The daily union., 1856-04-05

ey offered the report OF these trials evidence Of
breach OF international Law. Lord Clarendon denied that
be minister in the States had committed any such
breach Of the law aud thereby offended against the
regny of the United States He had therefore aerna
tive but TO except TO the eydenceeydence which, for the
sake Of truth must call very repugnant 10 English no.
tons OF jugtice
There are passages in Lord Clarendons letters that
might be open 10 exceptions particularly when he seems to
intimate that the United States bad departed from their
proessed neutrality permitting the supply OF gunpowder
and other materials of Russia But perusa of the
correspondence shows clearly that the matter OF the
misunderstanding is not simple but various and miscea-
1t indicates the existence Of group OF unsettled
questions Mr. Buchanan expressed 1t at the Mansion
House.
! There is II running account between the two govern
mens and Lord Clarendon, while explaining the real
tent of the enormites ascrbed TO his government
and having 10 rebut exaggerated estimate founded on
certain legal proceedings very naturally stated bis own
esmae of those proceedings. Had he held silence about
them he would have been down fully committed
their fairness and the political consequences founded upon
| them.
1t may be very unpleasant very undignifed and very
quarresome gancing from dsag reeabe topic
other, and explaining and recrminatng in the same
breath but there is help for il under certain crcum
stances and disposed TO fear IL must always be the
case between us and our transatlantic cousins.
There apologies 10 be made on both sides; and il
the United States do condescend TO arbrate the ref
erees ought to take the whole group" of difficulties be-
tween US fairly hand and dispose OF them all by apo
ogy to be made by both sides in words comprehensive
and emphatic as the English language can supply.
LONDON MORNING STAR oE AMERICAN AFFAIRS
The advCes from the United States oil that character
which might have been anticipated from previous
rences both this and the other side OF the Atlantic
The Americans resent the gratuous attacks and wanton
threats which have emanAted from portion of the high
priced London pressa press, be it observed, neury
iguorant not only of American affairs but of American
habits character and temperament They resent too the
tone taken in Parliament by certain members OF the gov
ernment upon American affairs Lord Carendous deca-
ration that 1.-The understanding between the governments
of France and England was perfect in relation to all parts
OF the world appears Americans in the light OF
menace, and is treated in the Senate in that spirit
When we look, indeed, to what was sald and spoken
concerning America only few weeks since the of
offence is sufficiently apparent The government which
speaks through Parliament cautiously is less reserved
when il speaks through its journals No minister dares
to talk in Parliament of with the United States but
the ministerial journals have talked, and talked pretty
loudly, too of with the United States for many
mon tbs 1t at the end of October that the Times
told It's readers that the government were gong TO send
squadron to Bermuda The preext the fitting out OF
Il ship In American waters which subsequently seized
by the American government but which the Times de-
cared to be bent IA piratca expedition destined to
| carry and boodshed into the British domnionsV
ave cannot wait patiently" said the Times that occa
sion, " the Awless emissares of instruction and plum
der have set their feet within her Majestys dominons
ave desire above all thngs, continuance of peace, but
if be the determination of any large portion of the peo
pie of the United States to force upon We shall
know how to meet it and repe it. without relaxing for
instant gpe the throat of the reeng and totering
giant of the north"
with whom the government desire, above all things,
tinuance peace" But the language of the Tunes
nothing to the language OF the other The Morning
Post supposed TO represent the French embassy
and which, TO the Times is perhaps the bestniormed
and ablet of the old high priced papers, wrote follows
no doubt under instruction
England and France, Notwithstanding the contest in
which they engaged the East have the means,
well the determination repress that spirit Of lawess
aggression which Americans have for some time past
h,sed and though the insulting and menacing tone of
the cabinet Of Washington may be accounted for by the
probable acquisition of the Russian North American ter
r0rles great maritime war, with their exposed
hoard-witI their comparatively small feet-wth their
British neighbor Canada powerful, wealthy, devoted 10
the mother country and able rcpel invasions
OF policy from which would ain hope the good
of the rejecting and honest portion Of the American
people will their country. From such unholy
test what good result could spring. The Of
England and France might temporarily be up but
every American ship would be swept from the seasa the
ports Of Amrrica would be bockaded-tbe whole
board Of America from Maine 10 Florida would be
posed to attack, and all this bloodshed all this run all
these evils he encountered for the acquisition of
Haitian Sebasropol from which Cuba be
nienuy threatened"
The Post the article denied that any violation
Of the American law with respect enlistment bad been
COMMITTED 10y the Brush minister under his instruc
ton although apologies have been offered for that very
violation by the British government At more recent
perQd the same paper growing bolder proposed direct
. alliance between England and France against America,
and proposed also put force the right OF search OF all
suspected American vessesl What language this for
government organ hold people whose laws had been
wantonly violated Who wonder that when fleets
sent into American wars-when menaces are held out 10
the American popewheu the government press talks Of
| 'gTpCs the throat ships swept from the
of "poTts be biGC&aded'-of the whole s-abOard Of
America TO be attacked who wonder ask, that
the Americans think it proper pass bill 10y which hey
millions OF dollars TO build soOps-O war;
We do bear by this arrival that auy further step has
been taken respecting Mr. Champion by the American
erument That gentleman appeas continue TO hold Of
fee lie has neither been expelled by President Pierre las
people thought that he would be nor has he resign
ed has he been recalled Whether he ought either
to have resigned to have been recalled is quite ques
uGn The nEtre rduary oversight OF this gentleman
veacd in columns OF yesterday stamp him
snguarly unfit person to act ambassador or min
ista hat would be the fate OF clerk in government
office who overlooked paragraph in despsch which he
copying or anayzug2 What ought 10 be the fate of
minister who commits The extraordinary and unpaTdon-
able oversight OF negleCiGg communicate to the
Of the Omitted States proposal Of the Earl Of Clarendon
TO refer the disputes between the two nations 10 arbi
tration Yet Mr.. Champion acknowledges that this
important instruction ESCAPED ATTENTION from the
month Of November un the BIlh Of February from the
period In mCL which the American Ty com.
nenCed by the high-priced press down the time when
affairs began look serious Surely If blood had been
shed between the countries the feet TO the
Bermudas by counsel Of the Times had CHANGED 10 "at
tack the seaboad of America counseed by the Post
alone those government organs but Mr. Cramptop the
British Ambassador who overlooked the proposal intrusted
10 him for arbitration mediation, and peaCesurelY be
must have been held rosponsblel
Probably the connected with this asOund
ing omission may Ur the fact that papers moved
for In Parliament time seceespeetnH Central Amer
icn have yet made their appearance the table In
those papers shall doubtless hud the dispatches Of Lord
dispatches have not yet daylight either here IN
America Their publication will doubtless expose the gov
nment to further inquiries bat that ought TO he
for keeping back the document ordered by Parliament