The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

LONDON, 1U3811.47. .74N. 10.

Area in vain waiting three weeks for the end of
the pcty contest for the Epeakership of the House
of Repreeentativee, Presideat BUCHANAN has de-
liverot his Message to a Congress as yet unorganised.
Whatever we have to learn from our American
etnisiev, their parliamentary forms and habits do not
appear to advantage in comparison with oar own.
Assuming that the abridgment of the Message
which has reached us fairly represents the whole, we
have no reason to complain of the manner in which
the American Ettestneerr deals with the general
relations between Great Britain and the United
States. The questions arising out of the CLAYTON
and Betwext Treaty of April, 1830, which
have figured portentously in several sOOOSOHYS
Messages, and remained a source of disquietude
lut year, are cow represented aa on the
eve of an adjustment alike honourable and
eatisfutory to both England and America, a consum-
mation only contingent on certain arrangements
with Vendome and Nicaragua not yet complete. Is
mentioning this subject last year, Mr. BUCHANAN
said that the settlement of the Central Merriam
question would " wipe out the last remaining sub-
" jute( dispute between the two countries." The
advesee claims of England and America to the island
of San Juan, at that time in the hands of Commis-
sioners appointed jointly by the two Governments,
must have appeared of very little importance to the
American statesman, if indeed they were not for-
gotten, when be used those words. General BARNEY,
by theagtetlesely bringing the military forces of the
Republic on the scene in July, engaged the pride of
both eciantries in the boundary dispute, and so raised
it to avesetion of the first order. The PILLSIDENT
admits that for a time there was serious danger of a
collision between the English and American unto-
rine', end he pays a high compliment to the wisdom
of Admiral BAYNES, who with a large navel force
at his disposal firmly resisted the temptation
to achieve a showy mucous@ at the sacrifice of the
precione interests which bind the two countries to
cultivate pesos and friendship. This commendation
will make very good teadiog for General ILLLNHY.
'lhe danger of a oollieion has been removed by the
aveement concluded between General Score and
kr. IkIVOLLII, and the negotiations for a permanent
settlement of the boundary may pursue their way
without interruption by the violence of the citizens
or 'objects of either State who are on the spot.
Coanderiog the number of points at which the
interests of the two countries come into contact, and
the formidable aspect in which every difference
between them IS invariably prevented to the
American public at first, it is satisfactory to remark
the uniform triumph of good sense and moderation
in the Stater, • result which must he attributable
to the moderating influence of that full infor-
mation on publ.c affairs which us diffused throughout
the Repaboc by the universal agency of its news-
papers. Tte American journal., from which in
times of excitement it is so easy for us to extract
virulent and exasperating passages, convey every
day, to the homes of the l nion, some facts which
retailed the two nations of those common interests,
both moral and material, eh eh distinguish them
from the rest of the world, and unite them in close
bonds of sympathy ; and it is by facts that the
Anglo-Saxon everywhere is pureed.

Mr. BOCKAXAN'II Werra(' to the other foreign
relatiooo of the limited States might hay* bees
borrowed from t►e' Message of Imt year with
the least porible modification. There in pease
with the great empires and kingdoms of the world,
and than my (patrols only with Mates which
incommode the flight of the American eaglm Mexico,
and Spain as the owner of Cuba, are again to Con-
gress destKoated ad bad netwhboars, tie itarmar
b.hariag ao ;41 that the i'ltratbaNT, tot in
the least mollified by the great adrestage Le