Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-05-08
Rreakers Ahead.

Clarendon treaiy--so oalled-and the negot1a-
tons with New Granada, growing ont OF the
massacre, al Panama. year or more since. we
announced Yesterday the circumstance of the
rejection, by tho British Government, OF tho
Dallas Treaty. and observe that various specula
tons are already rife as to the probable result
II is generally known that the Senate engraft
cd certain amendments upon the original treaty,
which. i, is Supposed, were unacceptable to the
British Government. and hence the WHOLE Treaty
is nullity OF the merits Of these amendments,
the National Intelligencer expresses ignorance,
but intimates that the "ate administration.
which must be presumed TO have understood the
subject well, considered them unnecessary, II
no, actually inespedieni and improper" II this
be so. it would at least justify an inference that
our present Premier had. by some means, infused
share of his old antipathy ani bellicose pro-
pensiiy towards the British Government into
the minds of Senators notwithstanding his dec
laration made Just before retiring from the
Senate, tina, he would carry into the new ad.
minstraticn a sincere desire to cultivate friend.
" relations with that Power. The public hive
never felt that the an,eoedens Of Gen, Cass
were such as to inspire confidence in his man
agement of the delicate relations snbssting be-
tween our government and Great Britain, and
only hoped that the superior importance Of tho
theatre to which he has been transferred-eon-
trolling. in a great measure. the issues of pence
and war. would have depressed n spirit which
had gained for him the sobrquet If the great
war hawk of the Senate" We trust that ripe
age, already extended beyond the boundary al
loted to man. together with the magnitude Of the
interests committed to his care, will restrain if
not extirpe,e, this begerent propensity of an
otherwise amiable and highly respectable char.
scier. Jon" the usually we'll informed CORES
pendent of the Baltimore Sun. speaks thus con.
corning the rejection of the Treaty:
have reason to know that this intelligence took
the Administration by surprise. They had been led
10 suppose that the treaty ratified here would be
acceptable 10 The British Government cularly
a time when that Government about
believed to Withdraw itself far as il could, from
Affairs Of this continent and when it seeking the
cooperation of the United States in other matters
We'll the negotiation is at an end with the treaty
We stand as We the Clayton -Bulwer con-
vention. and may proceed in due time and form to
abrogate that. Lord Palmerston, HAVING been boil
stored up by the late election, may be DESTROYS OF
diplomatic tilt with Gen. Cass, for the purpose of
trying his metal.
would be required on the part Of the Secretary
TO plunge US into international difficulty.
To show both sides of the question however.
append the following extract from another
Washington correspondent of the press, who
says:
The Dallas. Clarendon Treaty does not 60 into
effect and for this reason the Treaty between Eng
land and Honduras relative 10 the Island Of Ruatan
has not yet been ratified by Honduras. Until this ia
done Of the provisions OF the palas-Cinren1on
Treaty cannot properly in the view Of the English
Government, be accepted have It from undoabted
authority that neither The President Lord Napier
regard this result at all likely to interrupt the
present friendly relations Of the two countries
We trust it may not.
Oar relations with the government of New
Grauada.are in a more complicated and untayor
able condition still, and need not progress much
further in the same direction without coming to
an open rupture The United Suites allegc the
responsibility of the government OF Granada tor
the ou,reges of the 18th of April; claim that the
losses of American citizens were not less than
half million, but agree to compound with the
government of Granada n. 900 900, which a
mount they demand. They require further that
New Granada should surrender it, iurisdic elton
over Panama and A.pinwa converting them in
10 Independent municipalities, having exclusive
control Of a strip of territory for space of ten
miles on each side of the road entirely across
the Isthmus. Together with this is coupled
demand for the complete cession to the l.. States.
of the two groups of islands in the Bay of Panama
for a naval station. To the first demand the
Granadian government dissents, disavo wing any
responsibility for the result Of the massacre al
leging that the outbreak was provoked by the
wanton attack Of an American upon native.
which aroused the national hatred that had been
fostered by the fagitious conduct of California
emigrants. and meets the call for indemnity by 4
similar demand for Sl50,000. to reimburse the
losses of its citizens occasoned by the melee.
and for the amount II had assumed in defending
and pleading the cause of the Americans who
had been engaged in the ARRAY. To the second
and third proposition Of our ministers, tho
government of New Granada most peremptorily
refuses its assent. Under these circumstances,
our special minister having presented his ultima
tum has returned home, and it is presumed that
negotiations for the present are broken off. In
intimate relation to this subject observe a
letter in Tuesdays National Inteliigencer, writ
ten by an officer of the U. s. frigate Indepen-
dence, now stationed in the Bay of Panama,
from which we make the following extract as
throwing some light. upon the causes. other than