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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1845.

The Lord; met at Five.

The Waste Lands (Australian) Bill, the Arts' Union
Bill, and the Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill, respectively
passed through Committee.
The Geological Survey Bill was read a second time,
and the Loan Societies' Bill was read a third time and
passed.

On the preFentation of a petition by the Marquis of
BRI;ADAT.BANE fr m various parts of Scotland, praying
for the abulition of religious tests,
Lard STANLEY defended the conduct of the Govern-
meet i❑ regard to the late Bill on that subject.

1.1,rd CAMPBELL complained that the Glvernment by
throw, in; out the measure would deprive Sir D. BREW-
STEIL of his professorship.
Lord IlltouanAm thf,n drew the attention of their
Lordships to an attack which it was stated Mr. F.
Fra:Nell had made on him in the House of Commons,
on account of his conduct as a member of the Com-
mittee on the Dublin and Galway Railway petition. Hs
characterised the attack as foul and libellous and un-
true, and expressed his belief that no such words had
ever been utter( d in the House of Commons ; or, if ut-
tered, that they could not have been heard by the
Speaker or the Members.

After some discussion, the further consideration of the
matter was postponed till Thursday, and the Irish Col-
leges Bill having passed through Committee, their Lord-
ships adjourned.
The Commons met at Twelve o'clock.

The House went into Committee on the Small Debts
Bill, but did not get beyond the 2d c'au e, the conside-
ration of which was, at the suggestion of several Hon.
Members, postponed until to morrow (This day).
On the order of the day for the third reading of the
Lunatic Asylums Bill being read,

Mr. T. DuNcomuE proposed a clause limiting the
operation of the Act to two years.
This was opposed by Lord ASHLEY, and lost by a

majority of 30, the numbers being—For the clause, 13;
against it, 43.
Sir C. NAPIER then proposed a clause excepting the
large metropolitan parishes from the operation of the
Bill.

This was opposed by Sir J. GRAHAM, and negatived
without a division, and the Bill was read a third time.
On the motion that the Bill do pass,
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the reduction of the salaries
of the Commissioners to 1,2004
The motion was negatived on a division, the
numbers being, for the amendment 13 ; against it 32 ;
majority against the amendment 19.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE then moved a clause, providing
that no person not having more than one asylum
should hereafter receive a licence, unless he resided on
the premises so licensed, which was agreed to.
The further proceedings in the Bill were postponed
till to-morrow (this day.)
At the five o'clock sitting Sir H. DOUGLAS brought up
the report on the Bolton and Leigh Railway Amalgama-
tion Bill. Its reception was opposed by Mr. M. GIBSON,
but, after a lengthened discussion, the reception was car-
ried by a majority of 44, the numbers being, for receiv-
ing the report 67, against it 23.
Sir R, PEEL expressed a hope that those Members who
had motions on the paper would give way in order tha
the adjourned debate on New Zealand might be re-
sumed.

office, and placing him in some situation of honour, where
he will be no longer powerful for mischief.

The adjourned debate on the New Zealand question,
it, a matter of course, prevented the case of the Danish
claimants from being discussed last evening. The
delay which has taken place in bringing the case forward
has, no doubt, arisen from the various other matters
to which Mr. lIAwEs had to give his attention, but it has
been unfortunate for the cause that he should, as a matter
of courtesy, have given precedence to Lord PALMERSTON'S
motion on the Cuba sugar on Tuesday, the 15th inst.
This is the more to be regretted, as, owing to the session
being now drawing to a close, many Members
have gone out of town, and only the usual working majority
of Ministers remain. The question must, therefore, be post-
poned till early in the next session. In the meantime,
claimants must not despair—they have only to persevere,
and, notwithstanding the unjust opposition of the Govern-
ment, they must ultimately succeed.

We are glad to find the protest entered by us, in a former
paper, against the tone assumed by a very distinguished
periodical on the merits and bearings of the Oregon ques-
tion corroborated by an able and influential Contemporary.
In an article on this subject, on Saturday last, the Times
attributes, fairly enough, its due weight to any political
statement of the Edinburgh Review, as having been for many
years a recognised organ of Whig opinions. On the same
ground, we shall require no apology, we believe, with our
readers, for resuming and concluding the notice we have pro-
posed to take of this remarkable—and perhaps eventful—
controversy. In arguing the case for the title of Great
Britain to the ten itory in question, we shall assign the rea-
sons that appear conclusive to us against the disparaging
estimate which the Reviewer has formed of that title ; and
those reasons will probably be found equivalent to a demoli-
tion of the title which has been so broadly affirmed by the
Government of the United States.
In order to form a comprehensive estimate of the general
outlines of the controversy, let us see what the territory is
over which " the very doubtful advantage of sovereignty "
(to use the Reviewer's words) is claimed; what are the
leading epociss and events in the history of its discovery, and
partial occupation, from the first accounts that we possess of
those matters to the present time; what the titles respec-
tively advanced to this territorial sovereignty by Great Bri-
tain, and by the United States, are. We shell thus be
enabled to arrive at conclusions founded, at least, on evidence
common to the two parties, and upon which the mind of
every reader will be competent to form its own unbiassed
judgment.
The north-west coast of America, in its broadest geogra-
phical designation, may be said to be possessed, rather than
occupied, between the shores of the Arctic Ocean and lat.
23, or about the southern extremity of California, by
Russia, England, and Mexico; the boundary of the United
States territory is in the vicinity of these vast regions. Their
territory is inland only, comprising all that is east of the
Rocky Mountains from lat. 49 to 42 deg., from which latter
parallel it runs in a south-easterly direction, until it reaches
the rivers which form the boundary of the Texas. All that
is south of the 42d parallel belongs to Mexico. The Russian
boundary begins at the southernmost point of Prince of
Wales' Island, lat. 54.50, thence tending N. W. and W. to
the Arctic Ocean. Between the limits thus assumed as the
boundary of the United States on their extreme N. W. fron-
tier and the 42d parallel on the south,—lat. 54.40 on the
north, and the Rocky Mountains on the east, lies the Oregon
country. The whole of the Oregon coast lies between the
42d degree and 48th degree N. lat. It is about 650 miles long,
of 550 miles average breadth ; contains about 360,000 square
miles, or more than three times the surface of the British
islands. The northern part of the coast above let. 48 is
protected by many islands, the largest whereof, Vancouver's
Island, is two-thirds of the size of Ireland. The only use
hitherto made of it, until within these four years, has been as a
mart for the purchase of furs and skins, although it cannot be
doubted that both its rivers and its coast fisheries, which are
eminently productive, will prove very profitable substitutes
for its commerce in peltry, at no distant day, when the fur
animals shall have become exhausted, or have removed far
from the lands on which they are the objects of incessant and
reckless extirpation. In the meantime the expansion and
facilities of British trade with China render: this commerce
an object of especial importance, independently of all State
and political considerations whatsoever which attach to its
possession. Of this commerce the great Colombia River,
whose sources are in the Rocky Mountains, and whose em-
bouchure is, or about, 46.18 N., is at once the seat and, as it
were, the port.
The leading epochs and events in the history of its disco-
very may be thus succinctly stated. There seems no valid
authority for disputing the fact that our illustrious DRAKE)
after getting a glimpse of this coast in lat. 43 N., ran up it
to lat. 48, in the year 1580. No steps were taken by this
country to improve that discovery, and for nearly two centu-
ries the north-western coast of Africa remained unvisited. It
was in 1774 and 1775 that two expeditions to explore it
were dispatched by BLTCARELLI, Viceroy of Mexico. In
1774 the Commodore JUAN PEREZ MARTINEZ, was the first
European navigator who anchored in San Lorenzo (after-
wards called King GEORGE'S Sound, and did no more. In,
1775 HECETA, the commander of the expedition, discove).-sta
the mouth of the Colombia River, and explored adjoining
portions of the coast. In 1778 Captain COOKS explored the
whole coast of the Pacific, up to the 48th degree, followed at
intervals by Captains BERKELEY and DIXON, Lieut. MEARES,
Captain VANCOUVER, and Lieut. BnocaueoN. " MEARES
and BROUGIITON (we are told by the writers of a very able
and well-reasoned paper in the Foreign Quarterly), the
former at Nootka Sound in the north, the latter on the Co-
lombia River on the south, taking possession of the territory
in the name of the Sovereign of England. Now the Go-
vernment of Spain never made any settlement north
of Cape Mendocino, in lat. 49.29. They abandoned
the country, after the voyages of PEREZ and HECETA, just as
we abandoned it after the voyage of DRAKE. They neither
occupied the country, nor annexed it to their territories, nor
took formal possession of it. In the meanwhile we had taken
possession of the country in a legal and formal manner, '2.nd
we were the only power that did take formal and legal pos-
session of Oregon." The facts connected with posses-
sion taking are so strong that we cannot inlagine how the
Edinburgh Review can have brought itself to advance a doc-
trine so dangerous and a mistatemerit so palpable as this—
namely, " During his voyage in 1794 VANCOUVER, we trust
without instructions was guilty of an assumption of sove-
reignty more ridiculous than even the average absurdity of
such transactions. He first took possession in the name
of -England of all the country from 39.20 to the
Straits of Fuca, and afterwards from these Straits to the 59th
parallel. That is to say, the treaty to superintend the exe-
cution of which he was dispatched (by order of his Sove-
reign) having stipulated that the whole coast should be
open to settleir.ent by England and Spain, he took
exclusive possession of nearly the wh )1e on
the part of England. Now the Oregon question
being one essentially of preferable title, this is to treat a
matter which may one day involve the pacific relations of
mighty States with absurd levity, to say the least of it. But
let us see how grave and pregnant a fact does this act on
the part of VANCOUVER, become when connected with its pre-
cedents. What were those precedents ? The Spanish Govern-.
mentbeing alarmed,by the continued residence of that en terpris,
ing officer, Lieutenant MEAREs, and his companions at Nootka
Sound (in 1788), where they were trading with the natives,
after having built for themselves a large sloop upon the
coasts, dispatched MARTINEZ with three armed vessels to
dismiss the English interlopers. KiainNEz, on his arrival
at the Sound (in 1789) erected a fort, seized MEARES'S yea►
sels and sloop, and sent off some of his men towards Europe
in the American ship " Colombia," Captain GRAY, and sent
the others to San Blas as prisoners. Spain demanded satis-
faction for MEARES'S intrusion into her north-western
settlements. England would not allow the fact of the
intrusion, and insisted on reparation from Spain, be-
cause she had thus taken the law into her own hands.
The two countries took up arms, but after some expensive
preparations on either side, an indemnity was given by Spain
to MEARES, and the future was provided for by the Conven-
tion of the Escurial, known as the Nootka Sound treaty
dated 28th October, 1790, By article 1 the buildings and
tracts of land on the north-west coast, of which British
subjects had been dispossessed, were to be restored; by article
3 subjects of England and Spain respectively were not to be
disturbed in navigating or fishing in the Pacific or the South
Seas, or Anding on the coasts of those seas not already occu-
pied, for purposes of commerce with the natives, or in making
settlements there. By article 5, in all places on the north-
west coast, to the north of the parts of that coast already
occupied by Spain (that is N. of lat. 38), wherever the sub
jects of either nation should thereafter make settlements, the
subjects of the other were to have free access. Now the title
of Spain at this time was good against all the world but Eng-
land ; the title of England was admitted by Spain to be
good, in virtue of this treaty ; and the admission was
fortified by the fact, established in MEARES'S:;CaSe, surely,
of occupation as well as discovery and possession. When
Captain VANCOUVER arrived out in Nootka Sound again to
take possession, no " tracts of land" were to be discovered.
He was offered a hut, which he refused. Leaving the
sound in possession of the Spaniards, he took possession
of the coast in the way ridiculed by the Edinburgh
Reviewer, in what we contend, on the contrary, was a wise,
bold, and just conformity to the spirit of his instructions and
the rights of his Government. The Foreign Quarterly ob-
serves upon it :—" By this legal and official act the country
was annexed to the British Crown for ever. The act was
notified to the whole world: it was published under the
sanction of Government in VANCOUVER'S narrative—every-
driigdh tnse,
narrative—every-
body knew it, nobody disputed it. If Spain regarded this
the
other. o
On r protested
the
contrary,
s she
eh
act or declaration of sovereignty as an infringement of her
i she
}it ee
r wouldthe one have
nor
remonstrated
abandoned from that hour the shores of the north-western
region, and has never
appeared upon them since." We
intreat our readers, here, to remark, that this act of
sovereignty was done, not by a private individual, but
by a recognised agent of the Crown. It, therefore,
satisfies the very condition insisted on by the Edinburgh
Reviewer in stating the law of nations on this point. " The
acts by which sovereignty is acquired must be the acts of a
Government, not of unauthorised individuals. The acquisi-
tion of sovereignty is a grave act. . No title is,
therefore, given, by the discoveries made by private adven-
turers. If they make settlements, these form no portion of
the territory of the state from 1.-hich the unauthorised
settlers have proceeded. If they enter into treaties, such trea-
ties give them no right against either their own Government,
or any other." Now, in this case, the act of sovereignty was

Mr. HOME and Mr. EWART, however, insisted on
their rights, and accordingly Mr. HUME brought forward
bis motion for an Address to the Crown, praying for an
inquiry into the case of the ex-Raja of Sattara.
Dr. BOWRING seconded the motion, which was op-
posed by Mr. E. TENNENT.
The House was addressed by Mr. WILLIAMS, Mr
HOGG, Sir E. COLEBROOXE, Mr. WAKLEY, and Mr. B.
BARING, and eventually the question was negatived with-
out a division.

Mr. HAVES postponed his motion on the Danish
claims till next session.

Mr. EWART then brought forward his motion for a
reduction in the duties on butter and cheese, which,
after a short debate, was negatived by a majority of
ninety-eight.
Several measures were then advanced a stage, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'Clock.

Mr. C. BULLER'S speech will be admitted by every
unbiassed reader to be an ample justification of his se-
cond appeal from Lord STANLEY to Parliament, on the
wrongs of New Zealand ; and if anything could lay the
spirit of party in the House of Commons, or conquer
those personal considerations which compel Lord STAN-
LEY'S colleagues to stand by him, should ensure the con-
demnation of the infatuated course in which, in spite of
all the sad warnings from New Zealand, and in spite of
his colleague's late fair promises, the Hotspur Colonial
Minister still perseveres.
Who could have thought that, in the short space of a
morth after Sir R. PEEL'S and Sir J. GRAHAM'S fine-
sounding speeches, so many new points could be made
even against Lord STANLEY, and even in the case of
New Zealand ? Mark Mr. BULLER'S specific charges
against Lord STANLEY.
1. Sir ROBERT PEEL promised Representative Go-
vernment, quoted BURKE in praise of it, and so carried
away the House of Commons by his liberal aspirations,
that, as Mr. DULLER tells us, several of his friends ear-
nestly dissuaded him from dividing on the last occasion,
after the Premier's emphatic assent to the chief
principle of his own scheme of future policy for New
Zealand. Mr. BULLER doubted whether the Premier's
fine words were more than words, or were meant for any
but the momentary purpose of helping Lord STANLES
through a scrape ; and the result has too soon justified
Mr. BULLER'S opinion. Lord STANLEY, within ;eight
days of Sir R. PEEL'S speech, writes out to the new
Governor, Captain GREY, that representative Govern-
ment in New Zealand " is for the present impracticable."
All that he will
.give is " municipal bodies, with consi-
derable powers of taxation for local purposes, and of
making the necessary bye-laws." A pretty substitute
for Representative Government ! And he will leave
the more general powers of legislation vested in the
Council, as at present constituted." That is, in a mise-
rable oligarchical interest, dependent on the Governor of
the colony. So much for Sir R. PEEL'S promise of Re-
presentative Government.
2. Without adverting to the past history of an
Association upon whose land dealings and general trans-
actions at that period we have, from time to time, freely
expressed our opinions, we will ask—in justice to its
more recent negotiations and correspondence with Go-
vernment—how has Lord STANLEY acted with regard to
the New Zealand Company's land claims, in the short
interval which has elapsed since the last debate ? He
has actually imposed a new condition, in addition to
those which they before complained of, for their obtain-
ing land to which the New Zealand Committee of the
House of Commons adjudged that they were urcon-
ditionally entitled from the Crown. The New Zealand
Company thought it grievance enough that they should
be subjected to investigation of their titles by the Court
of Claims, and to further payments to the natives
by ewards of that Court. After Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
conciliatory speech, they hoped that something of these
hard conditions might be given up ; but Lord STANLEY
has ectually added a new condition. He now requires,
for the first time, that the award, wizen made, shall be ac-
cepted by the natives, before the land is granted to the
Company. Was there ever such a condition before
thought of by mortal man ? A Court is constituted for
the purpose of making awards ; and it is to be optional
with the parties referred to that Court, whether they
shall accept the award or not, We give an extract
from the minutes of communication between Lord STAN-
LEY and the deputation of New Zealand Directors,
lately laid on the table of the House of Commons, to
show that we are not misrepresenting his Lordship.
" That with respect to the lands at Wellington, com-
prising about 60,000 acre;, he (Lord STANLEY) saw :10
objection to giving instructions for an immediate grant,
on the assumption that the award had been trade, and
the money awarded accepted by the natives." Absurd as
such a condition would he with civilised men, it beats
all imaginable absurdity when savages are the parties
whose assent is made necessary by Lord STANLEY.

3. The " mistake," to use Mr. Under-Secretary
loPE's phrase, about the two sets of instruc-
ions to Captain GREY on the subject of the
Company's land claims, is at least unfortu-
nate. Lord STANLEY places some instructions,
dated 6th July, in the hands of the deputation, and pro-
liaises to forward these to them, that they may be com-
municated to the whole Board, after the Indian mail
shall have sailed. He afterwards sends instructions, dated
the 27tla Jane, which differ materially from those which
the deputation had seen, and which the deputation de-
tlare-tlai they did not see. Lord STANLEY declares they
7 did ; but Lord STANLEY'S word is the word of only one
man against four. We make no imputation against Lord
STANLEY'S honour, but we doubt the accuracy of his
recollection. And this is how Mr. BULLER
raised the point, though Mr. Under-Secretary
HOPE thought it convenient to represent that Lord
STANLEY'S honour was attacked, and to wax indignant
at a charge which he had first invented. Mr. BULLER'S
words place this beyond mistake :—" And though he
did not impute bad faith—he was willing to believe that
this had arisen from carelessness cr mistake—but what
he said was, that if bad faith had been intended, the
Company could not have been placed in a worse po-
sition than they were in consequence of that careless-
ness or mistake.—(Hear, hear.) And he said farther,
that this was not a mistake which ought to occur twice
on the same subject in two successive years.—(Hear,
hear.) He thought, too, that the former discussions
in that House should hare made Lord STANLEY more
cautious : and he would further say, that a person
who managed the business of a great public department
in so loose and careless a manner, was not a fit person
to conduct satisfactorily the Colonial department of the
Government of this country."—(Loud cheers.)
And this is the secret of Lord STANLEY'S colonial mis-
rule. He has talent, but no application—he can make a
slashing speech, bat will not sit down to study a dispatch.
He picks up information by piece-meal—gets a scrap
from Mr. STEPHENS and a scrap from Mr. HoPE—talks
at random to deputations, and does not know what in-
structions he is showing. The last Parliamentary papers
convict him of an inaccuracy with reference to these
very instructions ; and if his recollection is inaccurate
in one point, it may be in another. He placed some in-
structions in the hands of the deputation—that is ad-
mitted by himself. But when he sends to Lord INCES-
THE, who headed the deputation, the instructions which
he sent, he writes, " I transmit to your Lordship the
accompanying extracts from my recent dispatch to
Governor GREY : they are the passages which I read to
the di pututioa, or of which I stited the substance to them."
Quite forgetting that he had placed the instructions, in
eatenso, in their hands. And forgetting this, he may
surely, without any impeachment of his honour, have
forgotten that he did not communicate to the deputa-
tion the instructions of June 27. And is a man who
conducts business in this irregular manner, fit to retain
the
government of a colony in the alarming condition of
New Zealand ?
We know what will be the end of these discussions
Sir ROBERT PEEL cannot desert Lord STANLEY in Par•
liament, but the opportunity will be taken, during the 1111•
cation, of removing this incendiary from the Colonial.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAI MORNING, JULY 23, IM6.

made not only by a distinguished officer of the Crown, and
under the orders of the Crown, but enforcing the conditions
of a treaty negotiated between that Crown and another
sovereign power. In all these respects the pretensions of
America are UTTERLY deficient. No public officer has
even yet taken possession, on her behoof, of one foot of
land in Oregon ; no public servant of the United States
has executed any treaty touching any part of the Oregon.
Out of the five conditions, therefore, which the jurist,
who writes in the Edinburgh Review, insists upon as those
by which alone sovereignty over an unoccupied country can
be acquired, namely, " Discovery, Settlement, Contiguity,
Treaty, and Prescription," we have:thus demonstrated that
England claims—and holds, too, by Settlement, Treaty, and
Prescription. Half a century since we had complied " with
all the legal and solemn conditions by which new territories
are annexed to the dominion of the Crown." As to the title
by discovery, it is eighty years ago since a Spaniard—
HECETA—SO far as the Colombia River is concerned, demo-
lished the possibility of the United States ever establishing
it (though they set it up), by being the first European to
find it and to enter it. At that time (1775) the Americans
knew nothing about the river itself, or the whole of that
territory through which it ran. It remains only to complete
the conditions of the British title to Oregon to speak of
"contiguity ;" and, with this head, we shall close our argu-
ment in support of the title of England to the Oregon,—we
dare hope not without having established it to the conviction
of our readers, unless there shall be a superior title set
out in the claim of America, as expounded by her own
Presidents, state officers, and diplomatists. Any such
title we pledge ourselves to disprove by the irrefragable
evidence of the documentary papers, &c., which they have
brought forward to establish it. " On the other hand," (we
quote here from the Foreign Quarterly), "if any political or
international ♦slue can be reasonably attached to proximity
of position and comparative facility of access, the short and
easy transit which we can command from the remotest point
of our Canadian possessions to the shores of the Pacific, in-
vests us with geographical advantages which it would be
impolitic, not to say fruitless, to contest. Whatever be-
comes of Oregon, the English, who hold so vast a stretch of
country due east of the mountains, and who have long wielded
direct sway over the disputed territory itself, through the nu-
merous locations of the Hudson's Bay Company, must al-
ways exercise an inevitable influence over its destinies. If

forced as the best, and, in short, only means of keeping the
markets in a healthy sa.ate.
The colonies have exhibited certain signs of revival of
prosperity, which cannot but be cheering. The Directors
the Union Bank of Australia made a very able report to
their shareholders ye3terday, and, withal, a very impartial
one; and from the statements-in it there la every reason to
conclude that our southern colonies will soon be again free of
their embarrassments. The bank is, itself, by the good di-
vidend which it continues to yield, the best proof that there
are the elements of renewed confidence and prosperity, if
the Australians will but refrain from speculation.
The Public Securities are to-day without any particular
alteration, and with a fair business doing. Consols have
been 99 to % for present Transfer, and 99% 14 for Time.
Exchequer-bills have receded to 565. and 535. premium.
Bank Stock is worth 2101/ to 2111%. The New Three-and-
a. Quarter per Cents. have been 102% 12.
The Foreign market is very dull—not a bargain is officially
noted either in Spanish or Portuguese. Mexican are at
371/s, being steady; Colombian have been 173/4 ; Buenos
Ayres, 481,4 ; and Brazilian 91, being steady. Venezuela
Stock is at 441/2. Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. have
been 621% %.
Shares are not quite so good this morning, with one or two
exceptions. Manchester and Leeds are higher, and also
Churnet Valley ; but Cambridge and Lincoln are lower.
Croydon are firm.

ONE CLOSINu
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ... 210%/2111/1 211%
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 991 s 5914
New VA per Cents 1021/2% 102 A
Long Annuities toexnireJan.lB6o 11N iyi 111/
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,000/..
Ditto under 1,0001..
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities ... 984
Bank Stock for Account 211
Consols for Account ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 56 53
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small ••• -- --

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Oregonlwere ceded to the United States to-morrow, British in-
fluence must still predominate from the source of the Colombla
to the sea ; a state of things which, so far from producing
any practical benefits to the Union, would be attended by
disastrous consequences, sooner or later."

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It remains only now to examine the pretensions affirmed
by the United States, first in respect of their amazing claim
to the discovery of the Colombia River by Captain GRAY;
second, their derivative title under treaty with France, and
through France from Spain.

A letter from Constantinople, published in the Augsburg
Gazette, says---" The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE leaves to-
morrow for Italy; he will not visit Greece. The Prince has
not accepted the presents intended for him by the Porte. Of
all the members of the diplomatic corps, M. LECOY is the only
one be has given audience to."

A Frankfort journal states, from Athens, June 26, that a
proposition made by M. Cor,Errt, to send a deputation to
Cons tan tinoplejp compliment the Grand Duke CONSTANTLNE
and invite him*" visit Athens, had not been acceded to by
the ➢linistry, as it was considered inopportune to make any
public demonstration in his favour, under the existing state
of affairs. The KING, it is said, will send one of his aides-
de-camp with an autograph congratulatory letter.

We have received Madrid papers to the 14th instant. The
decree against the press, which is censured by even some of
the Ministerial journals, appears to have produced a deep im-
pression. On the 15th all the editors of the periodical press
were to meet, in order to agree as to the best course to be
pursued. The meeting was expected to present considerable
interest.

ONE
O'CLOCK.

The Hu aldo, the organ of the Ministry, expresses its ap-
proval of the decree, in defence of which it reproduces the ar-
guments of the Ministers in their report to the QUEEN.
The accounts received from Barcelona state that the move-
ment is entirely put down. The conscription was proceeding
with.

MADRID BOURSE, JULY 14.—Three per Cents., 28 for
cash, and 28 9-16 for Account ; Five per Cents. for Ac-
count, 20%.

The French papers of Sunday, which arrived this morning,
are chiefl.y filled with comments on the recent decree issued
in Spain against the press. The Presse alone (the organ of
CIumsTLNA) ventures to defend it. The Journal des Debats,
and all the other journals, speak of it as putting the seal on
the reactionary movement of the Spanish Government. The
Opposition journals speculate on the approaching dissolution
of the Chambers. The Presse, however, states, and appa-
rently from authority, that there is no intention to dissolve
the present Chamber immediately.

Do:, CARLOS and his consort are stated to have left Bourges
on the 17th for Greoulx, accompanit,i by M. DE FiNAN, Aide-
d2-camp to Marshal SOUL; the President of the Council and
Minister of War.