The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED ETATEs.

LITTIR FROM TES AMICIIICAN AMnAssADOit TO Tgg
LIVIRPOOI. AbIeItICAN CHAmtve.R OP eoggtiecie.
The Liverpool American Chew Per of Commerce fee,
warded an invitation to the II JO. Jam r Buchman, the
new ambassador fur the United States to this country,
immediately after his arrival in Eit,:..od. Tt.e 1. flowing
reply has been received from him, from which it will be
seen that he is not able to accept the invitati .0 at pre..
It will be seen that Mr. Buchanan's letter enters somewhas
fully into several questions of interest. It is as follows
" United States Legation, London, Sept. 3. 1853.
" Sir,—l have had the honour to receive tne et-slution
adopted on the 30th ult., by the American Chattitter or
Commerce at Liverpool, inviting rue to a banquet to be
given by them, as a mark of respect and welcome upon ety
appointment me minister of the United States of America
to England, and requesting, me to name a day when it Will
best suit my convenience to attend.
"Whilst highly and gratefully appreciating this honour,
I regret that it is impossible tar me, with a nue regard to
my public duties in London, to say when; if at all, their
kind invitation could be accepted. I fed, thereto..., con.
strained respectfully to decline it. In doing this, ! Arm:,
I beg to assure them that no wan in either couLtre esti.
mates more highly than myself tho commerce omriucted
betwi en Liverpool and the United Sushi; and no rasa
more ardently desires that it may Img cuhttuue to vend
itself in peace and prosperity, and to confer mutual benefits
upon both nations.

."
The period in the worlds history see.as at length to
have arrived when mankind have distoren.d that narrow
and unjust restricions upon nireign trade twat surely de-
feat their own object, and when seitistiness itself is en.
listed in favour of a liberal policy. The philanthropist st
the Sarni) time rejoices in the knowledge that the mutual
dependence which commerce creates bete cen nations is the
surest prevention of war, by renticeing peace the were::
of all. For my own part, I firmly believe that the non!.
tied questions known to exist between Brent Britain nail
the Lofted States, judged alone according ts the value of
the material interests involved, are not worth six mewls'
suspension of the trade between the two coun-
tries. It is, therefore, grimly to be desired that
these questions should be spa: ally, honour...l-.oj, and finally
adjusted, and that hereafter both nations should tykes a
smooth sea and a cloudless sky fur a friendly competition M
all the pursuits calculated to enlighten mud benefit Ma
human race. The greatest revolution, so far as the ie.
terest of commerce and manufactures is concerned, white
ha, ever Isten commenced among men, is that now in apps.
rently successful progress iu China. Should this terminate
in opening a free access to that vast empire of 300,e00.4
of buman beings, the United Siotes and °seat Britain will
have a harvest presented before them nli,efi, even with all
their energy, enterprise, and resources, they will scarcely
be able to reap. Then will a noble and generous rivalry
also spring up between them, which shell contribute mom
effectually to promote the cause of Christieuity, eiviliaseaa,
and freedom among this ancient m.d strange people.—With
sentiments of great respect, I remain your obedient, vim:,
" JAMES BUCHANAN.
" Gilliam, Brown, Esq., M.P., Cimire.an."

A YANKEE'S NOTION A i;OUI' ENGLISH
HOTELS.

TO THE rum at O TIM EXPRESS.

Sin,—Will you permit a to say a word oa
a subject that the Times does not mat either truth.
fully or fairly. I guess I hay., ,eun more of hotels
iu three quartets of the world th.tn falls to the lot of
most men.

It cannot be denied that to live in respectable Eng-
taverns is very expensive, and that the charges
are high, but what I contend is, that the social
habits of the English, and their great personal in-
dulgence, the duties and attention they exact from
the establishment (for they will ring fur a bezrant to
pick up a pin) make it impossible to cunipare the
charges with those of the continc!.t ; and to place one
in contrast to the other is only ul)tird.

To please the English there must he a Veialit4
about everything ; they must breakfast, dine, and
sup alone; they must have servants who will fly at
every summons, and who must supply their meals at
all hours of the day or night—breakfast from tl a.m.
till 2 p.m., dinners from 2 till 9 at night, and every-
thing must bo obtained exclusively for them. The
meals may be simple in comparison to what they
give you in my country, but all must be provided
especially for their couveaience and to suit their
habits.
I repeat to you, sir, that the social system here
precludes all likelihood of any approximation to
tavern charges either on the continent or America.
The English will not feed in crowds, except as a
summer recreation, or as they do now and then at a
public dinner, cost whit i' may, they loathe it, and
therefore they cannot be fed ;it the same price that
a meal would cost in a crowd. I sat next to a
London shopkeeper's wife in New York, at a ban.
quet, such as I suspect she had never seen before,
except at tho Lord Mayor's dinner, and yet she
said, We English dislike this sort of clung, 'tis
'orridly vulgar, we like to be hexelusive." This
dame was a typo of the nation—all pant for ex-
clusiveness.

If large dinners are provided for large companies,
as in Germany and elsewhere, they would be dono
as cheaply Or cheaper) here as In any part of tho
world; but Englishmen will have the comforts, the
quiet, and (superior) attention to what he gets at
home, in every tavern he frequents, or he abandons
it, and pronounces it " not comfortable." Now, I
ask you, can all this be done without involving a
great expense upon the landlord? I have lived a
good deal in English hotels, but can recollect only a
few rich hotel-keepers; and that few got their
money by public, not private dinners. If the bad-
ness was as proritablc as the Times would make it, we
should have tavernsus thick as fautorics in Lancashire.

As a "down caster" I would in conclusion whisper
in John Bull's ear, that if he would consent to do as
others do, take the same profits, accept the same fees
for professional services, and be satisfied to place
things on the same economical scale us foreigners, he
can consistently ask a moditicatiun of charges from
others, landlords included. John is a notorious
grumbler. I have heard an attorney grumble at 2s.
for his breaktast—who was making thousands a year
out of railway business—and call it extortion; and
if I stood in need of his services (ever so trifling) I
found him as keen as a needle with two points. la
Yankee land John is always grumbling: it is there
all wrong, all roguish, all rascally. Meet him on the
continent, and it is ditto, ditto, and ditto. But when
we have a " show up" in the newspapers of what the
old gentleman does himself at home—bishops in-
cluded—he does not work for nothing.
Respectfully, YANKEE DOODLE.
I verily believe if an hotel were established at
Brighton on the continental system, which is con-
sidered to be so economical, au English tradesman or
a stock jobber would call it " a slop bang," and blush
down to his boots if it were hinted to him that he
had patronised it.

TILE ASSAULT UPON WOMEN AT MANCILESTER.--.
Isaac Davis, the man charged with a say.ige assault upou a
woman named Ellen Oakes (an account f which appeared
in the Express on Wednesday), was again brought be-
fore the city magigtrecti at Manchester yesterday maiming.
when a certificate was produced from the medical officers at
the Royal Infirmary, declaring the complainant out of
danger. A number of witnerses were called for the de-
fence, who stated that the woman was drinking for an host
at the public house, and commenced the affray by throwiag
a jar, a glass, a pint'pot and some beer at the defendant,
but they all him. Mr. Maude said a more brutal
assault had never been brought under the notice of the
court. If the defendant had strock the woman in the heat
of passion, immediately after she had thrown the beer M
him, the c •urt would not have thought 64 much of the
matter; but it seemed that he followed her into the
rtreet afterwards and committed a violent assault, and he
should be very thankful that he had not to answer a chards
of murder in consequence. Lie shoal sentcoce the priseuer
to the extreme penalty of six. months' impriscment, with
hard labour.

HERTFOILDSUIRE REGISTRATION.—The raising
barrister, Mr. Fish, opened his court for this county at
Watford, on Thursday last. Mr. Bontsuss attende for the
liberal,, and Mr. Passiugham for the tonics. The only
cases of interest were the claims of betwevn 30 and 40 of
the allottees on the O'Connorville estate, at Rickinens-
worth. Mr. Passtugkam had objected to all these dal",
and Mr. hunters defended them. After a long discussion,
the barrister postponed his decision till the 23th inst., to
he riven at St. Albans. The following is the result of the
day's revision, as agreed to on both sides :
New fib, rat claims
Tories struck off
—25
New tory claims
Liberals struck off

Liberal pin
The Heraldo rtnnounces tho death of !taros Picolut

d'Hermillion, the Strdinian Minister at ISWthl.
PROPOSED RE-ERECTION OF THE FUEE TRADE
HALL—The directors of the public company Jrf relmildia
the celebrated Free Trade Hell, at M inehor, 2r, haring
ceived a sufficient number of applie itiona far ewes, We
now merle their allo:meot, and iss.uel cal praxes for the
tint instalment of the money. The cap: it 25,0001, sad
the applientions were to the amount of 10,001. It is to tis
built on the site of the present Hall, bat the deFign has not
yet been fixed upon.

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