The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-19 00:00:00

A MERICA.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18, 10.45 P.M.
The Africa has arrived with advices from Boston
to the 7th, and New York, via Ilalifax, to the Bth,
and $875,075 on freight.
The United States' District Court had sentenced
Joseph \Vaguer, convicted of enlisting men for the
British Foreign Legion, to two months' imprison-
ment and a fine of $lOO.
Respecting the difference with England the
Herald has the following from its Washington cor-
respondent, who writes on the sth :

"By the last foreign mail, which arrived here this
morning, highly important despatches were received
from our Minister in England, all of which I understand
will be c,nisidered by the Cabinet to-day, and it is be-
lieved have reference to Mr. Crampton's difficulty, the
whole of which will be developed in a day or two."
From the New York Herald of the latest date
we extract a portion of a leading article respectirg
the alleged difference between England and the
United States on the Cuban question :
" We have received by the Baltic a letter from a re-
liable source in Paris, communicating the important fact
that the old Cuban embroglio has been very recently re-
vived in a most belligerent shape between Mr. Buchanan,
our Minister at London, and Lord Palmerston, the
British Premier."

The Herald here quotes from the Hampshire
Telegraph of the 11th of October, stating that a
number of British vessels of war had been de-
spatched to Bermuda in consequence of the insult-
ing tone of the United States' Government on the
subject of Cuba. The Herald continues :
"Nearly a fortnight ago we published from the Times
of October 12 the list of the aforesaid vessels of war and
their destinations respectively ; but, although the news
at that time attracted our curiosity, it did not excite any
particular attention on this side the Atlantic from the
harmless division of the ships between the Bermuda
Islands and Jamaica. Now, we are entirely satisfied from
our special letter from Paris, and from the corroborating
extract from the Hampshire elegrapli, that there is
mischief in this thine-. This Hampshire Telegraph 'is
published very near the country seat of Lord Palmerston,
where, we presume, during the recess of Parliament, his
lordship spends a considerable portion e f his leisure t;nie.
This circumstance gives a colouring of semi-official
authority to the specifications of the journal in question.
In fact, assuming that the Hampshire Telegraph is the
home organ of Lord Palmerston, and that he employs it
occasionally as President Pierce uses the Concord Patriot
when it is deemed most expedient to give the democracy
a broad hint in a roundabout way of some important
movement afoot, we may venture to consider the above I
extract an official communication. The case then becomes
an affair of the highest moment, for it involves issues
and contingencies which may entangle us and this whole
western hemisphere in a war with the maritime Powers
of Europe. First, it appears that this concentration
within striking distance of the island of Cuba of a British
squadron, numbering, in all probability, not less than 20
vessels of war (to say nothing of the French West India
squadron), is ' in consequence of the American Govern-
ment having replied to some communication mad e
to them by the British Government in a manner in-
sulting to England in the highest degree ; nor are we
left altogether iu the dark concerning this communica-
tion front the British Cabinet. It is doubtless a r.
netval in some shape of the tripartite overtures to the
Administration of Mr. Fillmore, which Lard Palmer-
st in may have cencluelod would be acceptable
at Washington to that of Mr. Pierce alter the appa-
rently indignant rejection by Marcy of the Cuban mani-
festo of his Ministers, resulting from those solemn autho-
rised conferences at Ostend and Aix-la-Chapelle. In the
rumoured reply of the American Government' there is
an air of that genuine grandiloquent patriotism which
has characterised all the diplomatic promises, circulars,
anti instructions of our Pierce Administrations, so that,
brief as is the report of the Hampshire Telegraph of this
answer of our Government, it bears the evidence upon
its face of official authority. The question then aria
what is Marcy driving at in thus startling the whole
country with his warlike re-opening of the Cuban trouble
when everybody had imagined it postponed, or that the
Administration, like Micawber, had humbly resigned
itself to waiting for something to turn up ?' Does Marcy
or does Mr. Pierce setk to embarrass England and
France on the Cuban question by way of a diplomatic
diversion to the advantageous settlement of the Danish
Sound difficulty? We think not. Or does our Cabinet
really believe that the golden opportunity has come for
cutting the Gordian knot of the Cuban entanglement
with the sword ! No. The true explanation, we appre.
betel, lies in the necessity to our Cabinet aspirants of a
little active war capital for the next Presidency. The
manifest destiny' of Cuba is, sooner or later, the an-
nexation of the island to the United States. This, at allti
events, is the general popular belief in all quarters of. the
Union. Thus far our Pierce Administration, in all its
; ti°lln'tean-
fine promises, looking to this great consummation,
lost ground here, as in everything
time, the Presidential election of 1356 e is o'iviolivit'eigre'tshoenleoasrt
as to require some desperate expedient
confidence of the people. Mr. pieetraoureacquestionably
would consent to accept another democratic
btiec,nomination
Marcy him
and utterle, hopeless as his case appears
Mr. Buchanan,
self aspires to the succession. Then, again,,
our Minister in London, the especial champion of the
Cuban an n exation ists, e 4, we dare say, notwithstanding
the Ostend collapse, quite ready to co-Operate with the
Cabinet in any bold Cuban movement_ which may
strengthen his claim with the progressing democracy. In
this view we aro prepared to believe that neither the Ad
ministration nor Mr. Buchanan.
would hesitate to get up
a war cry against
England and France in the matter of
Cuba, and such a war cry would overwhelm in the
war
democratic national convention the slavery question and
all other issues, and bring the reunited democracy to the
support of the Administration and its most available
war candidate for the succession. It was upon the war
i question of 1812 that Madison Was re-elected
Lit was
the Battle of New Orleans that brought General Jackson
into power ; it was the military service of General Har-
risen that made him President ; it was the policy of the
annexation of Texas, peace or war, that elected Mr.
Polk ; it was the Mexican war that carried General Tay-
lor into the White-house, and to that war are we in-
debted for the election of General Pierce, though not
elected upon his military merits. In a word, though the
most pacific people in the world, the people of the United
States are ever ready to unite in support of the honour,
the glory, ihiiiiiirests, and cause of the country in a fo-
reign war, and in support of the Administration which
may involve us in a war, however feeble such an Admin-
istration may be ; and this, we conceive, is the desperate
alternative which Mr. Pierce and Mr. Marcy have re-
solved upon in this belligerent recipening.of the Cuban
enabroglio, It is an experiment to divert the public at-