Glasgow Courier. — 1855-10-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CUSHING.  James C. Vandyke, Esq., U.S. Attorney, iiiiiit4-I;ia. The Inquirer says: 'First, the gratuitous insults to the British Consuls thus put forth by an authority of the Executive is unworthy of any administration which claims to be respectable. What would our people say if Mr. Hawthorne, at Liverpool, or General Campbell, at London, upon having grave charges made against them in a court of justice, were to address a letter to the presiding judge, proLtsting for himself and his government that the charge is not true; what we ask would our press and our people say, if the British government were, in anticipation of such a denial, to prohibit the reception of any such letter by the court? Why preckely such cases have repeatedly occurred in London and Liverpool; and Dever has any court refused to receive and read the letter, as ordinary courtesy required that they should.'  Hartz, who was one of the principal agents employed in the enlistment, and who was recently convicted at Philadelphia, had made 'a confessio9.' According to this, Hartz, on being appointed recruiting agent to the British government, expressed himself afraid of the law, but Mr. Crampton assured him with this remark— ' That he believed there is a law in the United States forbilding the enlistment of soldiers within its territory, but it was not difficult to evade the law, because, who can prevent you from sending labourers to Canada?' But Hartz reverted again to the violation of the American law, and asked, 'How am I backed in case a charge is made against me? I have a wife and children.' Mr. Crampton replied, 'first, that the law was exceedingly lax; and, secondly, that if anything should happen, the British government would not allow any one to suffer who had been engaged in assisting them in furnishing the men.' I replied that ' the popular vdee is against this matter;' but Mr. Crampton said, "never mind about this popular voice; if a house in Liverpool fails, the whole United States tremble.' After Mr. Crampton had given me such assurance, and used the expression, I give you my word as a gentleman that nothing unpleasant shall happen to you,' I theu made U p my mind to act for the British government.' An engineer and fireman had been killed on the NewYork and Harlem Railway, through some person having placed an iron bar across the rails.  The same correspondent also writes— By the last arrival from Europe, Mr. Marcy, Secretary of State, received a despatch from Mr. Seymour, our Minister at the Russian court, notifying him of an extraordinary diplomatic appointment to the United States. The person thus selected by his Imperial Majesty is known in the diplomatic world for more than ordinary ability, besides having possessed the confidence of the deceased Emperor, lie comes clothed with the highest diplomatic power known to the Russian court, and his arrival here is shortly expected. The steam ships Northern Light and Empire City had arrived at New-York with advices from San Francisco to the 201 h Sept., and later accounts from Central America. They had on freight $1,850,460. Mr. J. Needy Johnson, the Know-Nothing candidate for Governor, had defeated Governor Bigler by about 5,000 of a majority. The Know-Nothings had also secured a majority in the State Legislature. The cholera broke out among the passengers on board the Nicaragua stesmer Uncle Sam on her passage up to Sao Francisco, nod before she arrived in port; one hundred an six fell fell victims to the fearful disease. A number of the sick had also died in the hospital at San Francisco. Two flourishing towns had been reduced to ashes, embracing a loss of six hundred thousand dollars. The village of Grass Valley was almost entirely destroyed on the 14th of Sept., burning over an area of nearly 30 acres, and the town of Weaverville suffered a like calamity on the 7th. Seventeen miners had been killed on Rogue River by the Indians. Two men had been lyached at Rancheria for murder. _ _  The United States Consul at Panama had struck his thx. The consul claimed a prisoner as a United States citizen, but his application not being attended to he took offence.  The steam-ship Senora had arrived at Panama from San Francisco with $221,082 on English account. Advices from Japan state that the government had repudiated the treaty said to have been concluded some time since with the United States; and the Imperial Governor of Simoda had issued a proclamation denying the right of Americans to live in Japan, except in cases of thipwreck or distress.