The Press.
London, England, 1856-06-07 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The United States mail steamer Atlantic, Captain
Eldridge, arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday night
from New York with dates to the 24th ultimo. These
advices are four days later than those previoirily
arrived. The explanation and apology contained in
Lord Clarendon's despatch, it would seem, were re-
garded somewhat favorably, and although Mr.
Crampton's dismissal was still regarded as inevitable,
th€re was a strong feeling both in Washington and
New York that the pending difficulties would be even-
tually satisfactorily adjusted.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald writes on the 23rd :

Mr. Marcy is now engaged in drawing up a reply to
Lord Clarendon's last despatch, and it will be forwarded
to Mr. Dallas at the same time that Mr. Crampton re-
ceives his passports. Mr. Marcy will show that Lord
Clarendon'a special pleading has only aggravated the
offence. In Lord Clarendon's despatch the ground is
taken that the witnesses against Mr. Crampton are
persons of worthless character; while, on the other hand,
Mr. Crampton said the three British consuls, all
honourable men, pledged their word that they are inno-
cent of the charge made against them. The fact is,
however, that Mr. Crampton's complicity in the offence
rests upon a different basis from that suggested by Lord
Clarendon, and which seems to have escaped that gentle-
man's observation. It is based upon Mr. Crampton's
own admissions, as contained in a letter written by him
and produced at the Hertz trial. This is the document
which has convicted Mr. Crampton, and not the testimony
of his confederates; and the pledge of his honour, now
tendered to show his innocence in the face of these facts,
renders his further residence here personally obnoxious.
The theory upon which the President excuses himself for
not having long since dismissed Mr. Crampton is, that
when the correspondence was at first opened with the
British Government, it was not known that he was impli
cated to the extent it afterwards appeared ; but, having
commenced a correspondence upon the subject. it was con-
trary to dipl mails etiquette and the relations existing be
tween the two countries to act upon the additional evi-
dence produced except by presenting it in the correspond-
ence, and demanding Mr. Crampton's recal. That
demand being now refused, nothing further remains but to
sum up the evidence and hand the Minister his passports.
Had no correspondence taken place previously to Mr.
Crampton's letter (that produced at the Hertz trial), be
would have been dismissed without going through the
formality of demanding his recal by his own Government
am sufficiently well advised to announce the fact that
while our Government will reciprocate the friendly feeling
which is expressed by Lord Clarendon in his despatch, it
will be shown that the interest of both nations will be best
promoted by the appointment of a successor in the place
of Mr Crampton, who no longer enjoys the confidence of
this Government. The British consuls implicated in the
enlistment affair will be permitted to remain, by way of
compromise. It is supposed that England will take no ex-
ception to this procedure, as Mr. Crampton', dismissal
will have been owing not alone to his complicity with the
enlistment case.

The mails of the 20th ult. brought also highly
important intelligenee. The Padre Vigil, the Nica-
iagnan Minister, had been acknowledged. On the
10th the President sent a Message on the Central
American affairs to the Senate, explaining that as
satisfactory evidence exited that the Padre Vigi! re-
presented a Government. de jure and de facto, he had
been received.

Lord Clarendon's final reply had been received ou
the 20th. The New York Journal of Commerce
says: --
The dismissal of the British Minister—for that event
may as well be assumed, now that its certainty has become
apparent—is regarded with vague apprehensi9ns in com-
mercial circles and by capitalists. Nobody, however, be-
lieves that war is likely to ensue upon it. The objections
un.,:el against Mr. Cnunpton are entirely personal. He is
held by the Administration to have violated our laws; and
although his own Government, with a laudable anxiety to

SATURDAY,

shield their ambassador from rebuke, have listened indul-
gently to his explanation, the Cabinet at Washington per.
siat in regarding him as an unacceptable representative,
and having iu vain requested his reed, accept the ungra-
cious alternative of tendering him his passports. .
It the dismissal of Mr. Crampton should provoke that of
Mr. Dallas, there the matter may be expected to end, till a
change in the persons intrusted with the conduct of one or
both of the two Governments shall open a way for the
resumption of direct diplomatic intercourse. Meantime
any necessary communication from one to the other may
be made through the good office of a neutral legation. The
harmony which has met no interruption since the peace
of ISIS is not likely to be seriously disturbed now. .
In both countries the sentiment is urainimous, that there
is no existing injury or grievance to excite and keep alive
a feeling of resentment in one against the other ; and that
sentiment is sure to be developed into practical manifesta-
tion whenever a well-founded apprehension shall point to
the possible rupture of friendly relations threatening a
fresh disturbance to the harmony of the world, and a
lamentable check to the progress of Christianity and the
advancement of civilisation.

The New York Tribune, upon the same subject,
under date Washington, May 19, says :
The Cabinet sat to-day until half-past four o'clock deli-
berating upon the answer to the British Government. It
will meet again to-morrow morning, which is an unusual
proceeding. The chat acter of the reply divests the issue
of any threcteldug consequences, except those necessarily
resulting from a suspension of friendl)• intercourse between
two Governments at peace, if the dismissal takes place.
The question is plainly resolved into one of personal appli-
cation affecting Mr. Crampton and the consuls. Lord
Clarendo.i thinks they are not guilt-; we think otherwise,
and therefore they are unacceptable.

While the Fetc York Courier and Inquirer, of the
same date, par►ially contrailicts the above :
The Earl of Clarendon's last despatch has not been con-
sidered in the Cabinet, and no communication has been
had with Count Sartiges on the subject. It has not been
determined to dismiss Mr. Crampton. Long Cabine
meetings were held to-day, and on Saturday, but this sub-
ject was nut touched upon. To day, at three o'clock, it
was privately announced to Opposition senators that the
difficulty bad been settled, that the Earl of Clarendon's
last despatch was satisfactory to the President and Secre-
tary of State, and a publication, announcing an adjustment,
would be made to-morrow morning. I doubt this. A
correspondence has taken place between Messrs. Clayton
and Crampton. Mr. Clayton yesterday sent to Mr. Cramp-
ton a long communication, explaining what had been said.
Mr. Crampton replied through a friend to-day. It was
stated at four o'clock that a reconciliation had been
effected.

The New York Herald of the 10th says :
To send Mr. Crampton home is nothing. It is not a
war measure; it is a peace movement. It will be the
removal of the everlasting enlistment difficulty from the
two troublesome negotiators, Palmerston and Marcy. The
people of England care nothing for it ; we care nothing
for it. It is a matter of police with us, just like any other
violation of our laws. Mr. Crampton once out of the way,
and the laws have been vindicated. England cannot real
him, because he only obeyed orders ; we can dismiss him:
and it is probable that the true men in England sincerely
desire that it may be done. There are some nervous and
weak people who have confounded such a proceeding with
offensive and warlike measures. That is great folly--
there is not a speck of war in it. It amounts to nothing
but an act of our own internal administration, with which
England has no concern. Again, the Belize colony is
another affair which is said to threaten war. If so,
will somebody tell us how it is to come about. Eng-
land disputes with us on the Clayton treaty; but she
offers to refer the matter to an umpire of our own choos-
ing. War, then, must come of our declaration by Con-
gress ; for, if resorted to, it must be to dislodge Great
Britain in the Belize. That declaration must be made
after we shall have rejected the proffered arbitration.
Now, there is such a thing as an absurdity; at least there
is with those who express fears of a war on such a basis.
Nothing can be more silly—nothing more preposterous.
Even Marcy and Palmerston, who have been playing for
the stakes, have never thought of war. They are annoy-
ing tricksters and selfish bunglers. but they know that no
harm will come of the dispute. We have no serious dis•
pute with England, nothing to estrange the two nations
from each other, certainly nothing to quarrel about. In
the Crampton and Belize matters there does not appear to
be a point of possible collision.
This Crampton affair is a great card for the " bears,"
and •hey should play the game as strong as possible, for it is
not likely to last long. It is in reality the most absurd thing
in the world to talk about war between this country and
Great Britain, and every sensible man on both sides of the
Atlantic is of the same opinion. It amounts almost to an
impossibility. There are so many ways to avoid actual
hostilities, that it is, in fact, utterly out of the question.

The United States Senate wasengaged in an angry
discussion on the affairs of Kansas. The senator
for South Carolina had on the 22nd caned Senator
Sumner, one of the speakers on the question on the
previous day.
From Quebec a telegraphic communication has
been received, stating that on the 22nd ult. the
Canadian Ministry had resigned. The Assembly
tendered a vote of confidence in them, but a majority
of Upper Canadians voted against them. It was ru•
moured that Colonel Taebe had been sent for.
Some further remains of the Franklin expedi-
tion have lately been received at New York
from the Hudson's Bey-house, Lachine, fcr transport

JUNE 7, 1856.

to London. The relics are collected in a box, and
consist of the ollowing :—One piece of a snow-shoe,
marked Mr. Stanley (the name is cut into the wood
with a penknife) ; one piece of cane, apparently
bamboo; one piece of wood, part of a boat, with
copper binding ; one piece of wood, part of a boat,
with the word " Erebus" cut into it; two pieces
bunting; one piece cordage ; one pieze leather, the
inside of a backgammon board; one piece metal, the
graduated part of a barometer; one piece ivory,
part of a mathematical parallel ruler; one piece
ivory, apparently part of a mathematical instrument.