The Express. — London, England, 1856-03-14 00:00:00

ate expreoo. bteerttratette Ittti•Thetis;;;;; - hiiieWihraila . ivesiesphihr, art be at the Mee, 10. Besvettertriet. by Tv, e'eleek ea the by et pubbeetios. HIGH WATER AT LONDON Bu Dal. Um DAT—Mends& 71. lint........Aftaissos. 41166 Tomosaow—llambs. "AnSIO. 916 LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 14. " ANOTTIER poisoning cam!" the world is crying out. "Another wife-murder!" there are people who have not scrupled to say, before the inquest on Mrs. Dova was concluded. Thera is always something startling in a rapid succession of cases of the same kind of calamity or crime; and the witnesses of such • disclosure are apt to forget, in the strength of their emotions, that the experienoe of all ages should MVO as, on such occasions, from astonishment and display. Not only is there always a tendency in the criminal world, as in other worlds, to modes (to fashions based en "pawky and imitation), but there is • deeper canes for the existence of modes of suffering and of crime. Not only have there been within the memory of the existing generation caprices of crime almost as conspicuous as caprices of dress, bat there have occurred scientific and social causes of new phenomena which should warn as to act rightly under the grave circumstances of the present time. Many of us can remember the murders of the Maim and WILLIANSOICII, and the prevalent sensa tion et the time that no man would ever again feel safe in his own home. Ws remember the rick burning of five-and-twenty years ago, the despair of the farmers, and the temporary abolition of fire insu rance for their order. We remember the sudden revelation of poisoning practices moo, the neglected poor in certain agricultural counties, where mothers had been taught by the operation of the Corn Laws to believe that the moat loving office they could fulfil towards their children was to send them early from the pains of life to be "better off with the Loin." None of us is likely to forget that one very poor woman avowed, without any sense of guilt or shams, that she had thus dismissed to sue and plenty eight infants in succession by putting arsenic on her breasts. The railway epidemic is still later in date,and folly and crime were almost as prevalent as the retri bution which succeeded. Theme oases lie on the sur face of our country's history and our own °beer's tion. There are some deeper facts which should not be lost sight of while everybody is talking about strychnine poisonings, and one trial of a supposed murderer succeeds another. We shall say nothing of individuals implicated in recent eases— of Mr. Woo Lea. who has been tried; of Mr. Perm's, who is shoot to be tried; or of Mr. Dove, who will probably be committed for trial. Leaving the evidence of the , respective cases to be dealt with by the proper es thority, we would merely suggest some considerations which may rectify a netorall>W in approaching the evidence. It is a fact, which has employed the pens of some thoughtful physicians and moralists, that changes in bodily functions and even structure attend on changes in civilisation, and that every important discovery in science is followed by new and strange human phenomena, individual and axial. Very curious de taila may be found in medical literature on the &object of the varying physiological conditions which have attended the different periods of oar eivilitation. We have never met with a medical maw who meld or would may how it was unit tae women in Queen ELUABITH'S time—the ladies of bier court, for instance—could live as they did, aid keep their health and attain old age. Breakfasts of beefsteak and ale, early dinners of vast solidity; no modern practice of open air recreation and bodily exercise (for which the ambling palfrey and the' , eveniog dance were a poor apology); with solid evening banquets, and the strong ale and manchet brought to them in bed to compose them for the night: bow could such a mode of living fail to kill of every woman early with liver complaint P Where I. the English woman who could bear it now P The only rower that we have found attempted is, that the English people have changed with the time, ipo GS to have different modes of health and of disease. The Severs and the gout of former times are now scarce, and we have instead a group of liabilities of the nervous system, which were not only ignored by our imamate, bet in part nemesis tent. The alimentary apparatus, with all that it involved, was then the smog and the weak point ; mad the nervous system is the strong sad the weak point now. People weld then digest like ostriches ; but the abase of the power led to "surfeits; fevers —inflammatory disorders of all kinds. Peens can sow get a great deal more oat of bran and nerve than brain and nerve were then trained to yield; bat the complement of the ease ig, that we witness more nervous ailment and stranger phenomena of the nervous system than were ever distinctly observred before. Science has helped to alter the solidifies's of our life by a variety of new disclosures. Sir Cuanza Exu:s great discovery in the matter of berme structure has brought into light and progelasnos whole dames of diseases and liabilities ; and the all important reforms caused by seines in the study sad dissection of the brain have time far thrown our practical methods of dealing with dilemma:ld certain orders of crime into confusion, mtbse than fitted as to treat them as wisely as the next mention may do. At the same time, there has been a net develop meet of thesciseee of animal casesistry; sad we are in the list astonishment at anomie, how the' carious mechanism of oar bodies is sustained and kept going. Oar condition is pronely that ia which abnormal nervous states are meet striking to us, gad la which the subjects of food and poises are late.' resting to the greatest somber of none. If a wise student of history, seeleded from the world, were told of the scientific and physiological teedidone of the time, he would probably declare Is to be liable to sew and unaccountable manifestation through the nervous system, probably to a nab* of poiseneg by new methods, and certainly to an 'pidgin!' ore. delity and suspicion shoat poisoning. And thee it is with a• Society, medical gad now medical, is in a state of conflict about inaintatisee which are foot, bowsaw tbsy are to be Nocomatod kr. We have had the Unknown Tongue, Pritatioas, feats of clairvoyance and of table-tuning remark able enough to "ogee the iatsrdiot of ths Pori aid express legislation in Freida aad other States. In the United &atm, the " Spiritual Circles" now include millionw—actually "doodad citizens; sod what proportlow of thew have paused through the lunatic style's' it is needless to say. In old times unaccountable nerving pbmosiont wore is the ordinary warm treated as possession; sad in ear time tb. POP 6 refers them to —RATAN, and a mul titude of people who should know bettor to spirited &roc, of another sort. Too many mufsesimal mos, whose studies should have roadie them MOM philoso phical, dispose of the matter by diabdisving all this facts they can, and dabbing the rept eaderthis hoed of hysteria—a ropterions dismiss, whisk is made to answer for much more than it mosismily Weds,— though that is far mom than is satisfactory to a wall trainsd mind. Together with this kind of development, we have that of animal chemistry; and from this two sepuate liabilities arise. On the one band, the employment of subtle poisons becomes more probable and more readily suspected; and on the other, analytical chemists are pretty sure to over-rate their own quell floating, and the applicability of their own @client* and methods. Science, especially in the case of specialties, goes mad as fast se art, or philanthropy, or anything else in which human egoism can be in vested; and it is highly necessary for as to remember this now, when more than one life is depending on the due or undue confidence of scientific cosclusions. Nothing can be further from mar intention than to oast any censure or soy doubt on personal grounds against the analytical chemists who are probably to decide the fate of PALVIII and Dove, and others after them; what we mesa is, that all the conditions of the cases cannot be known to them any more than to others, as physio logical mysteries are involved in all such extreme oases of nervous affection. From the time of HIPPOCRATES till the present, tetanus has been the same mysterious affair that poisoning by strychnine is now; and from the time that post mortem examination has become the practice, no traces of the disease have been indicated as different from those which attend all deaths under sudden stress. Under these circumstances, with so very little known and to very much remaining to be known of which we can surmise only that it will be won derful and is not at all to be anticipated—with the general tendency, moreover, to magnify our own objects and to enforce our own convictions—there is sorely a clear ease for moderation, caution, impar tiality at least, and, we should my, a tendency to give the accused the advantage of any misgiving we may have about the extent and the certainty of what we know. Thus much relates chiefly to the parties who are in any way concerned in the investigation of the oases under notice. Bat we have all our own concern in the matter. There is at present among us an aggra vation of the constant liability to a monomania about crime. Food and poisons occupy a vast space in oar conversation; and if we let in our imaginations, and stimulate one another by sympathy, we shall see poisoning going on on every hand. Such things have happened, not only in seasons of plague, when men's wits are out of joint, bat in ordinary times, when the citizens believe themselves orderly and re ligious, and only anxious to do right. Englishmen used only turn to certain periods in their own history to see their danger in a time when new phenomena are accruing faster than usual; but those of them who have travelled in New England can never loss the impressions they received in the atmosphere of sadness and MUMS which even yet hangs over Eia:em. There the place is pointed out where the witches were banged in long rows, day after day; and there is no end to the mournful stories told by descendants of the sufferers and of the persecutors. Bat sadder than the spectacle and the tale are the memorials of recovery from the delusion. They are not spoiled as a warning by the entire belief of the pen} tents that they bad been tempted by devils. Science discloses to our generation how the phenomena of witchcraft (allowing for the admitted exaggerations of seal and terror) may be easily accounted for; but those to whom the matter remained a mystery did not wait for an explanation to repent. Most touching are the contender's recorded en tombstones, in church records, and in family archives—confessions of Mute, of credulity, of over-confidence in condemning the aerated ; and piteous are the prayers for forgiveness for having shed innocent blood, in the presumption of ignorance. Th....zae.eue exist on the spot a tae agonised efforts of the penitent to restore and sustain the bereaved families of the victims; and there are families which wilt bear to yet remote generations traces of "the calamity of 1692." It is as well to rectal such fans an mission and in good time. We are all proud of the spirit of our law and our courts which provides, in case of the alternative, for the escape of the guilty rather than the ondemnation of the innocent. We trust that the same spirit will enter into all oar conversation and all our procedure lin a matter so critical as that of a very new scintilla process, applied to decide in MIMI surrounded withl mysteries which science doss not yet praise to solvs.l A TM remarkable petition will be painted thin evening to the Hass of COMMIS by Sir Buena Penny. it is the petition of &manna Ilizarrr Bsowento, Me= Hovrirr, Mrs. Oeszatz, Mrs. Comma amine, Mrs. Mums, and others, ooteplaielog of the Mate of the Law as it efeets the earnings and property of Married Wows, sad praying the Hesse to apply a remedy.* The lan guage of the petition is eminently temperate and jedisioue, cud it is naniereuely signed—by many who have no elsim to be considered literary or artists sohnieties. It is the deliberate ressoostrases of a whole sex against the perpetuation of gross isjustioe. As the Law sow Moods all the earainp of the wife become the property of the Mahan& He an dispose of than absolutely ; she is powerless to prerest him from equadering them in the most Mappable manner. We need not remind ear nodes of certain revolting ilketradose of this disereditable state of affairs, of whisk the public has obtained seguisonee from time to time from proceedings in Carta of Law. There is scarcely one asnoog is who ham sot witnessed esea googly, within the range of his own private observe tioo, cams of which the great world hears nothing, bat which are whops more probative of samitigated and =deserved searing than those about which a noise is made. The Sedan of law, according to width all the goods of man and wife are held to be is sem moo, with the power of administration =elu sively vested in the former, too often makes the intelligent and industrious wife at ones the bountiful maintainer of an idle, or a sot fish, or a absolute husband, and a depredeut es his beauty. Such anomalous sad iniquitous relations between sexes equal in intellect, equal in all the best endowments of balmily, ought no looter to be tolerated. Woman was given to as to be "a help meet for him," not to be a bostlelave, or the old= of (*prides@ oppression. A deep seise of equal rights and reciprocal duties is indispensable to the happi sae or utility of the married state. This truth hos been too long overlooked by men, or if neognised, roosted to se a sere abating proposition which bad so isfloence on their essdnet. The wawa have been driven to escort their owe rights, and we bail their having do= no, in the present Wiliam, is the precursor of a more equitable and happier era. The edreiseloa of Prowls to the Coelirences con firms the statement we were enabled to make in eur Wtdseeday's bone, that the oeuelesion of a pseae will be announced almost immediately. Pravda as only have been admitted to figs, not to disease, the tame of peso,. Her admission shows bow far the negotiators have advanced towards a final settlement. There is a talk of Sir R. Lyons being nag am Minister to Constantinople soon after the pease Is finally onoluded. It was stated in well-informed eireles Lot sight (nye the Herald) that Indianian arlll meet probably bo ibrolved early ta May. 1 4 ftlINIMINENft THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1816. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. A despatch from Berlin states that Count Orloff has made known at St. Petersburg that a definite understanding has been come to on the fifth point, and that, thanks to the instructions brought by M. de &kegstoff, peace is essared. Some special de liberations, which are to take place between Russia and Turkey, have been reserved. Preparations are being made at Moscow for the coronation of the Emperor, which will take place after the conclusion of pew. The invitation addressed to Prussia by the Con gress appears to be more particularly grounded= the motive that the Conference of Paris is about to com mence the discussion of the treaty of the Duda nellee of 1841. A telegraphic despatch from St. Petersburg states that the special negotiations set ea foot betwees Ramis and Turkey exercise no influence apoa the marsh of the Conferences. [ART SUICIDES AT BERLIN. BERLIN, TavasoLT, Public opinion, already excited by the duel in which M. de Hteckeldy was killed, his received new wise for astonishment by two suicides this day in the high departments of the administration. M. de Ranvier, a privy councillor, shot himself this morn ing at the hotel of the Ministry of the King's house hold, to which he was attached ; and Count Coats also destroyed himself to-day in a similar The King and Royal Princes and most of the Ministers, together with some generals, attended the funeral of the late President of Police this morning. All the civil authorities of the town and great multi tudes followed him to the grave. In the sitting of the Upper House on Tuesday, the President, Prince Hohenlohe communicated the case to the Assembly in the following words: - - - - oestimen,-1 have to smoke you sequainted with a painful letsiligeace. One of the noblest semben of this bowie was Oared be the bible pnition of haulm kid to chow between sods, In accordanee to the dictates of heimuir, or is Of positive to the laws of this conatry. He ',Awed the former, and in doing so hes violated the laws of the kiagdow. He has delivered hisnielf up to justice. The 84th peregraph of the eautitet'oa permits the autho rities to arrest him La iavestigatios of the circumstances will take plow. We can only regret the abatises of the noble Haas yea B. 'chow, who was tweed by rirainiatantee is act is be has dose. Count von !Hallberg said that he had at first In tended to propose to the house a revolution praying the government to set Herr von Roohow at liberty, but just now he had heard that he was no longer in the hands of the civil power, bat was delivered up to the military authorities. Should, however, the mem bers of this house consider themselves and their pri vileges aggrieved, he reserved to himself the right of bringing before them at a later date a motion on the abject. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The Manitear of this day publishes the monthly returns of the Bonk of Francs to yesterday, Thursday, March 13. We give the most important items, with the corresponding figures of last month, en regard: Musk Feb. Bois and bit:lb:ls, P.r:a 91,483,478 .... 94,769,696 Ditto ditto broach banks Bilis discounted, Paris 240,521,625 227,030,062 Ditto branch b•nks Notes in cirsolauss. Paris Ditto ►rash basks Treasety deposits 97 R7R,CI/19 1117,M7,115 Ditto branch basks (710111 ova own COWSPONDINT.) PARIS, THIIIISDAY EVSNIKO. The news of the admission of Prussia to the Con grass, which was rumoured at the Bourse yesterday, and produced a great effect there, is confirmed to-day by a telegraphic despatch, from which it appears that the fact is positively stated in a semi-official journal of Berlin. The Prussian Plenipotentiaries will be K de Man teuffel, the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M. de Haterld, the Ambassador in Paris. M. de Manteuffel leaves Berlin to-utorrow. [Thin state ment is corroborated by the Mositesv of this morn- Imp] The Pays nye that the ninth sitting of the Con gress will probably take plat* to-morrow. At the Bourse the offset of the pacific news seems to have bees discounted, for the market was rather heavy. The Rents closed with a fall of lito. for cash, sad fie. for account, at 721 r. 650. and 731 r. 26e. There was very little alteration in railways. Credit Mobilier fell 2fr. 600. The following paragraph appears ht this eveniag's Pairs's: This morales the Eames mooing the hely sommamioa la the elm* of the Tuileries. From this day the Rumba of aidevdt-semp sad orderly allows of the Swint es slaty i► doubled, is espietatiom of the event which Fame Y Woking for with ..tub iaterset. These enema are to held themselves le Frailness to sorry eh. Lemon orders or mesowtes at a sameet's settee. ♦ Opal from the Tuile ries will es-der the assess is mamma the birth of the imperiel bleat The cradle, which I described yesterday, has not Jet been removed to the Tuileries. A lots is the Notsifer states that it is the special wish of the Emperar sad Empress that the public should hare ma epportnalty of seeieg it. Accordingly it has been exhibited is the Salle do Trona today, at the Hotel de Ville, to all comers,se ticket beteg asesseary. Is spite of the bad weather the crowd of serious persons at treated by the asseenesmeat was eaciensoes. The exhibidos costinaes tomorrow, bat no longer. The following ars the latest bulletins of the state of Mae* Jerome: 131,1 t, 9 a.s, The @heads& of the Prises to newly the one es it DIY yesterday evades ; the dhow I hallooles its ordinary 0111/19111. 13tb, 3.30 pan. The int ballot the day his pawed without up sum. Mies. The Momilarr do la Boils says : As Isillsh Persil Freda's' a arrappowlsose Mu Ws Jame, whisk op ak. et a dillhalty bests; miss is tk. nosh there bailees's Vie EGOS'S and Press\ Adsaissle sad the Assess& Cessuoicre, whew dig WAWA'S es She Ilsvassib. Abater of Ma dots givis dettils of thb afar, which, it appaus, ted to so cabal's, was is ao way Norio's, sad was speedily ettasd by mutual esylsostioss. A ratlww heavy fall of snow commeneed at Paris this Bondi' at a little after eaves, and continued without iaterniseica far several home. Is the streets, the mow smelted in most plates as rapidly as it fell, bat tb. roofs of the houses and the branches of trees are everywhere entirely white. M. Ferdinand de Lampe arrived is Pada a few days ago hem Erypt. Weis at Trieste, was days beck, the Aretaske Naaimillsa expressed ■ wish to osa him, sad re* trod him the saws resale,. Oa the fallowing day ►e WI invited to a bootittat Fives ho hio honour by tbo saaandpl body, A. riled* ■ewbers of the Chamber. of Counwree, and the Amides Lloyd's Company. NZWOATIS Paisoti.—The Gaol Committee of the City Corporatioa wpm, to dovetails the Interior of the sortb oda" of Miriam Paws, sad °cannot airing scents sad 100 cobs, as a eon of 10,000 d THE UNITED STATES. --4.-- (=mg ova OWN CORRISIVIIDNXT.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY RIMMING. The steam ship Atlantic, Captain Weer, arrived at this port at half-past 4 this afternoon. She brinp advises from New York to March 1, 45 peaseogers, bet no specie. The Atlantic passed the Baltic off Sandy Hook, March 1. Nothing is 11l yet known of the Pacific. The great feature in the advice. now to hand is the publication of the correspondence between the United State' and English governments on the En listment difficulty, and the Clayton-Balwer treaty, the papers having been presented to the Senate by the President, on the 28th ult. The correspondence upon the Enlistment question (assists of 22 letters and documents, and fills 18 columns of small type in the New York journals. The despatch from Mr. Marcy to Mr. Buchanan, dated Dec. 28, is the most important, being • delibe rate and detailed review of the entire subject in dis puts, and occupying of itself upwards of six columns. The following are the concluding passers: Though the lest instructions are a restriction upon the interpretation which Lord Clarendon has given to the law tad righs of the United States, they would, even if literally observed, infringe bo'h. This government maintains that J every instance where a person, whether a title's cr a foreign', bas been brought to the determination to leave this country for the purpose of entering into a foreign service as a soldier or seller, by any inducements offered by recruiting agents her., the law of the Un.to t States has neon violated. I h.rie certainly can be To doubt of the vio lation of t►e law of the United States in every ewe where one party, the recruit, has bees induced by the to roan ffered be him octually to leave the United States fir the ramose of entering into (mire military sstviee, and the other patty has furnished the amass and borne the ex pense of taking him to a foreign depot, in order to C40111211114(11 the act by enlistment. It wdl not purpotely be denied that several hundred cases of this hind actually occuirei in carrying out the 'clime of British recruitment, The vary design of cm ployisg spats for such a putout to act within the limits 01 the United States involved fa its COW Tames an Jade's meat of that law. his the solemn duty of the government of the United Settee to staithin this c instruction of their neutrality law, and the attempt to setup sad sustain • dd. ferent one has created mach surprise; and that it ham been done by a friendly gov.roment with which tie United States ere most anxious to maintain and strengthen the re lations of nifty, is the cause of deep regret. When the Presiteot presented the OW to the considera tion of bee Majesty's government, with the suistuo that he bad ouch iotormation on the subject as compelled him to believe that British alines in enfant statocs wen imp Hosted in a shun, which bed mulled in an infringe ment of the rights of the United Stater, and a violation of their low, sod asked for some satishotion for the yearn, he certainly did not expect that the conduct of them officers would be justified upon principles which impair the sovereignty of the United States so an independent nation, and by an Intertretation of the law which makes it en Stay infective for Wu purposes fur which it was intended. Some malefaction for the irjory was confidently ewe ud;but nothing that con be reseeded in that light bee been offered, end this government is compelled in vandic Mon of its rights and laws to take a course which it sincerely hoped bet Ma jeety's government would have rendered u•ssisuary. Her Mojesty's minister to this government, Mr. Cramp toe, hes taken a conspicuous part in organising and a:nation the scheme of coutructieg the British army within the United Stater. Were it poesible, with due regard to the seinen and &Gamins in the case, to assign him • sutordiosta part in that scheme, eves that would not allow the President to change the course which be is obliged, under the circumstances, to pursue towards him. Any par ticipation in the project, es it has been disclosed, in raising recruits I. this couatey for the British service, was Siena , patible with hie official relations to this government. His connexion with that affair bas rendered him an unacceptable representative of her al ' y neer this government, and you ere directed by the President to ash her Mejestre government to recall him. Mr. ItoweroN the Br tlsh maul at Ciulanati. Mr. Mathew, British wo nt at Philadelphia, are implicated in the retraitieg projee., end you are forth. r dirseted by the President to ask for their removal for that canoe. The persons convected with the British consulate at New York bare been actively en gaged in farther:og the recruiting scheme. Mr. Steak y, the moistest or clerk of the consul, has taken a more open and effective port than the consul himself, and is now under as indietment for violation the low against foreign recruiting. The consul, Mr. Bitch% could act bat know of Mr. Stanlers conduit la that mat ter, but he still retains him is the consulate. Besides Jo resymibility that rightfolly attaches to Mr. Barclay for the imprrp s conduct of an eautiogef in his oMoe and ander his immediate and daily observation, this goverment is satisfied that he bee himself not only tenured the enrolling tor the British may, but has tarti cipated in it. Moreover, the improper endue! of Mr. Barclay 12 the eau of the barque Massy has justly gives offense to t►e commercial emanalty is which he resides, and with whin he hes 'EMI esonnion. For these realms this gemenerat deems it proper to Joanna you to ask the sweetmeat of Civet Britain to withdraw Mr. Bee clay from the pest of British coeval at Now York. You are ditec:ed by the Pus/diet to read this derpateb to the Earl of Clarendon, and, should he desire it, to hand him a copy. The correspondence closes with a letter from Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Marcy, dated let February, in which he details that he had an interview with Lord Clarendon, on the 29th January, when he read over to him Mr. Marcy's dispatch of the 28th December, previous to which he fully explained to him that when be communicated to him cm the 18th July his tonfideace that the explanation offered by Lord Clarendon would be satisfactory to his government, ha had no idea of the eomplieity of Mr. Crampton in the affair, which had therefore, in consequence, @Bastard a much more serious aspect. It will be seen that Mr. Buchanan withheld the delivery of the despatch of the 28th December a fortnight, so that Lord Clarendon had not sufficient time to reply by the Atlantic or the Axis. _ _ _ The corrtspoedence on the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty does not reach so great a length. The first letter is from Mr. Bachman to Mr. Marcy, bearing date Nov. 28, in which Mr. Buchanan says, that in the course of a moversation which he had with Lord Clarendon, he stated to him that the most serious difficulties between the two governments might arise out of the Cordial American question. Lord Clarendon replied, that when two governments disagreed about the construction of a treaty, the beat and most natural mode was to refer the question to a third power. At se early period of the midis. tions Lord Clarendon had made the same sugges tion' but Mr. Buchanan jocularly replied that the Emperor of Russia was the only one suffi ciently independent to act as an umpire in the ems, and England had gone to war against him. Is a despatch from Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Marcy, November 28, a conversation similar to the above is reported. Mr. Beckman says :—N Having urged upon Lord Clarendon as strongly as I could remoras which I thought osght to induce the British govern ment to relinquish the Bay Islands to Honduras, Lord Clarendon replied that these islands are not of the leant vales to Great Britain, and that the only question with the government wan, whether the national honour did not forbid this course." Ia au interview between Mr. Buchanan and Lord Claret don, by appointment, on the Bth of November, the latter said the best method to settle the question was by arbitration. Mr. Beohanan replied that there wee nothing to arbitrate. Lord Clarendon said the true construction of the treaty was a proper subject for arbitration. Mr. Buchanan replied that he did not consider there could he any question as to the construction at all. The language was plain and explicit, and he thought this would be the una nimous opinion of the American people; but that in writing to Mr. Marcy he should mention what bad ban said. Oa the Bth of February, 1884, Mr. Buchanan wrote to Mr. Marcy: B. fare this 01111 reset Woolliestea pa will have read the speeetas el Lents Derby sad Clepadea is the House of Ler 's ea Theesday, whisk will speak far then selves. Ie reti tlea to the Central Amorist's quietus LordEllaseades add— " I lest so tine la *ferias to refer the whole question to the titbit:atlas of say thin! pewit, both sides agreetips to be beatd by the dahlia. That Oar has not bus to- NSW, but I hope upon further consideration the govern. meat of the United Metes will scree to it." Mr. Buchanan resumes : It le therefor* proper for me to state, as a matter of fief, that I have reported to you in the most faithful manner every minvenation which has passed between Lord Clarendon sad myself on the subject of referring these questions tea friendly power. As I have net. r learned that the British government hes made any such o& r to the go vernment of the United States than through Lord Claren don, I infer his lordship must bare referred tr the general eraverestiou between him end myself, wh?ch would by no means justify the broad terms of his argument. This much merely to vindicate the truth of history. On the Bth of February Mr. Buchanan writes to Mr. M • Oa Wednesday last, the Olth instant, I bad an Interview with Lord Clarendon et the 1 , , reign-rifles. I told him I desired to mentain whether the statement be made in the , Hone, of Lords on the evesiog of Thursday, the 31st ult.— that the British government had made to the American goverement an off r, which hes been recently renewed, to arbitrate concerning the Central American question—wan founded on what had passed betwen him and myself in corer. nation, or whether he had instructed Mr. Crampton to make to you in writing a formal tr peal te arbitrate. He replied that his statement was founded on nor different couversatiess, and that is them he bad several times pro posed to me the reference of these question to arbitration, and be expressed the hope that I had communicated his propositions to my government. I inflamed him that I had faithfully reported to lon all cuversatioas we had held is reference to an arbitration, but I had sot believed that what be mid on them occasions amounted to such as offer es mild be recognised by our gov.rnmest as a foundation for pacific action on so grave a matter; that I did not doubt you were of the same opinion, as I hod never received a line from yen on the eul jut He observed that, before holding thee* em - Cons with me, be ►ed consulted his cabinet, and spoke their seetimeets as well es his own. I remarked that this feet had now for the Int time been communicated to me. If he had ieLsrined ma of it at the t me, that would hive given his conversation a mote serious character, and caused it to make a deeper impression on my mind. He said he had thought, m a matter of cones, that I would consider what he said to me had been said after consultation with his cabinet. In reply I observed, I had thought that when one nation desired to proems to another the submission of au international dispute to arbitration, it wee done by writing and in due form. Such had been their own coarse when they proposed to arbitrate the Oregon question. Besides, the President might, if he thought proper, onesu!t the Senate on 0 question ; and what would be thought by that body it such a proposition were presented there in the loom ferns of a report of vari ous conversations between him and myself, which, after all, I might, through mistake or ins 'Tertian., not hue re ported corn oily ? He said, what be 13.<11 done he considered a preliminary step, and if our government had indicated any set sfsetion with it, they would have been papered to p rooted farther ; bat from what I had said to him he did not think they had received much me suregemeet. I told Mee, when I had spoken to him, I had always been eaten' to more him that I was upraising my own individual motimente, without soy instrectioes or information from my government, and these retuned ■nthinged. I also observed that his last letter to me, fully denying our conitraction of the treaty, and forcing the issue between the two government*, might appropriately have contained a proposition for arbi tration, and in this manner the question might have been brought in a regular form before our government. He thee, for the first time, informed me that he had addressed a despatch to Mr. Crimples on the sutject, with instructions to him to reed it to you. He then sent for it, and read it to me. I believe it was dated in Numbs r, but • copy being doubtless' in your possession, it will speak fo: iuelr. He in formed me farther, that all you had said about it to Mr. Crampton was that the matter was in Mr. Buohanan's hands. He proceeded to express • decided opinion in favour of arb Onion, and said that. when two friendly governments disagreed upon tie connection of • treaty the enteral and most aperopriste course wee to refer the weenies to a third friendly power. He had ever believed their contraction of the treaty to be correct. He then requested me to comma nirite to you their proposals for en arbitration, and how matins they were that the question might be settled in this manner. I told him I should cheerfully comply with his request, ►ut repeated that my own individual opinion re mained unchieged. I c , nsidered the largesse of the treaty t w clear for serious doubt, end that I believed was the opi- ' Mon of public men of all partite in the Unitei States. This had been evinced by • recent i.eb ate in the Senate on the President's message. Besides, the difileulty of Meting a suitable sovereign a an arbitrator seemed insuperable. But this, I said, was equation for my government, and sot for myself. Oa the 27th of February Mr. Crampton write, to Mr. Marcy : Observing that Bowe wrieopprehenaion seems to east as to the offer made by Lord Clarendon to Mr. Buchanan, to submit the palate regarding the interpretation of the Chi) ton-Bulwer treaty open which the two governorate I disagreed to obitgatioa, I think it well to rend yea the eucleeed despatch, which I received firm Lord Clarendon on the subject in Devotee lot. I regret act having rode yea th senonuoiceUen before, but the tenth is the last _ _ paragraph of the despatch Heaped my attention treed I rt rerrsd to it lately, and ae I wu aware that the negotiat'on et she gee tioo reptdieg Central Amerlea was in Mr. Beebasses sad Lord Cla;andos's hands, I sossidered the despatch se alertly utast for a eopy of information ma to what was pies forward upon a snbjeet in regard to which I infervel yen were already informed. Io the despatch referred to Lord Clarendon writs& to Mr. Crampton ander date Nov. 10: r. Bathesen having, is the course of conversation a few days sr, adverted to the inspeasion that would be crested la the United Stems by the neipsottlement of tks Central American question, I nails sethreed him that England had no wish to extend her isflumnee, or to obtain soy territory, In that putt of the weed, sad reeniaded him that, es the differesc• between their country and the United States tensed solely spin the interer Latina of the treaty of 1860, I had offered, en the part of her Maj, sty's government, to submit the sere to the arbitration of a third power, but that he bed declined the offer. Her Majesty's government, I said, would still abide by that offer, and I thought that would be the fairest and most amicable manner of arriving at a eettlement of the question. Mr. Eschsean Pal he would make it knows to his government. sad siva illll7llo. Hee to memenaiesto this despatei t Mr. Maicy. In the debate which ensued upon the presentation of these papers to the Senate— The Hen. Mr. Seward said that this eeerespondinue plated the Mint of Carrel Amulets affa'rs in a light eseaewhat diffetut from that ia which it promoted itself whoa Ant Moonlit before the honer. As the case stood whoa ecigiaary submitted by the President, the cnntouni ostkna &tweets the two gave/musts consisted of 'momenta oa both side., each govenmoot rigidly maintaining its position regarding the custitutith of the treaty; the United States demanding it. falfilmens, and Great Bri.ala quite as positively, he might say somewhat offensively, refeslog marlines,. Under them circumstances he had thought it his duty to dotterel his opicion, and express de sided someorreama in the position this government bad mama. It now appeared that Cheat Britain was willing to arbitrate. He congratulated the Senate ua that feet, as arming • more pulls and plvasing prosper* commie( Lois thengiag bat still mod imp - meet question. As to the eolistanst case, the correspondence allowed that the British government might with plausibility, and perhaps mustier - tiouly, say they hug tendervel what was r , gardsi by them In the nature of an apology, which they might have etheldend to be se broad and as fell ea wee one sietent with the beano, of that government to make. The Presides' and Secretary of Sat* might have thought the acknowledgment not suMciestly explicit, bat Lore Clarendon thought he had probably msde all the apology which could beside by a piwerjeslous of her dig nity and honour. The point of differente was the effect of the karma* used. Then was room for differences of opinion ea the @object betweon the pasties ; bat the assumption would be a violent ose that Great Braain had made ea ex planation which ought not to be astisfact ny. Mr. Pane did not concur with the neater, and win rot willing that Mr. Seward's *plain should go to the country as the deliberate view of the Sera's. Soeb a apology as they should claim from Great Britain bad rot been made. The dieelosares in the euraspondence exhibited oe dm part of America • manliness, spirit, and fonsknem, of which ell should be wood. He was sorry no such spirit ehuseterised Great Britain. Not only bad ao sands. toey ape'opy bees made, but the luggage used by the British Secretary amonatad to Units, and was therefor* offensive. Lord Clarendon had raid that the United States govern meat had sought to obtain evidence against her Majesty's servants or their agents by practices I.:mistimes resorted ti under deli otio inititutima, but which were disliked by all free end enlightened governmenta. Mr. Pearce said he wee not an advocate for war, tad hoped t►ey should maintain peace ; but he al . ould never Rano,. ledge that the c, rneponduce furnished say satittavory apology (or whit Wall done by Great Britain. The power wni.ll had invoked their neu'rality was the fret to tit. ate it. Mr. Stuart remarked that, notwilistanding the speech of Lord Clarendon in the Holm of Lords, it was shown by the ciorresp - ndence submitted that the prof osition to arbitrate was not submitted to Mr. Buchanan, nor did any thing is tho dcapatett fr ,na Lord C.arenclon to Mr. Crampton come up to that point. It seemed that Lord Clarendon had given the British poop'• to nude ntsnd that the geverament had assumed a generous position by offering arbitration. which America had declined, and wh'ch wool] be renewed. Inasmuch as Crest Britain did cot intend to acknowledge the obligations of that treaty, he confessed a string incli nation in his mind to abrogate it altogether. Mr. Seward said he haa espresird no opin i on that the British explanations ought to be considered setisfecto:y. He intended to stow that Lord Clarendon had diearoned intentional affront. and that it should nt,t be a foregone con elusion that nothing in the nature of en apology had been made. Mr. Masoa maid a grave offence had been committed against that government by Great Britain. It would be foiled in some manner and to some extent that Great Britain bed lent herself to a violation of her obligations to that country ender international relation., and b■d Invokers their domestic laws. He underattod Mr. Seward to say V at some apology had been made by Great Britain for her offence. He (hir. Mason) conceived an apology to be die between nations as between gentlemen. When a geet:eman did wrong, and desired to make mnition, be apolegised, admitting the wrong frankly and irgenuonsly without re. intestine, and in that way evinced an honourable pupae. H. submitted t t tl e hoe. senator (Sennett) whether such as apology had been made ? On the contrary, such exp:a. nations as hai been tffered added insult to the general in jury. If ever a qn,a , ion had occurred in tlt,•ir international relations demanding indemnity for the peat sal security foe the future, it was here presented. Where Vier, was really no cause for war between honourable men, none would arise; end to this, be took for granted, the people on both sides the Atlantic had made up their minds. Mr. Mason then mined that the number of copies of the British enlist ment documents formerly ordered to be printed be ia creased to 10,000, and that of those received that day the same number be printed, both to form ore vo'unie. The resolivion has leg been agreed to, the Saute ad j named. The steam ship Illinois arrived at New York on the 26th ult. from California with 1,140,208 dollars in specie. The fall of r►in had proved beneficial to the mines and farmers, who had taken advantage of it to commence to pot out their winter crops. The money market at New York continues easy, but prices firm. State loans are a shade lower. Stocks unfavourably affected by English news. The demand for foreign exchange wee moderate : London quoted 1081 to 1091 ; Paris, 5.20 to 5.171. The cotton market was strengthened by the foreign news, and closed at an advance of 16.8 d. per cwt. Flour 11c. to 121 c. per barrel lower. Wheat quiet ; prices nominal. Provisions active. Freights unchanged; engagements light. Amongst the passengers by the Atlantic are his Excellency G. A. Dallas, Minister to toe Court of St. James's, and family. TURKEY. PROM 01,11 OWN COILIALSPONDENT. CONSTANTINOPLE, Matzen 3. General Mitchell, chief of the stuff, lately received orders to inspect the force, and accordingly the sth and 7th regiments under Majors de Courcy and Coates were paradt d the other day, with all their camp equipage, reserves, ammunition, &c. This officer was highly pleased with the appearance of the men, the mann« r in which they pitched their tents, and executed various military evolu tions. Majors de Courcy and Coates are two first-rate officers, and although strict dis eiplioariene, highly popular with the force under their command. Major Le Content arrived here with orders to instruct the different regiments in the Miniii rifle practice. The Turks pick up admirably any im provement, and are progressing rapidly in all mat ters. The bands are being instructed in the light infantry calls, and the Second Brigade is already quite au fait. There are nor, I can assure you, finer fellows in the world than the Turkish soldiers, when well officered, well appointed, and treated with kindnem. All their wants, I need scarcely add, are abundantly supplied ; and I only regret that there has been no opportunity, except one, of testing the value of the contingent in the field, and replying effectually to the misstatements or rather the gross calumnies of its ass silent/. NAVAL AND MILITARY ADMIItALTT, WARCH 13 —APPOINTWENT6.—COMM sudsy I 0. A. I. Ridge ( I 864). to emnraand the Coast Guar.!. Paymasters 0. A. Welch (18.55, to the Eamoutb, 90, screw steam ship, of 400 bone power, at Devonpart; and K. E. Patten, to the Itunilest. gunnery ship, at Pornwontli. Meletant Paymasters J. H. BMrreft (18511. to the London, 90, Medi terranean station; rod E. F. &Bell (1..52), to the Centurion, 80, screw steam chip, of 490 hone power, at P ronport. Aniletant Clerk E. Sheikdom to the Algiers, 90, screw steam ship, I of 450 bone power. Mediterranean Stith n. liteshiplitan M. Tracy, to the Odra, 91, screw steam ship, of 600 bone power, at Deronport. Naval Cadets W. Brown, to the Ph, 21, ,crew items corvette, of 2)0 hone power, at Shrilling.; and F. C. Baker, to the Alfieri. CHATHAM, Nairn 11. A detachment ct the Diaries Armlet,' left lb. Mame barraeke yesterday, and embarked on board the Sparrow. hank, gun noel, fitting for sea at this port. Another deuiahment ordered to prepare for embarkation on board the Cormorant, 'shish ti to be MAN for tea at this A large timber of soluitte. re are required to fill up the mean*" In the companies of the opt sappers and Miner% from which the 17th end .4th companks, recently gone to the Crimea, were mania& The following is a omplate list of this chief persons, offl ine sthissbas. aboweat out in the steam trammel Gent Western. ell* 114 -aWhemßtsa ea Theeday, elm s—J S. Addams, Yield Tidal Malin misbet puma 89th Reg iment ;C. A. Pay. thammilw 110Ogrepaey BAyal Enithran. George Stoptord, Sri- Me* Polierams ; Allred Goodall, lieutenant; Edward J. BMW IMlhmore ; gar. Wheat ey, lieußnant it..yal Regimen; ilissed Umbra, thuttnant Royal Engineers; H. F. de Vex, that& met all* Ithitheers; Hanlon Adye. major Royal Ensiseets; A. A. Mullthl. savior Royal P. ogiorers; W. B. mean. ensign KM Dee` meat; Arthur tctknrll, lieutenant Royal &gimlet. • Baty M. Wrialo.tin nth Regiment; t banes Fanner, 7th root, diegetwee of ftlas• J. T. Carroll, resign 38th Reeleceet; Limn:Colima Smith. lath liastanent; Corainlmary-Gengrai Seal and erne; William Cowper. Mannar of medicines, 39th Foot; C. D. ftwy, Master ; A. 11.11soknor, captain coral Ensin•ars; J. W. 8. 8. liken "4" sca,ll4 3th tettant LB.; a ao, ;_ aa ßo r n main 38 iaalased .2 . lteg , ree ths t i ; s4 l resat; W. W. her... Corks, to Consulate at Constantinople. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Malice 13. To-morrow (Friday) has been fixed for the nomi nation at the New Ross election, and, as a day must intervene, the polling cannot take place until Mon day, so that the candidates and their adherents will have Saturday and Sunday to work on the passions of the populace. A strong torce of military and coasts• Wary has been assembled, and the authorities will omit no precautions to preserve the peace; but scene' of violence seem inevitable during the contest, so ex• cited do the feelings of the people appear to be. In the cue of the Earl of Kingston v. (the late) ' John Sadleir, an application was made yesterday in Muter Litton's office to have all the deeds and other documents relating to the cue brought into court and lodged, with a view to have the account decreed by the Master taken. There was no opposition, and art order was made according to the application. The Hon. F. Cavendish, proprietor of the Mayo Telegraph, died rather soddenly in Castlebar on Monday night, at the age of 79 'ears. He was the son of the Hight Hon. Sir Henry CaTeadish and the Baroness of Waterpark. 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