The Evening Telegraph

THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST REPUBLICANISM.
From the N. Y. Sun.

Mr. Roberts, the Spanish Minister, indoctrinated by the Bonaparte Legation at Washington: Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, waiting like Micawber for something to turn up: and Mr. Hamilton Fish, gravely pondering over this coalition of Serrano, Bonaparte, and Clarendon against American republicanism, whether the scene of it be laid in the United States, in Peru, in Cuba, or in Mexico—all these personages, taken together, now present a somewhat grotesque spectacle.

Considering the demoralized condition of Serrano's Government, and the waning prestige of Napoleon's empire, the desperate attempts of these rulers to wield or retain a power on the American continent which is slipping from their fingers in the Old World should produce in this country nothing but a feeling of contempt and derision, if it were not for the fact that the welfare of our sister republics is put in danger by these intriguers of La Granja and the Tuileries.

To what extent the agents of Bonaparte and Clarendon will be permitted to poke their noses into matters in which they are not authorized to intermeddle, remains to be seen. One thing, however, is certain: no European government would for one moment tolerate the impertinent interference which the American Government countenances so foolishly on the part of representatives of Old World powers in the United States.

It must also be borne in mind that the Secretary of State has not far to go to find lawyers who, although they are not officially connected with the administration, are but too happy to give a lift to that Old World despotism which they would fain see established in this part of the globe. These lawyers, under the plausible cover of a distinguished professional reputation, impose upon the good nature and ductile spirit of Mr. Fish, and thus exert a kind of magnetic influence over his decisions, the painful effect of which has been apparent more than once.

Mr. Roberts, too, is unsparing in his efforts to bring professional influence to bear upon the American government; while the Bonapartist agents are only continuing the kind of work which Louis Napoleon initiated at the time of his invasion of the Mexican republic. By playing into the hands of Spain in regard to Peru and Cuba, Louis Napoleon is well aware that he strengthens the chains of slavery and checks the progress of republican principles. With so high an occasion for the exercise of his zeal, who can wonder at the activity of his agents, or at their sinister coalition with the emissaries of Serrano?