Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-02-26

the warfare of American Senators and men,
bers of the House of Representatives. Stur-
dy Republicans might take, i'll this respect,
an example of forbeaIance and gentlemanly
department from the speeches of Hume, Sir
Robert Peel, and Lord John Russell, on the
second night of the session.
FRANcE.-Mr. Guizot has noticed the re-
marks of Mr.. Folks message relative to war
and Texas. He had felt surprIzed at the Ian
guage used by the President in his message
Ito Congress, and had considered it his duty
to claim in reply for France an entire indie
|pendence of action. He examined the COM
mercial reasons which had induced France
to recognise the independence of Texas in
l1S3S, and rendered her anxious to maintain
it in 1915. The political considerations had
been of still greater weight. There were
at present, he said, three powerful nations
intent on aggrandizing beyond measure their
Observation-Disclosures gland, Russia, and the United
States. France was not extending her do
minions. In Africa she had made con-
quest it was her honor and interest to pre-
serve, but the bounds of which she would
not overstep. 1t was of the highest impor-
lance to France that those three nations
should balance each others power, and that
none of them should obtain prepondering
influence She was consequently interested
in protecting the independence of the A
merican States.
F" The Baltimore Patriot of Friday evening
last says:
The intelligence from England, by the
Cambria, will be read with interest and gra-
LITIGATION. 1t is pacific in the highest de-
gree, and leaves no doubt that the difficult
ties between the United States and Great
Britain will be amicably adjusted. Indeed,
+ so unnecessary do the English journals re-
gard any angry controversy about Oregon.
that they express their amazement that it
should ever have been accounted here a
cause for serious difficulty. 1t will be re-
collected, that from the beginning of this
Oregon discussion, we have ever expressed
the opinion that no war would grow out OF
it. There has been mismanagement,a as we
think, on both sides-the negotiation has
been altogether too diplomatic, and the COR
Fl respondence too reseryed-each party striv-
ing to obtain an advantage over the other
rather than eXerting themselves to settle the
matter. But as the question appeared to us
to be one which ought, and only could be
settled by negotiation or arbitration-we
,, prefer the former-We have ever held thai
1T is impossible that the statesmen Of the
two countries, charged with the adjustment
!, of it, would ever allow it to GO to the length
of war about ia war which would, and
could, settle nothing, though it might sacrl-
flee many lives and destroy millions Of
property.
The intelligence from England is impor-
tant also in its commercial aspect. There
is no longer a doubt that the corn laws viii
f.be repealed, and that the people of England
are soon to be placed in the situation where
they are to depend on foreign nations fol
sent or ultimate effect of this radical change
: in her policy, we will not venture to pre-.
t dict; but this much is certain, that it will
add to the many strong reasons she now
A has to preserve the peace of the world.
+ 1t has heretofore been contended by En-
-glish writers that no nation could be es
e sentialIy free that did not feed itself from
its own soil. 1t was this seemingly appa
: rent fact that led to the establishment o
her corn laws, and it has ever been urget
s as the chief reason for keeping them il
force. The theory of this position is nov
] to be tested by actual trial. How long
). will take to test its truth it is impossible t.
t say; but it cannot be long before England
! must begin to show in some striking wa,
: the effect on herself of this change from pro
t hibitive duties to free trade, in the article
: of food