The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-15 00:00:00

.. co educate clergymen gratis, or at £2O a year, and
you will soon have a multitue of preachers. Treble the
endowment of Maynooth, and, of course, you multiply
priests. It does, then, sePtu a strange expedient and a
strange justice to make Catholic orders more accessible
than Protestant, to facilitate the path of every young lite-
rary gentleman towards Maynooth, but suffer it to be as
much blocked up as ever towards Dublin, Oxford, or
Cambridge. What if you should find yourself actually
determining the direction of his theology ? We are as-
sured by the Church of England advocates of an adequate
and satisfactory grant, that if the student of Maynooth
bad rather more education, and that of a more literary
and scientific character, and that if he were more of a
gentleman, he would be the more likely to discover the
errors of his communion, and come, with his orders,
over to our own. As an indication of what we may expect
under a more liberal system, we are informed that already
there are several Maynooth students in Anglo-Irish pul-
pits. Grant it—what then if this should become a corn-
mon practice ? A good many young men at the age of
sixteen or eighteen may not be so certain of their opinions
as they are of the fact of their poverty. They can swallow
their scruples for a few years and go to Maynooth. Once
ordained, if they choose to renounce the errors of Ro-
manism, they are forthwith qualified for the curacies and
livings of the Establishment."
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BRITISH CLAIM TO THE OREGON.

The following summary of the British claim, which was
drawn up by Mr. H uskisson, is so lucid and succinct, that
we cannot present the question under a more perfect
form :
" Great Britain claims no exclusive sovereignty over
any portion of the territory on the Pacific, between the
42d and 49th parallels of latitude ; her present claim, not
in respect to any part, but to the whole, is limited to a
right of joint occupancy in common with or,er states,
leaving the right of exclusive dominion in abeyance, and
her pretensions tend to the mere maintenance of her own.
rights in resistance to the exclusive character of the pre-
tensions of the United States.

" The rights of Great Britain are recorded and defined
in the convention of 1790; they embrace the right to na-
vigate the waters of those countries, to settle in and over
any part of them, and to trade with the inhabitants and
occupiers of the same. These rights have been peaceably
exercised ever since the date of that convention ; that is
for a period of newly forty years. Under that conven-
tion, valuable British interests have grown up in those
countries. It is admitted that the United States possess
the same rights, although they have been exercised by
them only in a single instance, and have not since the year
1813 been exercised at all ; but beyond these rights they
possess none.
" In the interior of the territory in question the sub-
jects of Great Britain have had for many years numerous
settlements and trading posts ; several of these posts are
on the tributa►y streams of the Columbia; several upon
the Columbia itself; some to the northward and others to
the southward of that river. And they navigate the Co-
lumbia as the sole channel for the conveyance of their pro-
duce to the British stations nearest the sea, and for the
shipment of it thence to Great Britain ; it is also by the
Columbia and its tributary streams that these posts and
settlements receive their annual supplies from Great Bri-
tain.
" To the interests and establishments which British in-
dustry and enterprize have created Great Britain owes
protection ; that protection will be given, both as regards
settlement and freei'om of trade and navigation, with every
attention not to infringe the co-ordinate rights of the
United States ; it being the desire of the British govern..
ment, so long as the joint occupancy continues, to regu-
late its own obligations by the same rules which govern
the obligations of every other occupying party.