The New York Press On The Presidents Message

Nhw fnitR, Doe. G. Al! the metropolitnu journaU have elabórate commeuts on the President'e message aud the aoaompsovróg S'ate documenta this morning The Tribune tliinks that llie prominent features of bis adniinistration liad alieady commanded popular npprobation, l'tit this message wiil Btill more ondear the President to the heartsof his oountryiaen The writer thiuks tht in regard to San Domingo the President is elearly right in bw position, if not luisinforroe 1 ns to the ma terial factg, and subaiits that Coogreu will 1)0 constrained by public sentiment to ndmit San Domingo into our Union, unless it can bo made to appcar that her people are preponderantly averee to such afusión. He tbinks tho Preaidcul's pa tienca altnost exhausted by the Cuban outrages, regrets tho silonce of the message in regard to the Alabama claims and esfeems the President's (-uggestions and reconrmendations with regard to public liuids and land .rauta as Trise and timely. The llerald thinks thnt tho President's messago is a good 8tate pacr, aud a staunch party platform, and that as an exhibit of tho management uuder his supervisión of tUe góverrmsnt in our foreign and domestic affairs, there ia much in it that is good and encournging, and as a foreshadawing of (lio ijeneral policy of hig administrution, there is uo'.hing ia it to di.-turb tha uonfidence of the country. The Times eays the message is the best answer tn those who iisit that the mi sion of the Kcpiihiicau pnriy is endeH, or impugn Gen. Grant's fitoen for tho interpretation of iho wishes or promot ing the interests of the peoplu, aud that tli o policy eet foith is st. once posilive and practical. The writcr tbinks it i- clear tbat the President has r.o i le'i of plunging the nition recklefsJy int i wsr, as a means of ma-iufacturing party cap-' ital, yet there is, uevert licites, a rather striking suggestiveiiess in tbe brief paragrnph v.hich is doTotod to the Alabama claims, aud the tuilduoss of the Prasi dent's referonce to that questioo renders more significant the finnneíia of his reniarks in regard lo the fi-ilieries. The World severely criticises the meesage, and thiuks it i a document wbioh needs a good d al of wiiuiowing to i pnrate a small hiuouut ol giain from the h'apof ebfff in which it j0 buriea. The writer Mfa tho request of the President lor authority to appoiot a coinmitsifin to investígate and audit the damnges of individuáis by the Aluboma depredati' bs with u view lo their paymeut by oar own government, is u prooccding eutirely without precedent, and if bis adviue is aceeptcd the precudent will be sgt for making the government responsible for the reparation of all danages sustained by our nierchantmen at the bauds of loreign [lowers as incideut to the war. The Sun can find little mcritor sat6faction ia the message, and terina it a 'poverty-stricken document." Toroxto, Deo. 6. The papers this morning, couimenting on the President's message, say in refereuce to the enfonement of Canadian rights in the Gulf of St Lawrence, that the Presidont does not fouud his objfietiona ogainst the action of our government iu the eeizure of vessels actually engaged in fishing withic forbidden boundaries, but on seizures and examilution of vessels suspected of a dowign to viólate the regulutions of tho Canadian Oxovernnient. Ho statea tbat while the Canadian act permits such aeizures and examinations the law has not yet been put in force, and it is rosolved to postpoue action till actual offense has been given. Whetber suoh Beizures and examinatiuns form a necessary part of tho pólice dufy of our uavy is a question for the government to coosidcr. We need hardly say, howevor, th t if these proceedings are necessary to driving out intruders from our waten) they ought to be enforoed, whatever objection may be made by tho American Government. The threuts of rctaliation vrhich the Pre ident ho'.da out that Canadian vesaels be refused admission to American ports, and the bonded systein, as it is oalled, under which Canadian merchandise passes througb tho United ritatei be suspended, will not have the slightest effect in preventing the assertion of the just rights of Canada in the waters of tho gulf. The number of Canadian vee8els entering American ports is quite insignifioant. The stoppago of tho bood ing syatem might cause some inconvenience to individuáis in Canada, but would enormou8ly benefit otber parties, and the chief injury would fall on the Amoricnn transportation lines. President Grant may try meaaures oí coerción whenever helikes. It will not cause the people of Canada to abate their olaims one jot or title. The President asserta the right of the Unitod States to the free navigation of the St. Lawrence. It is hardly worth whilo to dispute this claim. Whatever right the American people may possess to the navigation of the river, they certainly have none to the canals along its banks. Whenever a request has been made to permit the passage of sn Amorican vesBel down the river it has always been granted, and the Prcsideut can hardly allege, therefore, that the eight States Oi the lakeg of whicb he makes go much have beet! seriouslj impaired by the denial of his claim. It ' in coming up the river, we beg to inicrm bis Excellency, that the trouble arises. Perhaps he has never made the trip from I ton to Montreal. We as.ure him that without the uso of our canals Americana would obtain wonderfully liltle ndvantage from the free nnvigation of tbe St. Lawrence. On Tuesday Goi.dtiiwaite, Democrat, wua elccted United States Senator from Ge rgia, receiving 65 votes to 50 for Warner, llcpublican and present oarpet-bag Senator, and 14 for Hahalson, Republioan. Mr. Goldtiiwaitb ie an old roaident of Georgia, hag been Circuit Judge, also Judgo of the Supremo C'iurt, aDd is counted an able lawyer. - His "disauilities' have been removed. IloiiKitTSON, Radical, was re-elected Senator from Ñortb Carolina on Wednesday. The cables have not worked for a nuinber of daya - except tbo Frenoh one so that lbo foreign war news is rather meagre and not as contradictory as usual. Paris holds out yet, and hag Dot bona bombarded. Frencb reverses are reporled ; the Eastern question doesn't pinell as otrong of gunpowder ; and - tUat's all.