The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-28

:, throughout all these transactions there has beef
the most precise scrupulosity on the part Of Mr.
CHAMPION and the Consuls Lord Clarendon and tht
nome government, in discouraging and dscaimine
United States, and this final concession of LORI
Clarendon, by which the Queens government con
sents out OF Difference to that Of the United States
to yield the obvious and inconestable right Of max
ing known on any part of the American continent
the terms of enlistment in the British army, and
the mode of carrying them out in British province
pushes the principle of comfy to degree which
we beieve no one nation ever yet showed to or ex
| pe:ted from any other except where the one pre-
tended to lie paramount and the other col, fessed ia
being subject nation.
Now we come to the most extraordinary part Of
In the month of Septcmber-two months after the
transmission of Lord Clarendon's most conciliatoy
despatch-Mr. Marcy addresses to Mr.. Champion a
both in the republic and British colonies, not only
with breach Of the municipal law, but with vio-
lation of the sovereign rights Of the States, by
eountenancing the enlistment of subjects and so
1onrners in the States. AS Mr.. Marcy harps upon
this distinction, it is worth while to q k what it
means. To us it appears rather like nonsense
Where an offence is defined by the written law it is
@ Of for Nv aae sus Sa
every independent State has the right to
prevent that which compromises its neutralf.
ty-vizr, the enlistment Of its citizens or its
this by specific treaty with other nations It may
may make it the subject of municipal law. But,
when 1t has once dcne either of these we do not
OF an UNIV ritten code. 1t has already made its mu-
nicipa law the exponent of its national rights, and
the standard Of the penalty to be pronounced against
the infringement Of those rights, and i is to the
municipal law that every sensible man will look for
definition OF the offence and an exposition Of the
penalty. and it was the municipal law which Lord
Clarendon had been 30 anxions to respect. But,
not content with this view Of the case, Mr. Marcy
extends, by false TRANSACTIONS, the purport of the
dcta which he quotes on the subject under discus
sion atributing the same degree of criminality to
the raising, OF soldiers, or to inducements to
80 and enlist" which the great writer's on national
law attach to the abduction enlistment OF soldiers
from or in neutral State; this, Too, be it observed
at time when the vast majority Of offers made to
when no small number of American citizens were
actually engaged in the Russian service! The only
Interpretation which Mr.. Marcy's dictum will bear
is, that her Maestys servants had no right to an
nounce on any part of the American continent even
in her Majesty's colonies, any proposal for raising
soldiers for her army. Imagine any European State
imposing similar conditions or exacting similar con-
cesslons from its neighbOrs.
OF the prosecutions to which Mr.. Marcy refers,
and on which he grounds his complaints, directed
ostensibly against collusive defendants but in
reality against the British Minister and Consuls of
the character OF the defendants and the Witnesses
OF their shameful mendacity and perjury, of the vio
lence of the State prosecutos, his pmans over our
presumed i'll success in the Crimea, and his denun-
tering governments of the Old World, We will not
say much at present. Those who like may read
them, but we warn them they will do it at the risk
OF losing that respect and that esteem which it is
desirable that educated and intelligent Englishmen
should cherish towards the American branch of our
great family. We will remind our readers that
throughout the whole OF tais dispute the amplest
nave been almost
the most courteous and cOnciliat0ry language held,
the handsomest apologies rendered, by Lord Claren
DOM and yet that, after all, the American Minister
persists in demanding the recall of mr.. Champion,
and representing his country as insued by us, for
no other reason which we can see than that the
Engliah Minister at Washington and the Lieutenant
Governor Of Nova Scotia venture to think that they
might, within the limits OF the British provinces Of
North America, enlist in the Queens army men
who had freely volunteered thither from the United
States. Edglishmen who read this correspondence
will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that
arrogance and querulousness have not been ex
hibited on their side.
The Reported Secret Treaty Against Russia
aud the United States
[Corresp. pdencc Of the Lon.on n mes.1
PARIS, May IL, 1876.
1t is reported very currently in Paris that serious
explanations have been or will be demanded Of the
British government by Russia as to the treaty of the
18th, signed between Austria, England and France
only fifteen days after the signature OF the Treaty of
Peace by all the members of the Congress. The
conversation that has taken place between the Rus
sian Envoy and the French government was pro-
badly OF less official character, inasmuch as the
Moniteur has not published that treaty, while it
was presented to the English Parliament by Lord
Clarendon with that Of the 30th and the protocols
Perhaps excessive Importance given to the former
document but there are persons who hold that it to
some extent annuls the latter, instead of being it's
complement or corollary.
1t was at first supposed that there was a secret
articles now it is suspected that instead of an add-
tional clause there is secret treaty, of which no
hint whatever has been as yet given. cannot say
how far this suspicion is well founded.
1t appears that the governments have resolved not
to communicate the declaration annexed to the pro-
tocols respecting maritime law, particularly the
abolition of privateerng to any other governments
eIcept the parties signing, atrare that the gorey7-
ment Of the United States ,c0uld not acceptit IL.
It was rumored, but / believe without any good
foundation, that the treaty of the 18th would have
the effect of retarding, if not stopping NJ. de Nor
Dy's mission to Moscow. 1t is certain, however,
that the Russians are still greatly rrtated at it,
and doubt whether Count Orlof would so soon
have signed the act of the 30th had he known that
Of the 18th.
The Sound Dues Question.
[CoIrespont ence of the London Times
COPENHAGEN, May 4, 1856.
In my last letter / gave you short resume of the
Sound dues question. Since then this negotiation
has made no progress, but the fault rests not with
the Danish government. Before making any pro-
pOsal, the Danish government endeavored to find o
way Of solution which at the same time was accept
able to foreign powers and consistent with Dem
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