The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-13 00:00:00

(From the New York Sun.)
OREGON NOTICE.—The Senate resolutions, in dissolving
a treaty which bad preserved peace between the two Govern-
ments for twenty-eight years, expressed an opinion favour-
able to the "amicable" adjustment of the disputes which
must of necessity grow out of the abrogation of that treaty;
and they also left the notice in the hands of the President,
who has charge of the negotiation, and is therefore best able
to judge of the proper time for giving it. But the House of Re-
presentatives struck out the clause favourable to an amicable
adjustment of disputes, and COMMANDED the President to give
the notice. The Senate resolutions, in matter and form, were
not adopted hastily or unadvisedly. They were the result
of council, deliberation, and understanding. The majority
had agreed that a notice of some kind ought to be adopted, to
settle the question definitely, and not leave it open to
future contingencies. Above all, the Senate wished
to save the American people from the very deli-
cate position in which an agitation of the question and the
movements of political parties might hereafter place the
country. The Government has full power to act in the mat-
ter now, but leave the question unsettled to the next presi-
dential election ; let us have a war candidate and a peace
candidate, with direct issues before the people, and what will
be the result ? In November, 1848, the people will vote for
a President—for war or peace—the whole of Oregon or none-
-49 or 54 40 ! The result of that election, sup-
posing it favourable to war and 54 40, will be known
in England sometime in December, three months before the
successful party comes into office; and does any man in his
senses suppose that England would wait for us to carry out
the policy thus sanctioned by the people? No, while we
lay comparatively helpless, without preparation of any kind,
she would be prepared, and the laws of nations would autho-
rise her to strike. Although the first blow would be severe,
we know our people too well to doubt their ability
to inflict terrible and tenfold retribution upon the
enemy. But when would such a struggle terminate?
Not in three, nor five, nor ten years. It would be a long and
bloody contest, which other nations and other tongues would
reap the benefit of. While America and England were de-
stroying each other, other nations would be built up by the
ruin of the British empire, or the poverty of the American
republic. Here, then, is the evil which the Senate wished
to guard against, and the resolutions they proposed
had the sanction of those best acquainted with the posi •
tion and probable results of the negotiation, including
the Executive himself. A fearful responsibility now rests
upon the Senate. That branch of the Government must
adhere to the position it assumed with so much deliberation
and forethought. Questions like the Oregon, which belong
only to the treaty making power, should never be brought
into the arena of party politics, and we "look to the Senate,"
with confidence in its wisdom, for some movement calculated
to bring this matter to a close at an earlier day than that
contemplated even by the giving of the notice.
A rumour from the frontier, similar to the one we gave
yesterday, is alluded to by the New Orleans Picayune of
the 14th. Au attempt was made in New Orleans to
give currency to an impression that an action had
taken place and our troops defeated, but it was
treated with derision. As to the Congressional elec-
tion in Texas, thus far, Williams has 968, Pellsbury,
861; Cooke, 804.- Captain Haiglier, formerly a member of
the Texian Congress from San Patricio, was shot through
the heart by a Mr. Pool at Goliad. Pool was arrested. It
was said to have been in an affray.