MORE TROUBLES. SERIOUS DIFFERENCES WITH AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 368, 14 May 1856, Page 5

MORE TROUBLES. SERIOUS DIFFERENCES WITH AMERICA.

Monday, February 4th, 1856.— In one of my recent letters 1 have referred very pointedly to differences having arisen between tbe Governments of England and the United States, with reference to the Central American question, and to the enlistment question. With regiird to the former, the United States appears inclined to force this country to forego its claims and rights to certain colonies, and to refuse to be satisfied as regards the latter with the apologies made to her for having unintentionally interfered, as alleged, with her desires on a form of international laws. The correspondence which has passed between the two Governments has not satisfied the inordinate pride, vanity, conceit, and arrogance of the United States, and a serious quarrel is there.ore endeavoured to be fastened upon us, which threatens war: certainly to susp?nd official communication with eacli country, by America giving Mr- Crainpton his passports and we giving Mr. Buchanan his. There i<, however, a good deal of claptrap in all tlr.it io expressed on the other side of the Channel ; but the matter is quite serious enough to occasion much general uneasiness. We are, however, ultimately prepared for war, and can turn the engines prepared for Russia against America with immediate effect, whereas she is unprepared for war. The Americans are, however, a warlike nation; —every man-jack is a fighter, in real downright sober earnestness, with great natural coolness, firmness, and bravery—very captious, and strangely enough, mest sincerely desirous to pick a quarrel and either ' whop ' or be ' whopped ' by the ' Mother country ' —a most unnatural and hellish desire. It has caused much surprise that no allusion is made to the Queen's speech in the United States. This, it is thought, will excite the natural disposition of the Americans against the old country. I believe, however, that it will prove beneficial, and is intended by our statesmen to have an influence on the temper of the American Government to enforce a calm dispassionate consideration of the subject, sought to be made the bone of contention, and the cause, if possible, of war .Correspondent of the Sydney " Morning Herald."