The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-24

Affstrs woult be pleased to receive such sug-
gest ons as u Cabinet of the United S'a,es
may De dspo I'd to make.
The teno of these dispatches, being entire
~ unlocked n, has created no little feeling
on me part { the President, who, it is conf.
denty predit ed, will insist at once upon the
abandonment of the position which England
asserts Ger / ention of adhering to. In other
WORDS, the mt of visit will not be conceded
by Mr. huch. nan in any shape whatever"
From London Shipping Gazette. June I
The hlgt Honorable the Home Secretary
has promise on the part of the Government, in
reply to the lember for Tynemouth, that some
information ball be given tonight relative to
the alleged Narding and searching of Ameri.
can mercha Imen BY eur cruisers. Mr.. Lind.
Say has exk sited q commendable promptitude
IN this matt Ga promptitude, We may add, BY
no means q sproportioned to the serious nature
OF the quet Jon ct Issue. Mr.. Walpole stated
last night, at the only information in the pos.
session of 10 Government was that supplied
by the An rican journals; but they contain
safficieat ~ only to justify the inquiry put by
Mr.. Li2dss {, but to render q resort to the
American mister at this Court necessary for
we coli vet pm them that both the Senate and
the d. use f Representatives at Washington
have tsket action in this matter, and have
called apo CHE President for information, and
that EaSchansn has actually demanded ex.
planati ms Som England and from Spain in
referer V t. the search and visitation " of
Ameri An -essels in the Cuban waters. No
doubt he tmerican Government will give eff.
feet to The <emands of Congress, and no doubt,
also, or ivernment will be prepared to JUST.
fy ANY INST actions which may have been issued
to the Adr tral in command of the West India
station an to explain the conduct of officers
In CON ma d of our cruisers in the Gulf of
Florids
If the A ,erican Government are sufficiently
alive to tb national honor and to the evil con.
sequences Of this abuse of the national fl az,
they will cooperate with the British Govern.
mtsnt 10 L evening the Cuban slsvers from
coSerinS 1 cir cargoes with the stripes and
stees. II tpey do not regard it % an abuse of
TIL nation,f ensign of the States, they will let
mr. tiers re pain as they are. We may regret
tn detern nation bat involUing, as 1t does.
or may d :, the maintenance of that right of
acl ich, as maritime nation, America is pecu.
Ia rly sea- aus immunity for her mercantile
M rine Jatsn search upon the high seas-are
hd ,e not @ 1Ord to say against 1t. The right of
Sc rch has ,een formally denied by almost every
ST tesmsn rom Jefferson to Webster, and from
ebster to2Everett, and there is no public man
in the &at . aoho 'could venture to propose its
ad mission n any shape or form.
The % >can flag protects the commerce of
thu UEi n lst as efsctually as our own flag
pr otee,s thf commerce of the British Islands,
ard that r, ,tection, as we found out forty-sx
years ae, ,eant something real, and it is not
fot the Fra -sh Government, or the G svernment
OF any OF ~r State, to question the right of
America t, cover any promise she thinks prop
er with hes flag, except that State is prepared
to make IT, question casus beli. We trust
therefc>e t. It 1t will appear that the accounts
we have re ived of the precipitancy of the off.
GERS inlcot ~nand of our cruisers in the Gulf of
Floride be . been exaggerated, and that the
whole sffa admits of satisfactory explana,
ton. We ave no apprehension of a collision
betwe u country and the United States,
upon his any other question but we depre-
cate yth g, from whatever cause proceeding,
likely % d: orb our commercial relations Nth
that aiot on Whose steddfast alliance acnh
this G lnty the commerce, the Civilization, and,
zoe M J adj the freedom Of mankind, mainly
Desf ,tche from Capt. Hudson-Experiment
h the Telegraphic Cable.
Thu telet aphic feet has, ere this, sailed on
the q sstek undertaking of the age, and has
doubt sss ,ched the centre plateau, where the
vessel are to separate for the laying of the
cable Th5. result of the expedition must be
kuowi in .~Jery few days. In the mean time,
the fo :owI,;. letter, this morning received at
the N wy h ,partment from Capt. Hudson, will
prove Of III ,rest
al S. STEAM FRIGATE NIAGARA,
Ply ruth Sound, Eng, June 3, 1853.
as a. /. ave the honor to report that the
telegr apbsarquadron, consisting of the Niagara
and Ils NJ ships Agamemnon, Valorous, and
Gorgi,a. =. to sea from Plymouth Sound, at 5
Pm. IN tx 29th ult., and proceeded to latitude
470 y mesh, and longitude 90 32< west, when
we b, We to and the Gorgon obtained two casts
of so. udirgs with her deep sea apparatus, and
found the~depth of the water to be twenty-fi
hume cd s;nd thirty fathoms. We immediately
conf enexd our experiments by hanging the
Mag ta It'd Agamemnon together by hawsers,
sterD 70, ..ad distant from each other some
l zoe fest The telegraphic wire on both ships
was ,lic,d together on the Agamemnon, and
the ole lowered down, by the new machinery
of M Ev .rett, until the blight of it was laid on
the ottoip of the ocean. Some additional
wire as aid out, and in this position the cleo
trio urr ;nt was found perfect through the
who let 9Th of the cable, about 5000 miles.
g" or various experiments of splicing,
lowe ng down, and heaving in the wire, this
ship and The Agamemnon were several times
tied ogt her stern.on. We have also had
| fair est Mr.. Everett's machinery for lower
ing nd ,eaving up the cable from the ship,
as " ii s, running it out under speed of FIVE
or h lots. Indeed, our experiments, &C.
cup, ng lree days and almost an entire night,
have / pink, entirely settled some mooted
poiU In yelation To the electric current MASKING
free! at great depths under the ocean.
! 5e / ,pe to have in our additional 40 miles
of n wye, to coal ship, and be ready to leave
this or; 9Th the squadron, on the 10th instant
for ar seseat work.
he ,fcers and crew enjoy good health.
a,srespectfullS, yours, &C., &C.,
"W. L. HUDSON, Captain.
" 10 j. 7Ouc'y, Sec. Of the Mary"
Tae saris correspondent of the London
Tin IS ises copy of the Convention conclu
ded De- s,sen the Government of Costa Rica and
Mic ira % on the one part, and Felix Belly,
acti ag ., behalf of Milland & Co., of Paris, on
the S,t r. relative to the concession of an inter
oce ni- canal by the river San Juan and Lake
Mo ire "a. The document is dated May l..
Tn c4Ipany are 10 commence work in two
yes =, .n2 complete it in six, and the channel
of 10 anal is to admit two of the largest ships
to bass abreast. 1t is to be entirely under
FIR ach direction, and the French Government
is AVE the exclusive privilege of keeping
tw' siies of war on the water of the route
chr :ue bout the whole period occupied in the
COZ ssr lction of the canal. The duration of the
col eel non is ninety nine years from the open.
Ing of he canal, and the line is to be open to
all la = at moderate uniform toll. The Times
| prt aoS oces this scheme impractcahle the