Mobile register and journal., 1845-03-29

10 the right hon hArnnet of which he had given him
notice The subject to which he begged to draw his
attention related To negotiations now going on be-
tween this country an the United States respecting
The Oregon territory; and he wished to know wheth.
Ell the right hon barnnet had any objection tn law the
negotiations before the house far they had pro.
ceeded! The ieason which induced him 10 ask thjs
question was To be found in the circumstances now
existing IN the United States with respeCt To this
very question. He was the last nan in the world
who would desire TO cas any sur 10 saw ANYTHING
derogaory t0 great nation like the United States
on 10 use language which might excite angry feelings
where II was desirable they should not exist--bu,
could not be unknown 10 the right non. gentleman
for II was known tO all the WORLD that II hill had al
ready passed the House Of Representative with re-
gard 10 the Oregon boundary. He under stood tina,
m 1918 convention was entered into between this
country and The United States, The purport of winch
was, that the territory in dispute upon The Oregon
should he considered as II naier upon " hich no de-
termination had been come To, and that the " hole
question should be left open. Under these c,rcum.
stances The House of Representatives had PASSED A
bill Tor SETTLING" this territory. The English were
not, he believed, people AT all accustomed IL, bos
tel or express themselves in d manner winch shuuld
The Indignation OF those with whom they con.
Quoted Negotiations but il I've apparent to every
body that this was m1sl extraordinary proceeding
ii II arose from the weakness OF the American FIX
ecntive, behooved foreign nations iuu. con-
s,der the matter IL the House Of Representatives
passed such bill, il il were sanctioned ly the Sen.
and urge upon the President, he might he forced
TO give it the effect of law, while we, waving taken
precautions hut trusting To their good faith aud
The cOniy Of ma lions, would find ourselves Invested
Of the means of protecting our rights. II this
Case had been properly looked into, they should At
once have declared TINT the United States had no
rights west di the Rocky Mountains; aud if the ne
goiations which had been broken up were To he re-
c. mmenced he trusted they would he put on prop
er loung, and that the United STATES would he call
ed To show what light they had to the Rocky
Mountains at all. He could not help expressing II
strong opinion against the sort If proceeding which
the House of Repres, ntaiises had adopted, and he
wished TO know whether the Government had any
objection Ia produce the papers having reference TO
the present stale Of the negotiations.
SIR II. PEEL.-The Hon. aud learned gen, eman
has correcil, stated the convention which governs
our present rrltiOns with the United States with
spect to lie Oregon boundary. The convention was
passed in 1878, intended 10 last for ten Years, and
enabled each party I'LL final adjudicai ion Of their
rights took place, 10 occupy the territory. The con-
Seniion was renewed in 1927, and expired again IN
1888, but il was also provided by the convention
that neither party should terminate the arrangement
without giving years notice. With respect to the
question which has been put me, the negotia-
lions with the executive Government Of the United
States have not been brought IN a close, it will not
be consistent with my duty to produce the -pon-
dence 10 the house. The hon. and learned gentle
man will that our relations IRE not with the
House 0i Representatives, but with the American
Executive. quite agree with him that nothing
could be more unseemy than TO use ANY language ot
bluster or menace; but. lille lorbenr doing So |
hope The house will infer that Her Majesty
Government deeply ,be of The impor lance
OF this subject. (Hear, hear.r
In answer 10 a question, put by Mr.. Blewilt,
Sir X. Peel said, that the Government ofIhe Uni
ted States had consented the production Of tue
correspondence. - % s..
A.. ,:.L a..
wished ask the rghi hon. baronet whether he had
seen the work Of NJ. de Moireri California, Il
lausb,) now publishing at Paris. Continued laugh
Ier.) The suhor spoke of having examined the Or
egon question. aud stated his conviction Of the per-
feet Justice of the English claim, using these remark
able wnrds"ll faut avouer que celie fois Ia
ct lie drot sont de leur cote" ~ .t+
In the House Of Commons, on Thursday the 9Th,
the subject Of agrculturs WINS brosght under notice
| by speech from MIR. Golden, cwi6 suggested that
ihe agricultuIists shouldjoin him in asking for !.
Committee of Inquiry into the effect Of protective
duties on the interests Of the farmers and tenant Ia.
borers Mr.. Miles stated reply that the agricul-
turlsts had no intention of asking Tor committee
Tie acknowledged, however, the courtesy Of Mr..
Cnbden, but rather distrusted the concert which he
! offered to establish The subject between the two
sides Of The House Mr.. Bankes protested against
the committee. and expressed his hope that govern
would do something better for the agriculiur.
lists than mere Committee Of Inquiry. Sir r. Peel
deprecated any discussion on the corn laws, and aid
that the agricultural members who had risen so has.
tiy 10 protest against The appointment of Commit
tee Of Inquiry, wOaf have acted wiser If thew had
taken fortnight 10 consider of it. Az to his own
| intentions lie sand he under pledge condi-
lion opposed to the prime pies he had laid down in
1912. He would not deny the existence Of agricui-
raj DISTRESS but he dsbeeved that ii was unver sa
that it could be fairly attributed the operation
| Of the law be had introduced three years ago. 81
du not believe,' said Sir r. Peel "tlat the change
of the laws has been the Of the agricuu-
raj distress, and feel bound TO state that cannot
look 10 Parliament for remedy for that distress in
further legislation in that respect. i think the res
tora'on of protection is impossible; and, even il il
were possible, should not sanction the establish.
men, Of increased protection a remedy for that
distress which, admit, prevails in some part Of the
country. but which attribute to natural causes u
| Mr.. Gladstone took occasion 10 explain the reason
| OF his secession from the government, which is at
trIbuable to his dissent from the proposed increased
| grant for education IN Inland.
| The OVERLAND MAIL From the East brought
dates from China 10 the 2Sih Of November. This wa.
not late intelligence received here. which ex.
tends 10 Decemcer Z. II Is of course unnecessary
| To give an abstract Of the commercial information
which il furnishes. The following paragraph con.
ians melancholy account which we do recol-
| lect to have seen before =:
letter from Macao, published in the Handrle.
blad, gives an account Of he oserhowng Of rivers ia
the north Of China, before which the European nun.
,latioDs that have recorded during the last few
years, shrink into relative insigni6cance. On the
shores Of the Yellow Sea the phenomenon took the
character ola second deludge. Whole provinces
with populations respectively larger Than Of The
second class Kingdoms Of Europe, were almost entire.
" submerged. The retreat of the waters left corps
es in thousands. Touching episodes are given az
pictures Of this awful calamity. On the river
Yangh-Tse we're found large floating casks, winch
when examined, were discovered TO contain the bod.
les Of young shild'en, whose mothers, when all hope
| for themselves was gone, had committed Them 10
these floating arks, last slender chance Of saliva
ton. Upwards ofseventeen millions Of hannah lie.
ings, escaped from The inundaons, have poured
themselves the adjacent provinces, beggared oil
all things, and crying for bread. ID , fi.
The accounts from India repete with military
mo, emsns but furnish nothing Of much interest.
letter from Alden, Jan. ~, says
The arabs have been steadily increasing their num-
beers and they said to muster AZ, 600 goal
fighting men We have been husily employed lately
in improving the defence Of The place, and now
think we are fully prepared 10 receive Them. 1t is
expected they will make The attack early the next
month, when the nights are dark They are chiefly
of the Assyr ice, the warlike IN Arabia. head
ed by The Shereef Mocho. II is, how ever. yer, pos
sibe that they may quarrel among themselves, and
thus end the matter, they have dane former oc-
casious; hut still at ~ esent it looks in earnest
than any threatened attack has before. Our earrs-
on is very strong; we muster altogether, Euro.
peans and natives, about 500 met. --.
Correspondence ofthe NY Evening Pot.
LONDON, March 3. ID
The minister reduces duties sugar. coa, cotton,
WOOL glass, auctions. co0pers, staver, and varie-
" of minor articles, yielding 1886, SEQ sier-
ling per annum, aod along ih this reduction, he in
creases the navy estimates II 600, 900. To enable
HIM al once to meet this voluntarily incurred dimnu-
ton of revenue and increase of expenditures he asks
for the income and Property Tax, yielding t5000,-