The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-03 00:00:00

President PIERCE follows up this statement of the

s of the Claytou-Bulwer treaty by these fev

remarks declaratory of the spirit in which the

States viewed that compac

We supposed we

" had accomplished that object by the convention
"of April 19, 1850, which would never have

" been

atifie d

ou the

signed nor

part of

" the United State-

for the conviction

" that in virtue of its provisions neither

Great Britain nor the United States was

thereafter to exercise any territorial sovereignty,

" in fact or in name, in any part of Central Ame-
rice, however or whensoever acquired, either
" before or afterwards. The essential object of the
" convention, the neutralisation of the Isthmus,
"would of course become a nullity, if either Great

•` Britain or the United States were to continue to
" hold exclusively the Islands or mainland of the

thraus, and more especial

under any c.

) of Indians, either Government

ta, Rica

aqua, and Hondura

Here there certainly

,sown on the r

't of the States at

adisement, at tl-

e of this or any

other country

The perfe

t neutralisation of

le object sought. Where,

Central America was the s
then, is even a reasonable pretext for continuing
an angry diplomatic discussion with the govern-
ment at Washington, except it be that of wishing
to involve us in war to gratify a love of official
banter ?

- There has always been, however, a Peace
Party in England, but the magnitude and power
of that party remains to be shown in opposition to
an attempt to engage the Anglo-Saxon brother-
hood in savage scenes of bloodshed. The man must
be a fiend who would countenance such things
between a parent State and her offspring.. The
thought of such atrocities is too horrible for any
right mind to contemplate, and yet diplomacy has
placed us in a position in which a childish act or
mere accident may bring them home to us. The
Americans will not be trifled with, though Liver-
pool may be ruined, Manchester beggered, and the
half of our population starved and left half naked.
There are wiseacres who look to other parts of the
world for supplies in the event of a war arising
between us and our Anglo-Saxon kinsmen. But
these gentry should remember that the value of the
nine principal commodities we receive in Liverpool
alone from the States, including cotton, bread-
stuffs, and provisions, amounts to upwards of
20,000,0001. annually, while the value of the
same artioles received from all the rest of the
world is barely 5,000,0001. ! Cutting off our

supplies from America would starve Lancashire.
A declaration of war against the States, with only
632,600 bales of cotton on hand, would be a signal
to Manchester to close her mills, to the Liverpool
merchant to shut up his counting-house, and the
seaports and Dock Trusts of England to fortify and
barricade their gates. Is this what is really meant
by the present senseless and vicious Agitation
about a few hundred miles of the sea coast of
uninhabitable swamps, or a line of transit to
which it is admitted we have as much right, and
are as welcome, as the Americans themselves ?

CONSEQUENCES OF OFFICIAL Rolm NE.—Considerabl
confusion prevailed last evening at our Post-office, in con-
sequence of the total inability of the clerks to supply the
ordinary demands for postage stamps. The answer given to
applicants was that the stock of penny stamps was ex-
hausted, that not a &ngle one was left in the establishment,
and that if the parties desired to for ward their correspond-
ence they must use the twopenny stamps of which the
clerks could furnish a supply, So that is
quenca of gross neglect and mismanagement it some quarter

et, in couse-

or another, the public were to be mulcted i

for their letters, or at a great inconvenie

!obable
:spond-

g their letters to

Tever the fault lies,

to prevent the recurrence of s
of our most important public departments. Perhaps this
is only another illustration of that system of official routine
so frequently exposed and so pertinaciously adhered to in
, our government establishments.

ch disgrac

al neglect in one