The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-17 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 17.

Arran the declaration made by Lord Petals:anon
last night in the House of Commons, we may take
for granted that all danger of a rupture with the
United States, arising out of the Enlistment question,
is at an end. The Government at Washington have
accepted the explanations of Lord CLARENDON in
so far as the English Government is concerned; the
English Minister at Washington and three English
Consuls of whose conduct the American Govern-
ment believes that it has a right to complain, have
been dismissed ; but diplomatic intercourse between
the two Governments Is not to be broken off. It
does not, ender these circumstances, appear that the
controversy can ever be resuscitated.

Bat the Central American question remains
unsettled, and the relative positions of the
two nations with regard to that region are
such as to inspire an anxious wish that some
final understanding reepeeting them could be ar-
rived at. It is true Lord PALMERSTON stated
last night that Government, while protesting British
Wirers in Americas' waters, will take cerJ not to
insult or annoy American citizens ; and, in roue-
queues of the strict injunction• transmitted from the
Admiralty to our ships stationed in the Caribean see,
not to assert or seek to exercise any right of search
with regard to American vessels bound to Ban Juan.
the Government at Washington has resolved not to
send their tires frigates to that station. The risk of a
collision at eta is therefore diminished; bet not
entirely removed, for, warned by the experience of
the Earydios, our Admiralty has resolved to maintain
on the Central American station a faros at least
equal to any that the United States may plate
there. Matters standing thus, an set of indium-
don on the part of an English or Ameri-
can commander may at any time bring on •
collision that may produce the most terrible
results. It is to be desired that affairs
in Central America should, without las of
time, be placed on "soh a footing that both Zap
land and the United States may be able to disuses
with squadrons of observation in its waters. Men,
whose beelines it is to tight, and who are bows:ably
ambitious of earning a reputation for zealously up-
holding thidr country's honour and interests, are u
full of punctilio as duellist', and with arms at their
command as prompt to engage in " &Seine( honour."
Is the time of the Otalleite difficulty with Francs a
certain Captain Tour Nwous, who anchored his
little frigate, with springs on its cables and hie gum
"hotted, in preemies of two or three French line-of-
battle ships, while he wee conning VATTIL in his
whin, had nearly set Frames and England together
by thews.

Not a moment ought, therein,, to be lost by
Lord CIARENDON in availing himself of the authority
delegated by the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES
IS Mr. DALLAS, to bring to a woclusion the misunder-
standings between their respective Governments.
arising oat of the unsettled state of Central American
affairs. Mr. DALLAS is iestrueted "to enter into
cumulation with Her Manars's principal lizaw-
TART for FOREIGN AMISS, in relation to Central
America, in order to ascertain, in the Ant place,
whether existing differences cannot be promptly ter-
minated by direct negotiation, and if they cannot, I
then to discuss the conditions of arbitration of thane
points of difference as to which alone this method of
settlement seems requisite or applicable." The ar.
biters whom the American Government would prefer
are thus indicated The Paul DENT dose not doubt
that any cue of the Powers of Europe, which would
consent to undertake the task of such an arbitration
se Is Dow proposed, would perform the duty with per-
iod impartiality; but to apply to any Power to do
this, would be to ask of it an act which, if granted by
it, would add to its own domestic duties and labours
the burden of settling complicated differences of other
goverussats. He would greatly prefer that, in a
emetreverey like the present, turning on points of
political geography, the matter should be referred to
some one or more of those eminent men of seines
who do honour to the intellect of Europe and Ame-
rica, and who, with previous consent of their re-
spective Governments, might well undertake the task
of determining mach a question, to the acceptance as
well of Ear Kuserr's Government u of the United
States." The questions which the PRESIDENT expresses
his willingness to submit to arbitration are thus Judi.
sated The PRESIDENT is not prepared to my that
some of the questions of fact, concerning which the
two Governments differ, may not he conveniently
determined by arbitration or some analogous method.
Of this class of objects of inquiry is the question,
what are the rightful limits of the establishment of
the Belize on the side of Roeder..; the question
whether the Bay Islands do or do not belong to that
republic; and the question what extent of country
is imbrued in the term Mosquito Coset, or is in the
serial occupation of the Mosquito Indians, coed.
dared as Indiana, and with such territorial rights
only as that description of persons are entitled to
claim, according to the established public law
of Great Britain, of the United States, and
of Spain, or of the independent States which
succeeded Spain in America ; remembering that
no
power exists, en the part of Great Beluga and
the United States, to dispose of the sovereign rights
of Nimes's% or any other State of Central Americo."
The settlement of these questions would not indeed
exhaust the long list of disputed point. regarding
Central America, but it does appear t►at we may
ammo with the Pissiram "that the other points
of diffusive' would after that yield, as of coarse, to
conferees. between the Earl of CLARENDON and
yourself (Mr. Duxes), endured is the spirit door.
diality and frankness which belongs to your personal
rslatioss, and which is dictated by the tree interests
both of the United States and Great Britain."

We bars no hesitation In declaring it to les
oar opinion that a door is hero opened for
negotiations, which, if coodaetod oa both sides
with a sinters desire to arrive speedily at ao
igsitable and lasting settlement, might soon put
a period to oar difficulties with the United States so
far as Central America is coacorned. For various
reasons we should prefer direct negotiation between
England and the United States to arbitration. bide-
pendant nations aro rather reluctant to subunit to
arbitial doeisioas when jadruont it given spinet
them, and plea. sr, easily devised for evading a refs.
rises to arbitratian. If Mr. DALLAS sad Lord CLA-
'num,' woald most each other it? the mum spirit that
animated Lord Asnsvirrox and Mr. Waiter= when
they mot to settle the North-West boundary gamiest,
the points proposed to be Mimed to arbihatims latibi
istidasisrily be disposed if at ass or two modal&

The fact is, that the only one of these questions that
admits of a envious diseumion is that which
relates to the boundary of oar British settlement
at Belize. The Bay Islands ere beyoed a doubt part
of the republic of Hondursk and ;he English wen-
nation of them is en act of msurpetion. The Mos-
quitien Portectorste is a fame. The so-celled King
of INOSQVITIA is manly the half•avage chief of one
of the native tribes thinly scattetid along the west
between the frontiers of Honduras and Costa Rica.
By the public law of all the colonising Powers of
Europe and America he and his people stand in the
same relation to the Government which can establish
a claim to the territory they occupy as the Indians in
the United States do to the Government at Washing-
tow, or the Maori of New Zealand to our own Go-
vernment. Great Britain claims no territorial rights in
Mosquitia, and one or other of the Spanish republics
there hes inherited it as =COMM to Old Spain. The
equitable settlement of these moot points would be
beet effeeted by a declaratory treaty, in which it was
agreed: That a joint commission should be appointed
to run the boundary line between the British settle-
ment of Belize and the Republic of Hooduresi that
Great Britain should restore the Bay Islands to the
Republic of Honduras; and that the district called
Mosquitia should be placed under the sovereignty of
the Spanish American Republic that can show the
best title to it, the same rights being secured to the'
Indians inhabiting the territory, under the joint
guarantee of England and the United States, that are
enjoyed by the aborigines in the United States and
New Zealand. The ground would thus be cleared
for a mutual understanding between the Govern-
ments of England and the United States u to the
system of international law which both are to recog-
lies in future as established throughout the corticoids
of America and the waters of the Pacific and the
Atlantic. This* however, a wide subject, the consi-
dered°. of which mast be postpooed till a future op-
portunity. For the present the general feeling of the
country will, we are coefident, be one of great :reties*.
tics that oar trisedly relatioes with our kinsmen
across the Atlantic are not likely to be disturbed
upon grounds so puerile as the dismissal of an incom-
petent diplomatist, or the claim of a shadowy
protectorate.

There wu a meeting at the Reform Club yester-
day afternoon, to pet up dinner to the hero of Lars
—Sir W. F. Williams, Ban. —the bright particular
star amongst the English °Mars. At least 100 names
were immediately set down. It is intended that
Lend Palmentoa shall preside, if indeed he will
de so.

TIDINDATIONS IN FRANCLP-4)0NATIONII BY HQ
MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT.—Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert hays been graci-
ously pleased to testify their sympathy for the un-
fortunate sufferers by this late inundations in
Francs by forwarding to the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor the munificent donations of one thousand and
Ave hundred pound. respectively, in aid of the fend
now raising at the Mansion hones for their relief.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 17. 18513.