The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-11-17

o'clock. Her mails were despatched South by tho
AFTERNOON trains We make up the following sum
mary from our files:
THE APPREHENDED DIFFICULTY
A series of most mischicvous articles had an
peared in the London Times, expressing appre
tensions Of Immediate war with the United States
The Times stated that with reference To thr
recruiting difficulty, I" the British Government
have displayed most commendable spirit
OF forbearanee and moderation while the pro
ceedngs of the Government of the United
States disclosed desire to force quarrel the
language and conduct of the American Govern
ment arc extraordinary, and recklessly urging
matters to an extremity To the demand of the
United States, the British Government has returned
a temperate but dignied reply, and has seconded
its diplomacy by strengthening its West India fleet
with the ships that have arrived from the Baltic.
In this position affairs now stand" These com
ments of the Times were echoed by the provincial
press with exaggerations, until they gained almost
universal credence, and excited general astonisll-
ment and regret, until Friday evening tho I'd
inst the Liverpool Pest issued extra containing
these words
"RUPTURE WITH AMERICA-Priyate messages
by telegraph state that the American Minister in
London has demanded his passport or an equiva-
lent to it, from our GoYernnent."
News so astounding might be received with in
eredulity, but wo only say that holders of cot.
ton are acting on the report and there is a sensa-
ton on Change
The Liverpool Agent Of the Associated Press.
writes with regard to this rumor
I'VE have TO thank His Excellency, 1If. Buclaa-
nan, for his courtesy in favOrng us, by telegraph
ing the following explicit contradiction TO our Lv-
erpool Agent, in reply to inquiry by that gen
tlcman as to the truth Of the ruin0r:
LONDON, Nov Cd, night
"IHe 4aerican Minister to tie .lgen: oJ Tic issocia
tel Press, LiUeTyO0i:
1T is not true that the American Minister has de-
manded his passports from the British oE ernment
There is no foundation for such rep0rtn
The Agent, not feeling al liberty To make use of
this information, gave it no publicity ill England
where, yet the runlor of q rupture remains I'M
contradicted
The Liverpool Times of Nov 30 SAYS:
We happen to know, through private source
tnat Mr. Buchanan had an interview with Lord
Clarendon ON Tuesday last, in the course of which
his Iorishp assured the American Minister thst
the British Government were informed on uugaes.
tionH6ts authority that ships being built and
lifted out in the United States for the express pu
pose OF making descent Cuba, on the British
est indies, and On other parts of the British pos
sessions. But the interview between tho English
Foreign Minister and the American Ambassador
was SO friendly, that the last named parsonage was
to have dined with Lord Clarendon YESTERDAY,
(Eriday)
Since this friendly interview however. took
place, an article has appeared in the London Timea
which Hir. buchanan may think is calculated to
compromise him in tho eyes of his own Govern
ment and the American public, and he may have
resented the information which it contains as
breach OF confidence The article to which we re-
fer, E.ust have been inspired by some member of
the Government, possibly by some member OF the
Cabinet, and therefore without at all endorsing
the rumor t" which we have reforred We can readi
ly conceive MIR. Buehanans annoyance at having
his name mixed up with a transaction delicate
as the one pointedly referred to in the Times of
Thursday.
The article mentioned as published in the Lon
don Times of Nov. lst, is as follows:
From tas London Times Noe /
When the war in the East first broke out, and
Eng land found herself in new and unwontcd al
lance with France, and an equally unwonted hos
tility with Russia; there was no Power from which
she received assurance of support more hearty,
more satisfactory, and more spontaneously than
from the United States of America Even the,
Minister of the Union in this country, unless we
arc misinformed, testiies to the cordial sympathy
of the Cabinet at Washington and the nation over
which it presides. He expresses an apprehension
to the durability of alliance with France and
our ability alone and unaided to resist the over
might of Russia. But he desired us to
be under no apprehension on that account for the
United States4ere willing to mako our quarrel
their own and aid us with thousands of stout hearts
and brawny arms, as ready to pluck down the
despotism of the East as to subdue the wilderness
and level the giant forests of the West
If the English Government believed these as
as we do not doubt the American Min
ister believed them, we cannot reasonably accuse
them of rashness or credulity, or say that they
adopted on doubtful authority strange or mprob
able story. Was it unlikely priori that nation
whose noble boast is that her soil is the chosen
abode of freedom, whose every citizen is mission
ary against the creed OF despotism, should warm
to generous enthusiasm at a war waged for no
selfish motives, but to curb barbarous insoience
and save Europe and Asia from being trampled
under tho heel of an Overbearing autocla a., Was
ii likely that a population recruited annually from
the bitterest enemies of Russia which has so often
evinced martial spirit which swarmed to the OBJ
scuro conflicts of the Mexican war; and has shed
its blood freely in nameless Indian quarrels
should stand aioof from contest i'll which world
wide fame was to be won by the brave, and fair
occasion was offered of making American valor, H.
lustrious i'll the van OF conflict the decision of
which depended the future destinies of the human
racer We do not think so and therefore. unfor-
tunate the result has been we cannot blame our
Ministers that, in their urgent need of men, they
sought to avail themselves of the resources of the
West and to turn into a legitimate channel the ir-
regular energies of those ardent spirits which have
long to burn for an enterprise worthy
of their courage. AT the same time the British
Government, while establishing depots for enlist
ment within lis own dominions on the American
continent, gave the aost stringent orders that no.
thing should be done in the endeavor to obtain re-
cruts to violate the municipal law of the u. States
"a direction which, with all Difference to the Ame-
rican Attorney General, seems to to show an in
tenton to respect instead of to violate the nation
al sovereignty of the Union
However, it unhapply soon became only too ap-
parent, that the American Minister and the British
Government had alike mistaken the disposition OF
our Transatlantic brethren The sympathies of
the land OF freedom were found in great measure
to be enlisted, on the side of Russia Whether it
vas jealousy Of the French alliance secret SYM
pathy with the spirit of territorial aggression
wherever displayed, desire on the mart of the
slaYehoiding States to counteract influences hos.
tile to their domestic institutions or that the
refugees had innoculated the Union with their ha-
tired Of England, we cannot say; but certain IL is
that accounts began speedily TO reach this country
OF the hostile spirit in which our attempts at re
cruiting received; ana the philo Russian tone
adopted, with a few honorable exceptions, by the
whole American press, was but too spparent The
English Government did not ait to hear more: it
had been inised and it FASTENED to retract its or.
ror. Orders were Immediately despatched TO Amer
ica 10 desisist from all attempts at recruiting and
to give no cause OF annoyaneeto TO the susceptible.
ties of the nation
In the meanwhile. the American Government
had, as well as the British, made its observations
on the state of public feeling. and determined not
TO neglect the opportunity of turning that feeling
To account in the interest of the coming Presiden
tisl election Of 1856 Proceedings were instituted
against persons who had acted, or were supposed
to act ia the interest of the English recruiting
vice. and Mr.. Champion. the most popular Minister
VINO has ever been accredited from tins country to
the Cabinet of washp0fon WAS made the object