Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-06-06
ARRIVAL
OF THE att STEAMSHIP
GREAT W k.SrERN.

noon making the passage from Liverpool i'm
little less than ID days.
There has been fall of Id on Cotton.
Business was good in the Manufacturing
districts, and Great Britain generally prosper
Gus. Iron had fallen oil from the high prices
of April, and the market was dull and dubi-
Gus.
War sail the talk, and from the tone of their
press II appears the English people are about
as fearful that we are To declare war, as are the
Americans that John Bull is to do It's that favor
HE English press appears a little disconnected
that Brother Jonathan is not more alarmed at |
Sir Robert Pcels great speech.
Parliament was To meet on the 18th, when |
the Maynooth Bill will come up for third |
reading.
The overland mail from India Of April LIST
brought little news ofimportsnce. The latest
date from China was February 10. The holt
DAYS had produced stagnation i'm trade.
The British Government have selected
Bantry, near Cork, as an American Steam
Packet station.
One hundred lives were lost by the falling
OF the chain bridge at Yarmouth, England on
the 4th ult.
The Queen and Prince Albert are going to
the Continent in August.
The money market in London was very easy.
The accounts state that the draught of the
convention respecting the right of search agreed
upon by the commissioners 1.-THE Duke de
Broglic and DR.. Huntington which had
been transmitted for approval from London to
Paris, had been returned with an objection to
one OF its provisions. The precise terms of the
proposed convention Were not of course known
but II was understood that they contemplated
treaties with the African native chiefs to pre-
vent the sale and embarkation of slaves.
! IL the public securities are to be taken as
test. the probability of the Oregon question be-
ing settled otherwise than friendly, seems very
remote. Notwithstanding this confidence, the
subject Is alluded to, in private circles, as one
that is very ticklish, and that trifiing matter
may fan into a fame.
! The Funds, which have been unsettled and
ieverish OF the late, in consequence of the
threatened rupture with America improved
on the arrival of news by the Great Yves
tern" and maintained their steadiness until
the arrival of the Caledonia" when further
improvement took place.
From Wilmer and Smiths Times.
WAR WITH AMERICA.
The probability of war with the United
States occupies the public mind on this side
oil the Atlantic, to the exclusion of every other
topic. The arrivals from the western world
are looked TO with absorbing interest, and the
instant packet arrives, the news is conveyed
with all the potency and speed which steam
can command TO the metropolitan journals In
this way we forwarded by special express, and
at great outlay, the news which came to hand
ON the night, OF Tuesday by the Caledonia"
The previous arrival, the Great Western"
caused some stir, as il was known that she |
would bring tidings of the effect which had
been produced in America BY the speeches of |
Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Aberdeen. i'm
Parliament on the Oregon question. But as
only day or two had interviewed between the
! receipt OF those speeches and the return of the
steamer, which had not permitted the public
OPINION TO dcvelope itself the succeeding ar
rival produced, if possible, still greater inter
cst.-The pros and cons of the question il is
needless TO say are daily discussed; and this is
certainly not the first instance of late, that the
spirit of American INSTITUTIONS mas peen an
alysed by Britain pens. The theory of the
Federal Constitution has formed, of recent
years, standing dish with the politicians OF
England. The national character and It's pc
charlottesville public men and their wayward-
ness-the democracy and its elements-are all
weighed with critical skill, sometimes with a
friendly, often with an adverse hand.-But
whatever diversity of opinion may exist a
mong EnSlishmen as to the abstract merits of
Republicanism, war with Amcrica-the bare
contemplation of such possibility-is abhor-
rent to the national mind. A war party, pro-
perry so called, as regards the United States,
does not exist.
| There Is nothing to mark its influence. The
mooted point-the Oregon-is not generally
believed to be worth fighting for Ii is not a
point which appeals to national pride, or pre-
JUDGE, or power. Every one feels that this
little island has territory enough and colonies
and subjects, which own its SWAY i'm every part
oil the habitable globe, and plume themselves
on their Identification with the British name,
without measuring lances with kindred peo-
pie about few thousand miles of a barren and
prohtless waste. No. The sentiment which
has taken deep rootin the public mind of this
country-which pervades all classes, and sects
and shades OF opinion, and unites them as one
man, refers not To the paLne of the territory i'm
question, but to- what they conceive to be the
arrogant, overbearing, bullying style with
which the opposite claim is advanced. IL is
with spirited people as with spirited ami
malt you drive, they resist, if you lead they
may concede. Mr.. Polk must be a crude Judge
oil human nature, or he would not have put
forth, IN his inaugural address about the Ore
gon, sentiments which were not merely in
dlscrcet-not merely uncalled for and out of
place, but which sneered at, and NAV be said
To have hurled defiance at the British claim
we say nothing now as to- the Justice of the
calm; all that we aim at is, to- account for the
extraordinary unanimity which exists OH this
question--an unanimity so surprising, that il
| we do 20 to war about il, every hand will be-
held up, every purse will be- opened. every arm
will be stretched, to sustain it, and bring il to
SPEEDY and triumphant issue. There are
men who would tamcly submit to wrong that
would instantly resent an insult.
The country feels itself insulted by the new
PRESIDENT. Is he not bungling tactician that
mus gives his opponent such an advantage
that places himself in the wrong by his manner
while he is probably right in his theory HUI
man ingenuity could hardly have devised any
means so eiiectual for amagamating. as in a
cnclble, the DESCENDANT elements Of which
! public opinion IN every free country is com
posed Lake tie wand OF an enChanter, Mr.
Polk has done this and if there il any tr,ltI, i'm
the saying OF Napoleon, that moral force even
IN war, far outstrips physical force. il will bc