The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-15


whose serious illness announced few weeks since
We learn that communication received BY the French
Consul al Shanghae from priest in the district OF
Haimer the mouth OF the river fangtSze states
hat an bark had been chased by pirates, was
supposed have been captured and all the crew muir
dered excepting man, who lying at the above
lace badly wounded five bodies had been found and
burned The name OF the bark is not given.
Our London Correspondence.
LONDON Nov. "a, 1860
No C,e3a Gitea 10 the Secession MocemcR-2he Cost Of
War-Ecclesiasca, Reroi,aion in Fronoe-Wiu Nopo-
leon Become Pope Of Fdnoes-7he cession Of Yenetia
| Siege Of Gdea-1 Champion Oursnan Coming Opcr-An
! Execution AZ Nelcydte-China-7he Galcay Ssam Line
Company IN Treaty ch France--lHr j. Lyser OBsirne
This week havetwo sensations" here. The Amcri
can Presidential election has given the editors peg
which to hang political dissertations Yankee in
sttutions Their tone the result is usually that Of
joicng 't him again he's got friends, is the only
savo the poor democrats get They've long had power
they We grossly abused it, and they deserve t. lose it Is
the curt passed the condemned The cry Of
dsunion and secession gets very little credits set down
as buster and buncombs The idea that South Carolina
could get an ambassador recognized any European
| court looks like the youthful anticpatons Of Mr.
yerdant Green. Untn the Ambassido and Minister
Plenpotentiary Of the United States of North America
gets passports the envoy from Pocotalgo VIII scarcely
obtain an audience Aud pray let those cotton States
who generally anticipate and eat up each crop before it
is grown, remember that wars warlike prepara
tons constitute about the expensive and least pro
| duc,ive employment that any nation State en-
gagged and that three ourhs OF the OF Europe
could not possibly 90 10 all, for want OF the
suews, unless II could be called going the fur
nshng OF few batalons Of troops TO be paid fed by
an interested and solvent state like Great Britain
| a State that recognizes peace the normal con.
| dtion, and the anomaly; study and learning
the main object and Jogging the exception, ia every
promising schooboys career. Great Britain pays
in clean cash the trne OF thirty millions sterling $50
600 000) annually sustain the army and navy
peace the first speck OF war like the one in In.
da the present one in China costs at least hundred
to hundred aud fifty million dollars at the start
and the Cmean affair with the coadjuor France over
$500 900 900, besides the death Of hundred
thousand men, and the private expenses and
incidental distress that do come the budget OF
the tax gatherer. Oh, yes, "war,i revolution"
accession" rebellion and independents" very
good series and 'shibbolcths and sound very brave
and heroic TO uniedged patriots but like the chyaric
ideas Of ducng shooting for certain fanced real
wrongs all very well before they DONE but certain
TO followed by disgrace loss Of position neglect
positive ruin Of prospects, and the with discomfort
ripenng to But this is treating seriously
absurd ebullition Of political feeling.
Europe has been startled this week by what
| appears TO be really serious design entertain
| ed by France Of throwing OF the ecclesitst
| cal and degrading yoke Of Rome. Il com.
menced by pamphlet published suaerance, propos
ng the Emperor be his Pope aud citing the au
thores and precedens OF Great Britain Russia Prussia
and Turkey. But then these not Catholic States
But does that remarkable exact presidents for
had cf Al.
has grown up from ANAL beginnings to be a gigantic
| tyranny, imposition and swindle. Kings and empe
rors have bowed their necks literally, and had them
trodden by the heavy ecclesiastical mpostor,
who wastes the substance grnds the bones and
sucks the blood OF the Roman people The whole prin
cple and practice absurd unreasonable prepos
ferrous and undgnned that wonder that Louis Napo
leon the world has folly and the
lcssness OF submitting to any longer Is entirely in
compatible with good government whether state has
absolute head like France, governed by const
tutona monarch in England TO have any class Of per-
sons authority depend Power outside the govern
ment--a foreign Princeton their appointment, position
and dignity. And who persons authority II eccie
siastics no,S In Engiand-morc shame to her-hcy
have and votes in the upper house OF Parliament,
and forbidden election 10 the Commons and
| . Catholic country their power the minds, the
| allegiance and obedience IS tremendous The fact
h. 10 won't bear argument The moment il is looked
u the whole system and practice appears in al us naked
defornty os utterly absurd, puerie and contemplate
The question s he carry out the plan short OF
making the state Protestant' This world Of change
the Roman Catholic church, With all its sbsurdhes,
merss and Impressions always excepted But why should
this total lack Of all progress seize upon Ss,eS
church and faith sort OF spiritual essence, line OF
practice Of duty but nations and governments are
| part Of the material order OF things. They must
sxis, in some shape. The Jewish religion prevailed
very widely, " not universally, In the time OF Moses
aud Aaron-though Pharaohs heart hardened,
and h. would not obey the Iordsnd in later times,
while the Roman Catholic church, which once was
the Christian belief has been standing st and
comparatively falling back Proesantsm has made all
the material progress the world spread all the ciyza
ticu and created al the intellectual advancement The
believers IN that sith have perpetual aud total eclipse
q al their reason and senses hs, particular and are
The Emperor Of the French to be in a position to
escape from this spiritual and political thraldom.
In Austria. where the Romish power Is potent,
there has bad 10 be Concordai. limiting and
defining the power and authority Of the Bishop
/ ~ Rome. II Louis Napoleon win cut this Jordan
knet in style worthy Of an Alexander BY seycring In
twain H. VIII g. down TO postrrity tn greatest
ruler that this scncTaiion has prodared fike Ar.
chimcdcs lifting the world, be- CERTAIN mcchani.
cal pursha,e % beverage and ,h, ieverage = hong
twenty one years 81 age and II he proves to be OF
ability the dynasty would. in al human probability be
consolidated. He is IN the CRISIS of his career,
and " he goes to work with a strong hand he may
throw "a the ,hradom q that tosthsome tyranny
al the Vatican ~ all "gcsd Catholics'' win
be terribly shocked these ncoherent words but until
the Almighty gives mankind some better guide 70 his
conduct and his faith than his and his eason those
who not blinded by bigotry fear win the lights
nsst prominently brought before them.
We have the important intelligence by telegraph that
negotiations for the cession Of Nencta have Just been
opened at Paris That nigh, that France 10 be
very important party 10 the cesson II must be doubt
Cd that England win give her consent 70 any acquisition
OF territory in the Adratc.
II has been rumored in quarters that the ces
sion OF Nenetls by Austria u q direct probability: but
when rs 10 take place what form viii assume,
alike uncertain.
The siege OF csets draws As slow length along We
hear that his Majesty has burst blood vessel
he has caused many blood vessels IN others be
opened cut, burst and pounded may be a good thing
for him 20 know how feels In his corporosty All
OF his family, except the young Queen, have gone 10
Rome, and there some expectation that his Majesty
will turn HIS steps Romewards when he gets bombed out
OF Gseta n is said that the Emperor has csused word
10 be conveyed 10 his Majesty that unless he p the
place soon he will no longer restrain the sea war doge
of Victor Emanuel but let Mars and Belona rule both