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are carried through both Houses of Parliament,
and similar policy pursued, the excise department
will very probably be broken up in TOTO
Her MAJEsTY's AccorcHMRNr.-The near APP
proach OF an interesting event, to which the public
look forward with intense interest, may perhaps
be inferred from the fact that the messengers of
the Home Office have received directions to be in
attendance, night and day, on and after last Mon
day, so that the fact Of the Queens ndsposition
may be communicated without loss oftime to the
Cabinet Ministers.
The United Associate Synod of Scotland recent
y passed resolutions condemnatory of slavery,
and lamenting and condemning the conduct of
the + rec Church in accepting money from the slave
States of America. These resolutions involve
condemnation of Drs. Chalmers, Cunningham,
and other diynes of the Free Church The Synod,
which passed these resolutions, consisted of 400
ministers.
ster to Constantinople, arrived in the Mersey on
the I'd instant, in the Cincinnati, from Baltimore.
The Oregon Question In Parliament.
From Winners Times, May l9l
incidentally, the state oil our relations with
America was brought under the notice of the
House Of Commons on the evening of Friday, the
18th ult
Lord John Russell made a pointed allusion to
the subject, and in doing so, delivered himself in
the following graceful and happy terms
Looking at one Of the greatest nations Of the globe
happy to find there are symptoms of returning feel
ings Of amy and good will When read the speeches of
Webster Calhoun and others forget all the idle
waited from the other side of the Atlantic her Ma
jestys Government will be able to fix finally the limits
which divide the domnons Of her majesty from those
Of the United States and trust the convention
treaty which shall settle that boundary will be
but the prelude of intimate connection between
and that vast commonwealth Of free people; that
shall carry together manufactures and our agricu
ture vieing with each other II you will to make pro-
ductions more and more perfect striving in the neutral
markets Of the world for pre- eemnence striving also,
in respective branches of production that may
cothe them and they may feed but hoping that there
QhoII ha hoy Af Rvyka
chesrs) Sir with hi. wish that such may be the pre-
lude of this BILL to which trust the other House of Par
lament. should pass by great majority here win
give asir assent shall give my hearty support to the
M s' the cese 81 lis o the
question, the same evening, Sir Robert Peel, de-
terinned not to be outdone in politeness by the
leader Oft Of the oPPositon spoke as follows s.
cussions which have threatened the Of ami
cable relations with the United States will be brought to
fortunate close Sir, think can appeal to the course
which we have pursued, against some obloquy, some
misconstrucon some insinuatons, that we were aban
to the past experience of this government that It has
been our earnest DESIRE by every effort consistently
with every country the face of the globe. This prn
ciple long we are inrusted with the management
OF public affairs will continue to influence in respect
to the settlement Of our unfortunate differences with the
United States. lCheers)
This, taken in connexion with the resolution of
the Senate, gives us every reason to believe that
we are at the end of our differences, and that
short time only eapse before the possibility of
misunderstanding between England and Ane-
rca will be removed.
The Debate In Parliament on Canada.
Lord g. BENrNcK in moving "for copies of the speech
of Earl Cathcar tho of the Canadas,
to the Legislative Assembly Of those provnccs-of the
which he had addressed to Mr. the
sumed changes in the imperial commercial policy-and
of petition from the Quebec Board Of Trade address
sed to the high functionary the subject of APP
pretended changes in the Imperial tariff affecting the
produce of the Canadas observed that he considered
very important that the attention Of the house should be
called to these documents before it finally decided
the fate of the Corn Bill He believed that the facts
nected with these documents shortly these Early
in March last Mr. Gladstone had addressed letter to Earl
Cathcart upon the measures recently proposed to Para
letter that Earl Cathcart had previously addressed
letter of rem0nsrance against that policy to Mr.. Glad
soP; A. Acting the PToc Gs
that the last intelligence from the mother country indi
Gated that changes were about be made in
pressed the Imperial Government the necessity of
preserving the existing relations between the Cana
he had recommended the Canadians, until they
ceived further Information from Great Britain, to
hcipate that their claims to a just measure OF pro-
lection would be overlooked Earl Cahcnr had since
assured them that in calculated to secure
cooperation Surely il was matter Of serious conside
ration for that house. when they found the Governor Gc
neral Of the Canadas telling their Legislative Assembly
the mother country. Besides this declaration there
other indications of the dissatisfaction which
felt in the Canadas in consequence Of the recent adhe
of Her Maestys Minister to the doctrines of free
trade meeting had been held at Toronto few days
before the meeting of the Legislative Assembly, in which
there distinct intmaton given, that the adoption
of commercial policy might drive the Canadas
into annexation with the United States Similar language
hal also been employed by the Attorney General Of
province and this language he quoted at considerable
length 1t therefore became the house gravel to reflect
whether il would adopt measures which would deprive
altogether of those valuable PROVINCES He then quot
ed several extracts from papers published in New York
similar as to the results Of our new policy
had been created in the minds Of the thinking people of
the United States. He reminded the house that II this
country lose the Canadian Provinces it would
lose trade which, more than other encouraged and
on Se c
the Canadas, by adopting the system Of free trade and
quoted the letter of MIR Pemberton which appeared in
The TYmes to show that Mr.. c. Butler guilty of
great error when he asserted that the Canadians did not
materially for the protection which they received
from system Of duties on corn and on timber He
showed that there was disposition the part of the
United States to avail themselves OF any relaxation in
our tariff with which we inclined to favor them,
but no disposition to grant any relaxation in their
tariff in return. Under such circumstances, surely II
mot be w. s S. On rns
the effect Of such relaxation was likely to be the loss OF
| the Canadas.
that it would have been for the advantage OF Lord g.
Benncks reputation orator and also for the advan
tage of the house. which had listened 10 him reuc
tanty il he had his Speech and that which
he would inevitably deliver tomorrow night, into one
| lie congratulated Lord q. Bentinck and ms party
on the new tone In which they spoke of the
proceedings Of the Canadian Parllsment What
was the Of his sympaihising with the Canadas
now, when the Imperial Government was in NH
nority OF in the Canadian Parliament, when
he paid no attention TO Its wishes formerly, when
out OF ss members only supported that government
Formerly there stronger opponents oi the cana
dian corn bill than Lord g. Bentck and his party what
was the reason which induced them to stand up Tor that
bill now as were the Magma Chara OF the Canadas
He could not believe that Earl Cathcart had embarked
upon that of opposition government which
Lord o. Bentck had described and expressed his deli
bcrate conviction that the opinions Of the people OF Cana
da fairly taken would be found decidedly in favor Of
| freedom Of trade.
Sir q. CLERK observed that thcre was no intention
the part Of the government oppose the present notion
as Lord g. Bentick had been informed nine days ago.
He only state that he had proposed add the
papers moved for, despatch from Mr. Gladstone to
the General Of the Csnadas, in reply to the
papers for which Lord q. Bentck had moved.
| After few remarks from MIR. ii. HirDE who CON-
planned that he had been unable to procure answer