Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-07-25
THE NEWS FROM ENGLAND.

success nave spread over the country.
THE NEWS FROM ENGLAND
The recent intelligence from England would
be of great interest to this country if il no more
The retirement from Office of such a Premier as
Sir ROBERT PEEL, and Of such other Ministers as
Lord ABERDEEN and the associates of these two
the dissolution of an Administration whose reign Of
power has been an epoch iii British history which
will ever be remembered with admiration and res
pect for its WISDOM its moderation and its success
is an event of too much consequence to the foreign
world, as well as to Great Britain herself, not to
excite much attention on this side of the Atlantic
Coupled with the passage by the Peers of the Corn
Law, and crowned as the last moment of the ex-
isence of this Ministry, with the settlement Of long
standing, difficult and perilous controversy with
the United States the news of the retirement of the
whole Ministry Except the Nestor Of the kingdom
the Iron Duke cannot but be generally regretted in
this country. And this without reference to their
successors in Office, at whose hands, far as depends
on the new Premiers known sentiments, we have
no reason to expect any variation in its foreign pc
Icy adverse to the most friendly relations with the
United States. We may hope, also, that under
what may now be considered as the settled policy
of the British Government, the peace Of the world
may continue to be preserved.
Incident to the change of the British Ministry is
the very important Speech of Sir ROBERT PEEL on
his resignation, from which we extract to-day all
that pertains to the foreign policy of the late Ad
ministraton. Deeply interesting is that part of it
which relates to the Convention lately concluded
between this country and Great Britain for the set
clement of the Oregon controversy. From this
Speech we learn, conclusively, TO what branch OF
this Government we are indebted for the honorable
and satisfactory adjustment OF it. In the naked
form in which it was urged upon Congress with so
much perseverance by the Administration and its
organs; we learn that the Notice." taken in con-
nexon with the rejection Of the Arbitration propos
ed by Great Britain, would probably have been con-
sdered Of unsatisfactory or hostile character;"
but that the addition, first proposed by the Senate
and afterwards agreed to by both Houses, of the
preston of hope that the termination of the con-
vention of joint occupation might the strong
ly impress upon the two countries the necessity of
amicabe adjustment" removed the barrier TO re-
neral Of The attempt TO settle this difference. And
thus this "dfference " came to be settled or, it
now seems almost certain, il never would have
been settled but by war begun one side or the
other. For, says Sir ROBERT, honestly exultng in
the event, this would have been perhaps our last
attempt to adjust those differences which, unless
speedily adjusted, might have terminated in war"
The terms of the Treaty, also, are stated by Sir
ROBERT, much more distinctly than they have yet
been placed before our readers.
We learn from this Speech, too, the part which
the British Minister to this country enacted in the
closing scene of this Oregon controversy as we be-
lieve he did throughout his agency in it-that of
sincere and anxious friend of peace between the two
countries, for the sake of both. Clothed with dis
cretonary power by his Government to act or not
to act upon his Instructions, and the Mexican war
breaking out either after just before he received
the last proposition from his Government, he disre-
garded this occurrence, and in the language of Sir
ROBERT, most wisely did tender this offer of peace
to the United States on his own discretion
The mediation of Great Britain for termination
of the War between the United States and Mexico
has also, we now authoritavely learn, been tender
ed, or is to be offered.
1t is impossible to read this Speech without
being made fully sensible of the sincerity Of the
late Ministry in its exertions TO adjust peaceably
this difficulty with the United States, and of its
satisfaction and even joy, at its accomplishment.
81 rejoice" said Mr.. PEEL, that, before surren-
dering power at the feet of majority of this
!" House, had the opportunity Of giving them the
official assurance that every of quarrel with
/" that great country on the other side Of the NJ
/" ianfic is terminated
The Flags captured from the Mexican army in
the battles OF the 9Th and 9th of May were deliv-
cred to the President of the United States on Sa-
turday, IN the presence of large number of OFF,
GERS OF the Government and Of the Army, and of
LADIES' and gentlemen. Col. PAYNE, who was en-
trusted by Gen. TAYLOR with the presentation of
these trophies to the President ,ccor,n,n;aJ tlo