American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-04-23
ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN INTELLI-
GENCE.

ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN INTELLI-
GENCE.
The Oregon Question: Pariiament--J Q. .adams'
Bible QuotGtions-Ftar Of The .1nnsration Of
Ca'lada-Ethiopian SerenaderS, &c., Sc.
We gather some additional articles from our
English files, which we have concluded to serve
up to our readers for their ediication and a.
musement.
The Oregon questi on was again brought be-
fore the House of Commons on the Goth ult,
by Mr.. Brothwick, who after quoting from
the Queens speech in reference to the Oregon
dispute, and her earnest desire to bring it to
an amcable settlement, said:
at was impossible to select words more wor-
thy powerful Sovereign addressing her Par
lament. Up to the present time the house
had yielded to the government silent and
entire confidence in its measures; he did not
rise either to disturb that silence or intimate
any diminution of that confidence. But,
though that house had appreciated the spirit
in which the government had acted, on the
other side of the Atlantic there was a party
which had put upon the words pronounced by
her Majesty, and on the subsequent proceed
ngs of the government a construction very
opposite of that they were intended to bear
1t was time England should distinctly assert,
that while she was ready to make every sacrl-
flee for the maintenance of peace, consistent
with her honor, yet that she only deprecated
war in this instance from feeling that any wal
in which she should engage could not but Sc
riously interfere with the progress of human
civilization. An expression of this feeling
should be distinctly made by that house, be-
cause such an expression would do more than
all the diplomatic negotiations towards the
maintenance of peace between this country
and America. The honorable gentleman con-
cluded by asking "whether it is the intention
of Her Majesty's government to present TO
| this house copies or extracts of any correspon-
dence which may have passed between the
Secretary of State for Foleign Affairs and her
Maiesty's Minister at Washington in relation
to the Oregon territory"
! Sir r. PEEL do not think it necessary to
make any observations on the general subject
upon which the hon. gentleman has spoken,
! (l1ear.) believe that any explanation is
wholly unnecessary, because am perfectly
convinced that the expressions used by Her
/ Majesty in the speech from the Throne, and
the expressions of public men in this house OF
either ofthe political parties, have really not
been msconstrued in the United States Hear,
hear.) | do not think any public advantage
would be gained by laying on the table ofthe
house in the present state of the question, any
papers relating to the differences between this
country and the United States, with respect
to the Oregon territory, or in now making any
communication upon the subject to this house,
and 1t is not the intention of her Majesty s
Government to make any such communca-
ton. At the same time | may state, that the
executive Government of the United States
having distinct proposition to make to a
branch ofthe legislature of that country, has
made communication to it, containing GER
tain notes which have passed between Mr..
Buchanan and Mr. Pakenham; though should
not have thought it necessary to lay those notes
as communication before the house, still, as
they have been made public, and as it may be
necessary they should be authenticated, shall
not object to producing those communiCatl
to which publicity has been already given
| ("Hear, hear" and laugh.) | really do not
understand what provokes that laugh; we have
no other papers to produce at present Oh the
part OF the Government; the negotiations are
not yet brought to a conclusion, and it Is quito
unusual to produce official dispatches when
negotiations have not been closed BY the act
OF another Government, certain commanica-
tons have been made public; the house has a
! right to have them authenticated, and though
| had not intended to produce them, yet if it
should be the wish Of the house that they
should be laid on the table, will defer TO that
wish (cries Of "No, no!"), but cannot UNDER
take to produce any others.
During the consideration of the report on
Customs, in the House of Commons, resoiu-
ton respecting the importation of timber was
moved.
Lord Bentinck pointed out at great length,
the injury which this resolution was calculated
to infict upon Canada. Our Canadian breth-
rem had reason to be alarmed, and were alarm
ed, at the mere proposition ofthis reduction
They were already discussing the question,
whether it would not be better for them to be
annexed to the United States, and were prepa-
ring remonstrances against the new CONNER,
cial policy of the British Government, This
was not just the time to quarrel with the colo
MES, when America was arming her seabord
and when MIR. John Quincy Adams Goa, no.,
was blasphemously, he would say, calling &c
his aid the word Of God as a justification fol