The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-19 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19.

Wilma the British Government is content, as a
measure of pesos and an example of forbearance, to
continue, through Mr. DALLAS in London, diplomatic
relations with the Government of the United States,
it will, we believe, for the present at loser, abstain
from appointing any saccersor to Mr. CRAMPTON St
Washington. How long this abstinence may be
practised will probably depend on domestic occur-
noon in the United States; and, however strong
our desire may be to cultivate friendship and the
most intimate relations with the peopled the United
States, there are, we should suppose, very few
Englishmen who wish to see another representative
of their Sovereign and her Government sent to the
Court of Mr. President Prance, who has already
shown how much he prefers the advancement of his
political ambition to conciliating by a medente
and temperate line of conduct the goodwill of
England. When the forthcoming Presidential elec-
tion is fairly decided it will be time enough for the
English Cabinet to think about having a Minister at
Washington ; for success in that coated may be ex-
pected to sweeten the disposition of even the present
PRESIDENT; while the choice of any other man in
the Stain could hardly fail to be a great improve-
ment on the present state of things at Washington.
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Meanwhile, the British Government will, it is to
be expected, at once put to the proof the docility of
Mr. Secretary Maticr's avowed anxiety to come to a
definite arrangement and final settlement of the Cen-
tral American disputes. For, although anxiety as to
the possibility of a collision of the naval forest of the
two countries before Oreytowa is for the present',
removed by the prudent conduct of the Captain of
the small British frigate Eurydice, in fulfilment
of his inetr•eticns from the Admiralty, and by the
wise determination of the American Government, in
consequence of that prudence, not to despatch any
nerd torte thither until the controversy is diplamati-
cally and conclusively settled, no one knows what
a day may bring forth. The very adduce
which the Eurydice is ordered by the Admiralty to
give to freedom of transit through Greytowo, may
be misconstrued by perverse pedant more anxious
to increase than to allay local irritation; and any
attack by the forces of Nicaragua—its rulers ars now
released from hostilities with Costa Rica—on Gray-
town, cosy add to the complication of what is called,
so far as England and the United States are con-
cerned, the Central American question, by bringing
us into collision with General Waxen, whom we
must now be prepared to see reoeiving direct assist-
anoe from the democratic party in the United Sate,
and moral support from their Government.
Hitherto, the English Cabinet bus most pro-
perly kept the question of Nicaragua quite
distinct and separate from its disputes in
Central America with the Washington Cabinet.
It has indeed taken no part whatever in the
disorders or the quarrels of Nicaragua. The cure-
spoodence u to the sale of fire-arms to Costaßica
laid before Parliameut has, we suspect, been very
much misunderstood. The truth is that the War
Department has in store at present an unusual
amount of old, and for British military purposes
worthless, muskets. These it is desirous of getting
rid of on the beet terms it can; bat so universal is
improvement in firs-area, that the market for Broto•
Be:. has become very limited. So when the late
Mr. WALLISINTEN, Consul-General of Costa Rica,
applied for palisades to purchase part of this old
stook, it was too good an opportunity to be lost. The
permission was accordingly granted, the arms were
selected, and the terms on which they were to be
furbished up agreed on. But as • commercial, not
a political, treassotion ; for immediately an inten-
tion on the part of the British Government to
support Costa Rica spinal Nicaragua was inferred
from the contrast for sale, the whole thing fell to
the ground, sad the muskets have, we bear, sines
been sold to sierehants engaged In the African trade.
The policy of our Government as to the internal
polities of Central America is, we may fairly pre-
same, that foreshadowed in the temperate, judicious,
and useful speech of Lord Joan Russn.z. on Mon-
day eveniog —non- interferon/a ia the most rigid setae
of the word, sad a frank acceptance of any govern-
nut that may be formed, either in Nicaragua or in
soy of the other States. And in this view we must
say that the general interests of the world, so far as
the local question is concerned, may be sabstentially
advasesd by the complete sums= of General
Wuxi; if he has only the wisdom not to precipi-
tate himself into • dispute about Greytows. Already
his scores has bad at load one good effect—hostili-
tiss with Costa Bias have sassed ; sad it is more
than probable that the superior force of W.u.xxs will
impel Costa Ries to arrange its long-standing
boundary dispute with Nicaragua. It is to be hoped
he may, for the loom these desperate and 'encrusts..
'eternal and intoned** quarrels rap in Central
Amain the mom danger is than of other WAf KER.
seeking in them a fortune inecesistut with their
complete isdepeadenes asd with their material
improvemost. It was to domestic' strife that
Nicaragua owed the WALKER intervention, and
similar mum will inuitaby produce similar effects
Costa Rice. To come es speedily to terms with
Frostiest Rivas and General WALKER as to hest-
dries is therefore as obviously sound policy ea
the pert of Costa Rica, as it is for England
sad the United Scates to lost as time in
meta Mg directly those parts of their ustrourry which
can be so arranged, sad in agreeing ea the terms
of an arbitration and the person of se arbiter to
which the points not siumeptible of such a solution
can be lefr.

Ws have never hesitated to express an opinion that
so to the Bay Islands the United litotes Govern.
sent has the best of the argument. Geographically
the island tight to belong to the State of 11211.
dune, which they adjoin, and not to the Belize BM.
tleasent, boos which they are upwards of 200 miles
distant. Historically they formed part of the Vice-
royalty M Guatemala. Notwithstanding, therefore,
they had occasionally been treated as British territory
by our West Indian governors and admirals, it was.
it can hardly be denied, a very great mistake is Biz
JOH* PAIINGTON, WWI COlOll6l Secretary, to
snot them into a British colony. No doubt, soder
the protection of that dander, British Bl-
bruits have pawn op that merit and mot
receive cionsideration t het their compensation would
be a mash better 'Antics of this difficulty than the
Indefinite prolongation of a mistake which involves
as in a oostroverey with the Uaited &Mee, sad de.
prism as of all Hamm in the State of Hamden&
There is morrow a very poetical sad sotlisisat room

why we should, on a general arrangement of all
other Central American questions, retire from the
Bay Islands; and it is their position in reference
to the contemplated inter.ocesoic canal. Should that
great work ever be executed, the island of Rattan
would command the Atlantic entrance to it; and as
we are pledged to its strict neutrality, it would be
wholly inconsistent with such an obligation to occupy
a military position, whence our power over the At-
lantic entrance would be complete. In resigning,
however, the Bay Islands, we ought to take ample
guarantees against any cession of them by Honduras
to the United States, and to place them under the
safeguard of the Maritime States guaranteeing the
neutrality of the CanaL
The case of Greytown—the present Atlantic
entrance to the transit across Riming= to the Pacific
—is much more difficult than that of the Bay
Islands. Assuredly not on account of any rights
existing in the so-called King of Moecouna—the
half-savage chief of the paltry tribe of Moons; but
on account of the position of those European and other
settlers who have been encouraged by the English
Government to establish themselves in Oreytown.
We are bound to take can that their independence
and security are not impaired under any settlement of
the question that may be resolved upon. But having
provided for their interests, and obtained gua-
rantees for the rights of the Indian population, the
sooner that we allow the Mosquitia' meat to revert to
Nicaragua, Caste Rice, or New Orenada--whichever

of thee; States can establish its title to the whole or
part of the district—the better. There was a time
when it wan open to England to claim Mosquitia, but
that time Eogland has allowed to slip by. Nor does
it appear to us that the omission is to be regretted.