The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-16 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNG 16.

thee merit meet be conceded to the Washington
C►bincr. They have doe. a very offensive set in a
manner and in a tor m u little offessive as wee peak.
They Dave reduced the came of Mr. CRARPTON'S
diSmiesel from international to purely personal
grounds; they have accepted the explanation aa to
the policy and instructions of the British Cabinet
which Lnd CLARENDON offered them; they have
exonerated the Eoglish Government from say later
lion to infringe their romicipal law ; they have reeog•
aimed. and proles@ at least to reciprocate the spirit of
friendship and goodwill in which Lord CLARENDON
has addre►sed them ; and they have given Mr.
DALLAS ample powers either to army by direct
ago) istion the questions as to Central America, or
to rater them to arbitration either royal or, if desira-
ble, private.

The essential differences between the two countries
have, therefore, it is obvious, been placid ort new
ground in consignee°, of this altered determination
and changed toile of the United States Government
But the personal qeestioa is aggravated and oxen-
panted by the view that Government now takes of it;
—that Mr. CRAMPTON was carried away by :inland
indiscretion far beyond the policy and the instructions
of his Government; that he took unwarrantable fiber.
ties, of which Lord CLARENDON NY in ignorance, with
the laws of the Union ; that be deliberately deceived
the Government he was accredited to; and that his
personal conduct g Ily has been unsuitable and
unacceptable. Therefore, it is now alleged, President
Pierce has dismissed Mr. CR►MPTON.
how, let us supine that Mr. Citennon is amen-
able to all these serious, and, be it remembered, to a
large extent new imputations. He would, of worm
be in that case an unworthy representative of
the Crown of England at Washington. But Pre-
sident PIERCR has not given Lord CLARENDON
any opportunity of forming an opinion on the
new matter be has introduced into the ease.
When Mr. ?deny formerly represented Mr.
Clairton u "unacceptable," it woo for carrying
oat, se be then @append, the instraotioss of the
Foreign-office; bat now Mr. MARCY knows better,
and he dismisses Mr. CRAMPTON for pursuing
a course which Mr. MARCY in effeet tells Lord
CLARENDON he is now aware TM not warranted
by Mr. Clestrron's instructions. Formerly Mr.
Mawr required Lord CLARINDON to ceasure him-
self se well as to condemn Mr. CRAMPTON. Now
Mr. MARCY admits Lord CLARINDON has pursued a
fair and honourable course ; and sends away Mr.
CRAMPTON for not following the example which
Lord CLARRNDON set him. Mr. MARCY, in this his pre-
sent anxiety to do a smart thing in the least offensive
way, overlooks two points, of which the first is, that
Lewd CLARZNDON did not refuse to withdraw Mr.
Chagnon. All Load CLatention did was to bring
Mr. CRAMPTON'e reply to the then case against
him before Mr. MARCY, and to ask him to believeit in
prefereoce to relying on Hain and STROEREL The
second point overlooked is, that Mr. MARCY gives
Lord CLARENDON CO opportunity of forming en opi-
nion on the new matter which has wads so deep an
impression on his own mind, but, In great buts, sends
Mr. CRAMPTON his peissports, and thereby raises up
another and a much more weighty qualm than the
des consideration of his additional cue against Mr.
Cnesirron.

To send away a public Moister unneoemarily ex-
cept when his Government have refused to rood him,
or his presence is attended with danger, is always an
extreme step. When Mr. ELtiorr, our Minister at
Berlin during the American war, insulted FRAM.
Rica lie Omar by shaking in his face the proofs he
had obtained of that Bing's complicity with our
rebellions colonists as they were then called, Fla-
DZILICK did not retaliate with hie jackboot or by
mincing Mr. ELLIOTT his purports—he simply re-
quested his removal, and the request was at own
complied with. And who can doubt that bad the
Washington Cabinet pursued a course ee tem-
perate sod es moderate 118 the Great FILIDZILICKII
wise and prudent conduct when far more justly pro-
voked, some solution of the now very much narrowed
and contracted, yet meek note dangerous, diplomatic
point we ticl have been fond that was consistent with
the honour and dignity of both countries ? But now,
in coos. qualms a Mr. hasty procedure, the
difecolty is to find any SOWN that can be adopted tat
one which will comport with the honour and dignity
of this country.
Fcr the British Government simply to fall into Mr.
Maacr's view—to accept Mr. Cesar-rotes diamimal
as a mere personal act, offensive and disagreeable to
him only—and to take up at coos the other question
in dispute and arrange it with Mr. DALLAS, would
be an abnegation of self-respect such as might be
very al/terabit+ to President PIERCE, but would be
humiliating to the pride sod sentiment of England;
and it is quite as math our just pride sad gee._
row sentiments on which oar power is fusuded as on
our mete wealth. That otiersecen hardly be the oat
our Cabinet will take. As little, however, eon we
anticipate their minding away Mr. DALIAN either
before Mr. Calillr2oll arrives to give full isformation,
or wittost accompanying his dismissal by some act
or explanation that will reciprocate Mr. MAllerli
exprt surd anxiety to arrange the other question in
dispute. To avoid war we must not stand as trifles.
but do all in the way of concession that we can fairly
acd bonourab:y do.

Were it possible, we might send a special mission
to %shirtless ; but as a special mission is the highest
compliment one Government can pay another, Mr.
MARCY hie rendered that expedient impossible also.
Writ n Lord J. RUSEELL took the seals of the Foreign-
office., ender Lord ABERDEEN, be proposed to despatch
the 1t.,r1 of CARLISLE -o Waehington,speciallycharged
to arrange the Central American oontrovenyi bat
Lord JOHN'S wise prevision was crumpled by Lord
ABEEDLEN'S dull and stupid formalism, and that
opportunity was lost. Although, however, a special
taiseion is now out of the question, there really
appears no reason why at some neutral point—even
thoegh it bs on the island midway in the Atlantic,
where Lord CLARENDON jocularly offered to meet Mr.
MARDI' some ten days ago—some negotiations might
not be opened for the arrangement of all differ-
toms. At all events, that would be infinitely pre-
stable to any Imperial Intervention in the dispute.
But even then the will be rest, salsas the
United States Cabinet wilt. give the way by same
concession se to Mr. Cteurroe.

We are as going to war about Mr. Caourtox,
will of mane be said. ?hither about Mr. CIAIIP-
TON, nor about anybody nor anything else, we
Lope. For oar part, we have no vary high opinion

Of Mr. CRAMPTON. To say the least of it, he hu
not conciliated the esteem of any party atWashiogton.
Mr. CLATTON has brought into painful controversy
his veracity on a matter of fact I Mr. Mance objects—
not, we must say, without reason—to the tone of
several of his despatches given in the Bfbi=booksi and'
his residence at Wasbiegtoo has du born illustAjtei
by any seeress that we know of—foe the treaty alto
the Bt. Lawremoe and Canada, was more Lord
ELGIN'. work than Mr. CRAMTTON.B. But admit-
ting that Mr. CRAMPTON has net fulfilled at Wash-
ington the expectations which his previous career
encouraged, as a general rule our public ministers
malt be maintained and supported, their conduct
when specially attacked most be examined with fair-
ness, liberality, and generosity, and we moat not dis-
grace ourselves by any avoidable sacrifice or shabby
o bedemnation of them. And in judging of Mr.
Castirrox's conduct on the enlistment question as a
whole, we must not overlook these circumstances,
that be is dismieeed by a Cabinet which, at the very
time it sends him away, is brought by Lord Cuing-
DON to ao acknowledgment that it had formed a

wrong opioioo on the more important part of the
case, and that the Cabinet which dismisses him has
a motive for the dismissal quite irrespective of Mr.
CRAMPTON or the British Government.

As to Central America, there appears to us an
unusual amount of nonsense talked upon the ques-
tion by the journals supposed to be connected
with the Exuma. England has no mission to
tin all directions the outbursts of Filibusteriem.
Wnen they endanger English interests, thoee
interests must of tonne be protected ; but we have no
earthly interest in perpetuating the frightful disor-
ders that have so long ravaged Nicaragua and all the
other States of Central America but Costa Rica, or in
arresting the progress of United States settlement
and order there. The time is manifestly at hand when
the relations between these petty states and the rest of
the world must be placed on a better footing, and when
their seclusion has to be exchanged for that inter-
course with the world which it is our especial interest
to promote and to share in; and that time will be
' greatly accelerated by a strong government in Nies-
rages, by whorneoeeer it shall be formed. If already
an American Company have got possession of
the land transit, it is our own fault, and from
their energy we derive great advantages.
But the monopoly of a land transit having been
secured there by a United States Company, other
American enterprises were sure to follow: it is not
for us to wring our bands over and denounce them,
but rat►er to make up our minds to this farther
spread of a common race which confers on us com-
mon benefit'. AU we can want is to be placed at no
disadvantage in Central America, and to that end
only ouerbt we to use our rights and pretensions in
that quartet.

lu what Lord J. RI:7BBEu rightly called the pre-
sent critical rate of things, the first duty of the Ca-
binet is to support the national dignity and honour,
avoiding as long as possible say risk of war.
Lord Pommitorott is wonderfully fertile in
espedieuts. Oa his present device for avoiding and
turning • great sad serious difficulty, both the credit
of the country and the existence, if not of his Mi-
nistry, of the present House of Commons, may depend;
for in front he has • public that will not be preci-
pitated into war with America, and behind him he
has a party which needs but • little assistance to be
able to place him in • minority on Mr. H. HAILLII'II
now akiltully prepared address to the Crown. Mr.
GLADSTONE, Bir J. GRAHAM, and Mr. SIDNEY HER-
BERT (notwithstanding he originated the policy on
which Mr. CRAMPTON acted), are all ready and
willing to strike, if he gives them au opportunity,
and to add to foreign complications a crisis in our
domestic Ades

Ws ate ambled to state that there is no truth
whatever in the report that any iocrease of our naval
'ores on the Norh American Station has either been
made or is at present contemplated. The ships that
have recently been ordered out will simply replace
ethers that are returning home quits unfit for longer
service. The most stringent instructions have, we
believe, gone from the Adosirally to Admiral FAA•
HUME to avoid on his part and that of the British
captain. under his command any collision with the
naval force of the United States. A competent British
squadron has, however, been ordered to Greytowo,
where the Uoited States Government has lately
despatched three of those large ships of war which
the Americans call frigates.