The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-05 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF TRANQUILLITY.

A Dublin paper notices a gratifying fact, as
showing the peaceable% and orderly state of the
northern Irish counties, that on the 26th of May
last there were not in either of the gaols of Drog-
heda, Dundalk, Monaghan, or Antrim a single pri-
soner for trial at the ensuing assizes to be held for
the north-east circuit, while in one of the two re-
maining towns on that circuit—viz., Armagh and
Downpatrick—there was but one solitary prisoner
iu "durance vile,"and in the other town but five.
Such circumstances have probably not occurred for
very many years.

DR. GUTHRIE ON THE " OLoalEs.."—They had a great
many things taught in the schools now—physiology,
philology, craniology, geology ; and what the better was
a girl for it all when she became a tradesman's wife ?
She could not darn her stocking, she could not bake her
bread, she could not boil a potato, she could not light
the fire. He had often said, when he saw a servant
making two or three attempts to light a fire—" My good
friend, let me try and do it for you." He did not, he
would have them remember, despise those ologie3 ; but
be was for stitohology, bakeology, and boilology. (Great
laughter.)
THE Bounsons.—lt is curious to trace the influence
exercised by oriental customs on those of Western
Europe, more particularly now that the rapprochement
between the two hemispheres is so much greater than
formerly. This influence or sympathy is, indeed, analo-
gous to that of revolutions as they transpire among the
peoples of the globe. America may even react on
Europe, as was actually the case during the revolution
in France. In like manner, though more superficially,
Algiers and Georgia have tended to orientalise England ;
the Bedouin on the one hand, and the Caucasian moun-
taineer on the other, having directed our tastes (mare
particularly in dress) into new channels. Yet who
could have foreseen that the costume of the Sons of the
Des'ert, the wandering Bedouin, cr the indomitable Cir-
cassian would be adopted by the ladies of France and
England ! Such, however, is the fact. The graceful
B4urnous bids fair entirely to supersede, among the
haute volee, every other description of cloak for evening
dress, the promenade, or the opera. Here, then, is a
complete revolution over the habits of the past ten
years. Would not the Arab chiefs, when they excited
so vivid a sensation in Europe about two years since,
have been wholl incredulous that they were destined to
become the leaders of the Fashion in the countries they
visited ! With a view to confirm these observations, it
is well worth while to visit the Sponsalia, 246, Regent-
street, opposite Hanover-chapel, where the Messrs. Jay
have on show some exquisite specimens of the Bournous.
This appendage is showy, yet chaste; extremely light,
without any sacrifice of comfort • ample and most grace-
fat in its folds and its fall over the figure, and may ba
worn in three different ways. It supersedes the shawl
wholly ; has an apparent hood ; is embroidered or
plain, in cashmere or cloth ; may be made extremely
rich or delicately sober in colour to suit varieties of
taste ; and is, in brief, though moderate in price, a
thoroughly distingui,she and beautiful article of attire.—
Of (ening CitrOni*.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 4.
The 'Atlantic has_arrived with advices from New
York to the 24th ult.
She brings 212,080 dollars.
The Washington correspondent of tae New York
Herald writes on the 23d.":
" Mr. Marcy is, now engaged in drawing up a reply to
Lord Clareedon's last despatch, and it will be forwarded
to Ml. Dallas at-the swore time that Mr. Crampton receives
his passports. Mr. Mane, Will show that Lord Clarendon's
special' pleading has only aggravated the offence. In Lord
Clarendon's despatch the ground is takenthat the witnesses
against, Mr. Crampton are persons of -worthless character,
while, on the other hand, Mr. Crampton' said the three
British consuls, all honourable men, pledged their word
that they are innocent of the charge made against them.
The fat is, however, that Mr. Crampton'e complicity in
the offence rests upon a different basis from that suggested
by Lord Clarendon, and which seems to'have escaped that
gentleman's observatione It is based.upon Mr. Crampten's
own a !missions, as, contained in a letter written by him and
produ6ed at the Hertz trial: This is the document which
has convicted Mr. Crampton, and not the testimony of his
confederates; and the pledge of his' honour, now tendered
to show his innocence in the feat) of these facts, renders his
further iesidence heie perisopally obnoxious. The theory
upon which the President excuses himself for not having
I.ing since dlimissed Mr. Cranipton.is that, when the corre-
s eondence was at first opened with the British Government,
was not known that he Was heiplieated to the extent it af-
torwaels appeared, but, having commencede. correspondence
upon the subject, it was ceuerary to diplomatic etiquette
and the relations eXisting between thi! two ceuntries to act
upon the additionil evidence prodiced except by presenting
itin the correspondence, and demanding Mr. Crampton's
recall. That demand being now refused, nothing further
remains but to Sum up the evidence, and hand the Minister
his passports. Madnocorrespondence taken place previ oe sly
to Mr. Crampt on's letter (that produced at the Hertz trial);
he would have been dismissed without going through the
formality of demanding his 'recall by his own Government.
" I am sufficiently wail advised to ate4nce the fact
"tat, while ourelillovernrnent ffio. friendly .
feeling- which is expressed by Lord Clarendon in. nis des-
pstch it will be shown that the interest of both nations
wilt he best promoted by the appointment of a .stioceisor"
hi the place of Mr. Crampton, who no longer enjoys the
confidence of this Government. The British consuls im-
plicated in the enlistment affair will be permitted to re-
main, by way of compromise. It is supposed that Eng-
land will take no exception to this procedure; as Mr.
Cram pton's dismissal will have been owing not alone to his
complicity with the enlistment case."
Naval and military forces were being organised
at Havannah to attack Mexico. Troops were also
to be despatched to the aid of the Costa Ricans.
The Sedate had given permission for Dr. Paul
to accept acknowledgments from the British Go-
vernment.

Her Majesty's ships Powerful and Arab arrived
at Bermuda on the 4th ult. Letters from Mexico
state that Aimonte was about to leave for England
as funhassador. Advioes from South America re-
port au insurrection at Ariquipa, Southern Peru.
Ex-President Echenique had routed the authorities.
Referring to Lord C'arendon's last despatch the
Herald says :
"The letter from Lord Clarendon to Mr. Dallas upon
the case of the British Minister Crampton (the publication
of which our Pierce Administration has shown itself
so anxious to suppress) we take pleasure in laying
before our readers this morning. We have no doubt
that, upon the first reading of this smooth and oily
document, by every fair and dispassionate man in the
United States this letter will be pronounced a satisfac.
tory basis for absolution to Mr. Crampton. A more
ingenious and plausible statement of the case,
and more ample atonement in the way of apology,
could hardly be concocted. The spirit pervading this
letter throughout is a spirit of pacification, as if the signer
had come from the Paris conferences with his mind ex-
panded to a higher appreciation of the blessings of peace
than he had previously entertained, and disposed to larger
and more unqualified concessions for the restoration of
the entente cordiale with this country than at any period,
even the most inauspicious to England's arms and finances
during the Russian war. An olive branch so full of green
and odorous blossoms from the Palmerston Cabinet to
Mother Jonathan is certainly an extraordinary offering in
behalf of John Bull. Lord Clarendon in this letter says—
[Here follows an extract from Lord Clarendon's letter, ex-
pressing regret for offending, expressing belief in Mr.
Crampton's innocence, and leaving the disposition of his
case in your hands.]"
The Eierald then goes on :

" This is a most gracious refusal of the British Govern-
ment to remove Crampton and the offending consuls, but
still it is a refusal, and nothing less. In the treatment of
the case, however, following the special pleading and petti-
fogging of Marcy, Clarendon has fairly beaten our Ameri-
can pettifogger at his own game, and cornered him. A
statesman desirous only of vindicating the offended laws of
his country in the cases of Crampton and his associate con-
suls in this eminent business would have made short work
of them on proof of their guilt. Instead of this, however,
our pettifogging Administration sets Marcy to work upon
his pettifogging letters. He proceeds to flew from the
testimony of Strobel and Hertz and others, and from the
correspondence in cyphers of Crampton himself, that he
and his associate consuls are guilty and must be recalled.
A voluminous mass of pompous and inflated diplomatic ver-
biage between the Palmerston and Pierce Cabinets is the
result, Palmerston taking the cue from Marcy. It has
brought us at length, after a bard winter, to this ultimatum,
of Lord Clarendon, in which he puts the protestation of
Crampton and his associate enlisting consuls all honour-
able men, as bettor evidence than such unfaithful
British agents and adventurers as Strobel, Hertz,
and the like. Whatever may be the value of the testi-
mony on either side, a conviction of the guilt of the ac-
cused parties should have been sufficient for the definite
action of our Administration. The final process adopted
by Clarendon cf discrediting Marcy's witnesses only illus-
trates the folly of our Premier in opening the door to this
sort of special pleading. He can pursue the argument no
further. Marcy must now act, and must act upon the
naked merits of the case, and independently of the plead-
ings, apologies, and protestations of the British Govern-
ment as far as her' Majesty's offending agents are con-
cerned. And what are the naked merits of the case,
stripped of this heavy mass of rubbish which has been
thrown around them ? Simply these—Messrs. Crampton,
Barclay, Mathew, and Rowcroft are detected in the overt
act of violating our neutrality; but they are tried and
proved guilty; our Administration is entirely convinced
of their guilt, says so, says their presence hero in their
official capacities has in consequence become unacceptable,
and demands their recal. The British Government reply
that they do not believe their men to be guilty, and their
recall is positively refused. Now, what matters it how
much the British Government may regret this business,
or what apologies they may make, so they reface
to remove those offensive officials, whose removal is
the sine qua non, and what, after all his ostentatious pa-
rade of learned pettifogging, can Marcy do—after being
fairly cornered—but cut short this ridiculous correspond-
ence by dismissal without further ceremony of Crampton
and his associates? The argument, we say, is closed, and
if their men aro unacceptable and their removal is re-
fused, they ought to be turned adrift ; demands and apo-
logies are exhausted.
" We hope the one day's grace secured by Mr. Pierce
in the suppressing of Clarendon's letter will have an-
swered the purpose of that cool and deliberate Cabinet
consultation essential to a fine: decision upon this miser-
able farce one way or other.
" Consistency requires the dismissal of the offenders in
premises. Policy and fear may dictate another course. In
any event, believing that Mr. Pierce has made all the ca-
pital for Buncombe that can be made of this Crampton
einbroglio, small as the stock-in-trade may be, there can be
no longer a necessity for withholding a verdict till after
the Cincinnati Convention.
" "

V. 1.••
The -money article of the .Herald contains the
following
" It will make very little difference whether Mr. Cramp-
ton is dismissed or not. The subject has been talked about,
and is now so well understood, and the mountain which
has been so long in labour will at last bring forth a mouse.
The effect has been already anticipated tenfold, and we
shall not be surprised to see stocks 2 par cent. higher in
less than two days after Mr. Crampton's dismissal than
the day before."

The Courier and Inquirer, in its monetary ar-
ticle, says :
" Speculation in stocks at the opening of this week re-
ceived a severe check, under the influence of the disturb-
ing news from Washington in reference to the pending
difference with Great Britain, and, although it is now
generally admitted that no rupture between the two Go-
vernments is to be feared, the market has not yet fully re-
covered its buoyancy. However, prices are firmer, and
all the efforts made by the buyers to increase the depres-
sion have been without effect."

The Washington correspondent of the same jour-
nal takes a very favourable view of the relations
with England
" No change has occurred relative to the opposition of
the British Minister. I have repeatedly stated that the
difficulties respecting him would be settled without in-
gating upon his recall, while the country was flooded with
oracular announcements—that Mr. Crampton was about
to be dismissed ; that he would receive his passports on
Saturday, at 1 o'clock ; that they would be ready in eight
or ten days; the Cabinet had decided to suspend inter-
course with him, and soon. Your readers will bear in
mind that I stated the probabilities were in favour of his
remaining ; that the Cabinet had decided nothing in the
premises ; that Lord Clarendon's despatch was apologetic
and conciliatory ; and that, in short, after some formal
correspondence on the subject with Mr. Crampton him.
self the matter would be dropped. The dispute, I be.
lieve was adjusted last Monday, as I informed you;
through other sources the public will have tie conclusive
and satisfactory explanation that Mr. Crampton would
have been dismissed had not the President and Mr. Marcy
changed their minds. Predictions will sometimes fail
when facts cannot be manufactured to fulfil them.
" The last despatch of Lord Clarendon which has been
accepted, and making all the reparation demanded by the
honour of the country,
is a repetition of the apology ten-
dered on the 16th of July last. It is accompanied; how-
ever, in this instance by a statement of facts not before
known to our Government, and is, in its terms, somewhat
more precise and unequivocal. Happily the correspon-
dence during the long interval has not been conducted in
a manner to involve the two countries in war."
The Washington Union says---
"The impression sought to be made that Clarendon's
letter will induce the Government to change its policy (as
indicated in the demand for Mr. Crampton 's recall) is
wholly without foundation. The determination of the
Government is still the sums."
The Washington Intelligence regards Lord Cla-
rendon's letter as so conciliatory and apologetic in
its character that it patronisingly hopes—
" That our Government will, in a spirit- of frankness
t and courtesy, forego the further proseeutiou of thiti Ten,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
The Washington, the Ontario, the Oswego, the Attwood,
the Walter, the Bridgewater, and Yorkshire, have arrived
at New York.
The Lancaster has arrived at Philadelphia.
The Marietta has arrived at paltimore.
The Amazon, from London. has arrived at New York.
The Albion, from Portsmouth, has arrived at Portland.
Tie Ticonderigo, the Fulton, and the it tater, fr. m
Havre, and the Atlas, from Antwerp, have arrived at New
York.