Our Foreign relations.
--Dispatches from
Mr. Clay, our Minister to
Peru, inform the
Secretary of State that the government of
Peru had rejected the ultimatum of the
United States for the settlement of the claims against that country, and that he had demanded his passports and would leave at once for the
United States.
On the 10th, the day the steamer left for
Panama, the demand had not been complied with.
Advices from the
flag officer of the Pacific squadron gives all the facts in relation to the arrest of two naval officers at
Panama, from which it appears that the officers were to blame in refusing to answer the challenge of the sentries on duty.
Dispatches from our minister to
China state that all claims of the
United States against
China, extending from 1840 to 1857, have been fully discharged under
Mr. Reid's commercial convention of 1858.
The
Governor General speaks in the highest terms of the
Americans, and of his desire to continue friendly relations with this country.