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suspension, or, perhaps, we sho
wit'i the stitnte law, has reviT
wn ch Parliament provided n(
Secretary of St ite wen to . a
removal of a foreigner-0 whom would the warrant
be directed ? Would the officer who executed it be
indemnified on the ground that it was "an act of
State done by the authority of the Crown 7" Agacn.
is it clear that an alien friend can sue cut a writ ( t
Habeas Corpus? In both these instances the existence
of the prerogative and the valielty of the warrant wou'd
have to be discussed in our courts ; and thus, in the
arguments of ccuusel and in the comments and repor'a
in newspapers, additional notoriety and publicity would
be given to the very wri'sinics which have occasioned
such universal indignation oval disgust. But the ordi.
nary law is quite sufficient to repress and punish any
further attempts which thesn refugees may make whilst
in this country. If they co4ntinue their incitements to
murder and assassination, ',Nev be ' ht (without
rega-- ich

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[PRzoE STAAIPED. DD.

the Union'-in :this Conakry, trolesa we aro.;tnisin-
formed, testified -to the cordial sympathy of the
Cabinet of .Washington and the nation over whiCh
it presides. Re expressed an apprehension as to
the durability- Of our alliance with :France and
our ability alone and- unaided
to resist :the
overwhelming might of -Russia. But he .desired
us to be under- no apPrehentioti on - that • ae-
'count, for the United Elates: were willing to
make our quarrel their owo,• and aid us. with
thousands of stout hearts and Irawny arms, as
ready to pluck down the -disipOtism.of the-East as
to subdue the wilderness -stud .' leVel:. the giant
forests of the West. If the English Government
believed theSe assurances, as we do not doUbt the
American Mioiater believed' them, we cannot rea-
sonably accuse them of rashueis or 'Credulity, or
say that they adopted on doubtful authority a
strange or • improbable story. Was; it unlikely
priori that. a nation-whose noble boast it is:that tier
soil is the chosen abode of freedom, whose every
citizen is a missionary against the creed of despotism
should warm to' a poems -enthusiasm at d war
waged for no selfish moi,ive,,lattt to...nnrh barbarous
insolence and save Europe and Asia from being-
trampled under the heel of an overbearing autocrat ?
Was it likely that a populatien recruited annually
front the bitterest enemies of Russia, which has so.
often evinced a martial spirit, which iwarmed to the
obscure conflicts of the IYrexican war and has stied
its blood so freely in nameless Indian clua.rrels,
should stand aloof from a contest in which 'world,.
wide fame was to be won ty. the brave, and a fair
occasion was offered of making American `Vilotir itL
lustrious in the van of aiconiblet on thefdeeision of:
which deperoaed f tare 4estinies of the hum*
rice t.. We do not think so ;:mod therefore',
nate as the result has been, we cannot blame our Mi-
nisters that in their urgent need of teen, they sought
to avail themselves of the resources of the West:
and to turn into a legitimate channel the irregular ,
energies of those ardent spirits which have appeared
so long to burn for au enterprise worthy of their
courage. At the same time the British Government,
while establishing depots for enlistment within its
own dominions on the American continent, gave
the mast stringent orders that nothing should be
done in the endeavour to obtain recruits to violate
the municipal law of the United States—a direction
which, with all deference t.) the American Attorney-
General, seems to us to show an intention to re-
spect, instead of to violate, the national sovereignty
of the Union.

Oil

EnglAnd." The Queen's writ. does, not run in theses
islands, and the inhabitants sin not boupnacel:r Acts
Parliament unless they are pecially. ,theentri.
Jersey, therefore, has separate ,ItIMP, separate privileges,
and separate Courts, and- the iGeireruerries the .igpre.
sentative of her Majesty, adini: waters its affairs quite-as
much as the ttquinalider Or a pAITISOII A 5 a civileffrer.
The laws of Jersey shoe thi a. One provides "that
foreigners may neither settle n. it even enter the island
without the ptriniisiOn of .thee GoVernor aud,f/iVet
this, it &wires a rieceersary 'con a equenera that the
nor must have the power of- see nosing fereigners: But
-.therein no question as to the e tiatedoe efitsi power; for
it has -hem acted upon for of fiances iefleitelyless etre
tban those of which P binciani, Ribeyrolles, V.
-Hugo, and their o)nfreisia have seen guilty. In 1535,
Frenchmen, of the name of .A.ll+ q,ume, eras charged with
having married an inhabitant
..of Jersey„ although his
», rife !was living in Fratus‘ "
the Wand- forthwith, but„
was allowid until,the following , ,Saturday—to .:settistAis
affairs; whereupon his friends, h y way of an experiment
for keeping him in the island, .gc,t him arrested for debt
and lodged in gaol, but it was u 'micas." Le Cras men-
tions another case in which a L Fulgence wa,, with
equal celerity, expelled the island, The Governor of
Jersey has, therefore, in the c 'lse of these refugees,
merely exercised the ordinary la w of the island ; and,
although they and their advocate i may talk an immense
amount of nonsense about lynteb law and coups (1'604
we confess that we have HOMO respeit for a precision
which is so expan,,ive as to catch ,mike the bigamist and
the Red Republican, when either, violates the law,

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( From the Morning HoraU of this day. )
In the discussions which have arisen with the 'United
States on the •subject of enlists tet t of recruits for the
service of this country there is ,Dne point which, for the
sake of British honour and good. faith, it is most essen-
tial should, if possible, be explained, and that without
delay. We think that the attempt to obtain recruits in
the Unitod States, in the face of -a. law forbidding such
recruiting, was a very unwise and improper proceeding.
No circumstances could have jua tified such a step. It
appears, however, that in "authorising" the attempt
tne British Government gave the most stringent in-
structions to all concerned not to violate the municipal
law. What a strange contradiction is there in these
directions. The "municipal law" of the States forbids
the enlistment of recruits for foreign service. The Bri-
tish Government authorises that enlistment, but gives
the " most stringent instructions to all concerned not to
violate the law." _ _

However, it unhappily soin became only too
apparent that the American Minister and the Bri-
tish Government had alike mistaken the disposition
of our Transatlantic brethren. The sympathies of
the land of freedom were found in great measure
to be enlisted on the side of Russia. Whether

it was a jealousy of the French alliance, a secret
sympathy with the spirit of territorial aggression,
wherever displayed, a desire on the part of the
slave-holding States to counteract influences hos-
tile to their domestic institutions, or that the Irish
refugees had inoculated the Union with their
hatred of England, we cannot say ; but certain it is
that accounts began speedily to reach this country
of the hostile spirit in which our attempts at re-
cruiting were received, and the philo-Russian tone
adopted, with a few honourable exceptions, by the
whole American press, was but too apparent. The
English Government did not wait to hear more ;
it had been misled, and it hastened to retract its
error. Orders were immediately despatched to
America to desist from all attempts at recruiting,
and to give no cause of annoyance to the suscep-
tibilities of the nation. In the meanwhile the
American Government had, as well as the British,
made its observations on the state of public feel-
ing, and determined not to neglect the oppor-
tunity of turning ;that feeling to account in the
interest of the coming Presidential election of
1856. Proceedings were instituted against per-
sons who had acted, or were supposed to act, in
the interest of the English recruiting service, and
Mr. Crampton, the most popular Minister who
has ever been accredited from this country to the
Cabinet of Washington, was made the object of
unmeasured abuse and vituperation. At the same
time, the American Government desired their
Minister iu London to make the strongest repre-
sentations as to the conduct of Great Britain, and
to demand a discontinuance of all endeavours at
recruiting in the States. The British Government
answered in the most conciliatory tone that what
. w a demand; irefid,Lckne,and offered
explanations on the Subject;vaiia-goveaTiffeetli
satisfactory to the American Minister, who could
not but remember his own sanguine anticipations
of a contrary feeling ; and so for a time the matter
terminated. BLit the American Government was
not so easily satisfied, and returned to the attack
with a despatch of which we will only permit our-
selves to say that it was ill-calculated to restore
good feeling between the two countries, and by no
means a fitting acknowledgment of the readiness
shown by our Ministry to recall a mistake into
which they had been so innocently led. To this
despatch the British Government has returned a
temperate, but firm and dignified reply, and has
seconded its diplomacy by strengthening its West
India fleet with the ships that have arrived from
the Baltic.

And now, let us see how the British Minister, Mr.
Crampton, carries out their instructions. He has to do
an act which positively violates the municipal law, but
he has to do it without any violation of it. Mr. Cramp-
ton accordingly tells the man whom he employs (Henry
Hertz, by name)—" As far as I know there is a law in
the United States forbidding the enlistment of soldiers
within the territory of the United States ; it is, how-
ever, not difficult to evade this law, because who can
prevent you from sending labourers to Canada ? Bat we
must take care to do this in such a way that it shall not
appear to be in defiance of the Government. My idea
is, that if you have 25 or 30 men together, either your-
self, or some other confidential person, shall take them
direct by railway to Montreal, where I think a depot
may be erected ; ' Mr. Crampton having previously told
this agent that " the British Government had made ar-
rangements to establish depots at some place in Ca-
nada, on the frontier of the United States."

All this appears in an "alleged confession of Henry
Hertz, recently convicted at Philadelphia of enlisting re-
cruits for the British service."

Had this confession stood by itself we confess we
should have placed no faith on its authenticity. We
should have thought it impossible that British diplomacy
would ever have had recourse to such degrading subter.
fuges ; but, alas ! whether true or false, it cannot be
denied that it is only the natural and necessary result of
the instructions with which the representative of Great
Britain was unquestionably furnished. We are much
afraid that we liaie not yet-seen'the terminat;on of this
lamentable affair. But the last act in the drama appeeri e -
to be, that Great Britain has humbly begged pardon, • •
for "the British Government has expressed its regret
at the occurrence complained of; it has also peremp-
torily rescinded every order in existence permitting the
enlistment of soldiers for the Crimea in any of tho North
American provinces ;" " thus proving," as the New
York Courier and Enquirer observes, " the sincerity of
the regret of the British Government at what had oc-
curred" 1 !
Our hearts are too sa I to make any comments on these
proceedings.

DUBLIN, Wednesday.—Dr. Stock, judge of the Ad-
miralty Court, died yesterday. The storm still con-
tinues, but is somewhat lighter. Mail packet leaving.
ANECDOTE CP MA.RBIED LIFE.—A gentleman who
bad carefully trained up his servant the way he should
go, so that when his wife was present he might not
depart from it, sent him with a box-ticket for the
theatre to the house of a young lady. The servant
returned when the gentleman and his wife were at
dinner. He had of course been told, in giving the
answers to pertain kinds of messages, to substitute the
masculine for the feminine pronoun in speaking of the
lady. " Did you see him ?" said the gentleman, giving
him the cue. q Yes, sir," replied theservant ; "he said
he'd go with a great deal of pleasure, and that he'd
wait for you, sir."—" What was he doing 1" said the
wife, carelessly. "Putting on his shawl, ma'am," said
the idiot.—Comic Times.
EXECUTION OF A Boy.—The execution of the boy
Frank, for the murder of the Rev. J. J. Weemz, took
place
on Friday last. It is strange to say that the ma-
jority of the citizens of Alexandria, and, in fact, the in-
habitants all round, were anxious to 1141t3 him executed—
and on the fatal day when.it came to pass there were
not a dozen people there. Some rode 40 miles to wit-
ness this painful drama, but he was executed and buried
by the time they came to Alexandria. On the day before
he was called to face death, some gentlemen visited him,
and propounded questions to him, but his answers were,
and could be no other than childish. He was, I believe,
only ten years old. The gentlemen told him the sheriff
was to hang him on the next morning, and asked bins
what he thought of it, and whether he had made his
peace with God, and why he did not pray I His scope!.
was, " I have been hung many a time I" Be
be bad at
thime, amusing himself with some marbles bnae_cme
his cell. He was playing all the time in jail, never
otra."
i To
thinking that death was to claim him as
tcohpirlday's,
I will mention that when upon the scaffold
n. n
d and then he
the magnitude of the crop habteoegdgeiel
horrible sight it
commenced to cry. Ob, what a
was.—
New Orleans paper.
3 UNITED STATES.—TabIes
THE COTTON CROP OF THefully
tshoobwe yperamhiottweda
kept for a number of
of statistics have beeentrcaare,
trade, showing the influence of the
years, by dealers.indth
iof the cotton crop of the States. It
weather on the _
gene.
has been found that the
with
the
date
atwhich
the plants
nerally corresponded_
l blooms in spring, and
A oe their first b.o
Fi.r......t.i.
..,....clear that It is
ear in Louisiana and Florida several weeks be-
might app in Carolina fore their appearance.
of the mwihnidchrawnagsesgrawhenhiasPve.net
cotton region. By close observation it has been
,1 that, taking 44.
ascertainC—
blooms usually appear, it extends from the last week in
goy to the 15th of June, hence the nearer the blooming
approaches the one or the other of these periods, in con-
nection with early or late frost, will be the yield of the
crop. Early blooms and late frosts produce large crops.
vie
Late blooms and early frost, on the contrary, produce
short crops, or such is the p
theory. The growth of one
year's crop is concluded in the statistics up to the Ist
September of the following year. Hence an early frost in
1852 would appear in the statistics of 1853. In examin-
ing a table extending over a period of 19 years we find
the earliest notice of a killing frost on the 7th Oct., 1838,
when the crop was 0n1y1,350,100 bales. The latest date
at which itappeared was on the 10th Dec. 1848, when
the crop was 2,000,000 to 2,100,000. In 1851 no frost
occurred until after the full maturity of the plant to in-
jure it, when the crop was 2,355,000. For the niint _
years we find an average occurrence of frost to r I),i T" Nov.
the last week in October and the first few 7
"the reports
These observations have been drawnout by
in the cotton
of frosts having pretty generally occurred, Texas,
and
region of the south—if we except Lo
_is
on the 7th, Bth,
Florida, and probably South Alanberee
d near Charleston, in
and 9th inst., at Columbia,na
Georgia, am, which is
South Carolina, and at Macon, Georgia,
since Oct. 7, 1838. Though
the earliest period on recordnd
must inflict
considerable
its advent is thus early, a
t that there
must still
wrecollec Wail more
injury. we in the late 'd mt summer
planted, and that the eather
hi
and that the Reason has been
was more fil"ura the field. The 'n— y crop grown last
good for gatherias
small one, amounting to 2,847,339
year (1854) W48930,027' 18'3
in J , and 3,262,582 bales in
bales, against 2,
1852. Hence we have every reason to suppose, frost
or no frost, that the growth of the present year (1855)
must exceed that of 1854, and which has been variously
estimated at from 8,200,000 to 3,500,000 bales. There
is no doubt but the occurrence of the late early frost
may cut off to some extent what is called the top growth
cf the plants in considerable portions of the cotton
region, and hence the circumstance has imparted more
tone to the market here and at the Southern ports, in's'
speotive of the European newa,—New rot* jigs*

In this position affairs now stand, and we appeal
to the conviction of our readers whether these
transactions do not disclose on the part of our own
Government a most commendable spirit of for-
bearance and moderation, and on the part of the
Government of the United States a desire to force
a quarrel upon us at a period when we may well be
supposed to desire, above all things, the continu-
ance of our present friendly relations. We do not
appeal to our own countrymen, for there is no one
in England who has any other feeling to the
United States than that of amity and goodwill, or
who would regard a rupture with them as other
than a heavy and grievous calamity, to be averted
by all honourable means. But we appeal to
the respectable, intelligent, and moderate portion
of the American community, whose influence
we are sorry to see not very apparent in the
present proceedings of their Government, whether
they will submit to see the alliance—we might
almost call it the union—between the two coun-
tries endangered, and the vast interests of a
commerce reciprocally beneficial imperilled, for the
sake of obtaining a little popularity for a political
party, and influencing, in however slight a degree,
the elections of the coming year. Surely such mat-
ters as the continuance of a good understanding
between England and America ought to be too
grave for such heartless trifling. We cannot doubt
there is in the United States a large number of
persons standing aloof from the stormy conflicts of
political life who are yet not willing to abandon the
guidance of the vessel of the State in a moment so
critical as the present to the rash and inconsiderate
bands which are driving her straight upon the
breakers. We trust that no word may fall from
us to aggravate the ill-feeling which has been so
unfortunately excited, or to embitter a quarrel
which it is only due to our Government and peo-
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ple to say that they have done nothing to provoke,
and are willing to do everything consistent with
honour to allay. We cannot believe, notwithstand-
ing the extraordinary language and conduct of the
American Government, that they can really wish
to drive matters to the extremity towards which
they are so recklessly urging them ; but it is dan-
gerous to sport with the susceptibilities of two
brave and high-spirited nations ; and those who
are thus eager in letting out the waters of strife
should consider well whether they have strength
sufficient to close the floodgates they have opened.

'newer and aciasuedealinti, they must be taught (withoot
regard to any public ineonoc a donee of the kind to which
we hive alluded) that an En g dish jury will infallibly and
speedily subjeet-tlfeiii fci fine and impziaimmenl--a more
approprilfe though less dign: died putmittneut than simple
banishrne It to any place but -;theff itelVe land,
ty whatever in the
the law of the
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