The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-22

certain bAnDg nsti tutions with the view OF
iainiDg what amount Of interest viii be allowed on
deposits Of city funds, and also what interest will be
Charged on sums loaned TO the city. No action was
AIKEN on the nomination of City Chamberlain.
Col. Parker H. French Was yesterday arrested for
an old debt alleged to be due by him to one VIM.
H. Furniss. He was subsequently released upon
piedging his word TO appear when required.
According TO our Geographic reports from Kan
sas, yesterday was fixed upon as the time for an
attack upon the town of Lawrence by the United
States Marshals posse. The inhabitants had pre-
viously solicited Col Sumner to interfere, but he de-
clined doing so unless ordered by the Governor In
this dilemms o correspondence was opened with
the Marshal, ostensibly to ascertain his require
ments, but in fact, probably, to gain time. The
Marshal demanded the surrender of every person
against whom process had been issued, aud the dis
armng of the people In reply, the Lawrence men
agreed to deliver up any and every one demanded,
and to aid in their arrest, at the same time pro-
testing their love of law and order, the Union, &C.,
&c. The Marshal, however, placed no reliance
upon their professions, regarding his opponents
rebels and traitors. The firm attitude of the au-
thorties induces the belief that the troubles will yet
be brought to conclusion without bloodshed.
The Champion Dificuiry-LOrd ClArend0n's
Letter tn MI. Dallas-What will the ADJ
minlstI NJ ION Do:
The letter OF Lord Clarendon to Mr.. Dallas,
upon the case OF the British Minister, Crsmp-
ton, (the publication of which our Pierce ad
ministration has shown itself 30 anxious to
suppress) we take pleasure in laying before
Wo 4
that, upon the first reading of this smooth ana
oily document by every fair and dispassionate
man in the United States, this letter will be pro-
nounced satisfactory basis for absolution to
Mr.. Champion. A more ingenious and plausi-
BILE statement of the case, and more ample
atonement in the way OF apology, could hardly
be concocted.
The spirit pervading this letter throughout
is spirit of pacifcation, as if the signer had
come from the Paris Conferences with his mint
expanded to higher appreciation Of the
blessings of peace than he had previously en-
tertained, and disposed to larger and mere IN
qualified concessions for the restoration of the
entente cord1le with this country, than at any
period, even the most inauspicious to Eng
lands arms and finances during the Russian
war. An olive branch, SO green and full of
odorous blossoms, from the Palmerston Cabinet
to Brother Jonathan, is certainly an extraor-
binary Offering in behalf Of John Bull.
Lord Clarendon in this letter says:-"Wnh
regard to the last point, the undersigned must
refer 10 the offers Of satisfaction and to the er.
plantations already made, and to the repeated
expression Of the sincere regret Of her 1hajestys
government, i, contrary TO their intentions, and
to thar reiterated directions, there has been any
which, coupled with the closing paragraph OF
the letter. amounts to ths:-"If we have unwit
tingly offended you, we are very sorry for it,
and sincerely confess it but believing Mr.
Champion innocent in the premises, we cannot
recall bin. We leave the disposition Of his
case in your hands"
Thie is 9 most gracious refusal Of the British
government to remove Champion and the of
Iendrg Consuls: but still it is refusal, and
nothing less. In the treatment of the case.
however, following the special pleading and
pettifogging of Marcy, Clarendon has fairly
beaten our experienced pettifogger at his owa
game, and cornered him. 1t was al unfortu
nate day for Gen. Scott when he undertook t,
write long letters against Marcy;it was cloves
lator lost" to the Austrian Minister to enter
upon the same contest with Marcy on the Kcsz.
ta case; and the experiment Of Soule on Span.
ish affairs was equally disastrous to him. Mar
cy skilfuliy threw HE snares about him upJa
the nice distinctions in diplomatic sophistry,
and Soule was victimized as remorselessly as
Gen. Scott. But IN Clarendon our great master
of the art Of pe.tifogging and elaborate diplo-
mate verbiage, Marcy has found his match,
and has been overre ached with his own wea-
pons.
statesman DESTROYS only of indicating
the offended laws Of his country in the case OF
Champion and his associate Consuls in this en-
listme Mt business, would have made short work
OF them on proof Of their guilt. He would
have said: Gentlemen, you have forfeited
Jour claims to our respect; you are gull
ty Of q conspiracy in the violation of our laws,
and we beg leave to dispense with your
s.rvices Here are your passports" Instead
Of this, however, our pettifogging administrar
ton sets Marcy to work upon his pettifogging
letters. He proceeds to show, from the tessi-
moDy Of Strobel and Hertz and others, and
from the correspondence in CIPHER of Cramp-
ton himself. that he and his associate Consuls
are guilty and must be recalled. A volumi-
nous macs Of pompous and inflated diplomatic
verbiage between the Palmerston and Pierce
Cabinets is the result, Palmerston taking the
cue from Marcy. 1t has brought US at length,
(after hard wnter,) to this ultimatum of Lord
Clarendon, in which be puts the protestations
Of Champion and his associate enlisting Con-
suls-' all honorable men''-as better evidence
than the assertions of such unfaithful British
agents and adventures as Strobel, Hertz, and
the like. Whatever may be the value Of the
teatiunonu either aide a canuiction Of tho