The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-06-10

neHt safety of their transit intercourse between
the two oceanA This il what the country
expects Of Mr.. Buchanan, and without any
knowledge of his determination in the matter,
this is the course, we doubt not, he will adopt.
The French Press on the Policy or England
and the United States.
The recent cooperation speech of Lord Napier
is made the text by the French press for series
of comments upon the manifest growth Of good
feeling between the United States and Eagland,
ard the leading journals of Paris are filled with
establishment that Lord Palmerston should, as
they term It, have given in his adhesion to the
american doctrine Of manifest destiny" Even
tie Constitutional is surprised at the reciprocal
sentiments of John Bull and Brother Jonathan"
and recites list of past disputes between them
with tone and manner that show it does not
more than half like the new order of things. 1t
cannot, it says, perceive the motives of the sur
prising manifestation of Lold Napier. All this
display of extraordinary friendship proceeds not
from moral resemblance, but from commercial
interests and, recognizing the fact that Eng
land cannot do without American products and
for time, at least, asserts its belief that these
''bonds of friendship are not chains of flowers
bit simple t'cs Of cotton ,ehich supply the Manches
ter MARKET"
The high source from which the Constitutional
draws it's inspirations renders its remarks worthy
of more than passing notice. and for this reason
we return to them. The whole philosophy of its
argument lies in the assumption that "moral re-
| semblances" and not Commercial interests"
''chains of flowers" and no! "twsts of cotton"
constitute the strongest ties Of amity aud good
will between nations. But this La theory of
politics coincident with the Aristotelian phloso.
ply and the practice of the feudal ages, whencvl,
zation was not as yet developed in its practical
attainments Since Bacon has displaced Arts
totle, and the world has acknowledged that the
proper measure of philosophy is its practical ap-
plicaton to the material benefit of mankind, the
science of government has changed; and now it
stands only upon the basis of the material In
terests of the nation. Commerce is king in more
senses than one, and the world is fast learning
that the foundations of its rule are beet cemented
in the development of industrial interests at
home, rather than in the old theory Of "ships,
colonies and commerce."
II is because the statesmen of England have
been forced to admit these truths that they have
given utterance to the sentiments which the
French journalists find so strange upon the lips Of
Palmerston and Napier but if they will look at
home they will find that the same law of interests
exists, and that there is much less difference THAI
they have supposed in the relations which Lyons
holds to the policy Of France and that which
Manchester holds to that Of England. II is some
time since the walls of st. Cloud were startled
with the utterance of the theory that orders from
the United States for goods were much more effec-
tive in reprefsing the revolutionary tendencies Of
Lyons than were orders from the Tuileres for
military movements. Besides that, they are
much more advantageous to the StRe-for, in
stead Of drawing money from the treasury, they
bring revenue to it. If the French journalists
will look into the statistics of their commerce,
they will find that the United States consumes
more Of the vintage of France, and Of the fabrile
products of Marseilles, Lyons and Paris, than all
the nations Of the Continent together; that q
falling off in our demands upon her vineyards
and her looms is Immediately followed by dscon-
tent at home, and great anxiety and expenditure
by the government
The true policy Of France in view of all these
facts is not to sheer at or to become alarmed at
the good intent policy which is sprnging up be-
tween John Bull and Brother Jonathan, but
rather to join in the movement and secure to
Ne obava of ia oil do
velopement of the trade between the two conn
tries is one Of the best guarantees that can be
found for the permanence of its government and
the security of its society. IL Louis Napoleon
will throw away the old nonsense Of "moral re-
temblsnces' and 'chains Of flowers" and seek to
secure the interests of his dynasty in France by
weaving bis policy with its industrial develope-
ment end binding his throne with commercial
Interests and cotton twists, he will make il q
part Of the positive and progressive policy Of the
age, and give II a frmer hold upon the French
people than That possessed by all the Bourbons,
or even that coming from the Croda MoJilicr.
In such policy be must remember that the
UDited States stands first Not only are we now
greater consumers Of the products Of French In
dusty ibon all the other Continental nations of
Europe, but our progress is far more rapid than
that Of any other. To-day we count bat thirty
millions of people: coon we shall count sixty, and
before Napoleon ". leaves the sccptre Of France
VIC shall count hundred. The fate of the dy-
nasty OF England ia woven with the cotton Of
the United States. That Of France must be
woven with il, or she will sink back into sccon-
Diary position am ong the nations where commerce
is king
1nE New SLAVE TRADE.-We announced come
tne since that Messrs. Regis of Marseillcs, had
made a contract for the transportation of twenty