The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-01-27

Robert Peel is going to do, and yet every body is
satisfied that he is the man to do nobody kno,cs
,chat.
The Cabinet resumes powers with its person-
mel but slightly altered. Changes there have
been. but they are few, and, with one exception,
unimp0rtant.
LorI-NVharneclffe, the President Of the Coun-
Gil, who died from excitement produced Ivy the
resignation of his colleagues. is 10 be succeeded.
by the Duke of Bnccleuch Lord Peterborough
is TO be the First Lord of the Admiralty
The Earl of Haddington is to have the office of
the Privy Seal, which the Duke of Buccleuch
filled. But the most striking change of the whole
is the resignation of the Colonial Secretary. Lord
Stanley, and the appointment Of Mr.. W. E.
Gladstone as his successor
The following are the new members of the
Cabinet:
First Lord of the Treasury. Sir Robert Peel.
Secretary for the Home Department, ST. r. G.
Graham.
Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst.
Lord President of the Council, Duke of Buc-
cleuch.
Commander in Chief, Duke of Wellington
Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Earl Of Aberdeen.
Lord of Prvy Seal, Earl of Haddingtun.
President Of the Board of Control, Ea rl of Rip
on.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Right Hon. Fl.
Goulburn
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, lord G.
Somerset.
Commissioner Of Land Revenues, Earl Lin
coin.
Secretary of War, RI, Hon. S. Herbert.
President of the Board Of Trade, Earl Dalhou-
sic.
First Lord of the Admiralty, Earl of Ellenbo-
rough.
Postmaster General Earl of ST. Germans.
Secretary for the Colonies, Hon. w Glad
stone.
[From Wilmer Smiths Times.l
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The first Message of President Polk to Con.
gress, has created, as may be readily supposed a
greater amount of attention in England than any
similar document from the head of the American
Union has done for years. Public feeling was
directed TO the Message long before il arrived,
lis tone, hostile or otherwise, formed abundant
scope for conjecture in the press, and even during
the exciting time of the Ministerial crisis, jour
nalists, overwhelmed by the importance of our
relations with the United States. stepped aside to
discuss the question, even in the absence of the
Presidents views.
Well, the Message came to hand in the ordi-
nary course, by the ship" Sea-" which made an
excellent passage. 1t was generally understood
we may state in this place, that the steamship
which left Boston on the LIST of December, con-
veyed copy of the Message TO Mr. McLane, the
American Minister. but if the fact were so, care
was successfully taken that neither the spirit nor
the substance of the Message trauspired
We have given elsewhere the spirit of the
English press this important document Our
transatlantic readers will be struck by the absence
OF all irritation in the remarks uf the great organs
ofopinon in this country, relative TO the Message
and this reluctance TO avoid giving offence arises
altogether from the praseworhy desire TO heal
rather than to foment the Of difference be-
tween us and the United States respecting the
Oregon. Some of the articles we have given are
able and comprehensive views of the question at
issue, argued, of course, with an allowable amount
of national feeling and prejudice, but presenting.
on the whole, just and generous standard of
reason and logic.
One cause, perhaps, why the Message has
agreeaby disappointed expectation here is the
well timed observations in which it INDUCES re-
speeding liberal tariff if the Oregon is the
bane, the proposed reduction of the tariff is the
antdote in the new Presidents missiye to Con-
gress. The style of the document has elected
praise. and although Mr.. Polk has been snubbed
by European publclsts as a nonueiLe homn,e he
has given proof, in this much criticised document,
of tho possession of literary powers that command
respect, if they do not always force conviction.
Since the Message came to hand, another ar.
rival has brought us the correspondence laid be-
fore Congress between the British and American
Ministers on the subject of the Oregon. The
misfortune of such documents is, that they are
too v0Iuminous for the perusal Of the great world
The London Times has devoted series Of arti-
cles to the consideration Of this correspondence,
more particularly with reference 10 the two points
upon which Mr.. Buchanan insists, namely, first,
the title arising from prior occupancy, and,
secondly. the cession Of the Spanish claim TO the
United States
The paper in question endeavors TO show that
the maintenance Of these two rights is incompai-
BILE that il one is correct the other cannot be sus-
tanned. "'Fhe prior occupation and the after
cession, may be cited as distinct facts, bat they
cannot confer one title. Two bad titles can no
more make good one, than two Alternatives can
make negative"
We should like TO have presented our readers
with these articles, as they are considered in this
country to be able, mot unanswerable expustions
of the subject, bot as they appeared only day or
two preceding the sailing of the steamer, when
our columns were crowded with the statistical in.
formation, to which we had previously pledged
ourselves, we are reluctantly compelled to fOrego
the pleasure.
Upon the whole, then, If the Message has not
given all the satisfaction, in England, which
the friends and well wishers Of America desire,
it has, its favorable roint--thai Of Free Trade
and the pending triumph Of Free Trade principles