The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-16 00:00:00

ARTICLE I.

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It is hereby agreed and declared that the line of boundary
shall be as follows :
Beginning at the Monument at the source of the river St.
Croix, as designated and agreed to by the commissioners
under the sth article of the treaty of 1791, between the go-
' vernment of the United States and Great Britain ; thence
North, following the exploring line run and marked by the
surveyors of the two governments in the years 1817 and
1818, under the sth article of the treaty of Ghent, to its in-
tersection with the river St. John, and to the middle of the
channel thereof; thence up the middle of the main channel
of the said river. St,, John, to the mouth of the river St.
Francis ; thence up•the middle of the channel of the said
river St. Francis, and of the lakes through which it flows to
the outlet of the Lake Pohenagamook ; thence south-wes-
terly in a straight line to a point on the north-west branch
of the river St. John, which point shall be ten miles distant
from the main branch of the St. John, in a straight line and
in the nearest direction • but if the said point shall be found
to be less than seven :miles from the nearest point or sum-
mit, or crest of the highlands that divide those rivers which
empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those
which tall into the river St. John, to a point seven miles in
a straight line from the said summit or crest; thence, in a
straight line in a course about south eight degrees west to
the point where the parallel of latitude of 46 deg. 25 min.
north intersects the southwest branch of the St. John ; then
southerly by the said branch to the source thereof in the
highlands at the Merjarmette portage ; thence, down along
the said highlands which divide the waters which empty
themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which
fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the head of Hall's stream ;
thence, down the middle of the said stream till the line thus
run intersects the old line of boundary surveyed and marked
by Valentine and Collins, previous to the year 1774, as the
45th degree of north latitude, and which has been known
and understood to be the line of actual division between the
states of New York and Vermont on one side, and the Bri-
tish province of Canada on the other; and, from said point
of intersection, west along_ the said dividing line as hereto.
fore known and understood, to the Iroquois or St. Lawrence
river.
ARTICLE 11.
It is moreover agreed, that, from the place where the joint
commissioners terminated their labours, under the sixth ar-
ticle of the treaty of Ghent, to wit: at a point in the Nee-
brik Channel, near Muddy Lake, the line shall run into and
along the Ship Channel, between St. Joseph and St. Tam-
many Islands, to the division of the channel at or near the
head of St. Joseph's Island ; thence turning eastwardly and
northwardly around the lower end of St. George's or Sugar
Island, and following the middle of the channel which divides
St. George's from St. Joseph's Island's ; thence up the east
Neebrik Channel, nearest to St. George's Island, to the mid-
dle of Lake George ; thence west of Jona's Island, into St.
Mary's River, to a point in the middle of that river, about
one mile above St. George's or Sugar Island, so as to appro-
priate and assign the said island to the United States ; thence
adopting the line traced on the maps by the commissioners
through the River St. Mary and Lake Superior, to a point
north of Isle Royal, in said lake, one hundred yards to the
north and east of Isle Chapeau, which last-mentioned island
lies near the north-eastern point of Isle Royal, where the
line marked by the commissioners terminates ; and from the
last-mentioned point, south-westerly, through the middle of
the sound between Isle Royal and the north-western main-
land to the mouth of Pigeon River, and at the said river to
and through the north and south Fowl Lakes, to the Lakes
of the height of Land, between Lake Superior and the Lake
of the Woods; thence along the water communication to
Saisaquinaga and through that Lake ' • thence to and through
Cypress Lake, Lac du Bois Blanc, Lac la Croix, Little Ver-
million Lake, and Lake Namican, and through the several
smaller lakes, or streams, connecting the lakes here mentio-
ned, to that point in Lac la Pluie or rainy lake, at the Claud-
iere Falls, from which the commissioners traced the line to
the most north-western point of the woods; thence along
the said line to the said most north-western point, being in
latitude 49 deg. 23 min, 55 sec, north, and in longitude 95
deg. 14 min. 38 sec. west from the observatory, at Greenwich ;
thence, according to existing treaties, due south to its inter-
section with the 49th parallel of north latitude, and along
that parallel to the Rocky Mountains. It being understood
that all water communications, and all the usual portages
along the line from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods ;
and also Grand Portage, from the Shore of Lake Superior to
the Pigeon River, as now actually used, shall be free and open
to the use of the citizens and subjects of both countries.
The 3d article grants to the citizens of Maine and New
Brunswick the mutual right of navigation of the St. Johns.
Article 4th confirms the titles to all lands, and the validity
of all claims arising within six years of the date of the treaty
within the limits of the territory, which by this treaty fall
within the jurisdiction of either party. The sth article pro-
vides, that the " Disputed Territory Fund" shall be handed
to the Government of the United States, to be paid by that
Government to Maine and Massachusetts in the proper pro-
portions. The commissioners are also to transmit reports
and maps to the two governments. The 7th article makes
the St. Lawrence, its channels, and the Lake St. Clair equally
free to both parties.
Article Bth stipulates, that each party shall maintain on the
coast of Africa a squadron, to carry in all not less than eighty
guns, to enforce separately and respectively, the laws, rights,
and obligations of each of the two countries for the suppres-
sion of the slave trade. These squadrons are to be, and act
independent of each other, but the two to act in concert on

such matters as shall be hereafter agreed. This article, it is
afterwards provided in article 11th, is to be in force for five
years, from the date of ratification, and afterwards till one or
other party shall signify a wish to terminate it. Article 9th
pledges the two governments to use their influence in per-
suading all nations to close their ports against the introduc-
tion of slaves. The 10th article provides for the mutual de-
livery, upon requisition and evidence, of all criminal offenders
who may seek an asylum in either country, the cost to be paid
by the party who makes the requisition and receives the fugi-
tive. The last article provides for the mutual ratification of
the Treaty.
The correspondence connected with the Treaty had only
reached the public in an epitomised form. The Creole case
had been presented in strong terms by Mr. Webster. Lord
Ashburton's reply was, that as the news of the affair had
reached England but shortly before his departure, he was
not empowered to treat on the subject. He states, however,
that the laws of Great Britain recognise as free every slave
who sets his foot upon British soil, as much as do the laws
of Massachusetts recognise as free every foreign slave when
he lands in Boston; and that they cannot be altered. But
he promises that directions shall be given to the government
and other officers of the English West India Islands, to do
nothing in this respect (when it can be properly avoided)
that may tend to the disturbance of " good neighbourhood"
between them and the United States.
His lordship also states that he has no authority to treat
on the subject of the right of search. On the subject of the
Caroline affair his lordship reasons at much length, pointing
out that the British authorities were compelled to destroy
her, and he expresses regret at the circumstance. Mr.
Webster, "as directed by the President," gives the British
government a full discharge from all further blame on ac-
count of the Caroline.
The Boundary, as fixed by the Treaty, had produced dif-
ferent impressions in different quarters. The opinion re-
specting it among the British may be found in the following
paragraph from the Quebec Gazette :
"We hope the terms stated are erroneous. There is,
however, no doubt that one-half of the Madawaska settlers
under the faith of the British government are given up. We
think there must be some mistake in the assertion, that the
line runs from the second lake on the St. Francis branch of
the St. John, to the source of the Connectient, giving up
the head waters of the Chaudrere, Lake Megantic, and 1600
square miles of acknowledged British territory, surveyed
and partly settled."
A Boston paper has the following, which shows that the
people of the United States have more reason to be satisfied :
" The ridiculous story about our giving away 2,000,000 of
acres of land, is exactly opposite to the facts. We get
4,000,000 acres of the finest agricultural country, and several
acknowledged English settlements. Among the latter, we
have nearly the whole of the great Madawaska settlement."

THE LATE STORM-LOSS OF LIVES OFF THE

COAST.

(From the Herald of Monday.)

From the various accounts received on Saturday from dif-
ferent parts of the kingdom, we regret to state that the storm
which visited the metropolis on Wednesday night, and the
hurricane of the following day, have been felt throughout the
kingdom particularly along the coast, and have been attended
with the loss of a vast deal of property, besides human life.
During the whole of Wednesday and Thursday the wind blew
from the west-south-west to south-west, which did consider-
able damage amongst the shipping on the eastern coast,
several having their whole suit of sails, rigging, anchors, and
cables carried away, and were obliged to put back into the
Yarmouth Roads, Margate, and Harwich, being unable, from
the damage sustained, to proceed on their destination. Off
Meliford, on Thursday, Captain Rees, of the Fair Hope, of
Aberavon, passed a smack ashore in Ramsay Sound, and a
schooner on the rocks, off Skomer Island, both deserted,
and also the mast and part of the hulk of a smack, N.E. of
the North Bishop, which is supposed to have foundered, and
the crew perished.
So violent was the gale that the Phoenix coasting vessel
belonging to Cotton's Wharf, while off Folkestone, lost one
of her men of the name of John Button. The poor fellow
was reefing the mainsail, when he was blown over and lost ;
the mate scarcely escaped the same fate, he being washed
overboard and saved with considerable difficulty. Between
the night of the Sth and the morning of the 9th, the Halcyon,
loaded with salt, from Gloucester, was wrecked on the west
end of the Gore Sands, and the whole of the crew, supposed
to be nine in number, met with a watery grave. In the
course of the day, two of the bodies were picked up on
Blenheim Strand.

On the Welsh coast the loss of life has been considerable.
The Milford packet lost a man of the name of Williams, a
native of St. David's, Pembrokeshire, when the vessel was
about four miles west of the Smalls ; in consequence of the
terrific violence of the gale, the poor fellow was blown
from the crosstrees, and although several spars and ropes
were thrown out, these exertions were ineffectual. From
the state of the sea, arising from the fury of the gale,rm a
it was found impossible to lower the boat • within
few minutes after the accident the poor fellow disappeared
Off Cardiff, the De Esterning, bound from Amsterdam, had
a seaman washed overboard; and at Madoc, the following
melancholy event occurred :—ln the morning of the Bth, a
boat left the port containing three lads, amongst them Was
the son of Mr. Rees Jones, for the purpose of mackerel
fishing, in which the party were very successful having, in
the coarse of two hours, loaded their boat. On returning
to the port a sudden squall arose which caught the boat and
turned her over. Assistance immediately put off, but only
two of the youths were saved, the son of Mr. Jones met a
watery grave ; the other two were completely exhausted when
rescued from their perilous situation. Along the Scotch
coast, the same, calamitous results took place, a number of
vessels were da'nl' aged, and at Bude, a large vessel laden with
grain was wrecked near Sharp's Nose, and with one ex-
ception, the whole of the crew were lost ; the poor fellow
benwas washed ashore was in so exhausted a condition as to
able at the time to give any information as to the name
of the ill-fated vessel or number of the crew.
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caused.A. great excitement in that village and the
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—Leeds Intelligencer.

METROPOLITAN TRADESMEN AND OPERATIVE
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATIONS.

On Tuesday evening the second annual meeting of the
above associations was held at Exeter Hall, London. About
3,000 persons were present. Mr. B. 13. Cabbell was called
to the chair, and on the platform we observed Sir F. Nichol-
son, Rev. H. Stowell, Rev. J. Maclean, Rev. A. S. Thelwall,
Rev. T. Watson, Rev. T. Cuffe, Rev. K. Grove, Rev. J.
Atkins, Mr. Lord, &c. The proceedings having been opened
with prayer, . _

The Chairman said, they were assembled to celebrate the
second anniversary meeting of the Metropolitan Tradesmen
and Operative Protestant Associations, and it must be a
source of great satisfaction to every well-wisher of this great
country, that at the moment, he might say of almost anarchy
and uproar, when so many made it their business to step out
of their usual sphere and rushed into the agitation of matters
of which they had scarcely any knowledge,—he said that at
a moment when large numbers of persons had, to the injury
of themselves and families, combined together for the pur-
pose of disturbing the public peace, it was a source of satis-
fation fp witness such a meeting as he then had the honour
of addressing, assembled for the express purpose of main-
taining peace and order—(cheers,)—and also to support a
government closely associated with our Protestant religion—
a government which he believed to be the best under the face
of heaven. Never let them forget that the liberties of
Englishmen were inseparably associated with Protestantism,
and that the surest way to destroy them was to permit our
holy religion to be undermined by the insidious encroach-
ments of Rome. To resist these encroachments the Pro-
testant Operative Association had been formed. In two
years they had done much, but much still remained to be
done. He now begged to call upon the secretary to read the
report.

'The report stated that eight Operative Protestant Associa-
tions had been formed in London ; viz., in Finsbury, South-
wark, Marylebone, Tower Hamlets, City of London, Lam-
beth, Shoreditch and Hackney, and Peckham and Camberwell.
The six first were in a flourishing condition, and the two last,
though but just formed, promised to be eminently useful to
the Protestant cause.

Mr. R. H. Benden, Secretary to the Marylebone Associa-
tion, in a brief speech moved the adoption and printing of
the report.
The Rev. K. Grove seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
The Rev. H. Stowell, who was enthusiastically cheered
upon rising to address the meeting, moved the next resolu-
tion to the following effect :—" That the increased efforts
made by the church of Rome to re-establish her heretical
system in our land, together with the re-organisation of that
fruitful source of anarchy and revolution, the order of the
Jesuits, in defiance of the existing laws of the country, call
for the most strenuous, prompt, and energetic measures from
the Protestant operatives of England, and from all well-
wishers to the peace and welfare of their native land." It did
his heart good, he said, to see, however other classes might
become cold and faithless, that the operative classes of the
country were still faithful to Protestantism. (Cheers.)
They had bad evidence in the recent tumult in the provinces,
that there was wanting more attention to the masses of the
people ; and if masters did not enter into the moral, spiritual,
and intellectual wants of their servants, and if the aristocracy
did not make themselves acquainted with the wants and wishes
of the working classes, it would not be long ere mischievous
men would get such mastery over them, that they (the work-
inr, classes) would become like an ungovernable ocean, tossed
about by the winds, and make shipwreck of all parties in
church and state. Whatever might be the errors and faults
of the working men, they had originated to a great extent in
the errors of those above them. There ought long ago to
have been provided church accommodation for all the working
classes. (Cheers.) What meant a national church unless
she had her adequate supply of nurseries for her rising chil-
dren ? (Hear, hear.) Ought not our church to have a parish
school for every parish church,—(church,)—and her parish
church sufficiently large, and not too large, with one accre-
dited minister to watch over the poor ? We had allowed the
poor to grow up in ignorance of their moral and religious du-
ties, to be the dupes of demagogues and Papists. We
had allowed the Jesuits to creep among them, and were
now witnessing the results of our neglect. (Hear, hear.)
The marvel was not that the working classes were so
restless, but that they were so patient and so forbearing,
neglected as they had been. He bore testimony to the patient
bearing of the poor in the manufacturing districts, under long
and accumulating distress, and could say they were the com-
pelled, rather than the voluntary agents, in the disturbances
that had recently taken place. The great mass of manufac-
turing labourers in Manchester would have worked on in
contentment, had they not been driven from their quiet
employment by the force of a foreign mob—(hear,) and
whilst the youths, who took the most active part in the mob,
were from schools where they had not been taught sound
principles, it was delightful to find that not one belonging to
the Protestant Operative Association took part in the dis-
turbances—(cheers.) He mentioned this fact with the more
delight, because it had been insinuated that they were making
the working classes restless and disaffected. He would say
that had it not been for the degree of moral influence and
enlightened conscience that had been produced amongst the
masses of the people by the quiet operations of our church
and our church schools, and the schools of Wesleyans and
others, that teach the truth—he hesitated not to say, that had
it not been for that moral influence and enlightened con-
science amongst the masses of our population, it was not the
police, nor the regiments of soldiers, nor the artillery, that
would have availed the authorities ; for if the entire working
classes were once to arise, he scarcely saw how, if Gon did
not miraculously interfere, to calm the storm. But, thank
Goo, there was so much of conscience in an Englishman's
mind, if not debased by Popery or defiled by infidelity, that
he could not be brave to do that which was bad—(hear.)
Take them as soldiers fighting for their native land, they
were the bravest of the brave; but when they had not right
upon their side—when their conscience was not with them,
they were the greatest cowards, be believed, upon the face of
the earth—(hear.) The reverend gentleman then took a
luminous survey of the doctrines of the church of Rome, and
sat down amidst loud cheering.
The Rev. J. M ACLEAN seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
Mr. SELBY and others addressed the meeting, and a
petition against the grant to Maynooth having been adopted,
the meeting separated.

WEST INDIA STEAMERS.

(From the Times.)
Considerable anxiety is expressed among several of the
shareholders of the West India Steam Navigation Company
as to their prospects of remuneration from the adoption of
the new plan. One of them has stated his fears in writing,
and has argued an annual loss of £170.000, exclusively of the
loss by wear and tear, casualties, &c. The calculation on
which he bases this opinion is as follows :
Actual cost of steaming £390,000
Actual cost of sailing

To be received from government
240,000

Receipts from passengers, &c.

190,000
20,000

Loss .This calculation presents a serious aspect, b
luitoe,oxopOlana-
tions have been offered. In the first place, an error into
which we ourselves were led in the first instance has to be
removed. This error consists in representing the figures as
pounds sterling instead of miles, when it was in miles, and
not in money, that the statement was intended to be made.
In the item of steaming this makes no difference, as the
expense is reckoned to be, as nearly as possible, £1 per
mile, so that the figure £390,000 is a correct one—that is,
for a statement in round numbers. But the expense of
sailing being considerably less, the £40,000 should repre-
sent miles only, and not proceeds, and about £lO,OOO, it
seems, should be substituted for it. This emendation,
however, goes but a little way towards clearing up the diffi-
culty, as it still leaves the expense, less the sum from go-
vernment, £160,000, and the loss £140,000. It is therefore
asserted by those who advocate the new system, that the
sum of £20,000 set down for passengers and freight is much
too small, as even in the present disjointed state of things
the receipts are at the rate of £lOO,OOO, and it is thought
that the improvement when the new system is established
may be fairly estimated at £60,000 additional, which would
completely make the receipts balance the outlay. If this
explanation be correct, the shareholders will have the satis-
faction of perceiving that if the prospect of gain is distant,
there is, at any rate, no fear of a serious loss.