New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-12
NUMBER 294.
Great Britain and Honduras.

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moment occupying so much Of public attention, says
the Washington Union, of the 5th inst, and as it is
supposed that the treaty between the United States
and Great Britain negotiated at London, in October
last is now before government for ratification we
| spread before our readers the following, which we
copy from the New York Herald, protesting to be a
treaty between Great Britain and Honduras as being
nos without interest 1t is understood that our gov
ernnaent is not in possession Of an official copy Of this
HonSnras treaty, Its accuracy cannot therefore be
vouched for:
Convention 6et,ceeaD Great Britain and Honduras
Teiatirs to the Bay Islands.
Her Majesty the Qaeen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and the rspubc of Hendu
ras, being desrous to settle in friendly manner GER
tain questions Connected with the territorial rns of
the republic, have resolved to concluds convention
for that purpese and haye named as their plenipoten.
n.ares, etc. who have agreed upon and concluded the
following articles: I ~ -
ART l. Taking into consideration the peculiar topd
gaphlcai position of Honduras and in orsr to
the neutrality of the Islands adjacent thereto with
leteience 70 any railway or Other line of inter oceanic
communicating which may be constructed across the
terftones Of Honduras, her Biaanic Majesty and the
epaDc OF Honduras agree to constitute and declare
Ine Islands of Ruatan, Bonacca, Helena, Uhla and
lbafDaieta situated in the Bay Of Honduras, free
duras.
me present Legislative, judicial and executive au-
.hoiles IN said island shall remaiu in the exercise of
.nelf innchons until the Legislative assembly OF the
sag ~ lsiahds may otherwise provide, with, however,
the following exceptions:
All functions hitherto exercised by the Crown of
Great Britain and by the Governor of Jamaica in the
government and legislature of the said island shall
cease from the date of the proclamation of this con-
Vention therein andsuch proclamation shall be made
as soon as possible after the exchange of notifications
All functions hitherto exercised by the superintend-
ent OF the British settlements in the Bay of Honduras
in the capacity of Lieutenant Governor Of the said
island and by the presiding magistrate therein resi-
dent In the government and legislation Of the said
Islands, shall cease six months after the date above
mentioned, unless the legislative assembly shall
sooner provide substitutes for the aforementioned
functionaries l,-.
The inhabitants Of the free territory shall then per
mites
l. TO govern themselves by means of their own
municipal government, to be admnisteredb by legisla
tive executive and judicial officers of their own cleo
tion, according to their own regulations
2. Trial by jury in their own courts.
): Perfect freedom of religious belief and worship,
public and private
4. Exemption from all duties of customs and from
all taxation on real estate other property except
such as may be imposed by their own municipality,
and collected for the treasury of the free territory
be applied for the benefit of the said free territory.
5. Exemption from military service except for the
defence OF the free territory and within its bounds
The Republic Of Honduras engages not to exercise
its sovereignty the islands which to consti
tute Sucn lFee territory, IN any manner IN vl0ia0l
of tue rights and immunies specified in this article
The republic also engages not to erect, nor permi
to be erected any fortil alton the said Islands,
any other Islands in the Bay Of Honduras to ced
such Islands, or any of them, the right of soyel
eiguty such islands, any part of such sovel
eighty, to any nation or state whatever.
And whereas slavery has not existed in the sal
Islands, and the Republic of Honduras hereby er
cages that slavery shall not at any time hereafter
: permitted.to exist therein. 80 .-,
Art. H. The contracting parties agree to commun
4 cate the present convention to al other martini
powers, and to invite them to accede to it.
Signed in London, this - day of -, in Il,
year of our Lord 1856.
cLAEESpoN,
John Bulls intermeddIing with affairs on thi
continent will not benefit him in the long run. Be
fore the expiration of decade such treaties as tn
foregoing will not be worth as much as waste paper
90 Manifest Destiny" will make treaty of its owl
and compel European submission to it. 1t is so writ
ten in the book of fate.
The provision in regard to slavery cannot fail tt
excite smile among all intelligent and observing
men. Great Britain stipulating against slavery
Why she is the largest STAKEHOLDER upon the surface
of the globe. Look at her East India possessions fol
instance. But to come nearer home-to bring the
question down to the Southern United States. With
out southern save-grown cotton the mighty fabric oil
her commercial greatness could not stand single
twelve months. Yet she sclemnly stipulates against
slavery being allowed in certain insignificant islands
adjacent the coast OF an unimportant tropical country
Pious nation! Christian Government How they do
strain at the gnat and swallow the camel a
THE MISSING MoNEY.-We find in the New York
Evening Mirror, of the 4th inst, the following para
graph contrmatory of teegraphic dispatch received
here on the same day:
T,L, A.: A. VIZ
learn from her obiging purser, Mr. Rogers that the
| 1000 purloined from the Bank Of New Orleans by
the runner of that institution was found this morning
in corner of one of the staterooms of the steamer
and handed over to the Chief of Police of this city
who had been telegraphed to take charge of it.
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ANOTHER DEFAuLTEE.-A package of s25OOO in
notes on the Dansville On " Bank, abstracted
from the safe of Benedict Colt real estate brokers
on the I'd January, and suspicion fell on the book
keeper, "a young Englishman named Edgar c. Win
ter which was yesterday confirmed, portion of the
missing notes having been recovered at the Metropol
an Bank, and it ascertained that the suspected
individual had left on the previous Saturday in the
steamer Atlantic. The money was traced back
through several brokers' to small exchange Office il
Wall street. Mr. W. A. Colt, Jr one of the partners
starts in pursuit to-day. in the steamship Persia
IN. Y Mirror, 4th.
MARINE DIsAsTERs-We find the following dis
patches in Northern papers
| bostUf, feU. 4.--lHe sup BoWditcn, from New Or
leans picked up the 29th, off Nantucket two boat
containing the officers and crew of the brig Pilgrim
from ST. john for Surinam, ashore near Edgartown
The brig Danen, from Apaachcoa brought in tn,
crew of the brig Willie, from Genares, bound to New
York, which was abandoned water-logged. The crew
had been several days without food or water.
Savannah, Feb. 3.-The British ship John Miller
Capt Bell, from Newry island, was wrecked below
Savannah. The crew have been saved.
Our RAILRoAD.-We have just seen and conversed
with Mr. J. W. Mallory, collecting agent from whom
we learn that twelve miles of our railroad are now
under rail and car--actually in operation that thirty
five miles are ready for the iron, and forty mile;
graded!
He says it will be completed to Monroe by the Isl
day of January next the stockholders will pay VI
fully and promptly.
Surely this is an important public work and ough
to be pushed forward.
Mount Lebanon Q4a.) Baptist, 5th inst. d,
The New YORK MURDER CAsE.-The investga
ton into the Burdel mystery still in progress
the 4h inst but nothing had then been developed IL
fix the origin of the crime with any certainty. sus
picon appears however to attach strongly to thre,
persons, Ecke, Snodgrass and Mrs. Cunningham
The New York papers, with one accord lash ths
Coroner severely for his stupid manner of conducting
; the inquiry, and his indecent and untimely joke