The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1855, Page 2

wun Fi b be tap He w site mpatiently | sumM0K he rebel’s camp. We do nut counsel you to forms Slibusteri ae, or raise ap army of Revasion, under the ae tee ster and stripes, where we have found shelter and pro- tection. We deprecate the violation of any law of the mad In which we live. You will from time to time be ad: ined of the course of action to pursue. We pow ask you to formin each eity and town in the Vaulted States, 2 branch of the ‘Irish Fimigeant Aid So- siety,” assemble in each tocality at once; avoid all use- lows speveding 5 go vo work: communicate with us; we will forward you charters and instruc ions to form * Auxilis- ry Aid Societies.” Fleet your own officers; appoint the must responsible ian in your locality as Treasurer. ‘Avoid all useless expense and parade. Work diligentl ‘aed carnesily.. Report to us the mames of your subserl- fers and amount of money paid in. We, in turn, will report to ‘he Supreme Dicéctory, when elected, and thus there will be unity of action; apd we gball at all times now our strength and resourees, and, when the time for action comes, onr leaders will not be working iu doubt end darkness. Above all, let us bary in generong oblivion all past dis sepsions no man who will aid you his creed or his politics; whether Young Ireland or Old Lreland; so that be ts for trelaxd, end her rights, he is our brother. Let the pact be a sealed book; or, at least, let it teach us mutual forbearance, and the folly of mistrust and dis- union, Let only « generous rivalry animate us as to who will do wost for Ireland, There is not a moment to be lost; we have already de- layed to» long. Some have been wi to hear what this leader would advise; some, what that newspaper would suggest. And in this state of doubt and incerti- tude, we who are no leaders, and aspire to be none—wo whose proudest boast 1s that we are of the people, ha dolily stepped into the breach, and merely given a voice, a feeble one, indeed, to the theughts and desires of mil- Rone of our fellow workere, Few revolutions have ever been the creation of leaders. Let the people commence the work; let the ranks be formcd, and the leaders will fall intojtheir places, Let us fo the work then in good earnest. Let us Send the cry throughout the land, Who's for our own again ? Summon all men to oar band— ot our Own again? poor, andold, and young ery tongue, irmly strung, Al to get our own again, Sigeed om behalf of the Massachusetts Irish Aid Society LAPERN, Preasaray TH, M.D,, Secrotaxy. | The foregoing documents wore tin ordered to be printed. Afier the despatch of some business whish ot is mot ailjourned, wna ia tse Dndred tickets, but the 1 ibe eal to delegates, i toceurrel to Rverythihg was The enthusiasm lightful re-unioa—a ed in arms for the as- udepenience, ani an encouraging, hopefal flow ive for prader dist ple ge sertion of its wognostic that the Ged of batiles will bles# those arms, and that victory will crown them with suecoss, We exoect soon to have other important intelligence to oommunicaie 10 our readers in relation to this great movement, whieh ix assuming «shape that will command u of the whole Irish race in America, present we may mention what indeed the Mas- idrew foreshadows, thet measures are taken zation over every State in the Union; t number of States are brought within ) * Supreme Directory will be elected, in whom implicit confidence may be pliced, and whose busi- ness it will be to take custody of “ the sinews of war,” and {o discharge suca other functions as peculiarly ap- central bedy of that description. Then will -y, without which ‘nothing ean be done for the old land, be freely contributed by those who desire to cast theiry single dollar or their thousands into the Irish ex- ehequer, but who natura’ ly hold thelr contributions, a6 they will continue to do, till they are satisfied their d-earned cash will be deposited in safe and prudent Meantime, there can be no valid reason why the friends of the cause in Massachusetts should not send their contributions to the Directory in Boston, particu- Iorly ae they issue their personal bonds for the repay- ‘ment of the money, and these men are not men of straw. Wor can there be any reasonable objection against pa- riots and sympathisers in other States in which asso- ciations exist, making Joans or donations to local o: State eommittees in whore honor aud wisdom they cav confide. Tet every man be first sure he is right, and then let him ge ahead. Our readers will mark the wausual and promising fea turer of this programme, and of the celebration that fol lowed it, Guarantees were to be given for the money subscribed, and the supper at Dooley’s hotel actually pasred off without the occurrence of a single incident to @eturb the harmony of the proceedings! We will ven- tare to say that two such circumstances were never be fore recorded of any Hibernlan political organization or eonvivial gathering. Notwithstanding, however, this auspicious character, we took the following rather dis- souraging end, we now mast own, Venighted view of the Prespects of the aesociati NEW TRISH MOVEMENT—LOOK OUT. {From the York Herald, August 27.) The professed mot organization is to afit by the advent « jong prombed era of pe, “when England’ 1d become’ iret snd’s ally w opportunity,” it is contended by itso: sins tors, has 2 and embarrass mente of fires able degree of complication. momeut the justice «generosity s, we may be permitted whether, ins'end of being at hand, ready parsed when reasonable hopes of its snccers, We do not beliey pew be found in Ireland to tempt that migh! be made from stances of the country, the mat He, and if we are weil ee iments towards Englond, raster in g agitators and redr ed to accest in good al concessions which the ideas has forced from the English govern. Tt may be that the gentiewen of the Ma convention are ignorant of hose facts, alihou not well see how any one can be so who hi tontive obrerver of Tash ovents for the le as we suppose, they are ne well selves, it angnes a greater dogree nd folly thon we had given the irich revolutionists crolit for, to initiate a movement whi attende! with md mortifeati Jers, and pe haps with serious injury to the cause of civil and rel us liberty in Treland. whee ronults are 20 evident to the most unrefte wind, thet on re we could not belp ashing ou this visionary project, there did net lay Practical schome with ohjexts having rel position ot the Irish i erful nucleus such an asioctation wou anization intended to control our election Prater the antagonistic influence of th rty! We do no: eay that such is the in nders, but it is no great stretch of probabilities tos »p- pore that, failing in its professed object, this new as: oct ation may be easily diverted to mischievous inte:to-e ce i onr home polities, and to the widening still farther the breach which the ngftation of such sectional inte ests has already made between the Irish and the native American parties. In any case we require to be on ow guard. From the abdve it will be sven that, in our short sig’ J edness and innocence of heart, we ascribed this grana project of Irish invasion to a poli tleal object nearerhon ‘The London Times, however, rendered eharper by its torests, denounced it at the time as being really wha professed, expressing, nevertheless, its concurrence ta opinion with us that it was a harmless movement—the epportunities haying passed by for such an attempt Circumstances which have since occurred have led to some modifications in the views of both. The extensive spread of this organization, which now has ramilicatio 9 throughout most of the States and cities of th und its abstinence from al! attempts to bring its iufluence to bear in our domestic politics, show that it must have some such external objects as those put forth in its pro- Bramme. Other facts whi:h have come to our knowledge tend to corroborate this belief. We have heard of indu- eatial Irishmen being induced to join the assveiation under the impression that it was a seccet organization against the Know Nothings, and quitting it as soon as they diseo- vere: that its visionary and impracticable object, of a de- Bogut upon Ireland, was the real project in contemplation, ‘The reinforcement of the British West India syuadron for purposes of a far different nature than those alle... has rendered it convenient for the Times t9 attach to this Jeague greater Importance than it WAF at first disposed to actord to it. We continue the narrative of ite proceed: ings up to the present time in onder to show how far the apprebensions expressed in to ft are well founded. We have already stated that the society has beeu rapid- ly extending its affiliations throughout every part of the Union. Ite great direetiog centre is Mawachuselts, to which all the affiliated bodies in other parts of « try are, on a fixed principle of representation, entitled send delegates. The following, from the Citiv will give an idea of the leading features of its system o( selegation:»- TRISH EMIGRANT AID ASSOCFATION—TNE GENERAL CONVENTION. It will be seen from the following official dycument, that the first General Convention of this Association will b held on the 4th of December, at the Astor House. he attention of the organizations in the different States is requested, with « view to the immeciate election of dele tow, The directory of the parent society will be on and, at the Astor House, to receive them. Orme bursa Earorst Ai Associariox, ) Boetox, November 9, 1856, Conditions of Representation at the General Conveathon. Know Nothing reference mn t n of to-day, to be heli on the fourth day of December next, at the Astor House, New York:— Every State in co-operation with (hy Soctoty of M: heen mtion of it« | - --— + a Dineetory cslete, Chay ehmtt «hose foam thelr body one or more délega(cs, seboruing w the naaber of soriett Pe ph shall mee " number the Base is entitied to. Delegates tending the convention, shall have the pri of voting by proxy; delegates shall be residents of the State they represent, and bring credentials of election, with the number ud strength of the societies they tay represent, signed by the President and Secretary of the State or con- vention, as the case may be. Per order of the Directory, T. H. SMITH, Secretary. Of the enthusiasm (if we may judge from Irish decta- mation) with which the object of this movement is begiuning to be viewed, some opinion may be formed fro the following advertisement which we extract from the Philadelphia Pennsyloanian of the 14th inst, ;— ‘TO THE IRISHMEN IN PENNSYLVANIA. Pevow Couxtryaex—We have watched with anxiety ‘the sentiments of our friends in Boston, and hail them with joy; so much ao that we deem the present moment the opportune one when we should as freemen exgress our approbation of the general movement in which our countrymen of Massachusetts have taken the initiative. Shall we follow their example, or shall the Irishmen of Pennsylvania be laggards in creating harmony of feeling amongst their race throughout the length and breadtn of the land? We, the undersigned, the representatives of the clubs already formed, and in behalt of them, aa- dress you as Irishmen, not for any seliish motives, or that we want to be leaders, but that througi this appeal to your sincerity and truth, to oar heuor and fortitude we way be ihe means of assisting and bringing about consummation or so great and glorious « priaciple advo- cated by then—the redemption of their native land, it po-rible, by hono:able meavs. Let the destructive fucds that have kept us under the fect of the British aristo- cracy now disappear from amongst us. Let the sacred howes of our youth, ftom witich we have beea driven by the vilest tyrants {be world has yet produced, arouse the drooping spirits of our once noble and geuerour race, and by the hopes of the future and the memories of tho past, be guarantees that we, as Irishmen, will either dy or die in endeavoring to accomplish that for which Emmet mounted the ecaffoh, sancti ing. the cause with bis blocd— for which = 1 fdward Fitzgerald tought, and for which we, as Irishmen, will sseri- fiee our lives, if pecneeeye Organize, then, in every city, town and hamlet. ‘Elect your own officors, make duly appointed collections, and be particular ia se- leeting true wrusty men to fill the posttions, Part not with one dollar ‘ou receive instructions from headquarters, and let no'brawling demagogue, who may have been placed in @ position in life to command, direct your movements. Let your intelligence rule, and remem- Ser that your bleeving country cails on you, Let every ban speak out, and speak truly. Gather yourselves iegether—communisate with us, and we will send you ali the instruction necestary. We want not ono dollar of your money—we went not to exercise any iatluence over you in avy term, but merely give you advi We do ot counei! you to form 2 filibustering league, or raise an army of invasion under the shadow of th? stare and sirtpes—where we have foued protection; we deprecaie the vivlation of any laws of the land in which we live. You will from time to time be advised of the course of actien to pursue. The National Convention will be Leld -hortly, ani from that you will gain all instructions necessary for further operations, N, H. HARRIS, President Thos. Davis Club. M. CAKR, Vice: President Red Hund Clab. CHARLYS W. BORBRIDGE, President Emmett Monu- mentale, . MICHAEL J. 0. KANE, Vice-President Wolf four Clad. For information direct to any of the above, to the north west corner of Fighth and Race streets. Of the upmistakeably Russian sympathies of the new organization, we cannot have a more satisfactory proof than the following, which is extracted from a Detroit pape MEETING OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT AID SOCIETY IN DETROIT. A meeting of the «‘ friends of Irish ina dence’ was held at the City Hall last evening. Dr. Mullany was calle! to the chair; Jumes McBrearty, Psq., appointed Vi President; and J. D. Johnston'and John Collins, Esqrs., Secretaries. Dr. Mulany, upon taking the chair, mado a few pertinent remarks, alluding, among other things, toa recent celebration in Montreal, of the taking of Ne- bastopol, in which a bear, muzzled, ‘and with brokea leg, was displayed in a window. The Doctor hoped that the Russian bear might yet overcome the English lion, (Ap- plaure.) He intrcdneed Captain Jackson, of Roston. Captain Jackson addressed the meeting at some length, speaking with much confidence of the attainment of Iris national liberty. He was warmly applauded throughout. Speeches were also made by Messrs. O'Reilly, Materson and Johnston. ‘The meeting was a large and enthusiastic one. At its close those who did not already belong were invited to join the ‘Irish Emigrant Aid Association.”” Ax to the fitness of the time for the execution of the projected invasion, there are, of course, other opinions than ours and these of the London Zimes. We extract the tollowing from the Irish American of the 17th iast.:— Our whole life has been spent in endeavoring, since we had the power of reflection or simple thought, to speak and write the fact that our people should have their own country for themselves. ‘The “opportunity” with which those observations are headed most indubitably has ar- rived; avd if we lose it, we deserve to lose what Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward Vitygerald, Robert Emmet, the Sheates, Father Murphy, Father Koogh, and other de voted and unselfish patriots died for, and for which the pure and distinguished and highly born and chivalrous Smith O’Brien, and the first victim, John Mitchell, (whose intellectual powers are, next to Carlyle, as far as we know, equal to any other scholar or writer, and to Which class belongs the celebrated Futher Join Ken and then, egein, “the glorious young tribune,” Thomas Francis Mesgher, and the stern and brave and gifted John 8. Dillon, ani eloquent and equally gitted Hichard O'Gorman, .Jr., and the indomitable and ableand 3 lar, Michael Doheny, poor Devin ly, who sleeps in a foreign grave, and who wasiel his ious intellect and great sequirements in the service t bo could not sppreciate them; John Martin avin Izod O'Doherty, and others—gentlemen Selves ion—obliged to fly after the abortive nt- om in 1848—all of whom mide sac vice of liberty, have not been ex- * e offen been quoted, bat ‘hey te ent 0°: vaitle, once begun, veath’s from bleeding »” baited oft, is ever won.” b ber genial climate, her }ovely green valleys, her ifal rivers, which are bec; with the beanty ghiers, with the reli- and the piety and the patriotism 1¢ honest simplicity and truse: population, with the superir npliskanents of her middle cla and loity i her aristo- an i ture, ure we not entitled to national to son, | cracy of Celtic and | to Ve told that ine sovereignty What makes our fellow: ountrymen so sluggish, so parsive, so colt, xo contented, we cannot divine. And | yet we are convinced thet the Storm underlies the calm. | The movemeat in America which has been produced by | | | | tho sincerest love for the old land of our affections, anu which eng ges the attention of men who have property n to love, cannot fail to rouse the heart and vy siwulate the efforl» of their race in their native land, to is degrading to permit the “opportunity, ow, to pass by. » Irish American appear at a loss to discove countrymen at the other side of the Atlantic shoul! br so “sluggish, presive and it may be as well to enlighten them by an extract from one of the trish pr | pers:— Lord Carlisle was entertained wt a grand banquet in Belfast, the capital of Ulster, on Thursday, Nov. Ist The bunquet was attended by upwards of 250 porsons, among whom may be enumerated the Marquis of Wondon- derry, Vi gb, Viscount Massareene, Daflerin. The Mayor reply the Lord Liew ndi-ion of the people is so striking ‘They are , thece is an fafinit and stockings—(laughter)—than wien | nd the new complaint of Jreland is that portion of was here fast, there ae almost too few to work and too few mouths to be ted. : Ihave heard, indeed, lately something of n being expected in this country from Ame: gentle will they be all irishmen, ing heme to till their fields agnin, to work th to kiss their wives and families again / rtily bid them welcom led they at ieas! they comld come, thal any cowld come here with any hostile intention? 1 feel sure that the good sense, as well as the good feeling, of all trne hearted Irishmen or Americans would repudiate the monstrous supposition. (Loud chgers.) //, coatrary toall expectation und all reason, they woull so come, 2 ought ras to ray that they would be as welcome as the others : lat of this I feel congh—fagt he Antrim Riyl on tet tn Dnilias and he Rae cn on ate bake Belfast, wi bo able to give a very good secount of them. But we will not let such monsirous images mar o social hartaony, and J would :gtkar leave yoy with bri estos MNCs yor Of Moseesful commerce, rewarded estfY, Yeatored poace and extenting civilization, Most of the Dublin and Irish provincial journals that we receive attest the loyal and contented feeling that prevails throughout that country generally. Of tho re- ception which ony filibusterieg attempt from this sido would be likely to meet with; we would require a5 better evidence than the tohowing — Mr. John (Connell, in a lelter dated Novem er 1, to the Dublin Ziveman’s Journal, says tin conclusion, ‘al- low me to say that 1 entirely agree with your excellent remarks of last week on the extraordinary rumor of an American invasion. Whatever truth there bo in it, th can be no doubt whatever of the reception that a band lawless adveniarers would receive if they dared to approach our shores. The milltia would inake short work with the invaders, were the mad idea realized, The Dubtin correapontent of the London Mepres writing on 27th ult., says:—The report sot afloat of a tilibustering expedition to Ireland has afforded matter for some idle talk during the last coaple of days. | No one, of course, believes in the thing; but any Irish American ‘esperadoes who could, by any possibility, be mixed up with such a wild scheme, will not be dattered by what they will read in tho Irish ‘papers of the welcome thoy Would receive from their fr feone on this side of the Atlan- tic. The Roman Catholle Weekly Telegraph tellx them that the police would be amply sufficient to repel their attempt. The Borning Post s of the undertaking ar too desperate and ludicrous even for Bedlam. We have now completed the history of this timous Hibernian movement, which t only aational out of its own country, and which does not seem to stand bigh in the estimation and fears of ar ne but the London Tin to inten sigue « el, ml whit ave viers ny ite | | and property of her Britannic Majesty the Gaeen of the Unkod real yolue tv to be attg@hed to the prevances based ca when. . : We come next to THE RUSSIAN PRIVATEER MOVEMENT. Our readers will recollect that early in the present Year @ good deal of fuss was made about the presence of three or four Russian officers in this city, whose object was said to be the fitting out of privateers in our ports to wage war on English and French commerce. It turned out, on investigation, that the mission of those gentle- men was purely scientific, and the excitement eaused by the rumor died of course a natural death, Circumstances which subsequently led to legal pro- ceedings on the part of our government against the agents of another Power, naturally exsited a desire on the part of the latter 'o show that they were not alone culpable ; and accordingly efforts were made to revive those rumors of attempts to violate our laws by emissaries of the Cuar, ‘The first fret which gave a color to these accusations, was the following statemeat, which appeared in the Henaiy of the 18th of October :— Deputy United States Marshal Horton yesterday reixed the bork Maury, on suspicion that #he wus engaged in the service of Russia, and oaving on board articles con: traband of war. Cannon; powder, balls and musket were found on board, Of course tte ship was not per- witted to proceed on her voyage. On the following day we published the anuexed edito- rial remarks in reference to this case, as well ag to that ol! Mr. Thompron, who was stated to have gone to Washing- ton to complete his engagements with the Russian Minister as Chief Engineer of the Russinn navy :-— OUR NEUTRALITY LAWS—A RUSSIAN CASB OR TWO THE BRITISH VERSUS THE RUSSIAN MINISTER. UFrom the New York Herald, Oct. 19.) Mr. Crampton, the British Minister at Washington, has deen found guilty of violating our neutrality laws in the matter of recrviting soldiers in the United States for the service of the ailies against Russia, It ts reported that our Cabinet have, therefore, instructed Mr. Buchanaa, our Minister at London, to demand the recall of Mr. Crampton and certain of her Majesty’s Consuls impli cated in the same unlawful business. Now, we have a Russian case or two in the same category. A corres pondent of one of our morning cotemporaries puts tollowing case in reference to the anticipated withdr of Mr, Crampton:— I wish to know what steps have been taken, or are to be taken, to have the Russian Minister withdrawn, The whole country bas been publicly and repeatedly informed, in a that James ©, ‘Thom Soaaihul, ‘rinmphont manber, that . soi ts proprietor ai the machine works on Quay street, Albany, hi. een oltred the situation of Chter Ragioeer ik the "Russias navy, We have it proteins that hissalary in to be $6,000 0 ary together wih a fren dwelling houves au itis cpenls owed that Mr. Thomson had gone to Washin; the engagement with the Russian Minister. On Wednesday, it appears, the United States De Ma:snal, Horton, of this port, seived the sbip Maury, 0 suspicion that she was engaged in the service of Russia, andhad on board articles contraband of war—eannon, muskets, powder, balls, de., belog found among Uo ma: terfale of her cargo. ‘This, however, is not yot proved s0 clear a ease of the infraction of the law os tat of the Russian Minister in the evgagemeut of Mr. Thompson. ‘Tne ship may be destined to some country not engaged in awar with a foreign enomy; but the admission that Mr. ‘Thompron has been to Washington to complete his ea gazement with the Russiau Minister, as Chief Gnginesr Gf the Russian navy, under the very’ noxes of the Preck- dent, his Premier, ‘and his Attorney General, is cer tuinly a cool operation compared with the proceodings of Mr. Crampton, What suys the Premier ? In the same paper appeared the following statement of the facts connected with the bark Maury, as gleaned by our reporter:— ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE NEUTRALITY LAWS. (From the Herald of October 19.] As it was announced in the Hrnatp of sorter that the bark Maury had been seized by the Deputy United States Marshal, Mr. Horton, on suspicion of being en. gaged in the service of Ruseia, one of our reporters visit- ed the vessel for the purpose of accertaining, if possible, her true character and designs. There were several re- ports in efreulation about her, one of which was that she wd been fitted up for priyateering, and that she would be employed in eS, the Cunard steamers on their passage to and from this country. The charges upon which the legal proceedings against her were instituted were inade, it is understood, by the British Consul at this port, or some person acting under his authority. The Affair, from the prominence which has thus been given to it, assumed a very serious aapect, and it was necessary, therefore, that the public should ‘have the facts, clreum” stances and particulars, upon which those charges were based, laid before them. ‘This was particularly desirable in view of the fact that one of the belligerent. powers on the other side of the Atlantic has already, as proved in our courts, violated our noutrality laws, and’ that one of her highest authorities was engaged in directing the eolist- ment of recruits for the war in the Crimea. sirable as itis, under these circumstances, that the present alleged violation of our laws should be ade known to the public. we pfecent the following report of the matter, in the hope that it may lead io 2 satisfactory solution of the mystery in which the butk Moury appeared to be enveloped, and that it may’serve to calm the apprehensions that have deen entertained as to the designs of ber owners. As oon as possible atter the char or suspicions of the character of the vessel were made known to the Uni- ted States District Attorney, Mr. McKeon, he presented them to the court, setting them forth in detatl in the re- quired legal form. This paper, after stating the name of the vessel, aud wat she pre'ended to be, went on to yarticularive, with the usual formality of a legal docu- nent, in the following manner:— oresaid sh'p or vessel, being a bark, has actually on Loard @ large quantity of munitions of war, consisting of canuon bails, small ars, guns, pistols, swords, and other im. plements of war; that her cannon are all mounted; that she has por boles for cabno; that she ix mantfestly built, rigged and equipped for waritke purposes, nnd has not the construction of a vessel for the merchant service that she has no forecastic: that her between decks is painted, and is of unusual height: that she has also lumber aud extra spars; that the atoresaid bay k'has been fitted Gut and armed within the litaite of the Unt ted Staies, to wit, the port of New York, by some person or per-ons Unknow, with invent that the said vessel shall be em Dloyed inthe service of some foreign prince, State or people tunkuown, to commit, howiliteg, against the subjects, clizens \gton to complete whom the Unit wi Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, | Slates are at peace, contrary to the third section of the act of Congress, approved April 30, 1818. After duly covsidering the foregoing details, we visited the ves'el, which lies at the foot of Dover street, and there made the acjuaintance of the frat officer, Mr Leopold N, Bat on, a very cour‘eous and obliging ntle- man. He will excuse ns for snying that we scratinized im very closely, but failed to detect either ia his a peszance or maiher anything of that pugmacious or bel igerent character which is considered indispensable in all privateersmen. In reply to our questions, strange to say, heshowed no desire to ccnceal anything; and wha: wor still strarger, he showed us every corner and nook ad Lele und crapny inthe vessel, He was, however, as might naturaily be supposed, somewhat indignant tha # charge of sucha ¢laracter should be wade against the ietors, ond that they should be put to so mach there was, as he suid, nothing to jastity rouble w suspicion, raid he, in reply to one of our inquiries i nothing ‘unusual ia vessels engaged to thy a : “ther anghae. We have fourteen cannon. r of which we requice for our own vessel, and in 94 to these we have pistols, cuttaases and guns; b our principal freight consists of ship chandle other American Louse at Whampoa.” the scabbards of twenty or thirty cutlass ronged on the ceck with so little altempt at o that they were «mong the first things to meet the ey the visiter. In the cabin we found everything arranged with remarkable neatuess, and an eye to the luxuries as well as the comforts and necessities of # sea yoyage. One of the state rooms contained a handsome melodeoo, and we observet alongside another one of those things which no ship should be without—a bata. We looked into the bath, not kuowing but that it might bea powder magazine, constructed in tht form the more easily to ceive our wary and Vigiluné autborittes; but it was as nasanew pin, and had neither the trace nor the smell of gunpowder about it. Susy , however, ‘iat after all this might only be a ruse to disarm auspicion, we looked very lard at the stairs leading into the cabin, @ we had read somewhere ia one of Mrs. Radcliff’s novels that they often concealed private passages, secret apart- ments, &e. Ratton evidently divined what was passing in our mind, for he weut over immediately to the stairs, and, lifting up the top of the steps, requested us to take a poop, which we did, buf with the sae ill success which uttended our tnvestigatiogs in the yo. room. We were uot, however, to be discém ittel fu this way, and determined to make another effort before loav- ing the rhip. Recollecting that one charge agains’ the versel was that she had ‘no foreeastie,” we asked Mr, Batton what was the reason she was ust provided ith one, . ‘Let me show you it,” he replied; snd conducting us cut ofthe cabin, he displayed to oar wondering eyes one of the finest and most comfortable forecastiea we have ever seen, right on deck, and of such dimensions, too, that it could not possibly Oscape ob-ervation. this the foreenstle?? we asked, he replied, “and one of the bast you ever saw ‘Aye, is It?” eaid one of the hands, who was at work in it; “there's no getting over that.” ‘We were of the saute opinion too, and go will any one ve who visits the vossel. But venturing to put avother question, we s#ked him what he had done with his “extra spars”? ° “Extra spars!” he repeated; ‘“thore they are—five spare booms, one topgailant mast, one topgailant yard and one gaff. | So you see we're well provided,’ We thought so too, Ae red the precaution of the owners in thus prov against the emergencies to which every weasel Ts Kate, = ‘There wus one portion of the ship yet left, and wo sig nigied our desire % too it before our departure, inly, ‘oh! certainly; I shall show you it with the Neasure;’’ and so saying, he conducted ws, without further preliminary, down to the hold. Here wo saw boxes and barrele, and some rope lying about, and the cannon which we were told were intended for the American house at 5 Me. ‘Now,”” said Mr. Batton, letting us into all the secrets with the a'r of @ man who had some important facte to communicate, “ those boxes contain tomatoes and theee soap, and these barrels are fall of pitch, and chere is pleu!y of molnases.”” © Yes, sit,”’ added the carpenter, with knowing look, ‘and molasses is excellent for putting on wounds, aa every doctor knows." “Phen, here,” Mr. Batton proceeded, ‘are some capi- tal grindstones, with which we intend to sharpen o «words when they become blunted by too hard work upon the enemy; and here, you seo, aré sesies, by which we can weg) the combatants on both sides Lefore the fight Leptos “hin wae enowgl the mate for thie eon fe ike v fied that a vere 4 humbug bio te he taficrn NEW, -YORK.AERALD, SATURDAY,..NOVEMBER, 17, 1996. le Hon which-~we bay® given, we were toid fermen | her smeDyere are missionaries, sua that there i ou. Sbigaman on board returning to his native land—thet is, be not arrested on a charge of enlist to it against a pation with which our cor ae i This view of the real character of the vessel was con- firmed by the result of the proceedings instituted against her by the United States District Attorney. We give the evidence in full, from the Hxmaip ot the 21st of October, as it is conclusive as to the fact of a serious, and as re- gards the owners of the vessel, an inconvenient misteke having been eommitted:— THE BARK MAURY—THE SUPPOSED RUSSIAN FILI- , BUSTER DISCHARGED. UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, * Ocr. 20.—In the case of the United States vs, the bark Maury, which was libelled on a charge ub Attlog out for the Russian service, Mr. McKeon, the United states Dix. trict Attorney, recelved a communication from Mr. Chas. Eawards, counsel of the Brisish Consul, stating that from ex; tions under oath, made lessra. A. A. Low & Brothers, he deemed it reasonable that the Dis. trict Attorney should be left entirely free, and he thought it would be but fatr towards the owners to § lift” the libel. The District Attorney received the following communi- cation, under oa*h, which he submitted 10 Mr. #1 wards:— To the Hon. Jonny McKwon, United States” District At torney :— Sm—fhe bark Maury, owned in part by the unite: signed, havirg been refxed by a proves from your office, ‘we beg to offer the following explanations, viz :— ‘That the said vessel was built by Messrs. Rosevelt, Joyce & Co., of yhis city, under a contract made ia the month of April lust, alter the model of the bark in; that “he was designed for the China trade; that there is nothing peculiar in her construction apart from the riz, which war adopted with parcioular reference te oconom: in vie' t in pursuance of the original intention she was advertised some three weeks snee for Shanghae, since when she has been receiving freigh; for that vort: that she has on board, from Messrs. Fogg & Brothers, 200 tons of coal, @ quanitty of naval stores, and a varie! of sbip chandlety, for thefr house in China, with a litue otber general ae t, with which she ix expected to sail the ecming week, ‘under the command of in Fletcher, for the port above named, We further declare thet, in addition to the ordinary arrangements of a vos- sel of her class, #he has but two deck guns, supposed to ‘be necessary in consequence of the great mereave in the number of piaies on the coast of China; that the other guns, shot, &e., on board, as per subjoined list were purchased under’ an order from an American gen tlaman at Canton, and shipped per Maury on freight that said vessel hus for spare spars one foretop 0 wast, one fyretop gallant yard, one tain boom, one main aft boom, and five exira studing sail booms; and that er CreW Will consist of but twelve or fourteen men befor the nat. ‘bey funthermore declare that the vessel received the name of Maury in the month ot May last, not to dishonor amen of whom our conatry has so much reason to b: provd, but to bear upon an honorable miysion the name of him who has done so much to improve navigation. The undersigned ple*ged themselyes to prove to the satisfaction of the British Consul, while the vessel ix still under the charge of the United States Marshal, that the allegations mude aguinst the vessel are false;’ that 6! has no guns or materials of war under her coal, aski only tbat the expense to which they may be thus aut jected shall be borne by the ssid Consul, when, and only ‘when the etatements upon which the vessel has been 80 unjustly selzed, are fally disproved. Finally, they declare that the Russians have no cou- nection whatever with the enterprise in question. . A. LOW, of the firm of A. A. Low & Brothers. On freight—10 guns, 62 boxes of shot. Sworn te before me, thie 18th dey of October, 1855. Gko. F. Berm, U. 8, Commissioner. I hereby swear that I am coguizant of the facts men- tioned in the toregoing statement, and that they are tru NATH. B. PALMER, Sworn to, &e., Go. F, Berns, U, S. Commissioner. Under this state of fucts the District Attorncy dis- charged the versel from the custody of the Marshal. ‘the name of the first officer of the bark Maury, which bas been seized by the United States ties, ‘ot thi. city, as deceribed in yesto:day’s Herald, is Walton, and not Batton, as published in our report. ‘The result of the investigation heving satisfuetorily dis sipated any doubts that might have existed as to the ren! character of the vessel, Mr. Barelny, the British Consul, fell it necestary to explain his share in the matter by ad dressing to us the following statement, which appeared iv our issue of Oct, 24:— THE BARK MAURY. 70 THR EDITOR OY THE NERALD. Mirrepresontatiens on the aboys subject having bees pubNvhed in various cn od hag ong others, that munitions of war were found oa beard, ‘secreted under quantity of cotton’’—i desire to disabuse the mind of th: public of that impression, by sta‘ing that such was not the ease, Had my endeavorr, made before information waa fo:- wally lodged, to ascertain the owners of the ship Maury succeeded, the explanations which that respectable fraa— Messrs. A. A. Low & Brothers—gave after the libel wa filed, would have been sought by me, and no doubt woul have been given before, and the course which was adop! cd would not heve been resorted to. A. BARCLAY, Hf B. M.’s Consul. Naw York, (ot, 28, 1865, Our readers haye now before them the full evidence o the grand Russian privateering and propagandist move- ment in the United Staics. To sum up ite results, we have to state that the ship Maury left at the conclusion of the above proceedings for Shaoghae, with a number « missionaries for the Celestie! empire; that the Czar felt so grateful to us for the sympathy shown in his cause by the American people that he turned a cold shoulder o the members of the sefentific commission sent out to study military {uclics at Sebastopol; that the American suc geons who have en‘ered his service have neither met with much honor or very munificent compensation for their laborss and that Mr. Thompson, whose case ho ade so much noite, has not as yet completed with the Russian ambassador his contract as Chief Engineer of the Russian navy. These facts, we think, afford pretty con elusive evidence that in the balance of obliga‘ions the United States and the Czar owe but little to each other. THE BRITISH RECRUITING MOVEMENT. ‘The English movement was much more unscrupulous ond bold in ite character than either of those who- history we have just narrated, It neither took much pains to envelope its proceec ings in secrecy nor to observe moderation in the steps which it took to carry out its objects. Enlistment for the British army was openly carried an in this and other cities, and it was only when Active measures were taken by our government to punisit the authors of such glaring violations of our laws, that some degree of caution was observed by the British ja eflecting the objects of their mission, The charge of Judge Kane, on the trial of Hertz, 6@ ably reviews vu outrageous character and legal consequences of the proceedings, that we cannot do better than republish th: more important portions of it. ‘The case hax myolved, in its progress, a train of facts of very considerable political intercst—perhups of more general interest in thet aspect of it, than In its bea on the questions which are to be de ‘There are very few among us, proba’ not felt aggrieved at the tone with which the press of foreign countries, and oecasionally of forcign statesmen of the day, have comm 1 what they have been pleased to call over alacrity of the American people to (ngage in military controversies in which they properly Yad no rightful part. Our people and our government have been accused of forgetting the obligations of new trality, and pushing ourselves forward into the conflicts of foreign nations, instead of minding our own business as peutials, and leaving beliigerents to fight out their own quarrels, For one, 1 confe‘s that I felt surprised, as this case edvanced, to learn that ducing the very time that these accusations were fulminated against the Ame- lean peorte by the prev of England. there was. on ‘he part sure: mrttish fonctiom Mes herd, & ferles OF VF. Tangtrents {n progress, carefully digested, and combining all sorts of people, under almo t all sorts of intluences, to evade the laws of the United States by which our coun’ ry sought to enforce Its neutrality; arrangements mata:ed, upona careful inspection of the different sections of our statutes, ingeniously to violate their spirit and princip without incurring their penalty, and thus enlist ant nd away golifers from our neutral shores to fight the battles of those who were incontiaently ard not over courteously admonivhing us to fuifil the duties of neu T allude {o those circumstances, and this train of thought, centtemen, not because It {s one that should in fivence your action as jurors, but because feel (t wy duty to guard you ogaingt ite jodue 8 jaestic whieh me Mare wo sataie to ack vintees tans Py ‘on the part ot apy foreign functi to evade the provi our acts of Congress, bat wi these two defendants have or have not violated the sions of the act of Congress, which are cited in these bills of in- dictment. Your verdict will respond to the simple ques. tion, are there two men guilty ot the crime with wiifeh they ave charged ? Ta order that my remarks may not hereafter be emba raseed by the necessity of using the plural when the Gular is more appropriate Twill say to you, at the ou'- set, that there is no evidence ngainst one of these defend. pi & Jury can properly convict an individual of a crime, they must be ratisied, by clear evidence, that the crime ‘Lins been committed by come one, Vy have no statute which affects to h benggart gar. rulity; and, unless the particular oft nee of enlisting eer. tain definite 8 has been committed by Perkins, one of the defe though he may have proclaimed upon the housetops that he has reeruited armies innumerable, no fury can properly convict him of the offenoe he pros fesses to have engaged In. T paves to the case of the defendant, Herts. He stands indicted, sometimes jointly with another, sometimes alone, with the offence of having hired and retained cer- tain persons to go out of the United States for the par. e of enlisting and entering themeelves as soldiers in [oe vervice of a foreign prives, stave or territory. t of Congress is in these words—I read the words fal to the question, leaving out those which apply to » different state of circumstances, if any person sha'l, within the territory of the United or retain ene m to go beyon-| the Hmita of the United States, with the fotent to be enlis servo fa fred tines, he hal be dened Digh wt demexnor Tho qgestion wh have to paes upom ideetid Henry hire o amy of the persous in these bills of indictment to go beyond the limits of United States, with the intent to te enlisted or enters Did hire or oinin © person aa re or retain @ person? Whatever he was within the territory of the United States. The hiring or retaining does not necessarily include the payment of money on the part of him who hires or Eperobearin gy ey tres Phevighed oie booger) with ap agreemen' e Pay wages wi services shall have been performed. The hiting or retaining a ser- vant is not generally by the of money, in the first instance, but by the Aen spare rervices have een performed tae ry iran tee hired or ret to beyond the limits of the be United States, with a certain intent, though he ia only to receive his pay after he has gone beyond the limits of the United ‘tates with that intent. Moreover, it is not Swedeaayy Aes, the consideration of the hiring eball be money. give to s person a rail- road ticket that cost $4, and board and 1 him fora week, is paares a consideration for the contract of hiring an to the money with whieh be could buy the fee ged the bs ide to do the iteular thing, an ‘on the one side to do the par J fogo Fegond the limits of the Vaited States with the is’ tent to enlist, fe dee the othe Ade Sn eanero tls et Taiinid fe atipstts peronic tee setomonating tee ot riy perfo 10 wervices, OF work, the birlog and'ret lc gag The meaning of the law, then, is this :—That if any person shall evgage, hire, retain or employ an»ther per- son to go outside of the United States. to do that which he could not do if he remained in the United viz.: to take part in @ foreign quarrel; if he hires another to g0, knowing that it is his iutent to enlist when he arrives cuts if he engages him to go because he has euch an intent, then the cffence is complete within the section. Every resident of the United States hen the right to to Halifax, and there to pleases; bub it is not lawful enlist in any army th oF for a person to engage another here to.go to Halifax for that porcose, Ib is the hiring of the person to go be- yond the United States, that person having the inten- tion 10 enlist whey he arrives out, and that intention known to the party hi him, and that intention being 4 portion of the consideration, because of which he hires him, that defines the offence. I believe, that after making this comment upon the Jaw, I might pass on to the fact; but it vccura to me to add, thai you are not to require proof of the connexion of the defendant with each particular fact and civeu stance which haa been given in evidence, to show the working out of the general plan, Ji you believe the witnesses, the object here was to effectuate an enlistment beyond the borders ot the Uni- ted States, and yet eseape fron the provisions of this section; to do eflectively and yet not seem to do. If you are satinfied, no matter what was the avowed object of the party, no matter what the pretext. if you are sutis- fied that Henry Herta was here engaged in hiring and retaining men to go off to Nova Seotia, there ta enlist, that being their intention, and he believing that it was so, and therefore hiring them; then, no matter what was the costume or mank which the transaction wore, he has committed the offence charged in the bill of gndict- ment. On the rotion for a new trial the following instea tions from Mr. Cushing, which have given rise to such violent comments on the part of the English journals, were read :-— THE HON. CALEB CUSHING TO J. C. VAN DYCKE, EN@., UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, PHILADELPHIA. ANTORNEY GENERAL'S Orvice, Sept. 12, 1855, $in;—In reply. to your lettor of the 10th inst., on the subject of the indictments panding against persons charged with recruiting for the military service of Great Britain, Ihave the honor to make the following obsec- vations:— Mr. SieKeon has been advised of the desirabl conferricg with you personally, either by himsol! or his assistent, in regard to new evidence, to which hs may have acces, and which can be useful to you. I suggest the exyediency of trying only a part of the cases now, eapecially if you fail to convict in 4ome leading case. But the most important consideration is thi::— This guvernment has, of course, addressed to that of Great Britain, such demands of public redress and satis- faction in the premises, as the national honor requires. But the government of Great Britain, with inary inattention to the grave uspect of its acts, namely, the fiugiant violation ot our ae rights involved in them, bas supposed it a sufficient Justification of what it has done, to reply that it gave in structions to its agents so to proceded as not to infringe our municioal laws; and it quoter the remarks of Jadge Kane in support of the idea that it has succeeded in this purpose. It may be 30. Judge Kane is on upright and Sualligent Judge, and will ounce the Inw ws 1; is, without fear or favor, But if @ British ‘nment bas, by ious contr.vances, sneceeded fn, eheltering its agents from conviction as malefactors, it has, in 60 doing, double1 the magnitude of the national wrong inflicted on the United States. This government ha: done its duty of internal administration in proseentivg the individuals en- goged in ihese acts. If they are acquitted by reason of a deliberate undertuking Of the British goverment te, asa nation, our sovereign rights aa & 0 10 evade our municipal laws—ani that undertaking shall be consummated. by ita ugenta in the United States—when ail this hall have beew judicially ascertained, the President will then have betore him the e‘cments of decision as to what international action it becomes the United Statcs to adept in so important a matter. iam, very respectfully, ©. CUSHING. Jas. C. Van Dyk, Faq., U. 8: “Attorney, Philadelphia. Arrons¥y GENERAL'S OFvicR, ept. 17, 1855. Sir:—I dese to make a further svggestion fp regard to the trial of parties charged with recrutting soldiers in the United States for the service of the British govern- ment. It is known that instructions on thix subject were givan by that government to its officers in the United States, We are told. by Lord. Clarendon that those offivera tad “stringent instructions” so to proceed as not to violate the municipal Iaw—that fs, to violate its spirit, bat not ite letter. If 0, the instructions themselves violate the ee rights of the United States, But, inthe meantime, every Consul of Great Britain in the United States is, by the svouah ol bis government, subject to the just suspicion of breach of law; while, ap- parently, he must either havo disobeyed his own gasern ment, or, in obeying it, hove abused his consular fune tions’ by’ the viclation of his international duty to the United § es. In these efreumstances ft is deemed highly nezessary that the British Consul at Philadelphia, or any other officer of the Britich guvernment, shall not be anffered to inierfere in the trials, as be attempted to do on a previous oceasion—that oo letter of his be read, except in the due formn of evidence, and that if he have anything to say, he shail ke put on the stand by the defonce, in order that he may be fully cross-examine! by the prosecution, Ti is clear that he has no right, by any rule of public law, or of international comity, to be Lies in the case by the court otherwise than a& a witness, whether en- forced or volunteer. 1 have the honor to be, very respect- fully. ©. CUSHING. Jas. C. Vay Dyke, Beq,, U, 8. Attorney, Philadelphia. In the confession put in by the defendant we have evi dence of the active port which the Briish Minister, Mr. Crampton, tovk in these proceedings, ‘The following is Hertz’s account of bis first introduction to him: INTERVIEW BETWEEN HERT2 AND CRAMPTON, Two or three weeks afterwards T went to Washihgton, and was introduced by many gentlemen by letters to Mc. Crampton. Chad obtsined ‘these letters without telling thore gentlemen the object of my visit—but before de- livering any of these letters of introduction T addressed note to Mr. Crampton, requesting an iaterview with him; that note did not «tate the object of the interview. Tac principal object of my virit to Mr. Crampton was to as- certain whether I could safely embark in this enterprise, Iwas stoppmg at Willard’s Hotel, and in reply to my Treceived the note marked A. After the receipt of this note I called on Mr. Crampton, at his residence: it was on Sundey mornirg whea [ called; I saw Mr. Crampton; he said in substanee:— Your letters of introduction assure me that [ aay have fall sonf- dence in you; I have vot sufficient authority yet from the hime’ government with vegard to the mutter, but T expect early authority from Lord Clarendon, | have already received a letter from Lord Clarendon, in- quiring bow many men might be enlisted in this country for British service, and what the United States govern ment would think of such an attempt. Tean tell you this, that if you embark ix this matter you can make a great Ceal of inoney ; iv procuring of men for the Englich rervice should be undertaken. it ill be very advantage- ous to you ; but I expect a letter trom Lord Ciarenden by the next steamer, which may be expected in eight ur ten cays, giving me full explauations and instrnetiona how the matter is to be gopducted.”” In this conversation he bad seference to enlistments in this country for the Cri- mean war, He stated thet he had answered Lord Claren- don’s first letter, and that the letter he expected was in reply to his anewer, He di” not state the contents of his ws Wot JQ Lord Clarendon’s letter, He then wy have tbo nubte ApS go te Tey, Bh when ETedtos Lord Clarendon’s letier I will write to you.” J returned to Vbiladetphia, and should have thought nothing more of the subject, but about the 6th of February, 1855, I re- received a lotter from Mr. Crampton, through the Post Office, which letter is hereto snnexed, marked B. Leent im a telegraphic despatch that 1 was too much @ to come to Washington now, but that T would call upon him at Washiagton as soon as my time would permit {t. Of his second vicit, he says — Lwent some days afterwards, kay three or four days, to Washingtca, and saw Mr. Cram at his private j be was indisposed; 1 told bimT had recetyed and desired to know what I had to do; Mv. Crampton replied, “I have received a letter from Lord Clarendon which hed 43 the stat it ant the British government has made afrangéments to éstaliish do; at ecme place in Canada, on the frontier of the United States, in order to receive the men who may be procured in the United Statee, In pursuance of this taf rant fon, I have sent my special messenger to the Governor General of Canaca and to the Commanding General of the troops in Canada, (whowe sane, 1 believe, is, Roy.) requesting ts may them to designate the places where a be GF. tablished for the reception of persons who way be pro- eured In the United States,’? Fintormed Mr, Ceampton that | had ineurred expenses already by coming twice to Weshington, and that I would have to waste more time until the messenger rturned, and that I would have to neglect my business; I therefore requested him to refund to me the expenses already incurred by me. Mr. Cramp- ton replied, ‘I have at present no money at my disposal, and have oa ae to give you any, but lam certsin pea will be paid mot only for your services, nt that your expenses re; to you, 1 atked Mr. Cramyton what was to be done? How is the matter to be conducted? He said, ‘‘as far as I know there is a law in the United States forbidding the enlisting of soldiers within the territory of the Unites Stater—it is, however, not difficult to e this law, br- cause Who can prevent you from send laborers Canada; but we must take care to do this in such a wa: that it sball not ap; in defiance of the government. My idea is farther, that if you have twenty-five or thirt Or some other con pe Ay , that either yourself dential should take them direct by rail Montreal, where, I think, a depot may honey then acked him. “when do you think this maicoe wlil _—— aobstrugtad by ire will eall cx a rhea i aa Me relare feos Ganee us on his cetarn from ms da, and will give you the sary information, In tho meantime you may callon our Consul, Mr. Matthew, uz Philadelphia, and be (Mr. M.) will probably be able’ to give you the necessary instruction,” It is somewhat novel in the history of digloraacy, for @ foreign representative to be detected in the overt act of advising another as to the means by which be might be enabled to violate with impunity the laws of the country to which he is aceredited. And yet, if we are to believe’ this witness, such was the position in which the: Britists Minister placed himself. ‘The tion with regard to the procuring men was ar Pat vencrted agets to the taw vente nee tee subject. is mace ir. T asked him ‘how am I backed in case a cha’ against me—I have a wite and children,” Crampton replied, ‘first that thelaw was ex iy lax—and secondly, that if anything should happen, British ent would not w any one te suffer: ahoded deen in assisting them in farnishi the Male F ak BA popeles, ‘voice 18 this matter;’ bu: Mr, Crampton sald ‘‘never mind thin error voice; if a house im Liverpool fails, tha whole United States tremoles,’’ After Mr. Crampton had given me such askurai and had used the ‘T give you my word as gentleman that un- leasant shall happrn to you,”’ I thea made up my mind act for the itish government, Before Mr. pton assured me that he would seni aman to my heuse in Philadelphia, who would make such arrange- ments with meas woald enable me to procure men, and send them to their destination, Tt in not necestary for us to pursue the details of thit case further. Our readers have been made sufficiently familiar with them by the public journals, With regard to the entistment scheme ftaelf. the Eng- lish government ovly abandoned it when it found that ita agents were in the grasp of the law and that it could no longer be carried on without seriously endangering the pacific relations of the two countries. 1¢ waa a con- cession to necessity, for which the people of this country owe it but little acknowledgement. ‘The punishment in- Micted on the partios who were induced to become its in~ struments, will effectually prevent any further attempts ofthissort, It is no proof of the spirit of our administra tion that the penalty of the offence should have been suf- flered to fall solely on the subordinate agenis in the transactfon. THE EFFECT IN ENGLAND OF THESE IM- PORTANT MOVEMENTS. FIRST SUGGESTION OF FORKIGN ENLISTMENT IN- TRIS COUNTRY ATTRIBUTED TO GENERAL WEBB. [From the London Globe, Oct. 21.) ff the long any looge tongues and pens of potitical law yers coull ret two great nations at war, Mr. Attorney Cushing wight have as fair a chance of doing so now as Mr, Solicitor Wedderburne had, and made use of, now not far from a cestury back, “ She only excuse,” say the New York Courier did Enquirer, ‘which has been, or can be, offered for che Attorney Genexal and the overmment is, (heir desire to get up difliculty wit Great Britain, to influence the approscliing election# and enbai coatest of 1856, We indulge the hope whet thi plomatic outrage will be thus understoot abroad, ond that tt may not iad to wost the sdmigietes tion 50 earnesily desire—ihe prospect of a serious difficulty with ‘Knglend.”’ Tt must be ® matter of most earnest vegret to those who are friends both of Fogland and America and who feel, with the while en- lightened public of both counties, thelr mutuai interest ir. maintaining unbrokea relations of amity—to observe how, fiom time to tine, the most sincere efforts by the best men on both sides t» malutaia those relations, may be frusuaies Ly some paltry calculation of faction, “t was named,” says the late Lord Holland, in his ical “Memoirs” of his party, ‘Joint Commussioner with Lord ‘Auckland (undor the whig Ministry of 1808) to egotiate with Mr, Monroe and Mr. Pinckney (the United States Jenipotentiasics). The two gentlemen were empowered fo conclude a treaty of commerce whicle should regulate all disputed points, and place the twa countries permanently on a more amicable footing. We found the two American Comodssioners fair, explicit, frank andintelligent. They ex ceded their iastructions by signs a ireaty which Jefi the article of impressment un- c led * © * * ® Upon this omission, and apom other more frivolous pretexts, but with the real purponea aud effect of defeating Mr. Moaroe’s views on the Presi- dentehip, Mr. Jefferson refused to ratify a treaty whicl: would huye secured hia countrymen from all farther vexations, and prevented u war between two nations, whore habits, language, und interests should unite theat in perpetual all ance and good fellowship.”” It would be strange, indeed, if this enlistinent ques‘ion could be in- flated by any atuount of forensic or diplomatic ingenuity to the dimensione ot those really tremendous stumbling: blocks and rocks of offence which lay between the twa uations in 1§06-12, Men like Monroe and Pinckney, (the former of whom had come to England with strong ja~ dices against our institutions, and frankly ackno that he found our monarchy tore of a repubsic than cer- tain States abroad, which still called themselves sepub- lies, but bad stiffened into despotic monarchies) m like Monroe and Pinckney were willing to get round the difficulty they could not get over. But their cordial coincidence with the English Commis- sioners in this endeavor made shipwreck against the thort-lived executive at home—which was looking ahead to the election. How exacily the situation is mow re- peated ! What is the chance ofa war with com - pare¢ with the more immediate calculation of cai the Irisli, Southern, or far Western yote? We hope there is now in America as in England, whose voice ishonest efforts to raise “po- litieal capital’’ out of national ciscords. Every one must remember the prompt deferemsé manifested by Lord Pal- merstoa, in the last session of Parliament, to the suscep- tibility of the Americas government, as soon aa it was known, on the subfect of evlistment. But really it would not have been previously vory easy to anticipate the tone taken on that sanject, ‘7 is distinetly in our recollection thal the first se is the Me an American mn hw gh Oe lunteer rifles wight be had for the asking. worthy Gawral Web, (editor of the Courier and Inquérer,> vent farther, and lnwily proclaimed that the Ame pele would rally en masse to our side, needed their aid. We never placed {nor dinite reliance on these assurances. We never doubted that, in the prorpect of a Presidential contest, any move would be hazarced which would bring a poy ‘breeze for the moment into ide suils of the party of power. We speak plainly; for it 1) usoless to hide our heads in the sand like ostriches, that we may not see what lies straight Lefore us, as if not to see were not to be seen, or assailed, And it is worse than usele:s—it is ne more cousistent with plein trath than with common patriotism—to pretend that our government, whether in werd or deed, i8 chargeable with provoking American enmily, But Fnglith spirit and Ivish spirit are showing themselves prepared to meet whatever is menaced by lawless adventure from the other side the Atlantio— whatever direction it may take against ovr commerce, or (isum fenrdlis?) against our coasts. And FAmerican spirit, we do sincerely hope, will show itself net leas firmly determniced that reckless and unscrupulous parti- rans—iepresenting no on» quality which honors Ameri: can chaiacter, or can promote American pi s—shall not misreprevent that character, nor obstruct that pro gress, by fixing a quarrel on friend ANOTHER JOUKNAL FIXES IT ON MR. BUCHANAN. (Prom the London Chronicle, November 2,} We are row put in possession of what we sappose must be taken as ihe case of the British Government in the pending dispute with the Unived States of America. A statement, "evidently emanuting from offictal sources, bax been published, purporting > give the origin and history of the quarrel,’ together wilt the position in whish iv stood at the date of the last advices from the Unite States, From that statement, we find the fact confirme: which we ventured to assert on Wednescay, that the'Bri- tish government was ‘r+t led to seek recruits for the Foreign Legion in the United States, on account of the sympathy expres! in the cause of the “Alice ty the inhal- tants of the Union themeelecs and not least by Mre Bucha nan, the American Minister at the Court of St. James. At the same time, orders were given that the mosv serupulous care should be taken in enlistments not to violate the muniet Inws ofthe United States, a precaution, we tmagine, which was intended ra(her to prevent Russian con plaints of America violating het professed than from any fear that her government and would throw ‘erious obstacles inthe way. Bat as the war proceeded, and the phil>Russian temper of the Americans became more apparent, her a govern ment saw the mistake they had committed, without Peon for official remonstrances, they ly recalled their agents, and desisted from the attompt. However, the mis was dono, Some of the subor- dinate agents turned traitors—and the trials took place, we all know with what result, It that fe the meyntime, the Cabinet of Proeident inseructes thelr Minister in Toulon to remonstrate these vielotions of thelr usanicipal Jaw, committed by the agents aud under tho sanction of the British at, and to demand taut all recruiting should hencefortt ceave. To this Lord Clarendon answered that the de. mands cf the Amoricar government had been antiel —that the ogents had been recalled, and the pan Ne termingjed. In addition to Me apologise and explanations which pro cy to the Ameri- can Minister. But they had a different his Cabinet at home. Another despatch was transmitted this country, of which all we are yet permitted to know is that it was couched tn am uncon ome, and seme designed vather to provoke than to " ‘Bh British Cabinet, we are inf rmed, did not lose ita temper Ree by a des teh, mild but dignified; and then th- shige of war were deampatched to second the inftwence of diplo macy. $0 the matter at prevent stsnda, “ * * * « ‘We are willing to believe that the case put forward for our government contsins an securate statement of ibe facts aud that whatever mistake may have been t first, has been pu: in the oe and candid disputant, by pep pity feersetion. But we would put it to the good sense and wisdom of the American whether the dispute itself, taking it in ‘te broaclest features, fs one for two great nation» ought to go to war’ We cannot ‘a stronger #n tire on the whole rystem of di y than the admission thatit is unable to settle a pal like this, What ‘dispute eh, ir) arene of ambassador* with a array and attachis, if o'mmeake, tracted as soon as discovered, and ee for as complained of—a mistake which sensible men tor five minuter—can only be a this case by fire and blood country there is one universal feeling with America, and that if we are it will be with more reluctance th: before. Hut the sword once drawn, sure thot such temper will long continue, It is waid that is no real intention President Pierce and his ministers to tilities, and that their sole object is to agitation and biuster throughout the Union with a view to influence the Presidential election of 1856. We are slow to believe that any men would be 80 reekices ord unprincipled sa to trifle in this manner is & government for} and ministers, of secrets: ® ifs is it 34 g . { z i ai 33 a 8 & ti zt HT commence? Mr, Ceampton taid, OT ew © | with the eeliure of toeir own country. That, however y sot, Deeauee my er wil porta s | ieee tle American: ts evasider. Oar eontes cin tetuvnieg to. Wasblogton very 1 kar. 3 tbat ay a nee