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Sasvenroo1—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Heratp ‘wil embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at (Me office during the previous week, and to the hour of pablication. The News. Our correspondence from Paris, and the extracts which we give from the English and French jour- ‘ais in reference to the differences between Great Britain and the United States, will be read with in- terest. Whatever turn these difficulties may take, it seems to be the prevailing opinion in France that ta government should take no other part in them than that of offering its friendly mediation. The ea is universally scouted that, in the event of a war between the two countries, France should in ‘any more active way lend her support to Great Bri- tain. The French Emperor has been heard to declare that there is no possibility of such a contest at pre- sent; but he has, nevertheless, given orders that a frigate of war should be despatched to the Central American coast, to be kept there en surveillance. ‘We translate a remarkable article from the Assem- blee Nationale on the questions at issue between this country and Great Britain. It reproduces some of ‘the views frequently expressed by us in reference to the absurdity of England charging us with filibus- tering tendencies, when her policy and practice for centuries have been of that character. The entente ¢ordiale has evidently not blinded the French to the pharisaical pretences of their English allies. ‘The news by the Atlantic hed the effect yesterday #0 check sales of cotton, which were confined to bout 500 and 900 bales in lots, closing at prices which afforded no just criterion of the state of the warket so far as quotations were concerned. Hold- ers remained strong in their views, while buyers seemed unwilling to enter the market freely withou some concession in their favor. Though the re- seipts of flour the past week from the interior ‘amounted to 89,550 barrels, wheat to 270,364 bush- els, and corn to 237,444 bushels, yet the foreign news hhad a tendency to advance prices. Flour advanced, for common and medium to good aud extra grades, and especialiy for Ohio and Indiana brands, from 102. @ 15c. per barrel, and on some lines of a particalar brand, to fill an immediate order for shipment, 20c. per barrel advance was obtained. The market for Canadian and Southern, though firm, especially for the latter, was less excited. Prime wheat was gearce and drm, while common and medium quali- ties sold freely at full prices, the heaviest transac- ‘tions having been made in Western varieties. Corn was from 1c. a 2c. per bushel higher. Pork was firmer, with sales of mes at $19 37, and at the close mone of conseqnence could be bought under $19 50. Lard was firmer, with sales of barrels at 1ljc. Cof- dee was quiet; 1,000 mats Java were sold at l4ic. Freights were steady, with pretty free engagements of breadstaix to British ports. Whiskey advanced to 3lc gallon. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Toombs gave notice’ of another plen for the pacification of Kansas. He proposes to have a census taken of the population of the Territory, a registration of voters for the pro- tection of the freedom of the ballot box, and an election of dclegates to a convention to form acon stitution, pieparatory to the admission of Kansas asa S as early as practicable. Mr. Evans made B speech in vindication of South Caroliaa’s revola- tionary exploits and in reply to Mr. Sumner. In the Hou:e, in accordance with previous arrangement, Territorial business was taken op. The bill pro- viding for the survey of the southern boundary of Kansas was passed. The bill authorizing the people of Oregon to forma State government was considered. Pending an amendment requiring Oregon to havea population equal to the ratio of representation established by the last census, the Houre adjourned. Ex-President F ore is just now a lion among the Know Nothings. Yesterday his quarters at the St. Nicholas were besiezed by his admirers from early morning until long after the hour when honest people ought to be abed. In veference to the carrent report that he would withdraw his name from the Presidential canvass, Mr. Fillmore stated to one of the committee men who waited apon him that it was his determination to stand by the American party ; “and until that party sees fit to withdraw my name,”’’said he, “ it will not be withdrawn.” The public reception cumes off to-day, when a procession will escort the guest of the city to the City Hall, where he will re- main until two o'clock in the afternoon, to receive the congratulations of his fellow citizens. The Spanish steamship Iajaro del Oceano, frora Havana, 1{th inet., »ouad to Cadiz, arrived at this port yesterday. She brings no news of importanse The second annual regatta of the Empire City and Metropolitan Clabs came off yesterday at Har- Jem. The weather was in every respect suitable to the occasion, and the attendance of spectators the largest ever present at any similar spectacle in our waters. For the champion race there were four en. tries, but owing to two of the boats turning the stake boat wrong the judges decided that the Ame- Fica, rowed by ephen Roberts, was entitled to tthe first prize (#50), and the Adopted Citizen, rowed bby Mr. Peter Fay, to tue second prize ($20). A fall account of the reports of tlie day may be found else- where in our columns. The Republican Central Committee of this city met last night and endorsed the nomination of Fre- mont and Dayton, ed the platform on which they stand. Arrangemen‘s were also made for a grand ratification meeting it the Tabernacle next Wed- nesday evening. The violent thunder stu'tm of Sunday afternoon caused more damage than was at first supposed. Several buildings in this city were struck by light ning, and a woman was killed in Brookly. from the game cause. Throughout portions of New Jersey considerable damage was done. An “coun; of the disasters is given in another soluma. NEW ‘YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1856. Policy of Mr. ene... ame One of our Wall street cotemporaries, ambi- tious, perhaps, of that important distinction which every paper setting itself up as the regular dem- ocratic organ ot this city has suffered, Gomes magnanimously to the relief of Mr. Buchanan, from his Ostend manifesto, and undertakes am ex- position in bebalf of his foreign policy of the most amiable, conciliatory and pacific character. In this singular exptanation of the sound conser- vatism of the Cincinnati nominee, and the position which he occupies, we have a lame apology of special pleading for the Cincinnati platform, fol- Jowed by the strongest assurances to the Wall strect brokers, that Mr. Buchanan’s elegant letter of acceptance is‘an ark of perfect safety against all possible contingencies of danger. But what is the real value of this velvety letter upon which such great stress is laid? Substantially it is but the acceptance of the Cincinnati nomination and the resolutions annexed. It is such a letter as would most pro- bably have been written by Mr. Douglas, or Gen. Quitman, or by Mr. Soulé himself, or any other man, conservative or filibuster, selected as the Presidential candidate of the great democratic party. It is intended for peaceable people, and to quiet them. It is full of generalities and pleasing declarations signifiying, in fact, little or nothing. Ina word, as the key to the foreign policy of Mr. Buchanan, our Wall street cotem- porary gives this letter entirely too much impor- tance. We are not to look for the real adminis- trative opinions or purposes of Mr. Buchanan in this polite and charming paper for the campaign. When the lion would be amiable his claws are always concealed. We must go to the history, the official acts, the repeated and deliberate opin- ions, and the political antecedents and associations of Mr. Buchanan as the data for our judgment of both his domestic and his foreign policy. We do not say this from any feeling of hostility to Mr. Buchanan, nor with any view to contribute to his defeat; for we presume that he will be elected without much difficulty, considering the sense- lees distractions and divisions among the oppo- sition ranks. We are, however, by no means disposed to see the nominee of the democracy extolled in one quarter as a filibuster, and in another as a model of peace and Christian cha- rity. He is with the filibusters or against them. Give us his history, his acts, his opinions and the platform upon which he declares himself to stand, and we shall be able to understand his position without the aid of an interpreter. For the last two or three years Mr. Buchanan has filled the responsible office of our Minister to England; and it is scarcely necessary here to say that through the whole of this interval he has been charged with the most delicate and im- portant negotiations. But itis equally notorious that during these three years o busy corres- pondence with the British government, Mr. Bu- chanan, supported and strengthened by Messrs. Pierce and Marcy, instead of settling the Central American dispute or the Crampton embroglio, only aggravated the causes of quarrel, in both cases, to the fighting point, and returned home with the question of “ Will there be war?” the prevailing inquiry on both sides the Atlantic. It may be said that Mr. Buchanan was hampered by the administration, and that his own views and inclinations were constantly arrested and countermanded by his instructions from Wash- ington. But this plea is hardly admissable in the case of Mr. Buchanan. Unquestionably his netructions harmonized with his own views, or he would, or should, have thrown up his com- mission. He no young neophyte in pub- lic affairs, to play the part of a mere schoolboy. There was a sympathy of some sort, or a desirable object, common to the President, the Premier and the Minister, or they could never have jogged along for three years so comfortably together, albeit they were on the downhill road to universal war. Mr. Bu- chanan, therefore, must share in the responsibili- ties of the administration, touching our relations with England, and the critical pass in which we now find them. The moment that Mr. Souls was convinced that there could be no harmony be- tween his Spanish policy and that of Secretary Marcy, that moment our high spirited Minister to Spain threw up his appointment. Marcy's letter upon that Ostend manifesto was enough for Soul’; but it was not so with Mr. Buchanan, whose name is the first appended to that docu- ment. He accepted the rebuke without recant- ing the act, and returned to his post at London, as ready to filibuster there in obedience to Mr. Pierce, as at Ostend and Aix-la-Chapelle in de- fiance of Marcy. No Wall street apologist or party organ can do away with this record of es- tablished facts. If we are not mistaken, that Ostend manifesto was designed as @ coup d’.tat against the Secreta- ry of State, and if our memory be not at fault, euch men as Cushing, Jeff. Davis, Forney, Soule and others, bent upon a filibustering foray, were concerned in the plot. Had Marcy quailed before that Ostend conference, and accepted their mani- festo as the policy of the adininistration, doubt- less at this moment we should be enjoying the exciting luxury of a war, by land and sea, against the combined powers of England, France and Spain, from Canada to Cuba, and all over the globe. It is to Marey that we are in- debted for the rejection of that Ostend firebrand. As far «#s the name and influ- ence of Mr. Buchanan could go, the Ostend programme was declared the policy of our gov- ernment, the policy of strong arm, the policy of settling the Cuba question aa William the Con- queror settled his dispute concerning the crown of England. This has been the filibuster’s policy from the time of the first great overland expedi tion of the ancieat Israelites down to the late East India annexation of the kingdom of Oude by Lord Dalhousie. But for the interposition of our hard-headed, self-willed Secretary Marcy, this same policy would have been adopted as the rump card of our administration from Cincin- nati. To the extent of Mr. Buchanan’s authority, as an Areaigem Minister abroad, this policy, we repeat, was adepted ; nor have we had the slight- est intimation from Mr. Buchanan, direct or indi- rect, that he has repented of, or changed his views upon, this subject. It cannot be questioned that with the filibusters at Cincinnati the Ost manifesto was the crowning glory and “manifest destiny’ of “ Pennsylvania's favorite son.” The Cincinnati platform harmonizes with filibustering music. It plays the same ove to the same bloody drama of glory, fire, and desolation, Mr. Buchanan, in his leit acceptance, and in the domestic quiet of tirement at Wheatland, gently covers over the rough and forbidding features of this grizzly and roffianly looking Cincinnati platform. The roffian, however, is still behind the veil, Mr. Buchanan accepts him, and for this campaign they are Jinked arm and arm together. Sup: of i re. pose that in good faith the sage of Wheatland bad resolved upon the saving policy of “peace @'.d good will to men” the wide world ever— what security have we, recurring to that Ostend manifesto, against the return of the same malign influences with his departure for the White House? If a half dozen, more or Jess, mis- chieyous and restless spirits, anxious te Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs-ef war, could co overcome all sense of right, dignity, justice, magnanimity, and decorum in the mind of Mr. Buchanan, at Ostend and Aix4a-Chapelle, as to secure the weight of his mame to their “doom’s day” proclamation, what guarantee have we against these evil spirits when they shall surround him in ehoals at Washington, backed up, as they will be, by kis additional en- dorsement of the Cincinnati platform? The simple truth is, that Mr. Buchanan is na- turally a cautious, conservative and moderate man; but he is also an amiable man, amiable and iractable to the immediate infaences around him. The events we have detailed show that he may be moulded and wielded by these influences, be they wholesome or pernicious; and the great fear is that the bad advisers who held him by the button at Ostend will still be found the closest to his ear at Washington. Had he a tithe of the moral courage and positive individuality of Andrew Jackson or Henry Clay, we might con- template his election with perfect composure and security; but where years and experience have failed to establish a self-relying chgracter, we may well be allowed our misgivings So, too, may the filibusters be excused their belief that the election of the Cincinnati candidate will be the inauguration of their Cinciaati platform. The Sober, Second Thought in England. On reading carefully the fles of the British journals brought by the Atantic, one perceives that the English have arrived at their sober, second thought on the Ameican question sooner than had been expected. ‘hough they were uni- versally satisfied that My. Crampton had been dismissed, they had no offcial knowledge of the fact. The Asia, which carried out the despatch, also carried out the cenfident assertiep of our correspondent that tke dismissal would take place, but aothing more; yet, still, the British public took it so thoroughly for granted, that by the time the official news reaches them it will be stale. Let us, in the first place, congratulate the world on the absolute certainty of the mainte- nance of peace. There have been times when great nations have gone to war for less than the dismissal of a minister. It has happened more than once that—some unexpected event happen- ing to arouse public feeling during the pendency of delicate negotiations—the peace of the world has been disturbed on nore slender pretexts than now exist for a third British war. An example which all but Englishmen will admit to be in point occurred two zears ago, when the de- struction of the Turkish Jeet at Sinope aroused a feeling in England which compelled the Aber- deen Ministry to declare var against its will. A similar accident happening in Central America— and the affair of the Orizaba and Eurydice warned us to prepare for some such—might, at one moment, have led to eqially disastrous results here. Let us be thankful that the departure of Mr. Crampton has remeved one chance of colli- ion by damming up one wellspring of bitterness. And let us also be grateful to the English for having the sense to see—they could hardly yet be expected to have the abnegation to confess— hat Mr. Crampton’s dismissal was right and pro- per, and that it ought not to interrupt amicable relations between the countries, In course of time, when the asperities of the moment have been smoothed down, the English will be candid enough to acknowledge that the American government, however tardily, has really pursued the course best calculated to pre- serve the peace between the countries; and that however grateful it might be to the wounded feelings of some such statesmen as compose the present British Ministry, to put the United States in national coventry as a punishment for their forwardness, the best, the most sensible, the only practical course is to draw the pen through the Crampton accoust, and simply begin a new one. We have every confidence that this will be the course adopted. Mr. Dallas will not probably be dismissed—though journals in the confidence of the ministry, like the 7imes and the Economist, have said he would. A new man will be sent here— some such statesman as the Earl of Elgin—in whose pacific tendencies every confidence can be placed, and who shall not be liable, as his predecessor was, either to misrepresent facts in his official correspondence, or to for- get the respect due to the government to which he was accredited. And on this side of the water—whatever party or whatever men happen to be in the ascendant at the time—we can vouch for it that the new British Minister will be receiv- ed here with a cordiality as warm as his prede- decessor’s departure was obscure. England, it seems, has many lessons yet to learn in reference to this country ; the Crampton case still leaves her education incomplete in this par- ticular. It is not true, as the English suppose, that the “ ruling classes” in this country are riot- ous, noisy mobs, who clamor for war with England. The class in this country which keeps alive the ery for war with England is mostly composed of persons who have brought their anti-English spirit across the ocean with them; they compose the merest fraction of the people ; their influence is absolutely nothing ; they are allowed to write and allowed to speak just as they please, because the laws of this land aid the temper of this peo- ple tolerate no restrictions on writing and speak- ing ; but so far from leading the American inind, they owe to the large spirit of American liberal- ity alone the license of foolish speech on which they live. Among the masses of this country there is a deep rooted, steady attachment to peace. Americans do not generally believe—it must be confessed—that they have been well treated by England. ‘They do not think the English have ever been disposed to deal fairly by them from the days of 1776 to the pre- sent time. They are under the impression that the English judge them and theirsin a mean, narrow-minded, jealous spirit. And if this im- pression be ill founded, as no doubt it is in some respects, it must be admitted that it derives a color of plausibility from the language and con- duct of Englishmen here: every body cannot be expected to know that the Englishmen here to do business are generally poor sp. of their race. But in epite of all this, thc of this country is for peace. All our interests are for peace. All our wishes, our aims, our hopes are for peace. War—unless it be a war with come power so insignificant as to be not dangerons—is, of all possible events, the one that would do ws most injury. And therefore it ie safe to say that of all nations in the world this iv, in fact, the most conservative, and yery Ikely the one that would submit to most inconvenience —as it has done in times past—before it would go to war with any one. It will be well for the British to convince them- selves of this, as in the event of future disputes a knowledge of our pacific disposition would no doubt relieve them from the necessity of assum- ing belligerent tone in fancied self-defence. Let them thoroughly understand that we do not desire, dq not intend to go to war with them— unless we are driven to it—either on the Cramp- ton question, or on the Central American ques- tion, or on any other question. What we want is to buy and sell with them, not to cut their throata. The United States—being, or considering themselves, a first class Power—would, of course, sacrifice no right for the sake of peace. But, unless the character of their people has vastly changed of late, they are so conscious of the folly and mischief of war, and of the invaluable advantages of peace, that there are very few affronts they would not swallow, at least for a considerable period of time, before they would plunge the na- tion into hostilities, The rise in stocks in Wall ttreet yesterday shows how the feeling runs there. Ignorance of the London Press In Regard to American Politics. The London Times, in one of its recent articles, takes to task that portion of the American peo- ple who sit still amid our political struggles and permit themselves to be governed, or jeoparded, or ruined, as the case may be, by those who make politics their business and their trade. We hear, says the Zimes, of a large class of Americans, intellectual, wealthy, and refined, who take little or no part in the management of public affairs ; content to utter a negative now and then, but rarely rising to affirmative action. This the Times considers a cause of just reproach, and it feels it- self called upon to administer a few words of admonition to those who are so insensible to their political duties. That thore is much truth in this we cannot but admit, yet the Zimes does not think as deeply or philosophize as profoundly on this subject as it might. ra is the fault of all English statesmen and po- liticians that they look upon government as the end of civilization, and not its instrument. The possession of its offices is with them the real ob- ject of all just and noble ambition, and all the policy of parties, and all the progress of events are subordinated, if possible, to getting a foothold near the throne, or, in other words, becoming the government. This is, then, the idea of government in England —the possession of the executive authority, gene- rally sought for by men of noble birth, great in- heritances and commanding talents, From this limited class England derives her political guar- dians, and the people at large, as voters, have but little opportunity of changing them. Here and there a popular triumph resounds through the land, and has its effect on some particular measure, but the government—the machine—re- mains in form and peculiarity the same. It is the power of ruling, not the result, which influences English politics. Quite different is it with us under our institu- tions. So precise are the terms of our national and State constitutions, that there can be but very little variation in the conduct of public affairs. It was De Tocqueville, we believe, who remarked onthe great sameness which prevailed in the public character of our Presidents. They seemed to have put him in mind of that antiquated sys- tem of landscape gardening, Where every alle: its brother, And half the platforl but reflects the other. And, indeed, when we look back at the admi- nistrations of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Adams, they appear very much alike in tone and manner. We almost forget the order in which they succeeded each other. We defy any one, on the instant, to name their Secretaries correctly. ‘The constitution has been the bed of Procrustes; those officials who were too long for it had to be shortened; those who were too short have been stretched out. Thus their stature has been much alike, It is not, then, the government, nor the man at its helm, which fixes exclusively the attention of the American people. If we are protected in our private rights, we may enjoy liberty and pursue happiness undisturbed by tyranny: we have gained precisely and exactly what we wanted to obtain from government. If we may tranquilly follow our tastes and undisturbed en- joy the blessings which God and nature offer us, this is proof enough that we have as much govern- ment asis necessary, and our object, to do with as little as possible, is attained. If the large, perhaps the largest, portion of our population are indifferent to the passing elections, it is because they realize the assurance that there isa great uniformity, of necessity, in the administration of our laws, and that one set of men in power are very like those who have gone before them. It is the confidence we have in the surviving of our constitutional authority over temporary clamor which prevents so many from taking an active part in politics. For, out of twenty-four millions of people there are only about three millions and a quarter of voters, and out of these, two hundred thousand briefless lawyers and idlers, without business, control the result; and those who do not vote are quite as happy and as valuable citizens as those who rush noieily to the polis without these convictions of permanence and security. The American peo- ple are ready enough, notwithstanding, to act upon emergencies, and with a vigor which no mere party combination can resist, Thus, when the administration of John Quincy Adame became distasteful to the people, because they considered he had obtained his election by an unfair coalition in the House, Gen. Jackson, a new man, totally unconnected with any party, was elected to succced him almost by acclamation. When Mr. Van Buren’s administration became disastrous in consequence of the effect of his measures on the commercial and manufacturing interests of the country, General Harrison was taken from his farm and placed in the chair of state by an overwhelming majority. Gene- ral Taylor was also carried into the Presi- dency in the face of official patronage and every existing combination ; and so even now, if Mr. Pierce had been re-nominated it is believed he could not carry a single State. Or, if the oppo- nents of the present administration had a common bond of union, the defeat of the Cincinnati can- didate would be beyond a doubt. Therefore we say again the 7imes does not un- derstand the philosophy of the case, and we have, we think, explained it. But although we have this confidence in the patriotiem and determination of even the most quiet and passive of our population, and know that when they move they are a perfect cataract, bearing away forever all that impedes the majee- tic flow of the great stream of liberty, neverthe- Jers it is the duty of the independent press not to relax Me vigilance. It must do its duty, watgy | e the rising and the falling of the current of time and events, and announce them like faithful sen- tinels, to those who repose so happily and so con- tentedly along their shore. Kansas Briis.—Both houses of Congress are at length fairly convinced that the case of Kan- sas requires a good deal of patching. One mem- ber of the House has introduced a bill to annex the disputed territory to Nebraska; Mr. Seward, of the Senate, proposes the admission of Kansas asa free State without further delay; Mr. Crit- tenden humanely proposes that the fighting abo- lition squatters and the border ruffians be placed under the rigid and excellent dis- cipline of General Scott; and lastly, Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, moves for a census of Kansas, with a view to her admission as a State. If Mr. Toombs can accomplish this scheme of his, and secure the admission of Kansas before Octo- ber, either a8 a free State or as a slave State, it will have an astonishing effect on the pacification of the whole country. Otherwise, there is danger that the border ruffianism of Kansas may be dif- fused through the States. We have had a touch of it at Washington already ; and if Kansas is kept open and ina state of civil and military anarchy, the contagion may become universal. Let the plan, therefore, of Mr. Toombs be tried. Take acensus of Kansas, let the people call a convention, let the Lona fide voters be protected, and slavery or no slavory, let the new State come in. If the South are willing, why should the North object, boasting as they do a large majori- ty of the actual settlers? Tue Fititmore Procession.—The reception and impromptu procession got up on Sunday night in honor of the arrival of Mr. Fillmore, en- thusiastic and noisy as it was, does not suffice. He isto have another. The Committee of the Cor- poration were busy all day yesterday arranging it. Alderman Briggs particularly distinguishing himeelf as usual. If the worthy ex-President is allowed sufficient time to read two or three of the morning papers he will probably exercise the wise discretion of declining to be exhibited as proposed; or would it not be well to have this Fillmore procession and the grand Fremont ratification meeting called together in the Park at the same time? What says Mr. Briggs? What says Mr. Van Riper, of the late Fillmore National Club? He ought to wait upon the ex-President officially without farther delay. Mr. Fillmore is in the dark, Cot. Benton Famuy Cornerep at Last.— Concluding, no doubt, that the nomination of Col. Fremont at Philadelphia, as a candidate for the Presidency, was out of the range of probable events, Col. Benton, in Missouri, took the stump for Buchanan in advance of the Philadelphia nomination. Now the question is, what will Ben- ton do, his favorite son-in-law being the anti-demo- cratic nominee? Will he stick to the democracy or come over to Fremont? We ask for informa- tion of Mr. Merriam, the clerk of the weather. THA LATAST NAWS. BV MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. GEN. EMITH’S MISSION TO KANSAS—MAROY’S INSTRUC- TIONS TO MR. BUCHANAN ON THE SUBJECP OF FREE SHIPS MAKE FREE GOODS, ETC. Wasmixroy, June 23, 1858. Gen. Smith left last evening for Philadelphia, but will yeturn in a day or two, when his instructions will be completed, and he will proceed immediately to Kansas. Ue eventually supersedes Col. Sumner, from the fact that he is senior officer. Col. Sumner will, I understand, re- main in command of a portion of the troops. As the new maritime law of Europe is attracting some attention, I send you Secretary Marcy’s instructions to Mr. Buchanan on the subject of “Free ships free goods:""— MR. MARCY TO MR. BUCHANAN, DEPARTMENT OF Sta’ Wastusctox, Augnst 7, 1854. Sm:—The government of the United States, as you ‘are aware, has strenuously ¢ ed for the doctrine that free ships make free goods, contraband articles excepted. There is not, I believe, a maritime power which has not incorporated it in some of its treaties: bet Great Britain, which is the most considerable of th has constantly refused to regard itas a rule ef imternafional law. Her Admiralty courts have rejected it, and oure have followed after them. When Great Britain aad Frasee, at the com- mencement of the present war with Russia, agreed to act upon that principle for the time being, this goverament believed that a fair occasion presented for obtaining the general consent of commercial nations to recognize it as a principle of the law of nations. An intimation of a wich on the part of the United States h this cbject was conveyed to Mr. Seymour, our Minister to Russia, and by him made known to the government of that country. The Emperor very prompt. jy furnizhed his repress tive here with full power to make a conyention on the subject. One was entered into 2d day of July, and concurred in by the Senate on the 25th of that month. ty direction of the Preeident, I herewith send you a ymejet of t similar convention to be proposed to her Bri- tannic Majesty's government, France, aswell as other powers, will also be invited to enter into the same ar- rangement. With a view to prevent delays and embarrassment, the proposed pgreement embraces but two rules. First— ut free ships make free goods, except articles contra- band of war; and, second, that the property of neutrals, not being contraband, found on enemies’ vessels, shall be exempted from ation. This latter rule is not, like the first, contested: yet there is an obvious propriety in embracing both in the same arrangement. Were it omitted, it might be again questioned, in consequence of the cetablishment of the principle that the neutral fag ts the property under it, An attempt might be infer trom that principle that the flag determined acter of the property under it. t apprehend any serious opposition to the propo- vention except from Great Britain. But for her tance to the principle that the neutral flag protects property which it co if it be not contraband, it would long ago have been regarded as a well established rule of al law. She has impliedly adi its justice ing it_as the guide of her conduct in the pr If it is fair towards ne ct upon it now, it will be difficult for her to de’ ms for not ob- serving it in ail future w you wi able to overcome any r ce on the part of the gov- ernment of Great Britwin w adopt it as a rule of interaa- tional law. With this instruction you will receive the President's full power to conclude the proposed conyention. » Fespecttl Your obedient servant, W. L. MARCY. The Sentiuel will not be issued to-morrow. It is said to be cither sick or dead, from the neglect of certain friends who go ardently supported it immediately pre- vious to the nomination of Mr. Buobanan, Mr. Keitt was prevented from replying to Mr. Burling- ame to-day, owing to the debate in the House being strictly confined to the Territorial business pending, and objections being raised to his doing so by his political friend Richardson, Cricket Mateh at Utica. Unica, N. Y., June 23, 1958, At the cricket match here to-day, between tho Albany and elubs, Albovy, in the first innings, got thirty rons, end Cuca fifty seven. Albany, in the second innings, with three wic to go down, got seventy-six runs. The match will be resumed to-morrow, Markets, PHILADBLPIIA STOCK BOARD. 23, 1956, Reading Rail oud, 453¢; Long Island, 1836; Morris Canal, 1424; Penn- yivania Kuilroad, 4734. Berrato, June 23—6 P.M, Flour—Doull and Jower; sales 600 bbs. at $4 87 a $6 for I Wisconsin and Towa, and $5 it—In fair request; 10,000 bush- or grown Ohio, $L 10 for illinois winter, white Canadian, —Corn—In good de: , 10,600 bus id at 3 ales 4,000 bushels, at 64e. ‘anal freights—Corn 14¢.; wheat, to New York. Receipts of the forty-eight hours end: ing at noon to-day—10,408 bbls, flour; 27,830 bushels what; 48,400 bushels corn. al exports in the same time-—1,040 bbs. flour; 8,473 bushels wheat, and 03,535 bushels corn, sear Oswrao, June 23—6. P, Mt The advance in freighte has a tendency to chock ship ping demand for grain. Sales Canadian spring wheat at $1 2234. Corn—Sales 19,000 bushels, now on the canal and to be detivered in New York, at 83340. a b4c. Ryo— Sales 600 bushels at 67c, Freights firm; 16c. for wheat and 14c, for corn to New York. Lake im; to-day— 1,500 bie. flour, 69,000 bushels wheat, 5.000 do. rye, 7,000 do. oats, Canal exporks—3,000 bbis. flour, 08,00) Dushels wheat, 20,000 do. corn, 2,000 rye. THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasmveatoy, June 23, 1856, DR. BOYLE AND THE SUMNER CAR. ‘Mr. Fisn, (national) of N. Y., presented a letter from George Sumner, brother of Senator Sumner. It states that the impression which might be drawn from Doctor Boyle’s letter, that the latter was dismissed from his at tendance upon Mr. Sumner on account of the character off his testimony before the House Committee, was unfound~ ed, as he did not know at the timo that Dr. Boyle was dia~ missed what his testimony before the committee was. Senator Sumner was suffering from high fever, with hie pulse at one hundred and four, aud Dr. Perry being will- ing to take charge of the case, Dr. Boyle's services werer no*longer required, ‘THE PACIFICATION OF KANSAS. Mr. Towns, (national) of Ga., gave notice of his intone tion to introduce a bill to take the census of Kansas, to protect the exercise of the elective franchise in that Ter- ritory, and to provide for calling a Convention to form m constitution, preparatory to the admission of Kansas into the Union. ’ Mr. Toombs desired to have some complete- and final measures adopted tor pacification in that Ter- ritory. In order to effect this the census should first be taken. This would take away all motive for either gece tion of the Union to attempt to force people into Kansag and thereby endanger the peace of the country, in order to promote a sectional advantage by having institutions made for the people of the Territory by a population who have no interest in the question, ‘The VIM also pro- pores to protect the freedom of the ballot box, and to that end submits such questions to five commissioners: © be selected by the President, who shall cause an enu- meration to be inade, for the purpose, first, of having a proper distribution of representation, 80 as to give and equal representation to the population be 3 uD equally distributed over the Territory; and secondly, for the purpose of having a registry of ‘all bona fide inhabie tants of the Territory. The bill provides that all male in-— habitants over twenty-one years of age shall be register~ ed as legal voters, and Kansas be admitted into the Uniom as a State with as little delay as practicable. As soon ag census is taken, and it shall be ascertained who are real inhabitants of Kansas, they shall proceed forthwith tov the election of delegates toa Convention to form a State: constitution. This election he would haye take place om the first Tuesday in November. That would give suffle cient time, and allow four months? residence to.inhabi- tants, and would come on a day when the people of the different States would be vl, in consequence of being occupied with the Pre itl election, from even attempting to defeat the real wishes of the people of Kansas by interfering with their election. This measure was liable, he said, to but one objection, and that not of principle nor expediency. It was solely as to the smalh number of inhabitants there, But that objectibn was waived by a considerable portion of the Senate and by a very large part of the people. clieving this propusition would meet with a favorable reception and be promotive of good, he should at an early day ask leave introduce the bill. PERSONAL EXPIANATION. Mr. Wisox, of Mass., ex; the error in the Globe report of his speech, of’ whi . Butler complained om Thursday. It occurred in consequence of his being ab- sent from the city and leaving anuther person to read the proof sheets. The error did not occur in the uttered remarks, NORTH CAROLINA VINDICATED. Mr. Evans, (dem) of 8. C., replied to Mr. Sumner’s remarks on South Carolina, vind! her Revolutionary: history and defending her domestic institutions. - Adjourned. House of Representatives. Wasuinatos, June 23, 1856. ‘This week being set apart, by previous agreement, for the consideration of Territorial business, the bill to au-- thorize the President to cause the southern boundary line of Kansas to be surveyed and marked was passed. ‘THE SLAVE TRADE. Mr. Wakeman, (nigger worshipper) of N. Y., gave notice: of intention to introduce a bill amendatory of the act of 1818, prohibiting the introduction or importation of slaves, ‘THE ADMISSION OF OREGON. ‘The dill authorizing the peeple of Oregon to form & constitution and State government was considered. It ia the same as that heretofore passed by the House, but Jost in the Senate, for want of time. Mr. Jonss, of Tenn., proposed an amendment, requir- ing Oregon to have a population equal to the ratio of re~ presentation established under the last United States census. A debate ensued, involving the qnestion whether such a restriction should be imposed upon new States. Adjourned. Reception of Mr. Fillmore. Puiapeteata, June 23, 1856. ‘The Le aprons appointed to extend a welcome to Mr.. Film behalf of Philadelphia are to mect at the ‘Astor HBuse, New York, at $ o'clock, on Tuesday morning. Bincuamron, June 23, 1858. One hundred guns were fired here’this morning, im honor of the arrival of Millard Fillmore, Deaths by Drowning. Boston, June 23, 1856. John Forbes, John Goode, Thomas McKenna and an English boy, name unknown, were drowned in the har- bor yesterday, in consequence of the upsetting of a boat Death of Hon, Luther 8. Cushing. Bostoy, June 23, 1856. Hon. Luther S. Cushing died in this city yesterday, aged 53 years. He was formerly a Justice of the Com mon Pleas Court, and iatterly reported decisions of the Supreme Court. es Our Washington Correspondence. Wastuyaren, June 22, 1856. The New Maritime Law of Europe—Fillmore not to With- draw—Buchanan’s Friends. It is not generally known that at the final conference ofthe Plenipotentiaries of the great Powers at Paris it was agreed, on motion of Count Walewski, that the four Dew peints of the law of nations, agreed upon by the cone ference previously, should be considered indivisible. Tho effect of this is, that the conferrers say to the United States, “Unless you will give up privateering we will not give up the capture of neutral property at sea in belligerent bottoms, nor the capture of belligerent property in neu- tral bottoms, nor paper blockades.” It is obvious that this Proposition of Count Walewski must have been made at the suggestion of Lord Clarendon, in the hope of coercing the United States to give up privateering. It is further remarkable, in regard to this proposition of Count Wa- leweki, that the only person present to take any excep- tion to it was the Russian Plenipotentiary, Count Orloff. The nomivation of Fremout coes not meet the entire approbation of the black republicans. All of the old liners of that party—such, for instance, as Mr. Penning- ton, of New Pringie and Russell Sage, of New York; W i nd pretty near all of the Pennsylvania men preferred Joh McLean, of Ohio. t they will give a quasi support to Fremont, intimating at the same time, however, that he cannot be elected. ‘The Fillmore men are determined, as I was informed yesterday by one of their leaders, not to withdraw hime from the field. They have no hope of electing him, but: they are anxious, if it is possible, to threw the election. into the House. Mr. Fillmore will run the democratic no- mince a mighty close race iu the States of Maryland, ind Missouri. The Virginia dele mn have addressed a letter to a. number of leading n men in Pennsylvania ia order to ascertain h John W. Forney and those kindyod spirits—Sick é and Saunders—have his Bucflanan’s) confidence, and that the election, in some legree, in the Old Dominion, wiil depend upon that: Mr. Buchanan, it is understood, authorized his friends to say, that, provided he was elected, it was bis intention to President, which, when translated, means that those: men will have to'stand back. This is what the people all over the country desire to kt If we are to have & succession of this Pierce dy including the Kitchen Cabinet, the people—the ¢. e—would like to know it, and without dela. » Virginia delegation be so kind as to publish the letter? As futher Ritchie used to say, nous verrons, Wa sToN, June 20, 1856, What has Mr. Gadsden Got in Pockel?—Another Slice of Mexican Territory? We find that we have been in error as to Gen, Gadsden, the Minister of the United States at Mexico, having brought in his breeches pocket a treaty of any kind with our great sister republic. But we have been informed to- day, from the most reliable source, that, finding a Senator of the loftiest position refuses, on the part of himaelf aud colleagues to recognise any’ kind of @ pure! Jands to the South, the Minister has made purchase of a domain in favor of any Souther nay accept it—proviced the same will tion of the general government. this disclfimer, it is equ tal convention ‘in his val stances, he is ag the old and’ highly venerated State breeches. approba- Yet, notwithstanding: ly true the Minister has a pos- », Which, under ail eireum- ery loth. to eutrust. to such leaky custodyy Department: Filmore.—A Ut Nard Fillmore, the first ev the collection at BRAD Splendid Ambrotype Portratt of Millard Fillmore, mede yesterday at BRADY'S Gallery, No. 389 Broad- ‘way, on exhibition at the New Y Titel ‘and Astor House. Fillmore and Fremont, Buchanan and Breckenridge, Dayton and Donelson.—Portraite, life-size, of these distingulshed gentlemen « pion at Br < No, 259 Broadw $18 per dozen. Will country on receipt of Not Less than Five day visited BRADY'S ¢ lection being temporaril Presidential portra William L. Dryton. red Persons Vester= interest of his superb eol- by the recent widivons of pital Likeness of the republican eandidnte tor View Prositent, the only one re- cently taken, may be scen at ROOT'S "No. as gallery, “No. 363 ——$—$____. Millard Fillmorc.—Meade, Brothers, were honored with a visit from this distinguished statesman yea- lerday afternoon. rent photographs wore taken, which may by seen alleries, 239 4 r Nbove the dor oe e galler' 233 Broadway, toar doors Ambrot; Daguerreotypes, Crystal Min- jatures and photographs, the largest nnd cheapest ever taken in the United States. 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