Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-06-27

The Washington Union, speaking Of the trea-
,y just ratified by the U. s. Senate, says .
II rumor states the stipulaiions Of the treaty
correctly, they provide thst It's "basis shall be
the 49th parallel of latitude from The Rocky
Mountains 10 the straits Of Fuca-Englsnd to
retain possession Of Vsncouver's island, and to-
enjoy the navigation of the Columbia river until
the expiration of the charter of the Hudson Bay
Company. which has some seventeen years 10
rum"
Assuming this 10 be true, OF very nearly 90, it
is NANTES, that the treaty settles our long.vex.
ed controversy upon terms far more advantage
ous 10 Us than have ever before been offered by
England.
II 10 well known, indeed, that Great Britain
has claimed, s,eodias,ly and from the 6rsf =.
her boundary line the channel Of the Columbi.
river fem its mouth up TO the parallel Of 40 de.
grses, and that che has more than once pro.
claimed the impossibility of receaina from that
basis ofnegotia,ios. The country between the
Columbia river and that parallel which the pre-.
sent treaty is said to stpulase, has not yet been
carefully surveyed or measured. But no doubt,
we believe, 10 entertained that at least two
large States may be formed out OF it. Howev.
er this may be, the treaty. as runor describes it,
gives us about three degrees of seacoast on the
Pacific. with the eventual exclusive navigation
Of the chief river on the western slope OF our
continent. Tie treaty allows the common nav.
ignion OF this river, not to British subjects gen.
orally, but to the Hudson Bay company; and
this, il is rumored, for limited period. But
oil these topics may be discussed much more to
the purpoec, when the articles OF the treaty
shall have been fully made known to the coun.
uy.
THs OREooN SETrEMENr.-Thc Alexandria
Gazette learns from an suthe ntic source that the
terms OF compromise offered us in the Tresty
just ratified At Washington were carried in tho
Brtish Privy Council by barely one majority
the Premier being in the minority. The
Gazette farther understands that Mr McI.ane
has written home that no such compromise
would have been offered had the tdings of our
War with Mexico previously reached Engls
The B,itiInure Patriot confirms this, and adds
that the Duke of Helhngion concurred with
Peel in opposing tho offer OF 40 deg. Lord John
Russell, who will be Premier befnre the end Of
July, 10 also hostile to ANY such compromise
while Mr. Polk says, II the matter had been
lett 10 his discretion he would not have accept
ed the British offer (! Truly, the escape of the
two great nstions from War appears to be ow
ing most palpably to Good Provide dence--hard
ly at all to their Executive rulers. Yet ",
are confident nineteenth. Of tho People of boil
Nations rejoice that :he difference has been
settled.
lnroTAxr FROM SoUru AMERrCA.- We lear
from Captain b snvais that an affsr had occur
ed between the English snd French bockadin
squadrons, which may lead to something scr
ous. The English merchan, brig "Ringdov.
was lying in small port on the coast Of Buene
Ayre', taking in cargo. supposed out Of reach
the vessels Of war, when she was taken az
prize to the blockading squadron by an Engls
man.of.war schooner, anG brought to the out,
roads Of Montevideo, where the admirals sh
was at anchor.
the schooner he had done wrong, and ORDER
him to take the brig back, and leave her :he
unmolested. The French admiral hearing
it. and not being willing to submit to such
outrageous proceeding, (ss no vessel unders
other hag would hive been allowed such q pr
ilegs, and il the cosst 10 blocksded to one
must b. to all,) Immediately despatched a m,
of.wsr brig to where the vessel had gone. h
possession Of her, and brought her to Mon,e'
60 where she. together with her cargo, (c
si.ting ofe0 pipes of tallow1 was condemn
and ordered 10 be sold.
: The accoun,s from Buenos Ayres state
there 10 no prospect Of the difficulties being
q tied the per, was stl blockade and ofcou
no merchantmen were there.
The Montevideo Commerce. del Plata, ri
the following item:
Captain Henry, Of the United States slooi
= war Plymouth, in searching the American
pers, in the Georgetown Advocate saw the
count, for the frat time, Of the death Of his
ly son. The editor of the Commerce. takes
A casion to express his sympathy with the be
we'd parent, and in 4 manner which shows
commsnder Of the American squadron, in
8 Rio de Ia Plsts, has acquired the good wi
/. all.
4 EsTEErRIsK OF rHE YANkEEs.-Since Mat
n ras has fallen into the hands OF the Amer
some Of the energy and enterprise which Oh
A terize the Yankees 10 beginning 10 be exht