2 FEBRUARY 1856, Page 2

The " difficulty " with America again threatens further trouble,

if not mischief. It is reported from the United States, and not contradicted here, that President Pierce has demanded the recall of Mr. Crampton ; threatening, in case of refusal, that our representative shall receive his passports, and that the ex- equatur of three British Consuls implicated in the enlistment case shall be withdrawn. The immediate supposition is, that President Pierce, assisted by Mr. Cushing, is getting up a great hubbub to make himself look patriotic and popular, in order to obtain a second term. Some of the soberer American papers re- present that the British Government has already apologized suf- ficiently ; but it is also stated by the same journals that contro- vert?, is kept up by our Government respecting the rights and legal points of the matter. If we have apologized and withdrawn, to carry on disputation about the internal law of the American Republic appears to be a very gratuitous prolongation of an ugly quarrel. It is assisting Mr. Pierce in making a " row" for his personal purposes at the cost of the United States and of the United Kingdom. To the threat about passports and exeqnatur the Morning Post responds with the hint, that we have a fully-developed naval force, which will not be wanted in the Baltic, while the entire navy of the United States is but a "weak and inefficient squadron " ; and a war "rashly and wickedly provoked would sweep American commerce from the seas, and lay the whole seaboard of the Union open to attacks of the greatest naval power in the world."