The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-11 00:00:00

RATIFICATION OF THE OREGON

TREATY.

By the arrival of the Great Western steam-ship
at Liverpool, we have received the gratifying and
important intelligence that the Oregon treaty, on
the 18th of June, received the sanction of the
Senate by a majority of forty-one to fourteen. All
further conjectures as to the upshot of this eccentric
squabble between Great Britain and the United States
are consequently prevented from this moment. With the
tocsin of Mexican warfare still ringing in their ears,
the Legislative Council of the Presidency, to whom
the settlement of this delicate question had been trans-
ferred, has breathed towards the mother country co-
thing but sentiments the most pacific, and has
altogether conducted itself in a manner the
most conciliatory. Nor, be it remembered, are these
concessions to the demands of our Government the
fruits of diplomatic chicanery—they are not the con-
sequences of any adroit or specious proposition. Tilt-
sophistries which are usually summoned to the as-
sistance of the plenipotentiary have in this instance-
been neglected, and a strange cand.ur (which in mane
respects is without a precedent) has been adopt-d
by the representatives of both empires
Much as certain individuals across the Atlantic had
become infected with a belligerent spirit, wordy as were
their invectives upon their British progenitors, extor-
tionate as were their demands in reference to the
colonisation of the Oregon and the navigation of the
Columbia—every sentiment is merged into meekness,
and all obstacles have given way to acquiescence upon
the first sounding of the artillery in Mexico. It is
impossible, indeed, to remark the coincident informa-
tion contained in our last packet from America,
namely, that the total amount of funds estimated by
the Secretary of War as necessary for the prosecution
of the contest with Mexico, from May, 1846, to
June, 1847, is somewhere about 19,971,472
dollars—and (here is the coincidence !) that
simultaneously with the receipt of this intelligence,
we are informed of the arrival in England of the
Oregon treaty, as ratified by the Senate of the
United States, that document having been conveyed
hither under the safeguard of General ARMSTRONG,
American Consul at Liverpool. Any comment upon
this casualty of occurrence would be wholly super-
fluous ; but it may not be considered so
entirely superfluous to utter one incidental observa-
tion upon the behaviour of the English Government
when the American outbreak with Mexico was first
announced. Instead of seizing that remarkable op-
portunity for the precipitation of extortionate demands
upon the territories of the Oregon—instead of availing
herself of the movement when the rival claimant
of those colonies was just precipitated into all the
embarrassments of a war with adjacent states, and of
insisting upon an instant compliance with an immode-
rate requisition at the juncture when the Presidency
was but ill prepared to engage in a double
struggle,—the most reasonable propositions
are, on the contrary, submitted to the
consideration of the National Magistrate, Mr. Poex.
This moderation on the part of Great Britain—and
especially when there were absolute lures to aggran-
disement—will not be forgotten very speedily by the
nations of the globe. In that ungrasping offer of
bringing matters to an amicable settlement, and in the
dignity and resolution with which that offer was
tendered, the other empires and principalities of the
earth will recognise the probity, the power, and
the peacefulness of the national spirit in England.
They will perceive that the old feudal crusades, fin
the mere extension of dominion, are regarded by us
v‘ith abhorrent contempt, and that authority and
political vigour cannot, now-a-days, excite any ad-
ministration of these islands to encroach upon the rights
or to avail itself of the dilemmas of another nati.n.
Despite the hostile tetnperati.ent of Mr. President
POLK himself, and the pugnacious oratory of Mr.
QUIN CY ADAMS and his compatriots, a more
humanising spirit has prevailed. By the wisdom and
' moderation of her MAJESTY'S Councils, by the pa-
tient, but at the same time unflinching posture of the
late Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of
ABERDEEN, and through the good temper by which Mr.
PAKEN HAM'S movements have been regulated
throughout this protracted correspondence, the
difficult problem of the Oregon question has
been conducted to the present satisfactory
issue. The sword of our empire has still re-
mained in its scabbard, and England has thereby
conquered the prejudices of the American Legisla-
ture. British moderation will prove more salutary,
as an example to other empires, than any warlike
conquest.

It is.with the deepest regret we find that it is the
intention of Mr. O'CONNELL to oppose the re-election
of Mr. REDINGTON, for Dundalk, and that he has
started his son Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL, jun., as a
candidate for the suffrages of that constituency.
We had hoped that greater attention would have
been paid to the temperate and prudent recommenda-
tion contained in the admirable letter of the Earl of
MILLTow2I, and that a fair trial would have
been afforded to a Ministry who have made the
fairest promises as to their intentions with respect to
Ireland, and who have even, to the fullest extent,
acted up to their lifieral professions. The Irish people
should recollect that the occasion which has caused
the formation of the new Government was the defeat
of a " measure of coercion and severity to-
wards their country. They have ever been supposed
to be a generous and a grateful people; and should
they succeed in excluding from the House of Com-
mons a gentleman of respectability, character, and
talent, who has proved himself on all occasions a
most valuable and useful representative, and who
has devoted his energies to questions of the gravest
importance and the deepest interest to his coun-
try men, and that, too, on a vacancy occasioned
by the succes-i of the opposition to a measure so dis-
tasteful to the Irish people as the Coercion Bill, they
would expose themselves to a weighty charge of the
deepest ingratitude. The selection of Mr. REDINGTON
as Under-Secretary for Ireland was highly
complimentary to the people of that country,
and afforded the strongest proof of the sincerity
of the Ministry in their professions, and
their anxious desire for the better governance
of the country. Mr. IZEDINGrom has acquired a
profound knowledge on that most pressing of all
Irish questions, the relationship of landlord and
tenant. He was one of the Commissioners selected
to inquire into the state of the law and practice
in respect to the occupation of land, from which
Commission emanated the most valuable recom-
mendations, measures founded on some of
which have already been introduced to the
Legislature, with the unanimous approbation
of the House and the country ; and it may fairly be
presumed that the remainder of those recommenda-
tions, including a provision for the reclaiming of the
waste lands in that country, will be speedily brought
forward under the auspices of the man who joined
therein, and who had, in the course of his inquiries,
obtained information from persons of every class and
condition of life.
Mr. O'CONNELL has been loud in his complaints
because Ireland is not governed by the Irish. Can
he not see that such a line of conduct is eminently
calculated to defeat such a result ? If, the moment an
Irishman is selected for a responsible situation in the
executive administration of the affairs of his native
land, his re-election is to be opposed, and he is to
be excluded from the Legislature because he happens
to differ_.from Mr. O'CONNELL on one question,
and one only, is it not practically compelling
,the Government to selec' person:, representing Eng-
lish coubtituacio fog ouch of ?

himself, in his speech at the repeal banquet at Dun- i
dalk, bore the most honourable testimony to the cha-
racter and qualifications of Mr. REDINGTON. He said,
"I should be untrue in fact, and unjust in detail, if
I said one word derogatory to Mr. REDINGTON.
say he is a gentleman—a Christian gentleman—
a gentleman of faith—a gentleman of vir-
tue. He is a gentleman of 'great value—
one of the first gentlemen in the country." And in
the course of his speech, he admitted, that "if any
man could be accepted as their representative who
had but one fault, it was Mr. REDINGTON ;" and,
also, that "if his son was in the majority, and the last
vote was polled, that he would use the influence
which he possessed over his son, and withdraw him
from the contest, ifMr.REDINGTON would declare him-
self a repealer." Here, then, we have the most entire
approval of all Mr. REDINGTON'S political views, save
on one question, which its warmest advocates mud
admit to be quite impracticable, at least during the
continuance of the present Parliament. That the
proceeding did not meet with the cordial concur-
rence of the repealers themselves, may be gathered
from the fact, that not a single Roman Catho-
lic clergyman connected with the town of
Dundalk was present at the entertainment; and
also from the short but very expressive letter
of the Rev. Mr. COYNE, the parish priest of the town,
'ho expresed his strongest disapprobation of the time,
the manner, and the object of brivging young Mr.
O'CONNELL to the town under existing circumstances.
We admit the natural desire that must be felt by Mr.
O'CONNELL to have his youngest and favourite son
in Parliament, but we have ever believe] and
still believe him to be too sincere a pa-
triot to injure his country for any personal con-
sideration ; besides, he will doubtless ere long have
many opportunities of gratifying that desire. The
present Parliament cannot exist much longer ; it
must speedily be dissolved by the efflux of time. Mr.
D. O'CONNELL, jun., is still very young, and another
year in private life cannot be disadvantageous to
him. We will still hope for a wiser determination
and that a contest for Dundalk will not present a con-'
crest to the almost unanimous approbation with which
the members of the new Ministry have been received
by their constituents.

Letters from Warsaw of the 28th ult. state that
several of the inha:Jitants of that city have had their
property confiscated for taking part in the recent
political movement, and that many have in addition
been exiled to the mines of Siberia. From Cracow
we learn that M. WENDA, a landed proprietor, who
took part in the late insurrection, and was given up
by Prussia to the Russian authorities, has been sen-
tenced at Randon to transportation to Siberia, with
previous exposure to two hours in the pillory.

The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE arrived at Elsineur
on the 20th ult., on board the IngermarAnland. The
next day he landed at Copenhagen and paid his re-
spects to the King of DENMARK, and on the follow-
ing day he sailed for St. Petersburgh.

The Pore has appointed the Abbe GRAZIOSI as his
private secretary. The Abbe was formerly his tutor.
His Holiness has conferred the order of St. Gregory
on Professor BETTI, Secretary of the Academy of St.
Luc, and author of Italia Ilbtstre. His Holiness is
exceedingly popular. At Sinigaglia, his birth-place,
in the midst of the demonstrations of joy which his
elevation has called forth, a society has been formed
to raise a statue to him, and to restore an ancient
aqueduct for furnishing water to the town, to be
called Acquapia, in allusion to his name of Pius. The
subscription already amounts to 80,000 scudi.

The Madrid mail, of the 4th had not reached Paris
at the hour the post left on Thursday.

We have received the Paris pipers of Thursday.

The circular of M. DUCHATEL, the Minister of the
Interior, which we published yesterday, on the subject
of the approaching elections, is commented on in all
of them. The Ministerial journals, the Debuts and
the Epoque, extol it, of course, as the p.rtection of
wisdom. The Presse, which is by no means an un-
deviating supporter of the Soult-Guizot Ministry
speaks of it in the following terms:—

We can only give our entire apprt.bation to the publica-
tion of this circtair. Parties may discuss the principles
upon which it is based, but they cannot c•.utest the tranL•-
ness with which they are set forth. 'nit., in our eyes. is
what recommends i!, and gives to i• the importaw:e of a truly
praiseworthy act of the Government."

The Conalitutionnel, of course, finds fault with the
acts of the Ministry in general, and of M. GulzoT in
particular, while M. THIEHS isrepresented as the beau
ideal of a perfect constitutional state-man. The Na-
tional is furious, and the Courrier FrangaiB denounces
the circular as a useless falsehood and a gross insult
to the good sense of the country.
It was reported on the Bourse on Wednesday, that
a portion of the Great NOrthern Railroad, which
crosses a bog between Douay and Arras, had given
way durirg the passage of a train over it, and that
eleven persons had been killed and several wounded.
Herßoyal Highness the Princess AuGusTA of Saxe
Coburg-Gotha (Princess CLEMENTINE of Orleans,
daughter of King Louts PHILIPPE), was delivered of
a Princess, at the Palace of Neuilly, on Wednesday.
The 21Ioniteur publishes the law opening an extra-
ordinary credit of 25,174,741 f for the maintenance
in Algeria of 34,000 men and 3,317 horses, in ad-
dition to the effective force fixed by the law of
July 19, 1845.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs-
day at 83f. 25c. ; the Five per Cents., 121 f. 65c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,265 f. ; Rouen, 1,002 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 7201.; Great Northern 718 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 876 f.
25c. ; Vierzon, 6281. 75c. ; Bordeaux, 571 f. 25c. ; Boulogns,
467 f. 50c. ; Troyes and Monte:eau, 3701: ; Dieppe, 4051. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 4871. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 501 f.
25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 5251 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 35i.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Lyons and Avignon, detinitives, 497 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and
Cette, detinitives, 4851.

MARSEILLES, JULY 4.—Marseilles and Avignon, 870 f. ;
Northern, 720 f.; Paris and Lyons, 527 f. 50c.
LYONS, JULY 7.—Marseilles and Avignon, 888 f. 7.5 c.
Paris and Orleans, 1,272 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 527 E 50c. ; Great
Northern, 728 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Jur 10.

Boulogne and Amiens, 12%—Dutch Rhenish, 7%—East
—Louvain and Jemappe, S —Luxembourg, 2% —Northern of
France Constituted, 13%—raris and Lyons constituted, 6—Sambre
and Meuse, 4%.

The first Cabinet Council of the new Ministry was
held this afternoon at three o'clock. The summonses
for the meeting were issued by Lord John Russell on
Thursday. All the members of the new Cabinet were
in attendance. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr.
C. Wood) and other Ministers who have been out of
town attending their re-election, arrived in London this
morning to attend the meeting.

CONES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTLLLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
JULY 3. Georgian schooner, 11. illiam Lyon, E..q., from
Plymouth and Tot bay; Drift cutter, James Lyon, Esq., from
Por tsmow h.
4. Fair Rosamond schooner, Marquis of BlAndford, from
Gosport.
6. Emerald cutter, J. L. Symonds, Esq., from Ryde.
7. Flirt schooner, and Medina cutter, Sir B. R. Graham,
Bart., from Lymington ; Avenger cutter, James Saunderson,
Esq., from Portsmouth.
9. Brilliant schooner, G. H. Ackers, Esq., from Dover :
Osprey cutter, John Petre, Esq., from Portsmouth ; Nymph
cutter, Sir John Bayley, Ban., from Portsmouth; Storm-
finch cutter, Lieut.-Col. Bowers, fiom Portsmouth.
SAILIIs.: GS.
JULY 10. Russian cutter yacht Neriede, Lieut. Abriganeoff,
for the Mediterranean and Black Seas; Eudora cutter, Na-
thaniel Alexander, Esq., for Belfast.
AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schooners—Georgian, Flirt, Brilliant, Camilla, Maud, Re-
solution, Gem, Fairy Queen, Fair Rosamond, Gitana, Magic.
Cutters—Sparrowhawk, kmerald, peterel, Drift, Avenger.
Whim, Dryad, Nymph, Frisk, Medina, Witch, Osprey, St.
Margaret, Ganymede, Turquoise, Duchess, Noran, Spider,
Heroine, St( rnitinch, Snake.
JULY 10.—A meeting of the Royal Yacht Squadron took
place this day, at the Squadron Rouse, Cowes, when R. S.
Naylor, Esq., of the Sultana, and T. P. D. Astley, Esq., of
the Antelope cutter, were elected members of the squadron ;
also four gentlemen as honorary members.
The royal standard was this day hoisted on the tower of the
new building at Osborne House for the first time.

ILLNESS OF MR. JUSTICE COLERIDOE.—We are in-
formed that on account of the continued illness of Mr. Justice
Coleridge he will not be able to accompany Mr. Justice Pat-
teson on the Midland Circuit, which commences at North-
ampton on Monday next, consequently it has been necessary
to till up the temporary vacancy occasioned by the illness of
the Learned Judge, and Mr. Sergeant Gaselee has been ap-
pointed to proceed as Judge pro tem, on the above circuit,
jointly with Mr. Justice Patteson.
Mr. Charles Grey has been appointed private secre-
tary to Lord J. Russell. Mr. Grey was secretary to Mr.
Francis &trim; when Chancellor of the Exchequer under the
former Whig Administration.-- Mr. E. Crafer is appointed
private secretary to Mr. Tufnell.
MASQUERADE AT VAUXHALL bARDERS.—IRRAIUM
PACHA.—The second grand bet masque is announced for
Monday, for which extensive preparations are making. The
band of the Grenadier Guards, a quadrille band, and a first-
rate brass band, are engaged. The dancing will be under the
direction of M. Gouriet, of her Majesty's Theatre, assisted
by twelve masters of ceremony. It is said that his Highness
Ibrahim Paella and miita iatedld 11012011 ring the festival with
. b* promo.