Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-12-25
From Winners Liverpool Times, Dec. ~

tldtlOflS IN England and France. ~ The
news from the western shores of the At
lantic recently, has excited more than ordi-
nary interest. The ssGreat Western" on
her last trip, brought home document
which created nearly as much amazement
as if she'll had been Unexpectedly thrown
with hostile intent into friendly citadel
The number of the Washington Union
which claimed the whole of Oregon for
the United States, and repudiated all nego-
tiation on the subject, was scanned with
painful feelings--was presumed to speak
the sentiments of President Polk, and to
foreshadow the tone Of the forthcoming
Message The effect was such as we have
described it. War and all its odious hor-
rors stared every man in the face. There
appeared to be no escape from it-no loop
hole left by which an honorable exit could
be made. Men move in masses-think anG
sympathise in herds-and "thoughts that
breathe and words that burn," issuing ST.
multaneously from thousand lips, show
how readily, under provocation, reason is
subservient to passion. The poet has finely
portrayed it -.
"Honor! thou blood-stained god.
At whose red altar sit war and homicide,
OH to what madness will insult drive thy votaries!''
Whiting under the influence of this ex-
cited feeling, the Caledonia arrived on Fri
day, with intelligence week in advance of
the Great Western, and the nature of her
dispatches had an emollient effect on the
impulse, which now beats again
with comparative GOODNESS. 1t was then
found that the article in the official paper
was not understood, by those on the spot,
to have an official character-that Mr.. Polk
had not yet thrown away the scabbard-
that the Wings, with their three P's-peace,
prosperity, and progression-werei nimical
to war, and that Mr.. Webster, at Boston,
had made a speech of pacific and elevated
character, in which an appeal to physical
force on the Oregon question was denounc-
ed as folly and madness.
We have before stated, and the repetition
at the present time is almost superfuous,
that, as regards England, people here care
little in what way the Oregon dispute may
be patched up; the value of the territory
is hardly rated beyond pins fee, and right
glad would be the thinking, intelligent por-
ton of the country, if the 49th parallel of
latitude would hit the views and the taste of
the American Government and people. The
annoyance, the irritation, arises out Of what
is conceived to be the bullying spirit''
with which the United States claim is ad-
vanced, which naturally wounds our ma
tional pride, and creates frame of mind
little calculated to produce amity or end in
forbearance. The refusal of the President
to refer the dispute to arbitration, looks
like 'sforegone conclusion," and is point
ed to as a proof that the worst may still
be apprehended from obstinate councils.
1t has transpired during the last day or
two, that MIR. Polk has repeated to the En-
ylish cabinet the offer which they have re-
ected two or three times during the last
quarter of century, namely, to divide the
territory by the 49th parallel of north lati-
ude, and that they still adhere to making
he Columbia the boundary, each nation
oeing free of its waters. 1t is our curse
o have monopoly of some kind or other
always to fight for or to defend some
vested interest" about which the people in
he aggregate know and care as much as a
cow does for astronomy. The nation, if
loses had been counted, would have &C
'epted this offer by an overwhelming ma
GRITTY but then the interests of the peo-
lie, and the interests of powerful incor-
'orated company diverge, and the Govern
nent, like harsh step-mother, pets the ia
'orite and plumbers the family.
1t is painful to speak of warlike prepa-
atoms in the same breath that we refer to
misunderstanding with a friendly coun-
ry, as it savors somewhat of the Milesian
node of settling a controversy with uplin-
d shillelah But the fuss and pother-the
ctivity and incessant energy which prevail
n the English dockyards, the surveying
he coast and the steam navy-all indicate
"black cloudn somewhere; it may be in
he west or in the south, but the "powers
hat be'' seem to be impressed with belief
hat events are transparent enough to make
his activity and outlay necessary. Capt.
Austin visited Liverpool last week, by or
ers of the Admiralty, to gauge the capa-
ty of the first class steamers as regards
he carrying of heavy metal The British
NJ North American, the West Indian, and
thp," vessels have undergone similar in
,ec,ioGs. Cui yMazo! Coming events
,st their shadows before;;" and our prayer
that al this horrible making ready for
70 worst ma v prove superfuous, and that
70 mevents.,' " 'hatever they are, in which
,ev have their o."igin, may "come like sha-
ows, so depart.''
Protestant and Romo::n taiM-The Church