The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-11


prime Sugars sold to fair extent without change
Of moment in prices. The transactions footed up about
GOO hdds Cuba muscoyados, and SO do molasscs and
96l boxes, part nj p and part al Ssc Cote was firm
and in good demand; the sales aggregated about 4,as2
bags Of Rio, ranging from lie IL sse. llai Frcghts
| were steady, while engagements light; cotton TO
Liverpool al 36d 732d, and 900 bbls. rosin
engaged at Is.
OF the acknowledgements Know Mo-
| things.
In the year 1852, two years after the Official
PRONUNCIATION Of the Clayton Dulwer treaty,
Great Britain in fragrant violation Of its provi-
tons, proceeded TO sene, occupy and organize
as colony, the group of islands lying in the
Bay Of Honduras and belonging to the Contra,
American republic Of that name The Queens
warrant establishing the new colony bears date
March 20, 1852; the Clayton-Buiwer treaty was
proclaimed July 5, 1850.
These proceedings of the British government
were chr0nicled in the order of their occurrence,
and made the subject OF constant comment By
the newspapers Of this country aud Of England
up to lst of February. 1858, when resolution
of inquiry was adopted by the Senate asking
the President and Secretary of State for
information on the subject. Mr.. Fill.
more responded curtly, enclosing let
ter from Mr. Everett Secretary OF State saying
that "this department is in possession of no off.
cial information as to the alleged seizure of the
islands referred to, nor as regards their organiza
lion as colony Of the British Gro W. Nearly
year had elapsed siuce the issue Of the Queens
warrant, the circumstances of the seizure were
well known to every man who read the news
papers, we had Ministers 10 Central America
and in London, and yet the government had no
official information on the subject. A solemn
treaty had been openly and flagrantIy violated,
and yet the smooth-tongued old lady who was
then in the State Department, and the portly non
entity then in the White House, knew nothing
Of it. Mr.. Lawrence, Minister in London. and
Mr.. Kerr, In Central America-neither one nor
the other knew anything of it. Efficient Minis
tiers of q vigilant government. They were
worthy of nobody except each other; and so
Great Britain consolidated her usurpations in
the Bay Islands, and there she remains to this
| day.
Lately another violation Of the CLAYTON.
BulSer Convention has been made By Great
Britain, in the assumption of authority and abso-
Lutte dominion over the territory of Belize, an
integral part of Central America. We an
noupced the fact months ago. We have since
published all the circumstances connected with
the act, and the terms in which it has been
consummated. The English agent, Wyke,
through whose fundamentally it was effected,
has been home to receive the reward
Of his labors-has been made Companion o.
the Bath, and raised from paltry Consul to the
dignity of Envoy Extraordinary in Central Anne
RIGA, in place of the lees efficient Ouseley, whose
leanings towards the United States and general
integrity unfit him for the kind of work which
Great Britain requires to be done In that Country,
| And now, as In 1858, in face of all this noto-
riety of the facts in the case, owing to the inef
cheney Of its agents, the government has no Off.
cial information on the subject Everybody
knows all about it except the government.
Nothing" says the general newspaper despatch
from Washington, nothing concerning the late
convention between Guatemala and Great Bri-
tain-the former ceding large extent Of territory
to the latter-has reached this government in an
official form; but it is known that the administra-
ton is not an Indifferent observer of events in
that quarter"
In the face Of such al announcement the pub
lie may well ask, "Whst has the gentleman who
is supposed to represent the United States in
London been about, that he has not learned
something official concerning this transaction"
Mr. Wyke has been knighted and promoted I'M
der his very nose for doing this very thug, and
yet Mr.. Dallas has seen no occasion to inquire
into the fact. We have also Minister in Guate.
mala, whose name is Clark, and whose sirname
is Beverly; the convention which constitutes the
point at issue was negotiated in the city where
he resides, with the government to which he is
accredited, and yet the vigilant Beverly will
probably first learn of its existence through the
columns Of the New YORK HERALD. What with
flibusters, Kilkenny commodores, and drunken
and inefficient representatives, it is no won
der that Americans and the American name
are overahadowed with disgrace and con-
tempt IN Central America Can we hope
to enjoy the respect or confidence of the
petty governments of that country when
ouA AAAnls"Sis alSeludSe UtSWceH Gue DoOSy
bullies of one day and the poor pusilanimites of
the next? Can we expect that they will confide
in our policy or rely on our protection when
they gee Great Britain coolly trampling on all the
treaty obligations which we have made with her.
ostensibly and with great flourish Of trumpets
in their favor?
Mr.. Buchanan seems to have been conscious of
the ineffciency of the class Of representatives
which we have been in the habit of sending
there, and has made a popular and commend
able move in substituting man Of brains, like
Dimitry, for brokendown and pot house poll