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London, England, 1854-09-30 00:00:00

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ARTICLZ IT.
It is agreed that the citizens and inhabitants
of
the United States shall have the right to navigate the
river St. Lawra”ce and the canals in Canada used as the
means of communicating between the Great Lakes
and the Atlantic Ocean, with their vessels, boats, and
crafts, as fully and freely as the subjects of her
Britannic Majesty, subjt7ct only to the same tolls and
other assessments as now nre or may hereafter be
exacted of her Majesty's said subject:; ; it being under.
stood, however, that the British Government retains the
right of suspending this privilege, on giving due notice
thereof to the Government of the United States.
It is further agreed, that if at any time the British
Government should exercise the said reserved right,
the Government of the United States shall have,the
-tlyht—orsTiFffiendin-g; if it think fit, the operation of Art,
3 of the present treaty, in so far as the province of Ca-
lada is affected thereby, for so long as the suspension
,:f the free navi!ation of the river St. Lawrence or the
canals may continue.
It is further agreed, that British subjects shall have
the right freely to navigate Lake Michigan with their
vessels, boats, and crafts, so long as the privilege of
navigating the river St. Lawrence, secured to American
citizens by the above clause of the present article, shall
continue ; and the Government of the United States
further engages to urge upon the State Governments to
secure to the subjects of her Britannic Majesty the use
of the several state canals on terms of equality with the
inhabitants of the United States.

And it, is further agreed, that no export duty or other
duty shall be levied on lumber or timber of any kind
cut in that portion of the American territory in the state
of Maine, watered :by the river St. John and its tribu.
taries, and
floated down that river to the sea, when the
same is shipped to the United States from the province
of New Brunswick.

The present treaty shall take effect as soon as the laws
requ red to carry it into operation shall have been passed
by the Imperial Parliamet of Great Britain and by
the Provincial Pariiainents'of those of the British North
American Colonies which are affected by this treaty on
the one hand, and by the
Congress of the United. States
on the other. Stich assent haying been given, the treaty
shall remain in force for ten years from the date at which
it may come into operation, and further, until the
expiration of twelve months after either of the high
contracting parties shall give notice to the other of its
wish to terminate the same ; each of the high contract•
ing parties being at liberty to give such notice to the
--.-‘he end of the said-term of ten 74"e
-at any

time afterwards.
It is clearly understood, however, that this stipulation
is not intended to affect the reservation made by Art. 4
of the present treaty with regard to the right of tewpo
rarily suspending the operation of Art. 3 and 4 thereof.
ARTICLI VI.
And it is hereby further agreed, that the provisions and
stipulations of the foregoing articles shall extend to the
island of Newfoundland, so far as they are applicable
to that colony. But if the Imperial Parliament,
the Provincial Parliament of Newfoundland, or the
Congress of the United. States, shall not embrace,
in their laws enacted for carrying this treaty into
effect, the colony of 'Newfoundland, then this
article shall be of of no effect ;•.but the omission to
make provision by law to give it effect, by either of the
legislative bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair
the remaining articles of this treaty.

ARTICLE VII.
The present treaty shall be duly ratified, and the ran-
tual exchange of ratifications shall take place at Wash-
ington within six months from the date hereof, or earlier
if possible.
In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries,
have signed this treaty, and have hereunto affixed our
seals.
Done in triplicate, at Washington, the sth day 'of
June, A.D. 1854.
ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

W. L. MAncy.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

We await with the greatest anxiety a fuller explanation
of the intelligence which reached the Admiralty by tele-
graph on Thursday from Conk; • -It.' was to the effect
that a telegraphic despatch had just been received from
that port, announcing the arrival bf the Phcenix with
the captains of the Investigator, Resolute, and Assistance
—(that is Captains M'Lure, Kellett, hod Sir E: Baehr)
on board. It is also stated that the Pdoenix brotight
home part of the crews of the Resolute and Assistance,
and that the North Star, •Commander Pullen, conveys
back the remainder of the crews of the Assistance, Re-
solute, and Investigator. Beyond the reasonable infer-
ences which may be founded on the above short despatch
we have nothing as yet to communicate. It would seem
to follow that the three .ghips, are logt to the Queen's
service; and, if this_ be so, ,we say,.l* them go,,proe
vided the crews be safe; and' that there is no fresh t-
.. edy. to be added to the chrdnicle of 'die' Art-tic region..
.In the next place, we presuingitsjity toe fakep that Mee
ieardh after the relics of Franklin's party has proved
runlets, otherwise-the.-officers brought home by the
Pheenix could not but have addeelapiSme to theirdespatch
fupon'so important a point. The result
_is what we hael
.`prediested throughout. Noting was to be expected fro
ba
search pqntinued for so. lona period :after the' disap-
pearance of Franklin's party. Either they had been.
overwhelmed the prsiseure of some sudden calatnit,
Which had at mice swept theta from existence—Ot tbsy --
had been carried to a point from which they could not
return• seriiserbet-arid m whieli—no-oilier person evil
bad made his way, thither in quest of them could ret-nr7.
It was on the loth of August, 1852, that Captain Sir
E. Belcher sailed up Wellington Channel, and on the
same day Captain Kellett proceeded eastward in the
direction of Melville Island. It was on the 31st of July,
1850, that Captain Al`Lure in the Investigator was seen
by the Herald steering for Point Barrow ; but, as we are
in possession of far more recent intelligence with regard to
the proceelinge of this vessel, it is idle to dwell on former
uncertainties and remote dates. We shall soon know
all that can he known of the proceedings of thee
three ships. The Enterprise, howevcr, under the com-
mand of Captain Collinson, has not yet been accounted
fur. The latest intelligence with respect to her was
derived frota..a brief paragraph in the Panama Herald
of December 25, 1852, to the effect that she had re-
cently—with reference to that date—been seen by some
American whalers. Happy would it have been, had the
same telegraphic despatch which brought us intelligence
of the three other ships detained in the ice carried with
it some assurance with regard to the Enterprise, which
would have put an end at once to what is called the
History of Arctic Discoveries."
From the previous character of the three officers con-
cerned we have no manner of doubt that whatever could
be accomplished by human courage or human fortitude
to extricate the Queen's ships from any perilous situation
in which they may have been placed had been effected
by the three Arctic captains before they determined
on abandoning their trust. Of this "trust" the lives
of the Queen's seamen committed to their care con-
stituted by far the most important part ; and
these—at least we trust so —they have contrived
to secure. If the public mind could once for all be set
at rest with respect to the late of Captain Collinson and
his companions, it would be a simple matter to close the
Artie aecount foe ever in the records of the Admiralty.
There is no danger of our being drawn on again to
ustenance the further prosecution of researches from
which no benefit can he hasped nt all proportionate to the
expenditure and ri k necessarily incurred. The mischief
hitherto has been that the despatch of one ship almost
ievolved in strict necessity the despatch of another to
her relief, so that until the last ship was withdrawn
(ruin the ice there was really no kind of security that all
the vessels in the Queen's service might not be dotted
about the frozen seas anywhere between Cape Storno-
way and the North Pole. What are we to do with fur-
ther search in this direction as soon as tidings reach us
of the Enterprise ? The great problem of our ancestors
—the north-western passage—has been dicovered, and
is proved to be of no advantage to the human race
now that we know all about it. We may presume,
although the experience of the Investigator is not very
attractive, that a ship can, in the space of three or
four years, make her way from Behring's Straits to
Baffin's Ray, or vice versa, by taking advantage of
the short gaps of thaw in open seasons ; but what benefit •
is to accrue to humanity from the discovery we are
wholly at a loss to discover. The north coast of Ame-
rica has been surveyed, thanks to the unwearied exer-
tions of Beechey, Franklin, Back, Dease, Simpson, and
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TRR COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETEL—The oolonid
produce markets during the week have been quiet, and
prices are in most instances unaltered. The transactions
in tea have been characterised by some excitement COR•
sequent upon the receipt of the further news from China
corroborating that by the previous mail. Speculative
buyers were, as usual, the first to act, and many thou-
sand packages of common congou have changed hands
at an advance of folly d, per lb. The present
quotation for sound condition is lid. per lb., at which
there are buyers. The dealers, who had previously
in some degree held back, yesterday manifested s
disposition to purchase fully whenever they could
do so at only a slight advance on former rates. The
quantity of sugar brought to sale has been very
small, but prices are rather firmer, Privately a fair
business has been transacted ; some cargoes of foreign
and several parcels on the spot have been sold. Riee
still continues to be largely operated in, and considerable
quantities have been disposed of by private treaty, in.
eluding two or three parcels afloat, In the coffee mar-
ket a parcel of Porto Rico has been brought forward,
and nearly all sold at and after the auction at steady
rites. Very little plantation Ceylon has been offered,
but quotations continue without change. There has
been inquiry for saltpetre during the week, azi gerersl
paresle lave bees tae at fill prim.