The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.

The. royal mail steal. ship Cambria arrived in
the Mersey at four o'clock yesterday afternoon,
with two passengers, 151,218- dots -in specie, and
two days' later news, having left Boston on the
20th ult. She reports the arrival of the steamer
Jhersonese at Portland, .on the 18th ult., vizi St.
Jhn's and Halifax, from Liverpool.
The intelligence brought by the Cambria will be
}ound at ample length in the following summary
of the leading events froth the departure of the
Persia to the sailing of the Cambria. .
From Washington we learn that the adtinths•
.tration is officially advised that the project of. a
treaty between Great Britain and the United States,
relative to the Central American question, has
beep agreed upon. A copy has been received
there, but the contents haVe yet publicly trans,-
pirecl. Mr. Dallas had full power en the subject,
notwithstanding newspaper statements to the
contrary. Attorney-General Cushing has decided
that foreign consuls cannot intervene in the set-
tlement of the estates of their countrymen dying
in the United States, except in the way of surveil.
lance or advice. They cannot exercise jurisdic-
tion. The treaty of friendship and commerce
between Siam and the United States has been
received at the State Department. Despatches
from Mr. Dallas make no mention of the Hon. C.
P. Villiers being appointed British Minister to the
American Government, though the report is gene-
rally credited.

The National Whig Convention was held at
Baltimore on the 17th - and 18ch ult , and was
attended by delegates from twenty-six States. The
proceedings were harmonious so far as we can
judge from the telegraphic reports:. The resolu-
tions deprecate the evil, results- of sectional parties,.
in which term they comprise the supporters of
Buchanan as well as those of Fremont, and declare
that those results can only be' averted by the
election of Mr. Fillmore. The nomination of Mr.
Fillmore and Donelson by the Know-nothings is
cordially approved, and a National Committee is to
be appointed, to promote an effective organisation
in the country. A grand ratification meeting was.
held in Baltimore on the evening of the 18th.
At the New York. Republic Convention, held at
Syracuse, on the 18th ultimo, the committee on
resolutions made their report. Judge Edmonds
said they had received requests to pass resolutions
embodying the sense of the Convention on, immi-
gration and naturalisation ; by others, they had
been desired to express an opinion on temperance,
and Governor Clark's administration. The com-
mittee, however, thought there was one issue that
swallowed up all other issues. They had, therefore,
resolved to leave all such matters untouched. He
then read the address, which was confined solely
to the slavery question, reviving the alleged aggres-.
sions of the South, recounting the acts through a
long series of years. - It was contended it had
gradually aroused Northern indignation, until it
had reached a climax and broke forth into a storm
that would sweep away all former outrages, and
declaring the sole issue with the people is the
non-extension of slavery. The address also
declares a desire not to interfere with the rights of
the South, and a firm determination to resist the
spread of slavery over a foot of free territory, and
concludes with a resolution endorsing the platform
of the Philadelphia Convention. The report was
adopted with three cheers, after which, the
Convention adjourned sine die.
Governor Reeder had published his reasons for
quitting the Democratic party, and supporting
Fremont. After referring to his close personal
and political intimacy with Mr. Buchanan, and his
own labours of a quarter of a century in the ranks
of the Democratic party, he says :—" These ties are
exceedingly strong and hard to sever, especially with
one who is naturally of a conservative cast, and
slow to change old habits of thought and action,
and I have resisted for months the convictions that
were urging me
.to my present declaration. I
have diligently sought reasons and arguments to
save myself the pain of breaking up old associa-
tions, and alienating myself from my old friends,
but all in vain ; my love of country and hatred
of oppression would not allow my feelings and
inclinations either to delude my judgment or
still my conscience, and I am compelled to for-
feit my self respect by committing what I believe
to be palpably wrong, or else to enrol myself in
opposition to the Democratic party." He then
reviews the Kansas troubles, and defines the
policy which Mr. Buchanan must, if elected, hold
towards that territory, and concludes as follows.-
- " Should Mr. Buchanan be elected, and his ad-
ministration be different from what my judgMent
compels Ine to believe, I shall give it my cordial
approbation, and my feeble, though willing sup-
port. As I believe now, I must regard the Demo-
cratic party as fully committed to Southern
sectionalism, towards which for some time past it
has
.been rapidly tending, and I quit it well assured
that my duty to my country demands at my hands
this sacrifice of personal feeling."
The . intelligence from Kansas is rather more
satisfactory. Governor Geary's Inaugural Address,
delivered at Lecompton on the 1 ith ultimo, was
brief and pointed. It deprecates a continuance of
the strife and disorder in the territory, caused by
the illegal and unjustifiable interference of other
States; promises to do justice to all without party
considerations ; and expects obedience to the laws
of the territorial legislature, until they are repealed.
A proclamation was issued on the same day, order-
ing that the volunteer militia he discharged, and
commanding that all armed bodies amen disband
or quit at once the territory.
Win. T. Coleman, President of the San Francisco
Vigilant Committee, was arrested at New York on
the 18th ult., on complaint of James Maloney, on
a charge of being instrumental in expelling him
from San Francisco. Coleman was held in 50,000
dols bail.

A relief party had left Mi;waukee for Kensae..
They go out under Prof. Daniels, of the National
Committee. They will take out clothing and arms
for the relief of the citizens of Kansas.
Private advices from Mexico, via Havana, mention
reports of a serious difficulty between that
country and the British Minister, and that the
latter had demanded his passports. Orders had
been transmitted to Havana for the British
squadron there to proceed to Vera Cruz to
enforce the demand of England. The commander
of the British steamer Tartar, at Havana, was
collecting a naval force, and would sail imme-
diately.
We have interesting intelligence from New
Brunswick. The St. John papers are advocating a
change in the system of laying out and settling
wild lands in the province, in order to induce
emigration. The Chronicle suggests the reserva-
tion of every other lot, the proceeds of which
when enhanced in value by the settlement of the
alternate lots—to be applied to railway purposes.