The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-03-17
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ARRIVAL OF TEE PACKET
SEaKKs TORONTO.
FOur Days LATER.

mouth, after having made very quick
passage over the Atlantic.
She sailed from Portsmouth on the
Oh ult., and in lat. Is, 10 So, passed
through continued field OF ice and ice
bergs.
The advices from London are of the /
7ih, and Liverpool Of lhe 9th ullimo.
By this arrival we have the important
intelligence that the Anglo-lndian project
for the ..annexation" oflhe Punjaub, long
medtated and prepared for, has been pat
in train of executions; annexation, not by
The consent of both parties, but by means
of supe5ior force on the part of one and
at the cost of dreadful blcodshed and suf-
fering to the ether. The result can hard
~ be doubtful, though the struggle may
not be brief.
The only notice that we find of the
Livcrpoo, cotton market is is 4 London
paper of the 9TH, which SAYS that the
sales of the 9th were 6OOo bales. prnci-
pally to the tr-ds. Prices continued
firm
The failure OF the potatoe crop contin-
ued 10 be the subject of general interest
and remark.
The Times OF the 9TH has an ARTICLE
commencing the course Of MIR. Calhoun.
The House of Commons has been al
most exclusively engaged upon railway
bilIs-especially for Ireland-during the
two days Of which we have accounts.
In the other house, the Marquis of
Clanricarde had brought forward prop
oisiton of relief for Ireland.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
From the Loadou Chronicle of FEB. A.
We received last night, by express
from Liverpool, further intelligence from
the United States. The packet ship
Yorkshire made the passage in the short
space of I5l days, bringing letters and
papers TO the 18th ult.
The discussion upon the Oregon reso-
lutions has been postponed TO the 10th
Of the present month. This delay is re-
garded as a favorable indication of the
pablo feeling. Before they plunge into
discussion, which may hurry them to re-
suits they have not vet seriously con-
templated the public men of America are
naturally anxious to ascertain what effect
has been produced in England by their
Presidents message. 1t is avowedly
with tbs view that the discussion has
been postponed.
Since the publication of that state pa
per until this day, when the packet sails
Tor the United States, we have heard but
oleopinion upon the subject. The adoption
of the Presidents recommendations will
not, and cannot be regarded in any other
light than as hostile indication. Let
us turn back and sec what these recon-
mendations really are.
The first recommendation is, that no.
tee be given Of the termination, at the
end of twelve months, of the convention
of 1927. 1t would be, we fear, a very
extravagant presumption to suppose that
thi- recomm endatjon alone,un accompanied
by the measures suggested along with it
is at all likely TO be adopted by the Amer
ican legislature. But let US suppose for
a moment that the only congressional
action" as they term it will be a notice
termi late the convention Of 1927, what
does such notice really mean!
MIR. Polk SAYS in his Message, that ii
means this;-"At the end of the wears
notice we shall have reached a period
when the national rights in Oregon must
eiteer be abandoned or fimly maintained.
That lhey cannot be Abandoned without
a sacrifice of both national honor and
interest, is too clear to admit of doubt.
La giving the proposed notice, then, the
American Government tells us that thew
do so with the determination upon its
expiring, TO occupy the territory. BY
the whole ef the American press-by
every public man who has recommended
the nohce-lt has been recommended as
preliminary to ''lhe firm maintenance of
the rights of the United States.''
F. This notice to terminate the conven-
ton Of ls27,may,it is suggested be follow
ed by fresh negotiations. Ii not, war is
inevitable. five receive notice that the
j)lnt occupation shall cease in lS47, and
if nothing more be done man the giving
of this notice, we too, must prepare at the
end of the years notice firmly TO "main-
tam" our rights. Let us not in our deep
anxiety for the preservation of peace,
lose sight of the position into WEIGH we
shall be driven by the event we are
speAkingof. Neither England nor Amer
lea. could remain inactive pending the ter
mination Of this treaty. We should be
virtually at war from the day we get no.
ti.a fhat at .he pnd of n snecific tiuoe Amor.