The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-30

Pork heavy and lower sold at SIS rs Sl6 81,
and prime at $40 rs. Beef aod lard dull. Sugars
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eco boxes at rtes given in another column The chief
sale Of coffee comprised 900 bags Aarscsbo ct lie a
ll2Sc. Freight engagements were moderate aud rates
steady about $50 square bales cotton engaged
Liverpool at led.
The Peace Interval In Europe-Win Louis
Napoleon Take Up the Mexican and Central
American QueAtionA:
Mexico AID Central America both require
SINE positive action on the part of foreign
governments, to enable them to re-establish
peace and order in their territories, and to fill
the mission to which they ars called by their
geographical positions and their relations with
the rest of the civilized world.
Now that the war in Europe has been brought
to Close we should not be at all surprised if
Louis Napoleon were to direct his attention to
some plan for patching up the broken china of
the New World. The interval of peace that is
likely to occur between the present and the time
when it will be convenient to him to take England
or Germany in hand, and to undertake to give one
of them the next dressing, will afford him leisure
for the enterprise; and the affair itself would be
to him relaxation or amusement while rest
ing from his greater wars. Reasons for uu.
dertsking this he can find in abundance In
Mexico he has Mons. Gabriac, who is an
active intriguer, and is said to understand
the manner Of making intrigues profitable as
we'll as perplexipg. La Central America Mons
Belly is endeavoring to swallow the Transit route
whole, and to involve the unsophisticatcd gov
eminent Of Nicaragua in numberless little diff.
culties which will hereafter produce fruit In
order to show that be is acting under the cogni-
zance Of the French government, he has recently
published letter from the French Admiral in
the Pacific rendering him assistance and coope-
ration in his enterprise. These two active agents
will easily cut out work in Mexico and Central
America if be should feel disposed to under
take it.
That he may undertake it there are good
reasons for believing. A recent European
writer on the French navy, who shows an init
mate knowledge of its organization and effective
force, and who seems to speak by ths card states
that the recent great increase and activity dis.
played in the French marine is intended for dis.
tant operations, rather than for contemplated
nearer home. In connection with
this fact we have another. The Northern Bee, the
official organ Of the War Office at st. Petersburg,
stated some months since, in an article on the
those Of 'the conflict between Spain aud
Mexico" and "the condition of Central
America" In that list Of questions were
also stated the question Of the Schleswig
Holstein ducbies, which is being Practically ar
ranged between Denmark and the Gernanic
Confederation; the affairs of India, which have
been in many respects settled by England; and
tie Italian question, which has just been veu-
tilated amid the smoke and roar of cannon by
France. OF the Russian list Of questions, those
of Mexico and Central America alone remain for
adjustment. Late events have shown the init
mate understanding which exists between Louis
Napoleon and the Court of Russia, and signif.
cant indications point to coming French inter-
vention in Central American and Mexican
affairs.
In Mexico the clergy and the reactionists in
power at the capital have for some time been en-
Intervention in their favor, and the recent decree
coniiscating the church property, issued by the
liberal government, will urge them to further
efforts. Louis Napoleon may take this question
up as sop for the Pope, to set off the bitter
doses in preparation for him by the Italian Con-
federation. SPANS quarrel too, with Mexico is
still unsettled, and he may take that up, and ar
range the oDtire policy of the Spanish govern.
ment in relation to American affairs in such a
way as to block us out for many years from Cuba,
Tebuantepec and the Central American transit
route. In regard to the latter President Mora, of
Costa RIGA, evinces no good will to this country.
In bis last message to the Costa Rican Congress
he states that the United States are pressing
great and unjust claims upon him, but that be
shall resist them to the last, and that he has re-
ceived the unanimous assurances of the maritime
Powers, in reply to his cry for justice aud pro-
lection, that the lacerated rights of Costa RIGA
shall not be again violated. 1t is not an impro
bable thing that Louis Napoleon may become the
champion and regulator Of the Latin family of
nations in America
For such course the imbecility aud inaction
of Congress has left him ample room and verge
enough. The President, with statesman's fore
sight, saw the danger, and urged upon Congress
the necessity of immediate action. But that
body, composed ofignorant and impudent poll
ticiaDs, will take cognizance Of nothing beyond
their own petty squabbles over local elections;
and its members have no more reach and grasp
Of the foreign questions that are vitality affecting
our national interests than pigs have of the wind.
With tfcir continual chickering's on petty issues
and partisan candidates for the Presidency, they
nave reduced this Union to an aggregation Of