Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-03-05

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Personal erplanation by Mr.. Craige.
The past week has been one of peculiar interest
70 the Diplomatic Corps accredited to this govern
ment and Of no less interest to the citizens Of the
United States generally. The whole correspondence
between the Secretary of State and Mr.. Buchanan,
on behalf OF our government on the enlistment
question, and the correspondence relating to the Of
fer to refer to arbtrators the dispute to the in
depreciation of the Clayton-Buwer treaty, has been
transmitted to the Senate and laid before the coun-
try and the world. The immediate occasion for
giving publicity to this correspondence at the pre-
sent moment, grew out of the statement of Lord
Clarendon to the British Parliament, that an ample
apology had been rendered for any infracton of our
laws by English agents in their efforts to enlist
cruts in the United States for service in the Crimea
and that offer had been twice made to refer the
Central American question to arbitration.
The correspondence shows that no sufficient apol-
ogY has been made by the English government for
Tue attempted r1OatlOn OF our neutrality 16WS AL
that Lord Clarendon has done, was simply to ex-
press regret if the English agents had violated our
laws, and to say that they had received stringent
instructions carefully to avoid such violation. In
stead of an apology to our government, this was
rather justification of the right to raise recruits
in the United States provided its laws could be
died. The important point, that it was an offence
against our neutrality and international rights, was
overlooked by Lord Clarendon altogether. Mr..
Marcys last despatch of the 28th December re-
counts the whole affair, and ends by positive de-
mand that Mr.. Champion, the English Minister. and
the English Consuls at Philadelphia, New York and
Cincinnati who were implicated in these transac-
tons, be withdrawn. No reply has yet been re-
ceived by our government to this demand If our
request be not complied with they will be dismissed
by the President The steamer announced yester-
day may have brought the decision of the English
government, but nothing is known here as yet
Lord Clarendon also asserted that a proposition
to submit the msunderstauding.reati to Central
American affairs to arbitration, had been twice ten
dered to the American government. This state
ment produced profound establishment in the minds
of both Mr.. Marcy and Mr.. Buchanan when it reach
ed them. No proposition Of this sort had been
formally made to Mr.. Buchanan at any time; ithad
been referred to in general way only, to which
Mr. Buchanan gave answer that the English were
at war with the only government occupying strictly
neutral position in connection with this question
The publication of the correspondence has made
known the extraordinary fact that Mr.. Champion
had been directed by his government in November
last to make formal tender ofarbtration as mode
of settlement and that this despatch was not COM
municated to Mr.. Marcy until III o'clock on Wed.
nesday night last, and after the Senate had called
for all the correspondence on this matter. This is
extraordinary development indeed and discloses
to the world the remarkably loose manner in which
the Foreign Relations of England are conducted,
and also the iMbecity of the hands to which their
management is entrusted.
The publication of all this correspondence in
England will make apparent the mp,egnable posi-
ton our government occupies, and go far towards
satisfying even the most sensitive Engishman that
the right is on our side that whatever difficulties
surround these questions, have been occasioncd by
the mismanagemcnt of the present ministry, whose
ruling idea in connection with American affairs
to be- to do every thing possible to annoy and
disturb u.s. In this country all the misunderstood
ings between the two governments arc traced to
and charged upon Lord Palmerston, with whom ha-
tired towards the United States and jealousy Of their
power and prosperity, has become a species Of mo-
nomania.
There need be no apprchensons at present of a
war growing out of these difficulties, as it is only
necessary for he people of England to examine the
questions at issue carefully to convince them to
whom the right belongs and to compel their rulers
to do us full Justice and maintain the peace between
the two countries The announcement in England
that Mr. Dallas had been appointed the successor of
Mr.. Buchanan had been most favorably received
He sails to-day from New York, and will make his
appearance in London simultaneously with the re-
ccpton of the whole correspondence that has been
published relating to the enlistment question and
Central American affairs. The English government
has not yet responded to Mr. Marcy's volumnous
despatch of the 2Sth December last and final action
in Mr. Champions case will not be taken until that
response has been received. In the event of his
dismissal it is probable that successor will be
appointed until change has occurred either in the
British Ministry or in our own Administration. But
this interruption of diplomatic intercourse here, can
in no way affect the position of Mr.. Dallas at
London.
The attention of the Senate for the week has been
taken up with our relations with England, inter-
rupted by an irregular discussion of the Kansas
question. Senator Jones' Of Tennessee, has paid
his respects to Wilson, while Mr.. Toombs complete
w demolished Jack Hale i'll one of the ablest speech
es of his life. Mr.. Toombs sustained the action of
the President throughout, defended Mr.. Atchson,
and disprovcd clearly the accusations of Hale, that
the South for fifty years had pursued aggressive
policy towards the North and that Northern men
had been brbed by the South with the expectation
of preferment for national position and aid in these
aggressive movements. The Abolitionsts are in
dustrousy laboring to stir up an agitation in the
Senate but the two most violent of the leaders have
received a rebuke from Messrs Jones and Toombs
that ought to last them for some time.
So many of the members of the House were alb
sent on Monday and Tuesday last, some to the black
Republican Convention at Pittsburg, others to the
Know Nothing gathering at Phiadelphia, that
hardly quorum was left, and it was found impos-
sible to keep quorum together for the transaction
of business. In these days, we find members of
Congress absenting themselves from their seats and
taking the lead in conducting and directing the ac-
ton Of Conventions preparatory to the opening of
er of the House, Mr.. Banks, is placed on the Exec
utive Committee Of course, it is hardly necessary