The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-04-15

one of those services to which the rule against
passengers was intended to apply. On the con-
trsry, by undertaking the york the ships Of the
United States nav, become sssimfisted to mer-
chant vessels and ought to be governed by the
same rules. At any rate, as the rule against the
carrying of passenger In national vessels is sub
ject TO exception, a. in the case of ministers
pleDipotentsry, we contend that this case ought
to be regarded as an exception.
We do not intend to let the matter drop. What
course we may ultimately pursue the aduinistra-
tration and the Secretary Of the Navy wh learn la
due time; but one thing Mr.. Toucey may rest as
sured Of we shall not let this thing drop. Half
the scientific world ia waiting anxiously to hear
bow the cable wa laid; bo'h in order to learn
something more about the bed and body OF the
ocean aud also to guide themselves in the laying
OF hundred other submarine wires. Snail
or year after the return of the expedition,
until the Navy Department eau fiod time to pub
lish their story? The thing is absurd aud ridleu-
ious We are entitled to have q correspondent
on board each Of the ships used on the expedi-
ton; simply because the public, who pay for the
ships and for hr. Toucey too, are entitled to
know how they are ueed, and because they can
not do this upless we send reporters We ask no
favor for them. We have ss much popular right
to have place for our reporter on board
national ship, on such great occasion, as We
have to place reporter in the national House of
Representatives at Washington, in order to
give their sayings and doings to the country.
We don't want, we wouldn't take q plate
of pea SOUP or sailors biscuit from the
navy stores without paying for it; we de-
sire expressly that our correspondents shall place
themselves under the command of the naval
officers, and observe in every particular the
naval rules and regulations. All we want is
deck room by day, and six feet Of shelter by
night. We may be denied this altogether: but
if we are, the world shall know of it, and shall
be introduced formally to Mr.. Secretary Toucey.
MEXICAN STATE DooUMENTs.-We publish to-
day the text of the new constitution of Mexico
a manifesto to the nation emanating from aud
sgned by President Comonfort and all the minis
tiers of his government, giving succinct account
of the principal events that have occurred in the
nation since the advent to power of that govern
ment The tone of this document corresponds
remal kably with the tone Of the farewell mani
Fl stos of Arista, Santa Anna. Carrera, and all
who have had any experience of the cares Of Pre-
sidency in that distracted republic. All the days
OF the government-exclaim Comonfort and his
ministers-have been days OF tribhation and trial.
The government has been in constant strife with
ignorance and fapaticism, worked upon by anti
nationa interests But it declares its trust in the
aid OF Divine Providence to guide 1t through the
rugged paths which it has yet to traverse; and it
Gale be aven to witness that not single one OF
its acts will fail to have for its sole and exclusive
object the prosperity, the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, the
happiness OF the nation.
The history of the difficulties with Spain is
given in an easy, quiet, unimpassioned strain,
the only evidence Of feeling in the matter being
in reference to the extraordinary bouncing of
the diplomatic stage OF Mr.. Sorela-an act for .
parallel to which, says the manifesto, the history
of diplomacy would be searched in vain. But it
is not to be supposed, according to the same do
cument, that the conduct OF Mr.. Sorels merits
the appreciation Of his government
In reference to the hostile attitude of the
church to the government, the manifesto, besides
commenting on the revolutionary movements in
sigated by ecclesiastics, refers to the Popes al
locution, which, it says, abounds with false or
misconceived statements of fact. showing that
either the alocution is apocryphal or that the
Holy Father has been grossly deceived Bat
whether authentic or not. its official character
and legal efficacy is repudiated, the government
recognizing no superior in temporal matters
Altogether, this manifesto is q highly interest
ing State paper, written with much ability and
evidently with candor and fairness 1t reflects
credit on Comontort and his government II he
will only now act with little high-handedness
in requiring the clergy TO swear to the new con-
stitution, and treating them as traitors II they
refuse, be will entitle himself to the eternal
gratitude Of Mexico and to the admiration Of all
true republicans over the world.
COMPLIMENTS OVER THE LErT.-The Little VII
lain compliments us almost every day. In one
of his latest Efforts he atteringly calls this jour
nal that great organ Of public opinion, which
puts in administrations and puts them out at its
pleasure-which regulates the moral, social aud
political movements of both hemispheres-w
created Potosi stock, and swelled the price Of
Parker Vein from nothing to eighty per cent"
&c. The Little Villain is especially sweet spoken
In styling us the historian Of the Parker Vein."
But why stop with the Parker Vein! We have
also been the historian Of the United States
BaDk-of the New Haven Railroad scrip, includ-
ing Schuyler-of the New York Central and Its
dcIaulting auditor, Schooumaker of Swain, the
discharged railroad commissioner-of the Matte
son, Gilbert aid Smouton Congressional lobby
cpcratieps-of Wesley, the brick church aud
other stock gambling schemes We have been
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