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The whole tenour of the accounts from the United States

con- firms the belief, not only that there has been no intention of pro- voking hostilities with this country, but that the buccaneering expeditions which were said to have provoked suspicion on our side are figments. The proceedings of Colonel Kinney and other buccaneers across the border have manifestly no sanction from the body of the people, or from the Government; and the real diffi- culty, the Central American question, is left exactly where we understood it to lie—still in the hands of negotiators.