Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1859-06-04
No. 5.


delay has been occasioned thus far BY Nicaragua
but as Sir Gore Ouseley returns from Cos
tn Rea there is no doubt the treaty will be nego-
tiated.
As already stated, Jerez has received q copy of
the treaty proposed by Nicaragua to our govern
ment; but there is little doubt of its rejection.
The President will await the arrival of Mr.. Lamar,
by which time instructions will be prepared and
new Minister sent out to enforce them. There Is
no doubt here that more energy the part of our
Minister would have prevented all this absurd tri-
fling on behalf of Nicaragua
BY last advices Mons. Belly's contract was still
pending. The Nicaraguan government have de-
creed general amnesty to all political offenders.
The Publications of a treaty between France and
the United States for the mutual extradition of
persons who embezzle the funds of the treasury or
of companieS-a class of offenders not comprised
in the extraditiOn treaties of lS43 and lS45-has
been exchanged in Paris.
The Paris Pdtrie announces that in consequence
of the murders and other crimes committed on
board Of vessels engaged in the transportation of
Chinese emigrants, Mr.. Reed, the American Min
lister, has publicly announced that the protection
of his legation will in case be granted to the
shipowners commanders of ships engaged in the
Chinese emigration.
A reYolution had broken out among the negroes
of Jamaica.
lio in the West Indies the Tribune says
A war seems to be threatened in the West In
dies between Denmark, or rather the Danish Gov
ernOr Of St. Thomas and Santa Cruz and the Re-
public of Dominica. During the late civil war in
Dominica some armed vessels in the service of
Buez, then at the head of one of the eontending
factions, seized two Danish schooners as they were
entering POrt-au-Platte then held by the opposite
party, and which Buez's squadron claimed to be
bloekading. The vessels thus seized were carried
off to Curacao and sold. A claim for indemnity
having been lately made by Danish agent, the
Dominican government declined to recognize him,
on the ground that he was commissioned not by
the King of Denmark, but by the Governor of
Santa Cruz. Thus repused, he soon came back
again In a Danish war steamer from ST. Thomas.
The Dominican Government appear to have taken
the guns OF the steamer a good commission
enough, and professed themselves ready to nego-
tiate the subject but the only negotiation with
which the agent would have anything to do was
the payment of Sl50,000 by way Of indemnity,
without stopping to inquire the legality of the
capture or the liability of the present Government
for the acts of the eaptOrs. This the Dominicans
would not agree to, and by the latest accounts
March l5) the port Of St. Domingo was blockaded
by the Danish steamer.
The ~. Y. Tribune commenting on the warlike
news from Europe says:
As to the great Peace Congress, it begins to be
manifest to all but the willfully blind that it is
likely to end in smoke. The fact that both the
prospective belligerents, whom it is intended to
bind over by this Congress to keep quiet, object to
the proposed selection Of Aix-la- Chapelle as the
place of meeting, is significant indication of
their readiness to {" cavil on the ninth part of q
hair" But in fact the question at issue is for
each of them vital one. Louis Napoleon speech
to NJ. Hubner on the lst of January was in eff
feet challenge to Austria, and such is accepted
by her. Had the French Emperor desired the
maintenance of peace, he never would thus pub
liely have thrown down the glove, since he must
have known that Francis Joseph had no choice
but to take it up. The latter might have Cancelled
without loss Of prestige his secret treaties with
Naples, Tuscany, Modena and Parma, had he been
privately urged to do so to do it now, in view Of
the menace to NJ. Hubner and the lowering arma-
ments of France and Sardinia, would be 10 con-
fess himself yassal and abdicate the position
which Austria has held in Europe for the last two
centuries. We say Francis Joseph could not do
this without humiliation he says he 1cH not do
it, which is even more conclusive. If he consents
then to Congress- be sure it is with reservations
that render that Congress an illusion. If En-
gland and Prussia shall vote in the expected Con-
gress that he shall cancel the obnoxious treaties
he will interpose veto that only be oyerbOrne
by Congress Of Half q Million Plenipotentiaries,
arguing the case with grOOved cannon and Minnie
rifles on the plains of LOmbardy. And Louis Ma
poleon, after his bravado to Hubner, cannot rest
content under the refusal Of Austria to revise the
political map Of Italy. He, in turn, must triumph
in council or try the fortunes of war. Of course,
while the sword still fingers in its sheath the arts
of diplomacy or the march of eyentsm avert the
impending storm; but the chances are still two to
one that few months will find France and Aus
tria once more in deadly conflict and that the riv-
ers of Lombardy, on their impetuous passage to
the Pc, will run red with the blood Of slaughtered
thousands
New loans, new weapons of destruction, new
battalions, forti6cations, new depots of pro-
visions and munitions-sueh is the average tenor
of our recent advices from Europe. We know that
it is nevertheless possible that may be averted
but it is far more probable that it will not be. And
that war, come when it will, must leave another
Europe at its close than that it finds at its begin
ming.