The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-06


in good shipping order firm and wanted for export
Prime to choice white was dull Corn was firm and in
good demand part for shipment with toleraby free
saee. Pork dull and lower for mess sales of which
were made at SIC 37K SIC 621f, and prime sold at
$l2 Is $l2 co. Sugars in fair demand with sales
Of about 100 hhds at rates given in another column
Coffee steady with moderate sales. Freight engage
ments in both American and foreign vessels to
fair extent, at rates 81 ven In another place.
Our Foreign Policy and the Tendencies
and Dangers Of the British Govern
ment.
Our special advices from Washington, which
we publish to-day, touching the foreign policy
of Mr.. Lincoln's administration in connection
with the maintenance of the "integrity of the
Union" are eminently calculated to strengthen
the cause of our government at home aud
abroad. We are thus treasured that the fixed
and resolute purpose of the administration,
while prosecuting the work of suppressing our
Southern rebellion, is to hold every foreign
Power giving "aid and comfort to the enemy"
to strict accountability, and that not even
will England be permitted unrebuked to treat
the United States and our so-called Confede-
rate States, in any sense, upon footing Of in
ternahonal equality.
In the instructions Of Mr.. Seward to Mr..
Dayton, our new Minister to France our Secre-
tary of State says:-"You cannot be too de-
cided or too explicit in making known to the
French government that there is not now, nor
has there been, nor will there be any-the
least-idea existing in this governmental Of suffer
ing dissolution of this Union to take place in
hot lint &ho{S will h
here only one nation and one government, aud
there will be the same republic and the same
constitutional Union that have already sur
vived dozen national changes, and changes
of government in almost every other couu-
try" Furthermore, says Mr.. Seward, "tell
M. Thouvenel, then, with the highest consi.
deration and good feeling, that the thought Of
dissolution of this Union, peaceably or by
force, has never entered into the mind of any
candid Statesman here, and it is high time
that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe"
The same information has been transmitted to
every Court in Europe, to enlighten them in
season against any possible misconstruction or
misunderstanding of the strength of our govern
ment and the policy of our new administration
in reference to this existing rebellion in our
Southern States.
On the other hand, recognizing the United
States as entitled to voice among the great
Powers of the earth, and as entitled to the be.
neit of those general laws in force among them
for their mutual protection, our new admins
tration lost no time in giving notice to the
several governments concerned of its readiness
to be bound by their general law of the Con-
gress of Paris, which reduces privateering
to the common level of piracy. But the leading
statesmen of the two houses of Parliament, for.
getting the abolition crusades against Anne
rican slavery which they and their predeces-
sors have been preaching for fifty years. ignoring
the fixed principles and sympathies of the
British people, and remembering only that the
cotton mills Of Manchester are fed from the
slave labor of our rebellious Confederate States,
cannot discover that the law of the Congress of
Paris has any application whatever against
the privateers of Jefferson Davis.
These privateers do not intend to interfere
with British commerce; they, it is thought, will
operate to its advantage, in increasing the
risks and dangers to United States vessels to
the war standard, and so Lord John Russell
thinks it weuld be Inconsistent with highlands
magnanimity to consider our Southern Confede-
rate privateers in any other character than that
of respectable belligerenta. But this is nothing
better than discrimination in favor of the
highwayman, who, although he has rifed your
pockets, has permitted you to pass uumolested
as friend. The only course of safety to EGG
land is to recognise the overtures of the United
States as holding her to the fulflment of that
international agreement of the Congress of
Paris which binds the contracting parties to
the treatment of privateering as piracy In
that other course, that equivocal, suspicious
and treacherous halfway house of "bellige.
re1ts," there is neither wisdom nor cotton.
The interference of Louis XVI. in the cause
Of our War Of Independence, from its great
results, reacted upon France as the touch of
fire to the powder of vast magazine of explo-
sive and combustible elements. 1t precipi-
tated him, his family, his house and his ar-
tizans into that Reign Of Terror from which
France, streaming in blood, emerged as a re-
public to bring upon Europe twenty-five years
Of the shifting scenes Of war. In this day The
statetmen and the mobiles of England, in
ignoring the masses Of their people, touching
the present crisis in American affairs, NAV
bring upon the British government and aristo.