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g^ THE LBADEB. [No. 325, Saturday,
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DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOMPSON. It is with th...
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H.R.H. PRINCE OSCAR OF SWEDEN. It is sai...
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ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF OUDE IN ENGLAND. ...
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THE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE. A meeting was...
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C»T<stai, Palaok. — Return of admissions...
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THE LAST DESPATCHES FROM AMERICA. Our ow...
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W Leader Office, Saturday, Juno 14. Last...
aboilt to deliver his passports to Mr . Crampton and withdraw the " exequatur" of the consuls . Of course it was not possible yet to state what course the Government would take under the circumstances . —Mr . Baiixie asked when a day would be fixed for his motion on the Enlistment question . —Lord Pai . mbbston said the honourable gentleman should have his choice either of Tuesday or Friday . —Mr . Miuser Gibson asked if the Central American question was to . be submitted to arbitration . —Lord Pa £ MERston said that the opinion of the United States Government seemed to be that the matter could be best settled by direct negotiation between the two Governments . —Mr . Milnbk Gibson : *• Has the American Government refused arbitration ?"Lord Palmebston said arbitration had not been refused .
IRISH MtLJTLA . In answer to Colonel Dunne , Lord Paumdekston said that the disbandment of the Irish Militia would , as far as possible , be made to fall in with the period when the men are likely to obtain employment . DTDIGO JETLANTERS IN INDIA . Mr . J . G . Pjhuxemobe called attention to the complaints of certain indigo planters in Bengal , with regard to the utter inadequacy of the county courts , magistracy , and police for the administration of justice .
THE AMERICAN DISPUTE . Lord John Russell here interposed , ^ p d , referring to the statement of Lord Palinerston oWthe American question , said that this is a most critical state of our relations with the United States , and the House ought to have information on the subject . On Monday , therefore , he should ask a question with respect to the present posture of affairs on going into Committee of Supply . He thought the House ought to deal with the matter as well as the newspapers , which were likely to give a very erroneous impression of the facts .
THE INDIAN BUDGET . In answer to Sir Erskxne Peret , Mr . Vebnon Smith said that he would do his best to bring on the Indian Budget at an earlier period this year than was done last session .
THE ROAD THROUGH ST . JAMES S PARK . In Committee of Supply , Lord Pajlmerston moved votes for meeting the expense of a road through St . James ' s Park , and a ^ oot-bridge over the ornamental water . He mentioned that the Queen , of her own accord , had suggested that a part of the garden of St . James ' s Palace should be given up , in order that the road from Pall-Mail into the Park might be a straight one . After some discussion , the vote for the road was agreed to , but a division took place on the bridge , when the numbers were—For the vote 182 Against it 95 97 The Committee then proceeded with the Navy Estimates .
G^ The Lbadeb. [No. 325, Saturday,
g ^ THE LBADEB . [ No . 325 , Saturday ,
Death Of Captain Thompson. It Is With Th...
DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOMPSON . It is with the greatest pain that we have to record the death , yesterday , of Captain Henry Langhorne Thompson , C . B ., one of the noble defenders of Kara . Our readers will see in the miscellaneous columns of this very week ' s paper that it is only a few days ago since he waa entertained at Hull on landing from St . Petersburg . But he was then ill with a cold , and with fever ensuing from a wound received at Kars ; and even now he ia lying dead . Honour be to his memory . '
H.R.H. Prince Oscar Of Sweden. It Is Sai...
H . R . H . PRINCE OSCAR OF SWEDEN . It is said that Prince Oscar of Sweden may be expected to arrive in London on Tuesday next . Apartments have been engaged for his Royal Highness at Claridge ' a Hotel .
Arrival Of The King Of Oude In England. ...
ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF OUDE IN ENGLAND . His late Majesty the King of Oude has landed at Folkestone , accompanied by his suite and E . L . Coffby , Esq . The King had arranged to sleep at tho Pavilion Hotel ; but having had a beautiful passage from Boulogne , ho left for London by the express train of tho South-Eastern Railway .
The Inundations In France. A Meeting Was...
THE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE . A meeting was held yesterday morning in tho Mansion House for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the sufferers by the French floods , and of aiding tho subscriptions now being raised in Paris for their relief . The Lord Mayor presided , and among tho speakers were Mr . Weguelin , the Governor of the Bank ; Sir Francis Baring , M . P ., Baron Rothschild , Mr . Evelyn Denison , M . P ., Mr . Raikes Currie , Lord Ravonsworth , and Sir Mmm Montenore . The Lord Mayor announced that h « . h *& . already received subscriptions to the amount of between 4000 / . and 6000 / . As the amount was to "be transmitted that night to Paris , he hoped those wno intended to subscribe would at once come forward . A committee Was then appointed , of which the Lord Mayor was appointed treasurer , to receive subscription * . The waters are steadily subsiding ; but it is feared ttt « t the mud left behind may breed an epidemic .
C»T<Stai, Palaok. — Return Of Admissions...
C » T < stai , Palaok . — Return of admissions for six wn ending Friday , Juno 18 th , 1850 : —Number admllted , including season ticket holders , 80 , 769 .
Notices To Corespondents. No Notice Can ...
NOTICES TO CORESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous . communications Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return , rejected communications .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the -world is by the very law of its creation in . eteraal progress . —Djk . Arnoid .
The Last Despatches From America. Our Ow...
THE LAST DESPATCHES FROM AMERICA . Our own readers will not have been unprepared for the dismissal of Mr . Crampton ; but the grounds on which he ia to be dismissed have not yet teen fully stated to the public in either country . It must be confessed that our Government has afforded no assistance to the United States in striving to avoid incidents which would impart a disagreeable effect to the removal of Mr . Crampton from Washington . " We are led , however , by the last advices received from
Washington , to find some excuse for the conduct of our Government in the supposition that it has never yet been completely informed on the subject . It is not the part of a diplomatist to rake up the tittle-tattle of the country in which he lives , and to swell the despatches which he writes to his Government with gossip or scandal ; but it is his part to state with perfect distinctness every important and authenticated event , and to draw a strong line of demarcation between that which he learns on hearsay and
that which he knows on his own knowledge , or receives on authority . The question for our Government to consider is , not whether Mr . Ctjshing has used improper language respecting this country in letters to district lawyers , or " at dinner-tables and in private parties , but whether or not Mr . Crampton has involved himself in endeavours to evade the laws of the United States ; and whether he has so far failed in that attempt as to break the laws which he has attempted to evade . When Mr . Crampton consulted with an American lawyer as to the possibility of evading the Neutrality Act ( the American
Foreign Enlistment Act ) , he showed the animus with which he acted ; and the reply of the lawyer should liave shown him the difficulty of evading the law without breaking it . When Mr . Crampton gave Hertz a , general invitation to come to his house , he showed the friendly relations on which ho stood with that agent of the enlistment . But in the despatches recently sent to Mr . DaiiLAS , the American Government has furnished more evidence , which shows how Mr . Crampton was personally implicated to a greater extent than was known at the time when Mr . Bttohana : n received Lord
Clarendon ' s apology , and oven at a later date . The fact is , that the American Government hns treated Mr . Crampton with great indulgence . He is , as we have always stated , personally liked ; if he has got into a scrape the Americans would have been glad enough to see him drawn out of it without too strictly convicting him of misconduct ; and if he had' been promoted to a higher station , he would have escaped with credit .. Our Government would hrrve been benefited by appointing a better public servant , and the Americana would have * boon relieved from
the necessity of removing a man whose residence among them is positively inconsistent with the maintenance of good relations . There is a general impression on this side that President Pierce is actuated in these proceedings by a desire to propitiate public opinion among his fellow-citizens , and so to secure his re-election . We have no interest
in the re-election of General Pierce , but we believe that in the present instance he is acting on the simple dictate of what appears to be necessity , and we have no doubt that when the despatches lately transmitted to this country are published , our countrymen will see that the responsible Ministers of America could not have taken any other
course . So far as the terms of courtesy go , with one painful but exceedingly doubtful exception , it cannot be said that the Americans have been behind our own official representatives . They are now doing their best to show the British Government that the demand for the recal of Mr . Crampton is suggested by
no caprice , but by simple necessity . They accompany that representation with a proposal which originated with Iiord Clarendon —a proposal that , if direct negotiations fail , the Central American question shall be referred to arbitration . This , we take it , is sufficient evidence that the American Government desires to meet our own
half-way . Iiord Clarendon has declared his willingness to meet Mr . Marcy , if" he could only find a locus standi . When men are really desirous of reconciliation , are eager to arrange any dispute on its true merits , they can never fail to find a ground for standing upon . The newly repeated proposal for arbitration is , indeed , a much larger concession than it appears to be . We are firmly
convinced that there is a difference of opinion on the construction of the Btjxwer-Clayton Treaty , not only between American and English statesmen , but also between English statesmen themselves . An American correspondent of the Times , who signs himself " Americtjs , " and who is extremely well-informed on the subject , repeats a hint of our own , that the opinion of Sir Henry Btjlwer on the true construction
of the Bulwer-Clayton Treaty has never yet been brought forward . After repeated challenge , this silence is suspicious . If Sir Henry were prepared to state that in framing the Bulwer-Clayton Treaty , he put upon it the construction now claimed for it by Lord Palmebston and his colleagues , we doubt whether Sir Henry ' s opinion would be kept so strictly and so perseveringly in the background . We can only infer , thereforo , that his opinion agrees
with our own . We believe also that we are correct when we say that statesmen high in the confidence of the Queen put tho same construction upon tho Treaty that we Iiavo put upon it . When Lord Clarendon first proposed arbitration tho natural reply was , that there is nothing to arbitrate , that tho Treaty can be interpreted according to tho strict rules of grammar and common sense . The American Government has waived that opinion , and has consented to submit tho construction of the Treaty to tho
interpretation of a third party . Tho Leader is not a Government organ , and we aro not enabled to state tho course which our Ministers intend to take . i-lxo outward manifestations incline both ways : wo might suppose tho reception of this American offer to be hostile , or wo mig ht suppose it to be friendly . Of certain iiictu , however , we are distinctly cognizant . vv ships have been sent from this country to tho American const , but the officers who strode tho deck of that fino frigate tho Arrogant ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1856, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14061856/page/12/
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