands as
part of the territory OF Honduras but they have struck
out that recital of the with Honduras viii n
bodies the conditions which the cesson of those islands
made Thus In other words the United states decline
to acknowledge the principle of neutral highway and
themselves ultimate right of conquest or in &C
with their policy of purchase" They have
dawn the Eogsh government into cesson OF Bay Is
be bound by the conditions more nefaous dsgracefu
dodge practised by any State and however
much the countrymen Of Lord Palmerston may condemn
his d position h rrate and domineer other Powers
feel assured that amount Of energy courage he
m ght exhibit the present occasion would meet vita
other than the warmet fro the people
uona clause STIMULATING that he of terri
toria right by the contracting parties sba be subject TO
the acceptance by Honduras of the editions or the Con
venton II is to be hoped tina the American Senate will
be ashamed Of scarcely honorable proceeding but should
change take place In the American policy English men
will look TO Lord Palmerston not TO recede
from the Morning Post Of same dateI
Under these circumstances negotiations still in pro-
gress and no one doubt that their conduct Ia the
hands OF Lord Napier, whose popularity has already
ooteratcd recollection Of the enlistment dispute will
lead result equally honorable and satisfactory to both
pares-to England to the United States. The Queen,
as the sovereign of magnificent province of Canada
the second Power the continent of North America and
in that capacity she has an undoubed right TO oppose not
only epe-y possible enforcement Of the Monroe doctrine but
thar gradual Of the Of slavery ich appears
to b the suicidal and isare policy Of considerable portion
Of the american people The loss of the Bdlwer Clayton
convention Of the Honduras convention and Of the Caren
don.Dallas treaty viii be amply compensated II England
sh uld have the happiness TO Central America
from the infection of that domestic institution, equally alb
horrent the laws of God and which is the plague
spot-the ddmposa heduds0f the people Of the United
States