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ELECTION OP MR. BUCHANAN.

(From the Times.)
If we may believe the information communicated
to us by the agent of the Associated Now York
Press, Mr. Buchanan was elected President on the
4th instant, and will shortly he the chief magis-
trate of the United States. So ends the long
struggle which has convulsed the Union during
many months. The questions as to the prepon-
derance of the slaveholding power and the exten-
sion of slavery into new territories are resolved in
a manner unfavourable to the hopes of the
North and of that great portion of the English
community which sympathised with Northern
?Yalu al,d traditions. But not only is the
fate of Kansas decidt.d by this event, but the fo-
reign policy of the Union must be held to be
deeply influenced in a sense contrary to the wishes
of moderate men, both at home and in Europe. It
cannot be forgotten that Mr. Buchanan, when Mi-
nister in this country, gave but little assistance to
the peaceful settlement of the questions that bad
arisen between America and England. It has been
thought, and not without reason, that Lord Cla-
iendou's endeavours to terminate more than one
dispute were baffled by the American representa-
tive, not with auy wish toinvolve the two countries
in war—an event which he probably thought no
amount of acrimonycould bring about, but because
ne saw in the continuance of this angry spirit an
electioneering advantage to himself in his candi-
d tteshi p for the Presidency. Nor can it be for-
gotten that at the Ostend Conference, where doc-
trines entirely subversive of tha commonest rights
of nations were promulgated, Mr. Buchanan took
a principal part. The acquisition of Cuba by al-
most any means was adopted by /he Conference as
the keystone of a true American statesman's 'oreign
policy, and it may be inferred by analogy that ag-
gression on other American States with valuable
ports or territory would follow in due course. With
respect, therefore, to the event which has just
taken place, we can only repeat the observations
which we made when the Pennsylvanian election
showed that it was imminent. We cannot pretend
to judge the public men of the Union except by the
light which their own actions and the opinions of
41.0sir,oc4intryinen furnish ; neither would it be-
-cOifirtili to express immoderate joy or regret at_ the
result of a domestic political contest in a foreign
country; yet, as the American statesman, by his
own confession and by the common report of his
countrymen, holds views inconsistent with the inde-
pendence ofcertain neighbouring States, we cannot
but think that so far the endorsement of his claims
by the majority of his countrymen is a fact to be
viewed with regret.
It may reassure the world, however, to find that
the Northern S 'ates, which have been so moved
by this long contest, are disposed, now that it is
over, to pay willing obedience to the new magis-
trate and the Government which he may inaugu-
ra'e. Submission to the will of the majority is
par- of the American nature. It is therefore pro-
table that in a few weeks much of the anger and
exaggeration of the last six months will have
passed away. We cannot agree with those who
have been lately speaking of a disruption of the
American Union. In past times the probability of
such an event was often discussed in European
circles, but the very notion was ridiculed by every
Atnerioan. He would say that the inviolability
of the Union was an idea cherished by an American
from youth to the grave, and that an eminent poli-
tician had been unable during his whole life to
attain to the Presidency because ho had on one
occasion set up the authority of an individual State
against the Federal Government. But lately we
have had native Americans debating not only
whether such a disruption might not be possible,
but also whether it would not be advisable to effect
it at once. The result of this election will set the
matter at rest. It will be seen that the whole
American people will acquiesce in the solemn ver-
dict which has just been taken. Perhaps there is
not so much sincerity in the dislike to slavery as
might be thought from the bitterness of the
struggle ; perhaps vested rights and the instinct of
property prevail ; at any rate, at present the
North will acquiesce in all that the South has
demanded ; Kansas will be a Slave State, the
Fugitive Slave Law will be strictly enforced, and
everything will go on in the old way for four years
more.

But, leaving the domestic institution, we have
a right to criticise more freely the election in its
bearing on international politics. We are the
people most nearly concerned with the American

Union ; the citizens of the two countries are
brought into constant contact ; we have large
dealings with the States which are most exposed
to American aggression ; we have therefore a
claim to speak in the matter. If the antecedents
of a long life may be used as a basis for

judging astatesman's career, it may be thought
that Mr. Buchanan is less the enthusiastic pro-
moter-of-a policy in which he believes than the
embodiment of the notions which are for a time
dominant in the American democracy. The new
President is rather a man who seeks for popularity
and office than one resolute to carry out schemes
on which he is fixedly set. He was not a candidate
for the Presidency because he wished to make ag-
gression on Spain, but he accepted strong language
regarding Spanish rights because it would tell
on the election for the Presidency. It may be
hoped, therefore, that now he is at the summit of
his ambition he will disengage himself from those
. . . .

dangerous schemes to which he has seemingly com-
mitted himself. From this point of view Mr.
Buchanan may, in spite of the Ostend manifesto,
endorsed though it was on the Cincinnati plat-
form, be a President sufficiently scrupulous as to
the law of nations. We trust, for the sake of
America, and the world, that this will be the case.

But still it is impossible not to recollect that there

are men who aspire to the same exalted position
which Mr. Buchanan has already attained, and

who may consider the persistence in the same doe-
trines as an advantageoUs policy. More than one
of these is connected with the present Government,
and may prolong the irritation and bickering which
have marked the existing Presidency. Such men
as Jefferson Davis and Douglas have been the evil
geniuses of President Pierce, and may perhaps
bring equal discredit on the Government of his
successor. We trust that Mr. Buchanan, now that
he is placed in the highest office which an Ame-
rican citizen can fill, will rise to his position, and
administer the affairs of his country with firmness
and independence of judgment. The power of an
American' President is perhaps beyond that of any
analogous Minister in a free State ; ho is a Sove-
reign irremovable during his term of office, and
may, if he chooses, be practically his own Minis-
ter. We sincerely hope that he will understand
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within
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years
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at
erseendeavourmh have
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true interests of the land he governs, and that
awpsrielilsaewrrvhaeisethrhe
up so largely between the two countries.

The anxiety regarding the James Baines has been
ncreased by the announcement, via Panama, of her
having eailed from Melbourne on the 6th of August,
whence she is now 101 days out. There have not, how-
ever; been any further insurances effected upon her at
Lloyd's at advanced rates, and the feeling with regard to
her will scarcely amount to positive alarm until some
vessel shall have arrived direct from Melbourne of later
date. The Messrs. Baines, the owners, in a letter to
the Timcs this morning, say the ship never took 100
days for the performance of the voyage ; and, therefor".
"The Passenger" who came home in her when she did
so must have mistaken the name of the ship in which
he travelled.
SUSPECTED MURDER OF A WIFE, AND SUIO OF THE
HUSBAND,—About half-past 10 o'clock. croadn IDE
wasy
Saturdays
night last,. a constable on duty in the Hackney
Great -
hastily summoned to the house N 0.17,
bridge-street. where he was informed that a man had
committed suicide. On entering the parlour, a young
man, apparently about 27 years of age.
on the carpet ,hi a pool of blood,, his
throat cut from ear
to ear, and by ,his side lay a
stack-handled razor, with
wet blood on the blade ; and
is not the slightest
tru menthe had committed
doubt that by means of that
dinNeVallace was sent for, who
suicide, A surgeon named
found the body warm, but quite devoid of life. The
police were left i n charge of the apartment, and about
e officer who had received
ecle
an hour afterwa.- foregoing act, was apprised that a
information of 1`,13.e
irfrom the water of the canal near
woman had been ;taken
quite dead, and conveyed to the
llaggerston-bri ige .
Acorn public-ho use adjacent. This, on inquiry by the
constable, likewioo ,proved correct, and a further hives.
ligation resulted i t
the discovery of the deceased parties
t
,
e,vife—the latter only 22 years of age.
I
husband and
being
connection with these facts a subsequent MI Ching
I n
to show, aline t beyondthe ' . 'lotion tends shadow
'lives,'
of a doubt, that the 13 ueband was instrumental in cans.
ing the death of.
hies wife, and then took his own life.
Mary Ann
Brown, a girl 16 years of age, while passing
ear the towing path vi the canal, between 9 and 10
o'clock, observed a . 11, an standing near the water's
edge, and at the san te. time heard a gurgling sound
proceeding from the m, cldle of the stream. She re-
Marked to the man, " You have thrown something
into the water ;" on hea ring which be ran off with-
out reply, and she fol lowing perceived him enter
the house 17, Great Cam bridge-street. A man named
Finch shmtly afterwards E am something on the surface
of the water, near the bridk v 9, and having procured the
drew the
assistance of the police, obi a toed drags,
and
dedical man
body of the female to the sid‘ 3. The
same
ecalled in, and,
who had attended upon her b u iband
fewtoashave been but a
as in the former case, pronoui it
red
life
Henry and (we
short time extinct. Their nan
teweas a carver and gilder
believe) Ann Fenn. By trade he
re state that they lived
There is no family, but the lodge
t domestic necessaries.
Unhappily, he keeping her w.i.tehsowae
re founds described,
On the same evening the d
Go
lb
e,
, 1 lenry," and left the
she was heard to say "Gboo him,'
bu, '. he very speedily
house, followed quickly
aboveY stairs oba erving an unusual
returned, and persons
silence, entered his apartment, when they found him
weltering in his blood as described,