The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-14 00:00:00

LONDON„ FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1856.

BANK OF ENGLAND, 13th Barth,
TB.E GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the
RANK of ENGLAND GIVE NOTICE, That the GENERAL
C,UisT h Id at the Bulk this day is Adjourned till TUE•iDAY
next, the 18th instan , at Pleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the
purpo,e or taking the determination by note in print or writ ng on
the question in the following Resolution proposed the Court for a
Divliiend, viz.:
1 hat a Dividend be made of Si. per cent. interest and profits for
the balt•year ea ling the 29th February last, without deduction on
acount of the income tax

The voting till commehee at Eleven o'clock and terminate at
Four. JOHN BENTLEY, Secre!ary.

AT a GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS,
hell at tite BANK of ENGLA on Thursday, the 13th
March, 1536,
Resolvel,—That the thanks of this Court be g,Tven to the Governor,
Deputy Governor, and Court of Directors of the Bank of England,
for their able management of the affairs of this em-poration during
the last hal:'-year.
Ordered,—That the said Resolution be advertised in all the daily
morning and evening' papers.

JOHN BENTLEY, Seere'ary

BANK OF DEPOSIT,
No. 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON.

Estahli,hed A.D., .1814

Parties desirous of INVESTING MONET cr.t requested •
examine thq Plan of the Lank of Deposit. Prospectuses and Form
for Opening Accounts Pent free on annlication,..

PETER MORRPAON, Mana;ing Director.

ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
A WAY. EASTER UOLI DAYS. —ItEl U TICKETS
issued on T tILTII4DAY, the 20th March, and foU,wing days, will be
availabte up to and in,iWfttg MOND A.Y, the 24th.
Ou o.yid Prilay the Tr.tinski,i'l run at on Sunda-s, with the addl.

tion of the 9.15 A.M. down mail Trida from Lonion, which will run
as on week days, except over tie Chester and Holyhead Railway.

By order.
General Manager's Orfic,,,lton Sta. ion, March, 1/i513.

ONDON any
_LIA kNI) k
TICK E US, FIRST and

d NORTIT-W ESI
[LWAY'. EISTEM
=E`,',C.,NI) CLASS, Will be

C.ERN and MID-
O IDATs. I),‘
isbued Crum LONDON

Lin •o'n I owdhani Normsnton
Colhrigham Nottin4ham Oak enshaw
Newark York Doncast cr
Fi,kerton I Brad ford Fholneld, and
• • Thurgarton Leeds Mashorough,
By the ordinary trairs on 1 111.TWID Alarch '2oth, and !nterme-
di.ite days, to MOND -k Y, March '24th, inclusiv,, an 1 wilt be “vail-
ate° for return by the ordinary trains on any day up to and includ-
ing Tuesday, March 25th.
Express day tick will also be issued on the same days, available
to real n by express trai
Day tickets wilt als , be issued from the above stations to London.
By order.
uston Statl In, March, 1856.

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
LostioN.

Policies effected with this Society now will PARTICIPATE TN
FOUR-Fi FTIIS, or 80 per cent. of the Net Profits of the Society,
nceordnyt to th'r e nlii ors contained to the S,c7ety's Prospectus.
The Premiums required by this Society for insuring- Young Lives
are lower than in many othar old-estahished offices, and Insurers
are ful-y protected from nil rise by an ample guarantee fund, in
additl to the accm,a:ated funds derived from the investments of
Premiums.

Policy stamps paid by the Office.
Prospectuses may be ol,tained at the Orrice In Threadneedle-street,
London, or of any of the Agents of the Society.
CHARLES HENRY LI IMERDALE, Actuary.

6,IUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COM PAN Y,
r.crabard-street, London.

nmucToas.
FRAN('IS HART DYKE, Esq., Chairman.
HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
John Dixon, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart. John Martin, Esq., MX.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Thomson Mulkey, Esq., M. V. James Morris, Esq.
John Ilaivey, Esq. Henry Norman, Req.
John G. Hubbard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq.- James Tulloch, Esq.
John Loch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
:TOPS.

AUDI'

A. W. Roharts, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Lloyd, jun., F.sq. I John Henry Smith, Esq.
George Keys, Req., Secretary.
Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.--Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
lament, this Company now offers to tutors insurers Four-fifths of
he Profits, with Quinquennial Division, of a Low Rate of Premium
without participation of Profits.
The next M171'31011 0 Profits will be declared in June, 1860, when
all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year
et Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits.
At the five divisions of Profits male by this Company, the total
eversionary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,0001.
At Christmas list the Ass'aranees in force amounted to upwards
of 4,210,0001.; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more
than 200,0001. ; and the Life Assurance Fund (independent of the
Guarantee Cap,tal) exceeded 1,700,0001. -
FOREIGN RISKS—The Extra Premiums required for the East
end West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United States oi• America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LIVES. --Persons who are not in such sound health as
would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums,
'ray have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
dded such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
• itait!ed in each case a valise not under 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received
,nd registered.
Medical fees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for
fA d 31 r;\ . nsnrances - --•••• Amonr;rt—
tion of property, at moderate rates.
Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company.

EAST INDIA ROUSE, 5 rn Menet', 1856.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the an-
nexed CODE of REGULATIONS for the ADMISSION of
C ANDIDATE's at the EXAMEN ..TIONS, to be held for the
APPOINTMENT of ASSIST ANT SURGEONS in the SERVICE of
the EAST INDIA COMPANY, has been framed by the Board of
Commissioners for the Affairs of India, under tke provisions of the
Act MI asd 17th Viet., tap. 95, sec. 33.
REGULATIONS FOR THE ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE APPOINT-
MENT OF ASSISTAN3-SURGEON IN TUE SERVICE OF TUE EAST INDIA
COMPANY.
All natural-born subjects of her Majesty between 22 and 28 years
of age, awl of sourd bodily health, may be candidates for admission
into the service of the East India Company as Assistant Surgeons.
They_rnust subscribe and send Into Dr. Sc tt, the Physician to the
llonourablo East India Company, 10 days before the period Axed for
each examination, a dectsration to the following effect:—
_ .

"I (Christian and surname at full length), a candidate for em-
ployment as an Assistant-'4urgeon In the service of the East India
Company, do hereby declare, that I was - years of age on the

day of last, and that I labour under no constitu-
tional disease or physical disability that can interfere with the duo
discharge of the duties of a medical officer ; and I also attest my
readiness to proceed on duty to India within three months of receiv-
ing my appointment."
This declaration must be accompanied by the following docu-
tnents :
I. Proof of age, either by extract from the register of the • parish
in which the candidate was born, or by his own declaration pursuant
to the Act 5 and 6 Wm. IV., c 62.
2. A certificate of moral character from a magistrate, or a minis-
ter of the relig!oas denomination to which the candidate belongs,
who has personally k -own him for at least two preceding years.
3. A diploma in surgery, or a degree in medicine, provined an ex-
amination in surgery be required for such degree, from some body
competent by law to grant or confer such diploma or degree.
4. A. certificate of haying attended two courses of lectures, oP six
months each, on the practice of physic, and of having attended for
six months the practice :tea clinical instruction o" the physicians at
some hospital, containing at least, on an average, one hundred in-
patients ; or of having attended one course of lectures of six months
on the practice of physic, and clinical instruction for twelve months.
5. A certificate of haying attended for three months the practical
instruction given at one of the public asylums for the treatment of

•
the insane.
6. A certificate of having attended for ttree months one of the in-
stitutions or wards of an hospital especially devoted to the treat-
ment of ophthalmic disesse.
Candidates who may not have been able to attend the practice of
an asylum for the insane, or of an ophthalmic hospital, for 3 moutt's
previous to their effering themselves for examination, will not be
excluded from examination, but will, if successful in °Wining re-
commendation for appointments, be required to produce certificates
of having attended such practice during the interval between the
examination and the time of proceeding to India.
7. A certificate of h tying attended a course of lectures on "red-
witry, and of having conducted at least six labours.
S A certificate of having acquired a practical knowledge of cup-
ping.
Candidates may also, at their option, send In certificates of attend-
ance at any hospitals, or on any course of lectures, in addition to the-
above. Attendance on a course of military surgery, and the practi-
cal study of surgical operations on the dead body, are recommended.
Tile Examhution will include the following subjects :-
1. Surgery in all its departments.
2. Medicine, including the diseases of women and children, The-
rapeutics, Pharmacy, an I Hygiene.
3. Anatomy- and Physiology, including Comparative Anatomy.
4. Natural History, including Botany and Zoology.
The following are the books recommended in—
Zoology and Comparatve Anatomy—
Outlines of the Structure of the Animal Kingdom, by Rymer Jones,

or
Coors Elementaire d'Histoire Naturelie, par Milne Edwards.
Botany—
Lindley's School Botany, or
Lindley's Elements of Botany.
The Examination will be conducted-
1. By means of written questions and answers.
2. By object examinations and experiments, when the subject ad-
mits of such tests.
3. By practical examination of patients, and by operations on tie
dead body.
4. By viva voce examination.
The persons who shall be pronounced by the examiners to he the
nest qualified in all respects will De appointed to fill the requisite
number of appointments as assistant-surgeons in tho East,lndia,
Company's Service, and, so far as the requirements of tke service
will permit, they will have the choice of the Presidency in India to
which they shall I e appointed, according to the order of merit in
which they stand on the list resulting from such examination.
All assistant-surgeons are required ts subscribe to the military or
medial, and medical retiring funds, at the presidencies to which
they may be respectively appointed, and to the Military Orphan So-
ciety also, If appointed to Bengal.
All assistant-surgeons who shall neglect or refure to proceed to
India under the orders ofthe Court of Directors, within three months
from the date of their appointmen', will be considered as having for-
feited it, unle,s special circumstances shall justify ade )a' from
this regulation
A copy of these regulations, and any further information, may be
obtained on application to the Secretary of the Military Department,
East India House.
The ea:imitations will take place in the months of January and
July in each year ; and due notice will he given by public adver-
tisement of the days appointed, and of the probable number of can-
didates to be selected.
The Examiners for Assistant Surgeons in the Honourable East
India Company's Service, having received many inquit les as to the
objeat and extent of the Examinatioa in Comparative Anatomy,
Zoology, and Botany, have considered it desiraule to announce that
their objects are,—
1. To ascertain who of the Candidates have devoted especial atten-
lion to any of these sciences, and are hence qualified to undertake
duties requiring a knowledge of thePa, its well as the general duties
of their profession. Proficiency in these sciences will, in classifying
the Candidates by merit, be entitled to great consideration.
2. To encourage all Candidates to esquire an elementary knows
ledge of the structure and affinities of the principal natural families
of Animals and of Plants, with the general wan upon which these
are constructed, and thefunctions and relations of their most impor-
tant organs.
3. T,, promote the study of Natural History as a most important
adjunct or preliminary to a liberal medical education; that of Com-
parative Anatomy, Zoology, or Botany, if properly cultivated, by
means of sueci-nens, for even a short period, being eminently calcu-
lated to des-elope habits of c'o.e observation, and to strengthen those
Powers of reasoning upon observed facts, which must be habitually
exercised by medical teen everywhere, but which must be exercised
with the greatest energy and promptitude by those who practise in a
tropical climate, and who are often thrown wholly upon their own
re SOCITCCF.
The general examination-in these sciences will be elementary, and
will embrace a very limited range of technleal terms. At .he written
examination a considerable nuanber of questions will be put, With
the view of allowing each Candidate to select such sutjechi as he has
attended to, and, thereby, of enabling the Examiners to ascertain
the partictilar departments of science in which the verbal examina-
tion snou'd be conlactsd.
With those Candidates who have attained proficiency in any branch
of these science., the verbal examination will he 'matted In the
branch seleetedsso as to ascertain the full extent of their knowledge.
It is now announced that the next examination will be held at,
probable number luelnebulerpapofnvtaocabietetihersenitur
utchdeumedpoirciilate;3stthabittliSyli.
this house ou the 14th July next. and I ucceeding days, and that the.
ment' of the
'74.24,E4 711:ELYILL, Secretary.

AMERICA.

Important Despatches.
ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.
LIVE RPOOL, TIIURSDAY EVENING.
The steam-ship Atlantic, Captain West, arrived
at this port at. half-pest four this afternoon. She
brings advices front New York to March 1, 45 pas-
sengers, but no spcie.
The Atlantic passed the Baltic. off Sandy Hook,
March 1. Nothing is 9.3 yet known of the Pacific.
The great foature in the advices now to hand
the publication of the correspondence between the
United States and English Governments on the
enlistment ditlionlty, and the Clayton-Bulwer
tieaty, the papers having been presented to the
Senate by the President, on the 28th ult.
The correspondence upon the enlistment question
consists of 32 letters and documents, and fills 13
columns of small type in the New York journals.
The despatch from Mr. Marcy to Mr. Buchanan,
dated Dec. 28, is the most impqtant, being a de-
liberate and detailed 'review of the entire subject
in dispute, and ocnitlying of itself upwards of sim
columns. The following are the concluding pas-
sagas :

"Though the last instructions an a restriction upen
the interpretation which Lord Clarendon has given to
the law and rights of the United States, they would,
even if literally ~bserved, infringe teeth. This Govern-
ment maintains that in every invtanoQ where a person,
whether a citizen or a foreigner, hrew*eip, brought to the
determination to leave thifl countycoun rsr.the purpose of
entering int" a foreign service as a soldier or sailor, by
any inducements offered by recruiting agents her-, the
law of the United States has been vio!ated. There cer-
tainly can be no doubt of the violation of the law of the
United States in every case where one party, the re-
cruit, has been induced by the terms offered to him ac-
tually to leave the United States for the purpose of en-
tering into foreign military service, and the other party
his furnished the means and borne the expense of taking
him to a foreign depot in order to censummete the act
by Enlistment. 'lt will not purposely be &rad that
several hundred cases of the kind actually occ,rrecl in
carrying out the scheme of British recruitment. The
very design of our employing agents for such a purpose
to act within the limits of the United States involved
in its consequences au infringement of that law. It is
the solemn duty of the Government of the United States
to maintain this construction of their neutrality law,
and the attempt to set up and sustain a different one
hes created much surprise ; and that it has been done
by a friendly Government with which the United States
are most anxious t rnaintain and strengthen the rein-
tons is the cause of deep regret.
‘• When the President presented the case to the con-
sideration of her Majesty's Government, with the as-
surance that he had such information on the subject as
compelled him to believe that British officers in eminent
stations were implicated in a scheme which had resulted
in an infringeraent of the rights of the United States,
and a violation of their law, and asked for some satis-
faction for the wrong, he certainly did not expect that
the c^nduct of these officers would be justified on prin-
cip!es which impair the sovereignty of the United States
as an independent nation, and by an interpretation of
the law which makes it entirely ineffective for the pur-
poses for which it was intended.. Some satisfaction for
the injury was confidently expected ; but nothing that
can be regarded in that light has been offered, and. this
Government is compelled, in vindication of its rights,
and laws to take a course which it sincerely hoped her
Majesty's Government would have rendered unnecessary.
" Her Majesty's Minister to this Government, Mr.
Crampton, has taken a conspicuous part is organising
and executing the scheme of constructing the British
army within the United States. Were it possible, with
duo regard to the evidence and disclosures in the case,
to assign him a subordinate part in that scheme, even
that would not allow the President to change the course
iehich he is obliged, under the circumstances, to pursue
towards him. Any participation in the project, as it
eas been disclosed, in raising recruits in this country
fur the British service, was incompatible with his
official relations to this Government. His c selection
with that affair has rendered him an unacceptable re-
presentative of her Majesty near tl-ds Government, and
you are directed by the President to ask her Majesty's
Government to recall him. Mr. Rowcroft, the British
consul at Cincinnati, Mr. Mathew, British consul at
Philadelphia, are implicated in the recruiting project,
and you are further directed by the President to ask for
their removal for that cause. The persons connected
with the British consulate at New York have been ac-
tively engaged in furthering the recruiting scheme. Mr.
,L.. Clv.h of II la NJ .....nmot,
more open and effective part than the consul himself, and
is now under an indictment .for yielding the law &paint
foreign recruiting. The consul, Mr. Barclay, could
not but know cf Mr. Stanley's conduct in that mat-
ter, but he still retains him in the consulate. Besides
the responsibility that rightfully attaches to Mr. Barclay
for the improper conduct of an cmp/07/6 in his office and
under his immediate and daily observhtion, this Govern-
ment is satisfied that he has not himself not only favoured
the recruiting for the British army, but has participated
in it. Moreover, the improper conduct of Mr. Barclay
in the case of the barque Maury has justly given offence
to the commercial celuinunity in which he resides, and
with which he has official connection. For these reasons
this Government deems it proper to instruct you to ask
the Government of Great Britain to withdraw Mr. Bar-
clay from the post of British consul at New York. You
are directed by the President to read this despatch to
the Earl of Clarendon, and, should he desire it, to hand
him a copy."

The corresponclene 3 closos with a letter from Mr.
Buchanan to Mr. Marcy, dated Ist February, in
which he details that be bad an interview with
Lord Clarendon, on the 29th January, when he read
over to him Mr. Alarcy's despatch of the 28th Dec.,
previous to which he fully explained to him that
when he cimmuni( ated to hirn on the 16th July his
confidence that the explanation offered by Lord
Clarendon would be satisfactory to his Government,
he had no idea of the complicity of Mr. Crampton in
the affair, which had, therefore, in consequence,
assumed a much more serious aspect. It will be
seen that Mr. Buchanan withheld the delivery of
the despatch of the 28th Dec. a fortnight, so that
Lord Clarendon had not sufficient time to reply by
the Atlantic or the Asia.

The correspondence on the Clayton-Bulwer
Treaty does not reach so great a length. The
first letter is from Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Marcy,
bearing date Nov. 25, in which Mr. Buchanan says,
that in the course of a conversation which he had
with Lord Clarendon, he stated to him that the
most serious difficulties between the two Govern-
ments might arise out of the Central American
question. Lord Clarendon replied, that when two
Governments disagreed about the construction of
a treaty, the best and most natural mode was to
refer the question to a third power. At an early
period of the negotiations Lord Clarendon had
made the same suggestion, but Mr. Buchanan
jocularly replied that the Emperor of Russia was
the only one sufficiently independent to act as an
umpire in the case, and England had gone to war
against him. Iu a despatch from Mr. Buchanan to
Mr. Marcy, Nov. 28, a conversation similar to the
above is reported. Mr. Buchanan says :
" Having urged upon Lord Clarendon as
strongly as I could reasons which I thought
ought to induce the British Government to
relinquish the Bay Islands to Honduras, Lord
Clarendon replied that these islands are not of
the least value to Great Britain, and that the only
question with the Government was, whether the
national honour did not forbid this course." In an
interview between Mr. Buchanan and Lord Cla-
rendon, by appointment, on the Bth of November,
the latter raid the best method to settle the ques-
tion was by arbitration. Mr. Buchanan replied
that there was nothing to arbitrate. Lord Claren-
don said the true construction of the treaty was a
proper subject for arbitration. Mr. Buchanan re-
plied that he did not consider there could be any
question as to the construction at all. The language
I was plain and explicit, and he thought this would
be the unanimous opinion of the American people ;
but that in writing to Mr. March he should men-
tion what had been said. On the sth of February,
1856, Mr. Buchanan wrote to Mr. Marcy :
" Before this can reach Washington you will have read
the speeches of Lords Derby and Clarendon in the House
of Lords on Thursday, which will speak for themselves.
In relation to the Central American question Lord Cla
rendon I lost no time in offering to refer the whole
question to the arbitration of any third power, both sides
agreeing to be bound by the decision. That offer has not
been accepted, but I hope upon further consideration the
Government of the 'United States will agree to it.'"
Mr. Buchanan resumes :
" It is therefore proper for me to state, as a matter of
fact, that I have reported to you in the most faithful
manner every conversation which has passed between
Lord Clarendon and myself on the subject of referring
these questions to a friendly Power. As I have never
learned tbat the British Government has made any such
offer to the Government of the United States than
through Lord Clarendon, I infer his lordship must have
referred to the general conversation between him and
myself, which would by no means justify the broad
terms of his arc,ueent. This much merely to vindicate
the truth of history."
On the Bth of February Mr. Buchanan writes
to Mr. Marcy :
" Oa Wednesday last, the 6th instant, I had an inter-
view with Lord Clarendon at the Foreign-office. I told
hiM I desired to ascertain whether the statement he made
in the House of Lords on the evening of Thursday, the
31st ult.—that the British Government had made to the
American Government no offer, which has been recently
renewed, to arbitrate concerning the Central American
question—was founded on what had passed between

him and myself in conversation, or whether be had in-
structed Mr. Crampton to make to you in writing a for-
mal proposal to arbitrate. He replied that his state-
ment was founded on four different conversations, and
that in these he had several times proposed to me the
reference of these questions to arbitration, and he
expressed the hope that I had communicated his pro-
positions to my Government. I informed him that I
had faithfully reported to you all conversations we had
I held in reference to an arbitration, but I had not be-
lieved that what he said on these occasions amounted to
such an offer as could be recognised by our Government
as a foundation for pacific action on so grave a matter ;
that I did not doubt you were of the same opinion, as I
had never received a line from you on the subject. He
observed that, before holding these conversations with
me, be had consulted his Cahinet, and spoke their senti-
rueuts as well as his own. I remarked that this fact had
now for the first tine been communicated to me. If he
had informed me of It at the time, that would have given
his conversation a more serious character, and caused it
to make a deeper impression on myinind. He said he
had thought, as a matter of course, that I would con-
sider what he said to me had been said after consultation
with his Cabinet. In reply I observed, I had tbouzht
that when one nation desired to propose to another the
submission of an international dispute to arbitration, it
was done by writing and in due form. Such had been
their own courso when they proposed to arbitrate the
Oregon question. Besides, the President might, if be
thought proper, consult the Senate on the question ;
and what would be thought by that body it such a
proposition were presented there in the loose form
of a report of various conversations between him
and myself, which; after all, I might, through
mistake or inadvertence, not have reported cor-
rectly ? He said, what he had done he_oonsidered
a preliminary step, and if our Government had indicated
any satisfaction with it, they would have been, prepared
to proceed further; but from what I had said to him he
did not think they had received much encouragement. I
told him, whenever I had spoken to him, I had always
been careful to assure him that I was expressing my own
individual sentiments, without any instructions or infor-
mation from nay Government, and these remained un-
changed. I also observed that his last letter to me,
finally denying our construction of the treaty, and forc-
ing the issue between the two Goverments, might appro-
priately have contained a proposition for arbitration, and
in this manner the question might have been brought in
a regular form before our Government. He then, for the
first time, informed me that he had addressed a despatch
to Mr. Crampton on the subject, with instructions to him
to read it to you. He then sent for it, and road it to me.
I believe it was dated in Nov., but a copy being doubt-
less in your possession, it will speak for itelf. He in-
formed me further, that all you had said about it to Mr.
Crampton was that the matter was in Mr. Buchanan's
hands. He proceeded to express a decided (Opinion in fa-
vour of arbitration, and said that when two friendly Go-
vernments disagreed upon the construction of a treaty
the natural and most appropriate course was to
refer the question to a third friendly power. He
had ever believed their construction of the treaty
to be correct. He then requested me to communi
eate to you their proposals fur an arbitration, and how
anxious tbey were that the question might be settled in
this manner. I told him I should cheerfully comply
with his request, but repeated that my own individual
opinion remained unchanged. I considered the language
of the treaty too clear for serious doubt, and that I be-
lieved was the opinion of public men of all parties in the
United States. This had been evinced by a recent de-
bate in the Senate on the President's message. Besides,
the difficulty of selecting a suitable sovereign as an arbi-
trator seemed insuperable. But this, I said, was a
question for my Government, and not for myself."
On the 27th of February Mr; Crampton writes
to Mr. Macy :

"Ohserving that some misapprehension seems to exist
as to the offer made by Lord Clarendon to Mr. Buchanan,
to submit the points regarding the interpretation of the
Clay ton-Bulwer treaty upon which the two governments
disagreed to arbitration, I think it well to send you the
enclosed despatch, which I received from Lord Claren-
don on the suhject in December last. I regret not
having made you this communication before, but the
truth is the last paragraph of the despatch escaped my
attention until I referred to it lately, and as I was aware
that the negotiation of the question regarding Central
America was in Mr. Buchanan's and Lord Clarendon's
hands, I considered the despatch as merely meant for a
copy of information as to what was going forward upon
a subject in regard to which I inferred you were already
informed."

In the despatch referred to Lord Clarendon writes
to Mr. Crampton under date Nov. 10 :
"Mr. Buchanan having, in the course of conversation
a few days ago, alivertud to the imp:vat:WU tt t would
created in the United States by the non-settlement of
the Central American question, I again assured him that
England bad no wish to extend her influence, or to ob-
tain any territory in that part of the world, and reminded
him Opt, as tt• difference between their country and the
United States turned solely upon the interpretation of
the treaty of 1850, I had offered, on the part of her Ma-
jesty's Government, to submit the case to the arbitration
of a third power, but that he had declined the offer. Her
illajtsty's Government, I said, would still abide by that
offer, and I thought that would be the fairest and most
amicable manner of arriving at a settlement of the ques.
tion. Mr. Buchanan said he would make it known to
his Government, and give instructions to communicate
this despatch to Mr. Marcy."

In the debate which ensued upon the presentation
of these papers to the Senate—
" The Hon. Mr. Seward said that this correspondence
placed the subject of Central American affairs in a light
somewhat different from that in which it presented
itself when first brought before the house. As the case
stood when originally submitted by the President, the
communications between the two governments consisted
of arguments on both sides, each government rigidly
maintaining its position regarding the constitution of
the treaty ; the United States demanding its fulfilment,
and Great Britain [quito as positively, he might say
somewhat offensively, refusing compliance. Under
these circumstances he had thought it his duty to declare
his opinion, and express decided concurrence in the
position this Government had assumed. It now ap-
peared that Great Britain was willing to arbitrate. He
congratulated the Senate on that fact, as opening a
more pacific and pleasing prospect concerning this
changing but still most important question. As to the
enlistment case, the correspondence showed that the
British Government might with plausibility, and per-
haps conscientiously, say they had tendered what was
regarded by them in the nature of an apology, which
they might have considered to be as broad and as full as
was consistent with the honour of that Government to
make. The President and Secretary of State might
have thought the !acknowledgment not sufficiently ex-
plicit, but Lord Clarenden thought he had probably
male all the apology which could be made by a power
jealous of her dignity and honour. The point of differ-
ence was the effect of the language used. There was
roma for differences of opinion on the subject between
the parties ; but the assumption would be a violent one
that Great Britain had made an explanation which
ought not to be satisfactory.
"Mr. Pearce did not concur with the senator, and was
not willing that Mr. Seward's opinion should go to the
country as the deliberate view of the Senate. Such
an apology as they should claim from Great Britain
had not been made. The disclosures in the correspon-
dence exhibited on the part of America a manliness,
spirit, and frankness, of which all should be proud. He
was sorry no such spirit characterised Great Britain.
Not only hall no satisfactory apology been made,
but the language used by the British Secretary amounted
to taunts, and was therefore offensive. Lord Clarendon
had said that the United States Government had sought
to obtain evidence against her Majesty's servants or
their agents by practices sometimes resorted to under
deep nic institutions, but which were disliked all free
and enlightened Governments. Mr. Pearce said he was
not an advocate for war, and hoped they should main-
tain peace ; but he should never acknowledge that the
correspondence furnished any satisfactory apology for
what was done by Great Britain. The power which had
invoked their neutrality was the first to violate it.
"Mr. Stuart remarked that,notwithstanding the speech
of Lord Clarendon in the House of Lords, it was shown
by the correspondence submitted that the proposition
to arbitrate was not submitted to Mr. Buchanan, nor
did anything in the despatch from Clarendon to Mr.
Crampton come up to that point. It seemed that Lord
Clarendon had given the British people to understand
that the Government had assumed a generous position
by offerieg arbitration, which America had declined,
and which would be renewed. Inasmuch as Great Bri-
tain did not intend to acknowledge the obligations of
that treaty, he confessed a strong inclination in his mind
to abrogate it altogether.
" Mr. Seward said he had expressed no opinion that
the British explanations ought to be considered satisfac-
tory. He intended to show that Lord Clarendon had
disavowed intentional affront, and that it should not be
a foregone conclusion that nothing in the nature of an
apology had been made.
"Mr. Mason said a grave offence bad been committed
against that Government by Great Britain. It would be
found in some manner and to some extent that Great
Britain had lent herself to a violation of her obligations to
that country under international relations, and had bro-
ken their domestic laws. • Ile understood Mr. Seward to
say that some apology had been made by Great Britain
for her offence. He (Mr. Mason) conceived an apology
to be due between nations as between gentlemen. When
a gentleman did wrong, and desired to make reparation,
he apologised, admitting the wrong frankly and ingenu-
ously without reservation, and in that way evinced an
honourable purpose. He submitted to the hon. senator
(Seward) whether such an apology had been made ? On
the contrary, such explanations as had been offered
added insult to the general injury. If ever a question
had occurred in their international relations demanding
indemnity for the past and security for the future, it was
here presented. Where there was really no cause for
war between honourable men, none would arise ; and to
this, he took for granted, the people on both sides the
Atlantic had made up their minds. Mr. Mason then
moved that the number of copies of the British enlist-
merit documents formerly ordered to be printed be in,