New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-16
THE OREGON QUESTION.
The British proposo,ion for its serlem'

The British Proposotion for its Settlement
We give the most prominent place in our olnmHs
today 10 the following article from The National In
telligencer in which the recent proceedings in re-
spect to the Oregon question very clearly, and,
we doubt not, accurately set forth
From the National Io,clhgencer OF MoDdsy
Many Of our readers will have seen through newsps
DER correspondence and otherwise before this paper
reaches Them reports OF the affirmative action OF the
SENATE on the British proposition for settlement o.
the Oregon controversy submitted to that BODY Tor io
advice BY the President Of the United States. We did
no, learn In any authentic the truth oil those
repors in Time paper of Saturday morning but
we now the pleasure stating that they were cor
rect, and that The did, Friday evening last by
.msiority of ,hreefourhs Of It's members present sd.
vi,e the President TO conclude Convention with Eng
land for the adjustment Of Oregon question according
TO the terms proposed by the Government OF Great Bit
ain and laid before the Senate
II we are rightly informed, this proposition did not
consist In general heads merely Of arrange ent but
was In effect the full draush of aproposed Convention
which drausht assened to by the Senate without
alteration In all probability. therefore. Treaty con-
formally thereto will be- signed and sent 20 the senate
to-day or tomorrow.
This result we doub. not while 1t surprises many %
is suddenness will still highly crafty the great majority
of reasonable and just In the country for is un-
derstood tina, general basis Of the proposition 10 to
make the forty ninth parallel Of latitude the boundary be
tween he territories Of countries from the point
on ,ha. parallel where the present boundary now ter
inmates TO the middle of the sound or channel which
divides vancouvers Island from the continent. and
thence along the middle of that channel and so South
wardy and Westwardy through the Straits of Fuca TO
tho Pacific the navigation of this sound bay to be
open to both parties and the navigation of the Coum.
bla river up the main and up Its North branch
10 the forty ninth parallel Of latitude 10 be free to the
Hudsons Bay Company and British subjects trading With
that Company. On the whole as we understand it.
England has assented not quite SO favorable 10
her az were offered in Mr.. GALLATINs proposition in
1897
We doubt not that the arrangement viii be found TO be
lust and equitable one, maintaining the honor and Sc
curing the essential rights of both parties and this just
what Il ought 10 be- Reasonable In both countries
will approve IT, and good men all over the world will re-
iolce that war has been averted and the amcabe rea-
tons OF two great leading nations have been preserved
Certainly it is blessing of Providence upon all mankind
When we look back and review the progress Of this
question from the days OF the Baltimore Convention and
Its iomened party resolutions tracing that progress
step by step present happy termna alton. many i'm
portAnt reflections fill our minds. For these we have
now neither time ROOM though they come thick and
crowdiug We stay pen for the present by putting
one Inquiry readers and the country and that is
fhi,: Were we wrong VIXEN. months ago we snatched
the words from the mouths of political assaiiants and
asid "LooH TO THE SxNArE3