The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-10 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA

The British steamer Asia, Captain Lott, arrived
here yesterday with 155 passengers, and 760,395
dollars in specie, bringing advices from New York
to the 28th ult.

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The steamer Baltic, from Liverpool, had arrived
out at New York.
In reference to the Crampton difficulty, the New
York Herald, of 28th ult , says :—" Our Washing-
ton despatch states that Secretary Marcy's reply
to Lord Clarendon will go out by the Asia to-day,
and that Mr. Crampton, the British Minister,
received his passports last evening. Contempo-
raneous with this announcement we have received
the protest of Senor Marcoleta, late Nicaraguan
Minister to our government, on the recognition of
Padre Vijil. Both these events are important—
especially to the politicians about to assemble at
Cincinnati."
In reference to the tone of Mr. Marcy's reply to
Lord Clarendon, the Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune says :—" The reply is clear,
conclusive, and as brief as the case admits. It
fully reciprocates all the friendly spirit exhibited
by Lord Clarendon, disclaiming any purpose of
hostility or desire to disturb the peaceful relations
of the two countries, but claims Mr. Crampton's
disconnection and revocation. The dismissal of
the Consuls is required as a vindication of our
outraged laws, and is demanded by a sense of self-
respect. The documents accompanying the answer
are voluminous and imposing, with cumulated
proof sustaining the original positions, and
evidence demonstrating that the officers of the
Foreign Legion were in the pay of the British
Consulate at New York as late as January, after
Mr. Marcy's last despatch upon the subject, and
Lord Clarendon's previous disclaimers of the com-
plicity of his officials."
The Washington correspon lent of the New York
Herald, writing on the 26th ult., gives the following
description of Mr. Marcy's letter to the Earl of
Clarendon :—" The Cabibet was in session several
hours this morning, and heard Mr. Marcy's reply
to Lord Clarendon read. It is in tone equally con-
ciliatory with Lord Clarendon's despatch, and
accepts the apology offered as perfectly satisfac-
tory, so far as the British " Government" is con-
cerned ; yet it declares that Mr. Crampton, as the
representative of the British Government, is not
agreeable, and his passports are furnished, that
his place may be filled by another. A copy of
this document will be furnished Mr. Crampton
-to-morrow at noon, together with the long deferred
dismissal. There will be no flash in the pan this
time. A delegation of merchants from New York
were at work to-day to keep Crampton in the
country. The effort proved a failure, of •course.
There is considerable excitement and war was
prognostigated.
In allusion to this matter the New York Herald
remarks that a most conciliatory letter to the
British Government v,ill explain at the same time
that the minister is dismissed on personal grounds
alone, awl that this Government seeks no rupture
with that of England. There will be none, cer-
tainly : there is no animosity in either country,
save in the bosom of a few politicians whose
national prejudices are their stock in trade; and
under no circumstances would the dismissal of a
minister, on no contested view of principle, lead
to any interruption of the amicable relations exist-
ing between countries so closely allied as Great
Britain and th' United States. At the same time,
it is clear that it is not the fault of the admini.tra-
tion that we are not at war with England. The
manner in which the controversy has been carried
on, the lawyer-like special pleading of Mr. Marcy, the
grossly insulting articles of the President's special
organ, show that it was the hope and the calcula-
tion of Franklin Pierce to obtain a second term as
Mr. Madison did by declaring war on England.
Had Mr. Marcy behaved as Mr. Clayton did, when
he dismissed Mr. Poussin for supposed insolence,
there would have been no trouble at all. The
English would have received Mr. Crampton coolly,
and would have sent a new minister without a
word of contention. Pierce tried to embitter while
Marcy tried to lengthen out the dispute; between
them and Clarendon aid Palmerston it almost
assumed national proportions. The last despatch
of Lord Clarendon, however, precludes the possi-
bility of any rupture ; and the only effect of Mr.
Crampton's dismissal will probably be to over-
throw the Palmerston Government in England.

Intelligence had reached New York, confirma-
tory of the destruction of the town of Lawrence.
The town has been reduced to ashes, and the pro•
slavery party are matters of the field• With regard
to the loss of life, nothing definite is known, but it

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is believed to be considerable.
The. Chicago Tribune, of. May 26, gives a narration
of the intelligence, brought by three men direct
from Lawrence, from which we extract the

following

A company of mounted men made their appearance near
Lawrence, on Wednesday, 21st inst, where they halted until
reinforcements had increased their numbers to 400 men.
They bore flags and banners, with various mottoes and
devices, but no United States flag. During the forenoon
the committee of public safety of Lawrence despatched a
messenger with a note to Marshal Donaldson, who headed
the force, assuring him that the citizens would make no
resistance to any process he might wish to serve, and asking
protection for their lives and property. The Marshal made
no reply, but at eleven o'clock he sent a deputy marshal
with a posse of ten men into the town. The deputy sum-
moned four of the citizens to assist in making arrests, and
took G. W. Dielsler and G. W. Smith prisoners. The
deputy marshal having thus tested the willingness of the
citizens to respect his authority, went with his posse to the
Free State hotel and dined, after which they re-
moved the prisoners without molestation. Soon after
this, Sheriff Jones made his appearance, with
eighteen men,' and demanded that all the public and
private arms in the town be given up, giving the people
five minutes to accede to his demand, and threatening, in
case of refusal, to storm the town; He did not attempt
to make any arrests, but said he came for the purpose of
obtaining the arms. One field piece was given up in
answer to the demand, but the citizens refused to sur-
render their private arms. Jones then left, and in half
an hour after returned with an overwhelming force and
two pieces of field artillery, with which he commenced
cannonading the Free State Hotel and the Herald of
Freedom printing office. The inhabitants commenced
leaving the town before the work of destruCtion was
complete; but the hotel was burned, and the press and
type of the Herald of Freedom destroyed before their
departure, and they had proceeded about fifteen miles,
when (at eight o'clock in the evening) they saw a large
volume of smoke and a great light in the direction of
Lawrence, and they have no doubt of the destruction of
the town. It is feared that Gen. Pomeroy has been hung
by a mob. Governor Robinson is at Lecompton, in the
custody of the authorities. Ex-Governor Reeder is
supposed to be in a place of safety. and is daily expected
in Chicago, by way of Nebraska and lowa. Preparations
are making by the government to put down the free
soilers by force.

By the arrival of the steamship Granada at New
Orleans, we are placed in possession of highly im-
portant news from Nicaragua. It is reported that
the Costa Ricans had evacuated the country by
land, after having shipped three hundred of their
wounded. They represented that they were de-
ceived as to the feeling towards Walker, and were
indignant at the false representations which had
been made to them. - So the war may be considered
at an end. The accounts as to the loss of the
Costa Ricans at the battle of Rivas are confirmed.
By the same arrival we have two weeks' later
news from California, but it is generally unim-
portant. In Mariposa County a party of Ameri-
cans bad murdered twenty Mexicans and Chilians,
and all the Chinese, Mexicans, Chilians, and
Peruvians, had been ordered to leave the country.
The Indian war in Oregon and Washington terri-
tories was being prosecuted with vigour.
Nothing of unusual interest had taken place in
Congress up to the last despatches. In the Senate,
the investigatory committee' had obtained power
to send for persons and papers. The injured
Senator, Sumner, was stated to be slowly recover-
ing.
The Boston Post announces the death of the
Hon. Judge Fay, at his residence, in Cambridge,
on Sunday the 25th ult., at the advanced age of 78

years.
On Sunday, the 25th ult., the steamer Robert L.
Steevens, while on an excursion, with nearly 200
passengers on board, was run into off Long Branch,
by the schooner Francis A. Goodwin. The steamer
was much damaged, but the schooner was unin-
jured. The passengers all escaped from injury,
except that occasioned by a severe fright.
Letters from Boston, dated the 27th ult., state
that the ship President, Captain Parthelar, from
Liverpool to Boston, was abandoned off the Banks,
her bow having been stove in by ice, when she

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sunk. Her crew were taken off by the British
ship Columbine, from Bristol, and taken into
Quebec.