UNITED STATES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 380, 25 June 1856, Page 4

UNITED STATES.

(From the Melbourne " ATgas," g Slay 19th.) Proceedings of the Senate.—ln the United States Senate yesterday (February 28t.1i,) a restlulioii was adapted calling on the* President for information relit live to the reported offer of Great Britain to refer to some friendly Power, for arbitrament the misunderstanding growing out of the Clayton Bulwer treaty. .No offer of the kind has been .made, though it appears that Lord Clarendon directed Mr. Crampton to read to our Secielary of State a portion of a despatch wherein a conversation on the subject of arbitration, between Lord Clarendon and Mr. Buchanan, was mentioned. The despatch alluded to was received by Mr. Crampluu some time last aiMuaii), aurt the part referring- to arbitration was not communicated to Mr. Marcy until Wednesday last. The proposition however, is regarded as entirely inadmissible. — American Paper. IMPENDING RUPTURE WITH ENGLAND. The JfTeio York Herald, publishes the whole of the diplomatic correspondence between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States on the enlistment Question, occupying 15 columns. In Mr. Marcy's last despatch occur the following important passages Were it possible with due regard to the evidence and disclosures in the case, to assign Mr. Crampton a subordinate part in that scheme, eve:iu^li»t would not allow the President to change the course which he is obliged, under the circumstances, to pursue toward him. Any participation in the project, as it has been developed,of . raising recruits in this country for the British service, was incompatible with his olricial relations to this government. His connection with that affair has rendered him an unacceptable representative of her Britannic Majesty near this Government, and you are directed by the President to ask her Majesty's government to recall him.

Mr. Rowcroft, the British Consul at Cincinnati, and Mr. Matthew, the British Consul at Philadelphia, are implicated in the ; .recruiting pr.gect, anil yon are further'''directed by the President 'to ask for their removal for that cause. The persons now connected with ihe •British 'Consulate at New York have been a'ctivrly engaged in fuHhevin<r the- recruiting1 scheme. Mr.'Stanley, the assistant or 'cieik .of the Consul, has t,aken a more open and effective .part'than" the Consul himself, and is now.'undejf

sin indictment for violating the law against foreign recruiting. The Consul, Mr: Barclay, could not but know of Mi1. Stanley's conduct in that matter, but he still retains him in the Consulate. Besides the responsibility that right* fully attaches to Mr. Barclay, for .the improper conduct of an employe in his office, ami under liis immediate and daily observation, this Government is. satisfied that he has himself not only favored the recruiting of the British army, but has participated in it. Moreover, the improper conduct of Mr. Barclay in the cause of the barque Mauro, has justly given offence to the commercial community in which he resides, and with which he has official'connection. For these reasons, this government deems it proper to instruct you to ask the Government of Great Britain to withdiaw Mr. Barclay from the post of British Consul at New York. You are directed by the President to read this despatch to the Earl of Clarendon, and, should he desire it, to hand him a copy. MR. CHAMPION'S DISMISSAL WITHHELD Washington, Feb. 28, 1856. The President has been induced to withhold the letter dismissing Mr, Cramp ton, till the arrival of the steamer now due, in the expectation that he will be recalled by his own government. Should this not be the case, the letter will be immediately sent—at least so Mr. Pierce says. A rumour was current to-daj that Mr. Crampton had been recalled, hut it could be traced to no reliable source and is doubtless premature. The reply to Mr. Mason's resolution of inquiry to clay will show that the offer made by ■Lord Clarendon to refer the differences between this, country and Europe was put in a shape which rendered it impossible for our Government honourably to entertain it. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. In the House of Representatives on February 28lh, a resolution was adopted on the motion (if Mr. Florence, instructing the Committee on the Naval Affairs to enquire into the expediency of making an immediate provision for the construction of ten sloops or other vessels of war. Coast Defences.—The Louisiana Legislature have referred to the committee on Federal Affairs a resolution requesting representatives in Congress to apply for appropriations " for the erection of such works of defence, at or near the mouth of the Mississippi Hiver and in the Atchafakva Bay, as will be sufficient for the better protection of the commerce of the Gulf of Mexico, and better secure the approaches to the interior of our State from the fleets and armies of our invading foe."