The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-05-21

the provinces" American wheat is TO be imported
into Canada on a IS. duty, and permitted, when
ground IN Canada, TO be imported IN the United
Kingdom for consumption at a further duty of Ia
| IL is we have before explained, scheme for al
| lowing small quantity Of American wheat to be
| consumed IN England at a nOminaly moderate du-
", but, In reality, burdened with excessive charges
for transport by land, and freight by sea, with
heavy insurance, and the most expensive process
for grinding it, The American districts near the
81 Lawrence produce no wheat for expectation.
The American wheat must, therefore, be brought
from the FAR west"-from Ohio and Illinois, and bv
land Carriage, lakes, and the river for there exist
rs yet, no canals for It's transport. The bran must
De carried as well as the flour, and the grain be
landed stored, and ground where the process is less
understood than IN the country from which il
comes. Then II has TO be re-shipped and carried
ooO miles by the precarlous navigation OF the St.
Cawrencei after which II has to make sea voyage
ABOUT nan as long again as II II were shipped IRON
New York.
The cost of bringing corr from America to Upper
canada IS estimated by the mlnlsterlalists them
selves al los per quarter, and that Of bringing it
from Canada to England at 25s, 10 which are to be
added The prime cost, and As # duty. II this really
should turn out TO be the case, it pretty that
the American corn could not be had al less that 65s
quarter and that, consequently, the terrible Cana
dian Corn Act will turn out lire better than waste
paper. IL, however the project should come TO
anything, 1t sill give to the Canadians good Ameri
| can winter wheat, and TO us the interior spring
wheat OF Canada, the only grain of this sort which
Canada produces 1t will, however, create vested
interest for few Canadian mers--a nuisance
which 1t will be afterwards difficult to get rid Of
In TACT, the innovation which has frightened the
landlords, is neither worth fighting for nor fighting
against IT is little worse than the live cattle de-
fusion OF last year, to which the agricuurisis as
cnoed depreciation of rs millions in the value OF
ton OF g. 65 oxen, l0i6 cows rs calves, Ala swine
6So lean sheep and 10 lambs, tor the wants of car
nivorous population of % millions! The Canada
bill is, however, worthy of Sir Robert Peel-wor
OF the thar ado I n. oT IL,
tarlff, and left every important article unreform
ed! year hence everyrman will laugh at it, as
another tour de main OF our truly expert juggler.
DAeUERREoTYrE.-M Claudet, the celebrated da-
the well known optican of Paris took the portrait
OF the King at the palace of the Tuilleries on Sa-
turday last It was by error that it was stated the
operation s had been performed by H the Duke
produced fifteen good portraits of his MAJESTY in
less than quarter OF an hour. During the opera.
non there was large. crowd before the palace,
seeming to take great interest in what was taking
place. M Claudet has also daguerreotyped H. X.
H. the Duke de Nemours, the Prince OF Written
berg, and his young son, Prince Philip, and General
King. !tisto M. Claudet that the public owe most
OF the discoveries which have given so much per.
lection to the art OF daguerreotype.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, May 2-The SUBJ
Ject of the treaty OF Washington was brought for.
ward by Mr.. Hume. who said he had originally in
tended this motion as an amendment to that which
had been made before Easter by LORD Palmerston
In condemnation of the treaty, and defeated by the
counting out OF the House. Disappearing, as he
did, the warlke policy of Lord Falmerston he was
anxious to record his dissent from the opinions ex
pressed by the noble lord this particular subject
His present course might be novel one; If it was
erroneous, he took the whole blame of it to HIM
se for he had consulted no one; but when he SO
often saw the thanks OF Parliament bestowed upon
men who had succeeded in military operations, he
could not but wish 10 see mark of appreciation be-
slowed upon more peaceful services. The subject
OF the boundary line was one upon which gross ig-
norance had long prevailed and out of thatignorance
there had arisen much misunderstanding. He be-
eved that according to the true intent OF the treaty
OF l7S3 the British claim was well founded; but the
letter OF that treaty did certainly furnish very ar
guable grounds 10 America. Lord PalmeIston had
said that our concessions respecting this boundary
had been attended by loss and dishonor to England
but had not made out either. He himself had orr
gnaly dlsapproved the treaty, but he had found him.
self mistaken, and would not persevere in his error
He commented successfully upon the six main arti-
Giles OF the treaty, commencing them fair and
beneficial settlements of the points to which they
respectively related As TO the quantity of territory
now allotted to each OF the two Powers, Lord Pal
mers'on had small ground for complaint, for the
BILE lord had himself been willing to divide the de-
bateable land equally which would have given
1870 900 acres TO each, and the only abatement ad
mlIted by Lord Ashburon, In accepting
1887 900 acres the difference which he had conce
ded consisting, however, OF some of the worst and
most useless land in the world. As to the opening
OF rivers, ne was persuaded that England would be
at least as much gamer by the free navigation as
America great benefit had been effected also in
The agreement obtained from America, that any
future disputes which might arise out of transac
lions between this country and any one OF the nd-
vldua States should be settled with England, not by
that individual State, but by the Federal Govern
men', as henceforth TO exclude the dangers of To-
cal excitement and irritation. He quoted the cor
respondence OF the Foreign-ofice, in August, lS4l
10 show that at The time when the late government
we nj nd
actually on The very verge OF commencing hosti |
ties; and he con idered il to be matter Of great
good fortune that those hosies had been |
prevented through the kindly feeling which |
was satisfied that this result could not have been |
achieved but by settling a conventional line for
the discrepancies OF the numerous maps had made
II impossible that the actual line should be ascer
the arrangement was highly approved by the people
of all parties in British North America. No two
countries could be more useful TO one another than
Great Britain and the United States, land it was
therefore Of great importance TO both that their
relations should have been thus amicably adjusted
He desired the House TO observe that there were
many preceden,s of thanks voted by the House for
civil services; and those precedents he shortly emu
merated.
After some remarks from Dr. Bowrng, Sir Charles
Napier, Mr.. b. Escoit, and Sir Howard Douglass
Lord STANLEY said that the Government would not
in the ordinary course of business, have departed
from precedent in proposing the thanks OF the House
to anegotator, however successful. But the ungen-
erous tack of Lord Palmerston was the moving
cause of securing TO Lord Ashburton the unprece-
denied honor OF such vote. MIR. Macauley
had commended that Lord Ashburion had cast stain
on British diplomacy yet to. night il was admitted
that the treaty was not so bad one after ALL and
the only objection taken was to the unprecedented
nature OF the motion. There never had been a
treaty concluded in the face of greater dfic ulties
or which had more efleclually removed the chan.
ces OF disastrous war between two countries, eve
ry blow of which would recol on both In lew
months, Lord Ashburton had concluded settle
ment which he for several years had successfully
protIacted even.the Madawaska settlement, about
which so much was now said, was of the OBJ
ects which the noble lord, when in office, had vain
ly offered, in order to induce the Unded States TO
accept the award of the King of the Netherlands
Lord Ashburton had entered on his task after the