New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-12
GREAT BRITAIN.
Nom Our Own Correspondent.

Correspondent
LONDON, Friday, June q, 1866.
There has been kind of lsll In the British
American question since wrote last. This mora
ing we have Clarendon's reply to Marcy, dated
yesterday. He speaks much a. we have heard him
before-of bis vii ingness to treat for the resig-
nation o! the Mosquito prOtectorate, Of his wish
90 submit the treaty of 1850 to the arbitration Of
third power, and of the claim Of Great Britain to
Ruatan. The letter is addressed to Dallas, aud in
very moderate and courteous terms no invites him
20 discuss the questions at issue. At the saue
time, also, we have the letter in which he speaks
TO Dallas Of Champions dismissal, and informs
him that diplomatic intercourse is not to be broken
of. This communication is even more polite aud
considerate and am glad to see it bears out what
have told you, that Cancellation ia the order OF
the day.
The country continues to take the affair very
quietly. Nobody rushes to look at Champion, the
hero of the situation who has glided back into OBJ
security as quietly as he glided into high post al
scaotus to the last. And here our Ministers resp
the fruit of their own way of doing things. 1t is
Just because this Mr.. Champion is 80 utterly OBJ
scure, Just because he is so obviously mere child
of favoritism, that England has lot him be snubbed
him like returned bad shilling. This ought to
he an illustration to Clarendon of the occasional
dis advantages Of the system;" for beyond doabt
his appointment was sheer bit of private job
berry. Clarendon, as Mr.. Villiers, was in the
Custom House in Dublin, long before he went
there as Lord Lieutenant, end his friendship with
the Champions dates as far back as that first
visit. he now " lets down" bis old family friend
as lightly as possible, by publicly panesyrzing his
:" abilities etc, (Which every attacked person
somehow turns out to pOssess); but by taking his
dismissal without retributOn, he really makes the
public accept il as certain that he has CON-
mitted error We are not slow here TO kick up
row with other nations, and our John Busm ia
great deal stronger than many may suppose. But
throughout this dispute the English people have
been singuarly pacific, though The Times gave
them a chance TO flare up, and though, !
believe, the Premier himself would not have been
sorry ifthey had. The Tines is quieter, as it has
been ever since it got wind that Dallas was not
to be returned. 1t has taken little to the Kansas
row and publishes extracts fro your papers sbou
the scenes there, maybe TO show US that you have
enough to do at home without squabbhng with
Britain.
soighorant was our public, till lately, about Cen
trai America, that The Times spoke Of the canal
as having been totally given up; and then pub
ished paragraph in the Money Article of ye:ter.
day to put itself right, and explsiu the circun-
stances. I'LL then, IT was not known here what
m important part certain British doings with re-
gard {, that project, had played 10 brpsiog on the
present difficulty The apathy of our Government
and capitalists toward it must now be raaked
among the causes of American performance in
those regions; and this consideration will foster
the feeling of indifference with wkh our public is
inclined 10 view districts SO remte disputes SO
complicated, and interests go slight as ours are iu
Fuch quarters. fear that il viii be more duicult
for We 10 agree what is 10 be done with the Clayton
Bulwer treaty as it becomes apparent that the
British have had so little to do with facilitating the
transit. That treaty was clearly formed under
the idea that the canal to be made would be made
by British and Americans together; and as far as
protecting the canal goes, suppose the treaty 10
sufficient. IL is, indeed. clear las enc reads tae
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