The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

The Liverpool and Philadelphia steam-ship Com-
pany screw steamer City of Baltimore, Leitch com-
mander, arrived this afternoon with advices from
Philadelphia to the 15th inst.
The Washington correspondence of the New York
Daily Tribune states that Padre Vizil had been
received by the President as Minister from Nica-
ragua with distinction and cordiality.
In the Senate on the 14th—

" Mr. Clayton said he had seen in the morning news•
papers what purported to be an extract from a letter
from the British Minister at Washington, dated March
31, 185 G, in which Mr. Crampto❑ says—
" It will be witnin your lordship's recollection that
Mr. Clayton was informed by Sir Henry Bulwer, before
the treaty of 1850 was signed, that Ruatan was de jure
and de facto a British possession, and Mr. Clayton has
on various occasions since, in conversation with me,
stated that he considered Ruatan a British possession as
mach as Jamaica, or any other British West India
island.'

"Mr. Clayton branded this statement as utterlyuntrue
in every particular. The British Minister must have
laboured under an hallucination as strange as ever en-
tered the brain of any man to make such a declaration.
Nothing like it had ever escaped him in conversation
with Mr. Crampton or anybody else. Fortunately the
fact did not rest upon the statement of Mr. Crampton
and himself. He had a living witness, and first be would
call attention to a letter written by Mr. Crampton and
read in the Senate on the 12th January, 1854. In which
he(Ar. Crampton) attempted to prove that Ruaiian was
not a dependency of Belize, and was not exempted from
that provision of the treaty of 1850. He then had Mr.
Crampton's testimony on the subject, and read it to the
See ate. He would now read it again to contradict Mr.
Crampton's statement which was made known to him
for the first time that morning, and of which he had not
the most remote conception. In this letter Mr. Crampton
said— The dependencies of British Honduras are, in my
opinion, distinctly enumerated in the treaty of 1786.' He
bad made this statement deliberately, and the irresistible
conclusion was that Ruatan was not ircluded in these
dependencies. Mr. Clayton said while he was detained
at his lodgings by sickness in February or March last he
was called upon by Mr. Crittenden, and while they were
engaged in conversation on this subject Mr. Crampton
came in to invite him (Mr. Clayton) to dine with him.
He (Mr. Clayton) was too sick to accept the invitation,
but took occasion to ask Mr. Crampton if he know any-
thing of the charge that he (Mr. Clayton) La I ever a( -
mitted that Ruatan was exempted from the operation of
the treaty, and Mr. Crampton in most unqualified terms
acknowledged that there was no truth in the report that
he (Mr. Clayton) had over made any such intimation to
him.
" Mr. Crittenden corroborated Mr. Clayton's state.

went. He could not pretend to give the details of a
cunver.,atiot, at, which he was accidentally present ; but,
according to his recollect►on, the substance of it wag
directly contrary to the statement in the newspaperaf
and sustained the account Mr. Clayton had given of tt•
" Mr. Clayton said he had made speech after Fpecch
in the Senate, endeavouring to prove directly the reverse
of what he was represented as admitting. He was will-
ing to put the most charitable construction upon it, but
it was an utter mistake.

" Mr. Cass thought it very certain Mr. Clayton, un'
le=s in some fit of insanity, could never have said to Mr.
Crampton what was attributed to him.
" Mr. Pratt inquired what evidence there was that
this letter was authentic. He thought there must be
some mistake.

" Mr. Clayton had no knowledge as to its antigen'
ticity. When his attention was called to it that morn'
ing he was much astonished, and his first duty wag to
disprove the statement. No matter by whom nga,der
it was false. If Mr. Crampton never made such a
statement he was not injured by these remarks
but, if he did make it, it was for Mr. Crampton
to explain. It had appeared in the public prints,
and, until it W 33 denied or disavowed, Mr. C ayton
was bound to suppose that it was a genuine document.
lie should, however, be very happy to be assured to the
contrary.
" Mr. Fish, in response to a question from Mr'
Clayton, said that in the course of two interviews with
Mr. Crampton the latter had stated that Mr. Clayton
always denied that Ruatan was a British possession.
He (Mr. Clayton) thought there must be some mistake
in the copy of the letter.
" Mr. Cass said that Great Britain, being repeatedly
driven from one point of defence, had invariably taken
refuge at another, and recent events had shown Olio
more strongly than ever."
Mr. Buchanan had had an interview of several
hours with the President on the 14th, in which he
made a personal report of his mission. His friends are
much buoyed up by the demonstrations he received
while en route. Mr. Clayton's denial of Mr. CranaP-
ton's allegation that he had admitted to the latter
that Ruatan was as much a British possession ae
Jamaica made quite a sensation in the Senate,
being sustained by Mr. Crittenden, who was pre-
sent at the particular interview. tis understood
also that Mr. Fish was prepared to testify to the
same effect, having seen Mr. Crampton after the
interview mentioned and received a similar state-
ment from him.
In commercial matters there is no change of
importance.
A despatch from Washington, of the 15th inst.,
states that Secretary Marcy sent for M. Mar"
coletta, the Minister from Nicaragua, and in'
formed him of the determination of the Adminis
tration to receive the Padre Vizil as the Minister
from the new Government of Nicaragua. IVL
Marcoletta complained of it as violating the lavrs
of God and of nations, entering his solemn protest
against the proceeding, and informing Mr. Marl
that he should prepare an expose of all the facts'
to be communicated by him to the members of the
diplomatic corps.
Another despatch states that the President would
send a message to Congress on the 16th, annoube;
ing the recognition of the Walker Government, and
giving his reasons for that step.
Telegraphic accounts from New Orleans of the
14th repeat the arrival of the San Francisco mail,
bringing dates from that city to the 21st of APr,i"
The steamer George Law hail sailed from AsPor,
wall for New York with nearly 1,2,000,000 gold
on freight.
The San Francisco markets were quiet.
A messenger from Nicaragua arrived at Aspiry
wall reported that Colonel Schlesinger had been
recaptured, and would be shot.
The British ship Wilson Kennedy, from Liver;
pool for St. John's, New Brunswick, was abandoned
on the 10th of May, in the Bay of Fundy. The
crew were taken off by a schooner and taken t°
Boston on the 14th. The City of Baltimore left
on the 16th inst.,—not the 15th.