The declaration of Louis Napoleon's scribe, M. Granier de Ow
sagnac, that his master is going to make new conquests by Stilals navigation in America, is met by the resolution which General Cass has moved before the American Senate, protesting against any European colonization a America, and by the published cor- respondence in which stheAtmerioan Government rejectea *the tri- partite treaty for guaranteeing the possession of Onbato Spain. Mr. Everett has the meriblif having-set forth ;eery clearly the,ra- tionale of the grounds on which his Government, while respecting the territorial rights of Spain, will refuse to suffer the acquisition of Cuba by any European power ; and in referring to the acquisi- tion of Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and California, the American statesman shows, that the opinion which assigns Cuba ulti- mately to the Union, as the key of the Mississippi, is not linlited to the order of the Lone Star, but it is in fact a national opinion. Aslo the moral grounds, this is no place or time to discuss them ; but it is to be remarked that the position taken up by France and England was grossly irrational,—an attempt to maintain a decayed and sinking power by a paper bulwark against the marsh of Transatlantic events. Did France instigate that revolutionary conservatism ? We know not; but we know that she is dis- closing fantastic schemes in that region, that she has not those possessions to lose which England has, and that the ruling mind of her melodramatic adventurous Empire is as irresponsible as he is crafty and inscrutable. It was a false alliance for England ; and she is far better employed about her old hobby, of chasing slavers and exposing the hollowness of Spanish treaties,—idle as that work is, has been, and ever will be while it lasts.
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