The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINO, MARCH 22, 1856

these instructions is obvious, from the example it
had already set in selecting a British Province as
the place of enlistment for such American citizens
as presented themselves, and were found in a
condition to enter the service—thereby respecting
the act of Congress, in which it is forbidden "to
hire or retain another person to enlist or enter
himself, or to go beyund the limits or jurisdiction
of the United States, with intent to be enlisted
or entered in the service of any foreign Prince."
In other words, the British Government studi-
ously confined itself to the communication of the
simple fact, that it was ready to receive the
offers of American volunteers in her MAJESTY'S
territories. It would be hard to discover in this
proceeding any but a sincere desire to avoid col-
lision with the United States' Government, and
still harder an actual violation of the United
States' law. So hard, indeed, that Mr. MARCY,
on the part of his Government, as good as con-
fesses no such violation has taken place.
From what follows, however, it will be seen
no such conciliatory spirit and no such desire
existed on the part of the American Government.
Unable to point out any violation of law, Mr.
MARCY has recourse to insinuation, and that of a
decidedly Yankee description. "For very ob-
vious reasons," remarks that adventurous gentle-
man, " the officers employed by her MAJESTY'S
Government would be cautioned to avoid expos-
ing themselves to the penalties prescribed by our
laws ;" which, being interpreted, might read as
follows :—" It won't do, Britisher, your pretend-
ing to respect the law. It was a tarnation
clever dodge, I calculate. You meant teetotally
to violate it, but took care to caution your agents
against it being proved against them, and bring-
ing down on their heads the penalties prescribed
by our laws. But I calculate you've mistook,
we have you yet, and you'll find out, before long,
it will take a kinder smarter hand than you to
dodge the smartest people on the face of the
universal earth." In Mr. MARCY'S own words,
"we had a right to expect that the Government
of Great Britain would regard the policy indicated
by those laws, and respect our sovereign rights as
an independent and friendly power." Very
friendly ! When facts won't serve as a ground of
quarrel, it, or rather its Government, has re-
course to invention. If our Government cannot
be shown to have violated any known law, a
violation of some creation of the imagination
must be alleged against it, some law, of which
Mr. MARCY alone, if even he could, be cognisant
until too late. When did any nation undertake
to do more than respect the laws of a friendly
power ? These are definite, and more or
less readily comprehensible, but what
foreigner could be expected to appre-
hend a policy susceptible it may be of
numerous interpretations ? Pursuing this tack he
charges the English Government with having
"violated international law, and offered an affront
to the sovereignty of the United states." To
the what ? The sovereignty—what sovereignty?
The sovereignty of the people ? Offer an affront
to the sovereignty of the people by acting on the
conviction that they are not prisoners in their
own land, but may leave it and enter the service
of any other state, if they please ! Why, that
were a monstrous allegation'; and if that is not
intended, we should like to know what is. What
other sovereignty is there in America ? It can-
not be that American citizens are free by states
law and slaves by federal. Mr. MARCY'S case is
a bad one ; and, as if conscious of it, he con-
trives to bo afraid of the neutrality of the
United States, in respect to belligerents being
havlrded. by these offences—of his own imagi-
nation. Is there a man in his senses living who
believes that President PIERCE, or this his
tool, have been scrupulous after this fashion
towards ? If there is, BARNUM should
have him without delay. But sam satin ; the
merits of the entire affair era 4'" vesses-
sion of the reasoning population of both countries,
and we look with equal confidence to either and
ask if, after the denial of intentional affront on
the part of the British Government, and in the
absence of all proven offence, there was, or is,
reason for the attitude assumed and maintained
by the American Government, or there exists
any valid obstacle to a speedy and cordial un-
derstanding between the two countries ?

LATEST NEWS.

HAMBURG, MARCH 20.

The English frigate Amphion, after having en-
countered a violent tempest in the Belt, grounded
on a sand-bank, but, being got off by the Sampson
steam-corvette, get safely into Kiel.

A despatch has been received here announcing
that Commodore Watson has declared Libau and
all the Russian ports in the Baltic in a state of
blockade.

BERLIN, MARCH 20.

A despatch from Koenigsberg states that the
Russian government has destined two recently
organised corps of Cossacks .to form the permanent
garrison of the coasts of the Sea of Azoff.

COPENHAGEN, 111ARcH 20.

Ten deputies of the German Duchies, in the
Deliberative Council, have proposed an applica-
tion to the King to get the Grand Charter revised
by the Diet.

MADRID, MARCH 20.

The Credit Mobilier Company has requested an.
authorisation from the government to establish a
bank of issue at Valontia.

A Te Deum will ba sung on Sunday next at
the Church of Saint-Ltiuisi-des-Frapcais, to cele-
brate the happy delivery of the Empress Eugenie.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The following was the bulletin issued to-day at
the Tuileries :

"21st, half-past eleven, a.m.—The Empress
continues to go on perfectly well.
"The health of the Prince Imperial is excellent.
"No more bulletins will be issued respecting his
Imperial Highness." (Signed as usual.)
Addresses of congratulation continue to be for-
warded to the Emperor on the birth of the Prince
Imperial. The Moniteur of to-day publishes those
of the Court of Accounts, the Tribunals of Cher-
bourg, Saverne, Toulouse, the Municipal Councils
of Orleans, Troyes, St. Etienne, Angers, Nantes,
Valenciennes, and Caen, the Invalides, the Council
of Health of the Armies, the Council of Works of
the Marine, the Director and persons employed at
the Imperial naval foundries at Ruelle and at La
Chaussade, the Jewish Consistories of Colmar and
St. Esprit, and the Academy of Lyons.
We read in the Moniteur :—"By an Imperial
decree of the 20th inst., issued on the proposition
of the Minister of Marine, a full and entire amnesty
has been granted for all offences and contraventions
in matters of police, as regards inscription, navi-
gation, and maritime fisheries, committed prior to
the above date. In order to benefit by the am-
nesty, deserters from merchant vessels or men in-
scribed on the lists of the conscription whe have
not appeared must present themselves before one
of the maritime or consular authorities nearest to
the place where they may happen to be, in order
to make their declarations of repentance before the
expiration of the delays hereinafter mentioned,
which will reckon from the date of the said decree,
viz. ;—Two months for those who are on the con-
tinent ; three months for those iu Corsica ; six for
those out of the French territory, but in Europe
or in Algeria ; one year for those out of Europe ;
and eighteen months for those who are beyond
Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope. The am-
nesty is not applicable to the expenses incurred for
prosecution, nor can it throw impediment in the
way of the rights of any third party.
" We have reason to think," says the Assemblee
Nationale, " that the statement made by some
some foreign journals of the formation in the con-
gress of a special committee charged to draw
up the definitive treaty should be completed in
this manner. The committee in question will,
it'is said, be itself subdivided into sub-committees,
which will particularly examine each of the princi-
pal points under examination. The regulation of
the navigation of the Dardanelles, rendered neces-
sary by the abolition of the treaties of 1810 and
1841, is given to one of these sub-committees, of
which Baron de IVlanteuffel is a member."

" Commandant Fave, the orderly-officer to the
Emperor," says the Journat du, Havre, " who was
charged with the mission of announcing officially
to tha Co mission of Paris the birth of
the Prince-Imperial, ),.. grataneu - with
a pension for life of 10,000 f. a year, which he is to
receive from the funds set apart for the Civil List."
BOURSE, March 21.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fr; e. End of Month,
4i per Cents 94 --f. —c.
:3 per Cents 72 10 72 45
New Loan 72 60

Bank Shares 3,475 Boman
Credit Alobilier 1,570 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes
Piedmontese(s). 9l 25 Home Debt

• RAILWAYS-I'oB CASH.
fr. c. fr. o.
Orleans 1,295 Wostern... 897 50
Northern
Lyons. 1,2 2 50 Now Ditto 823 75
Nlediterranean 1,565 Grand Central 650
Lyons Geneva 785 Teste
Cette 755 Austrian Com. :;07 50

the intention of operating a complete reconciliation
between the Courts of Vienna and St. Peter's-
burg, and that, with that object, there will be an
interview between the Emperors of Austria and
Russia and the Ring of Prussia in some town near
the borders of the three countries."
A letter from Vienna, of the 16th, in the Bres-
lau Gazette, says :—" The Council of Ministers has
assembled to discuss the question started by the
letter of the Papal Internuncio, Mgr. Viale Prela,
calling together a synod of Austrian bishops, with-
out taking any notice of the convocation already
made by the Emperor. The result of this sitting has
been to despatch to Rome the Imperial Councillor
Hoffmann. The number of antagonists to the con-
cordat increases daily, and amongst the most im-
portant of these is M. de Bruck, Minister of Fi-
nance. In the sitting of the Council just spoken
of, he stated without hesitation that the execution
of the concordat rendered the realis,ition of his
plans of reform more difficult. After the Council,
he went to Cardinal Rauscher, with whom he had
a long conversation."

A circular, as may be remembered, was lately
addressed by M. de Thun, Minister of Worship in
Austria, calling together ali the bishops of the
Empire to an assembly in which the execution of
the measures of the concordat were to be discussed.
The German Journal of Frankfort now Conveys the
news that the Catholic journals of Lintz publish a
letter from the Papal internuncio, Cardinal Vial-
Prela, to the bishop of Lintz, in which he summons
the assembly to meet on the 6th April, in virtue of
a Papal decision, but without making any allusion
to the circular already published on the subject by
the minister. At the same time the cardinal an-
nounces that he will preside over the assemby
in the name and under the authority of the Pope.
" The Council of Minsters of Austria," says the
above journal, " has met to deliberate on this grave
step of the Roman court, which appears to strike a
blow at the rights of the State, for it will not alone
be a question in the meeting of subjects purely eccle-
siastical, but also of civil interests of the first im-
portance, such as marriage and public education.
Public opinion in Vienna is actively pre-occupied
with respect to the conduct which will be pursued
by the Prince Archbishop of Vienna on the occa-
sion, and it is asked if he will preside over the
conference of bishops according to the Emperor's
orders, or if he will be present as a simple bishop at
the meeting called together by the Papal inter-
nuncio."

The Prussian Chamber of Delegates adjourned
on the 18th until after the Easter holidays. At
the last sitting, the Minister of Commerce pre-
sen'ed a bill relating to a convention with the
national bank. By it, notes, known by the name
of the Kassenscheine, are to be withdrawn from
circulation to the extent of 15 million thalers, and
the Government will issue inscriptions in the public
debt to the amount of 16,598,000 thalers.

The subscription opened for the family of the
late M. de Hiackeldey, Director of Police at Berlin,
amounted on the 18th to 16,000 thalers (about
60,000 fr).

A letter from Hanover of the 17th, in the Post
Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, says :—" Councillor
of Legation Detmold, who was Imperial minister
at Frankfort in 1843 under the Archduke John,
was found dead this morning in his bed. He had
already had two slight attacks of apoplexy, but he
had recovered perfectly, and on the previous even-
ing no one suspected th 3 approach of such a catas-
trophe."

-The Council of State of Norway, in one of its
recent sittings. voted an address to the King ex-
pressing profound gratitude to his Majesty for
having appointed the Prince Royal, his son, Vice-
roy of that Kingdom.

Baron de Munchhausen, who had acted as second
to the late M. de Hinckeldey, has been removed
from the functions he had filled up to that event
in the Ministry of Interior. But as it has been
proved that he conducted himself in the matter
according to the laws of honour he has been
reinstated.

AMERICA:

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Argo arrived off Cowes at six o'clock last
evening, and landed her mails and passengers here
at nine p.m.
She brings three days' later news than the Asia,
being up to the Bth inst.
The steam-ship Africa, from Liverpool, had not
made her appearance off Sandy Hook up to eleven
o'clock p ni. of March 7.
No intelligence of the Pacific.

In the Unit•TA States" Senate, on the Gth, Mr.
Brown introduced a bill providing for the construc-
tion of a railroad and telegraph line from a point
on the Mississippi river, south of latitude 37,
Ricific at .
the special committee on the Pacific Railroad. The
bill making the ordinary appropriations for fortifi-
cations was passed. The bill providing for new
works of defence was. laid aside. A resolution di-
recting the committee on foreign affairs to consider
the expediency of reporting a bill effectually abro-
gating the treaty-with Denmark, and repudiating
the payment of the Sound dues, was adopted. •
A bill was introduced in the Senate of Louisiana,
on the 28th ult., prohibiting the emancipation of
slaves in that State, unless the master furnishes
a bond that the said slaves will be transported out
of the United States. An act has been passed by
the Virginia Legislature, prohibiting citizens of
that State from hiring their slaves in the district of
Columbia.

The New York _Herald, of the 7th, contains the
following:—
"The Washington Union of Thursday last concludes
a long editorial article, published, no doubt, by authority
of the administration, with the following important de.
claration

" But we cannot forbear to add one remark, which
is, that Great Britain is thus threatening the United
States with war, not because we have infringed her laws
or insulted her Sovereignty in any the leaf thing what-
ever, but only because, after she had infringed our laws
and insulted our Sovereignty, we courteously request
her to relieve us from the presenc3 of her Minister, Mr.
Crampton, for reasons the most cogent and unaniwer-
able. There is no other cause or pretext of a rupture
between the two countries.'

" 'No ot!er cause or pretext of a rupture Why, ac-
cording to the President's Me3sage, we had supposed
the Central American embroglio was the main question
—that the real causes for war lay in John Bull's viola
tions and false interpretations of the Clayton-Bulvver
treaty. But now, in effect, we are coolly informed that
the patriotic indignation of our President, concerning
she usurpation of England in Central America, was all
humbug, and that all our efforts to strengthen the ad-
ministration upon the Monroe doctrine have been thrown
away, for that there is no cause or pretext for a rupture'
in the affairs of Central America. Curious this, very.
'The Union talks, too, of Great Britain threatening
us with war. We had supposed, on the conteary, that
the administration had resolved to get John Bull out of
Central America, and that the negotiations to this end
had been br"ught to the alternative to England of a back
out or a fight. This was the great feature of the message;
and the implrtaricc.s of its developments upon this sub-
ject was, if we mistake not, the excuse of the President
for sending it up to Congress in advance of the organisa-
tion of the house. Yet we are told now that Craoip-
ton is the only existing cause or pretext for a rupture
between the two countries.' Is the Central American
issue then abandoned on either side, or postponed inde-
finitely, or settled, or turned over with the consent of
both governments into the hands of Gen. Walker and the
Nicaragua Accessory Transit Company ? We should
really like to know.
" Crampton is the only 'cause or pretext for a rup-
ture.' 'We turn hack to the affair of the steamer Caro-
line, and the M'Leod, and feel fully authorised to bid
the bulls of Wall-street be of good cheer. The world
will never be set in flames about Mr. Craeonton. Os,
no. But upon the Central American question how is it ?
Is Marcy "laughing in his sleeve at us ? Have we been
sold 'I Or has Mi. Pierce been frightened off by the war-
like voice of Seward? These are the questions that
bother us."

By the arrival of the brig Samuel French, Ctpt.
Brown, from Sierra Leone, at New York, files of
papers up to the 19th of Jan. have been received.
The fever prevailed with great virulence at all the
settlements along the coast and in the rivers, ex-
cept Liberia and Lagos. At Cape Coast and Fer-
nando Po much sickness prevailed. An American
brig of 200 tons, completely-- equipped for the slave
trade, arid prepared to take in a large cbrgo, had
been destroyed at Bona Vista. The disturbance
still continued at Liberia, and a large force under
Gen. Lewis had been dispatched against the insur-
gents. At Bathuist the black inhabitants had
memorialised the governor to admit six of their
number as members of the Legislative Council of
the colony.
News has been received from Rio Janeiro to
Jan. 22. Coffee was very scarce. The cholera had
re-appeared on the plantations, causing a falling
off in receipts.