New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-13

| r.,
are srranged. Prncc Napoleon abcat to re-
| tign the Administration of the Colonies that he
might devote himself TO the Government Of Al
geria The Bank OF Frankfort had reduced its
rate Of discount from 5 to 4 per cent. The
! Pmssan elections had resulted in the triumph of
The Constitutional party. There was q short crop
Of tea n China this year. All igncrs employed
in the Kingdom OF Naples are to BE- naturalized.
Cotton was dull, with declining tendency.
| Consols opened on tie 9th nit. at '3l.
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! Jtispretty cvideot, from the occurrences 10 re-
lat.cn r. the steamer Washington sent to San
Juan dol Nc,te by certain parties claiming 10 rep
| +, sent tue Old lntorOcehnic Canal Company, and
whose adventures wlli be found dc scfibed IN at.-
oth,r column) that the busteriugs Of Mr. Bu
,chsnan and Mr. Cas- about the exclusive right Of
this county TO control the lshnus roate
from ocean Ia ocean, and TO exclude Ncsra-
eua from 81 ekirg aid FROM anybody but us is to be
| brought to the test Of hard ani actual fact. Mr.
Caes has lived all his lie wordy buster
lie is Likely to have Oh opportunity, if he can
get any body to back him. ~ stand up 10 the rack.
We are strongly iuci ei to suspect, however, that
we shs have only the Old story o'er asaio. Nc.
Cass, when young plsn, Indignantly broke his
sword across his knee, ard having thus wisely dis
abtd himself from doing mischief, proceeded TO
WELD himself prisoner on parole, and came home
to curry favor With an imbece Administration.
fy backbitIg Gen. Hull ard proclaiming him a
coward. so again, in the Oregon time, after most
feIOcous prOdimations of his determnat on to
have the who Of Oregon none, even if 1t must be
take by force-afler shouting FIFTY four rty'
til he was boarse, and everybody ese tired and
tiseusteI, Mr. Cass subs,ded very quietly upon
foyty.nine and little less Are we or are we not
to have similar sort of backing doan upon the
Nicaragua question:
1t is quite evident that the British Government
seeing how utterly incapable or entirely iadisposed
our Government is to enforce its own laws against
fbuster expeditions, is prepared to lend, if not
TO us. at least to Nicaragua, helping hand. The
British Government may naturally enough suppose
that upon the snubbng which Comaodcre Pauj-
ing got for the vigorous style In which ne cut short
Walkers expedition Of November year ago, -
/ American naval officer will be much disposed TO
! incur similar ccnsure. Under these circuui-
stauces the British vessels on that coast appear to
consider the arrest 0s American fllbusters, after
their arrival within the territories of Nicaragua
from which moment the American Government
eisavows ary power 10 act--as devolving upon
them. IL IL 40, unlikely indeed tha. the British
baye entered into special stipulatlons with Mica
ragua and Costa Rica TO that effect.
| 1t appears that the steamer Washington, or
| arriving at San Juan del Norte, was strongly
suspected by the Nicarsguan Government aud the
| Bri.i-h cruisers 10 be fbuster in disguise, aud
that lcr owners or charsrers, under pretense Of
| transporting passengers across the lsthmuS, were
| engaged in William Walkers new schemes for the
I conques. Of Nicaragua. We are not in the least
surprised st these pcioos; indeed We are by no
meals sure that they we.e nOt very well founded
Tie gotioIs up Of this ncw transit operation are
persons in whom the Government of Nicaragua
may well feel the most total dIstrust, aud whom
they would be fully justified in resolving never to
allow to have snything to do with any future tran
cit route through their territories. Nothing is
more certau than thai these same person. had been
fellow consprstOrs with William Walker against
the lives, property ard freedom Of the people Of
Nicaragua, ard nothing is more certain than tha.
the men and supplies furnished to Walker by these
conte derates of bis gave him his first steady grasp
upon powsr--in fact, 20 far strengthened him as TO
enable him to seize upon the river and lake boats
and other property Of the Transit Company, and to
convert the whole coreern into II mere aPpendage
ard support Of bis usurped power. The suspicion
is natural enough that these men, having once COZ
federated with Walker to commit one robbery
should now join With him to commit another, not
witbstanding their having Themselves been robbed
| BY him IN the mean time-s little accident which
as between thieves, is not unusual.
| No doubt maDy of the passengers on board the
| Washington were bona fds emigrants, but then it
is We'll klowa that during Walkers former occu-
patton, recruits for his army and aa American
population for his doninions used TO be largely
supplied by entappng people under the bait
of emigration, or u passage to CIitorbii The
two hundred passengers who finally went on to
California may fairly be set down as entirely inno-
cent Of any fiOuster int ntions. But what are We
TO think of the hundred men or ore brought back
to NeyYcrk. and who, we are tod, instead Of COM
plainirq. take their return very philcsopnically'
| And vbat are We to think Of the Herumsnn's not
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