Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-01-31

| would have been Con,nunicdteu W ioru 'on"
Russell. Whether it was so communicated or
not, Lord Grey took care that Lord John Russell
should not be ignorant Of his views, although
they were 70 presented as to avoid the appear.
ance Of dctaton.
On the evening of the Wednesday of which
the Wings had determined to undertake the Go.
vernment Lord Grey went home and wrote
letter to Lord John, in which he urged great eau.
ton in distributing the Offices of the new minis.
try pointed on, the necessity of making il os lit
tie "a possible like revival Of the Melbourne Ca.
binet impressed on the expectant Premier that
no regard to perscual feelings ought 10 interfere
( with the allotment of Offices and stated that
| his joining the Government though he pronl-
sed it his cordial support in any case, must de-
pend on his being satisfied with all the arrange.
ments regarding offices.
Lord John Russell must have known Earl
Grey's opinions in regard TO Lord Palmerston's
foreign policy. and could scarcely have msun.
derstood those hints If he was in doubt he
should have asked for an explanation. When
a, last no choice was left to Lord Grey but TO
declare his peremtory objection, he did so in
way which forbade every suspicion of personal
| feeling. The Colonisl Office, with the leader.
ship in the House Of Lords, had been offered to
| himself
He objected by placing Lord Palmers,cn in
the Foreign Department, because such an ap.
continent would create alarm among foreign
powers, and also among the great bulk Of the
community at home, including a larger proper.
| ton Of the Liberal than those Of the Conserva.
tive party; without himself criticising Lord
Palnerston's plcy he objected TO his being pla.
ced in the Foreign Office, simply as fresh dIfli.
Guilty in the way ofa Liberal ministry.
At the same time Lord Grey distinctly de.
clared that he should be most happy to have
Lord Palmerston as a colleague in any other de-
partment; and, in order to such an arrangement,
he offered to yield the Colonial Office and the
leadership Of the House of Lords if it were
thought advisable to raise Viscount Palmerson
to the British Peeruge for the purpose.
Lord Grey, therefore, go far from evncing
personsl dislike, expressed perfect willingness
to act not only with, but in some degree under
Lord Palmerston; and 20 far from being dcta.
torial or "impractcable," he showed the utmost
disposition to accommodate his own pretensions
or waive them altogether, if he could not con.
scentiou-ly ac. with the new Cabinet as Lord
John Russell might choose to form it.
From Wilmer & Smiths TimesI
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The frs, Message of President Polk to Con.
gress, has created, as may be readily supposed
greater amount OF attention in England than
any similar document from the head of the A..
merlcnn Union has done for years Public feel.
ing was directed to the Message long before it
arrived, lis tone, hostile or otherwise, formed
abun6an' scope for conjecture in the press and
even during the exciting time Of the ministerial
crisis, urnalists, overwhelmed by the impor-
iance of our relations with the United States,
stepped ASIDE to discuss the question, even in
the absence Of the Presidents views.
Well, the Message came to hand in the ordi.
nary course, by the ship Sea-" which made
al exceIlen, passage. 1t was generally under.
stood, we may state in this place, tina, the
steamship which left boston on the Is, Of De.
cemi er, conveyed copy OF the Message to
Mr.. McLsne, the American Minister, but i. the
fact were so, care was successfully taken that
neither the spirit nor the substance 9th Mes
sage transpircd.
We have given elsewhere the spirit of the
English press on this important document Our
transatlantic renders will be struck by the ab.
sence OF all irritation in the remarks OF The great
organs Of opinion in this country, relative to the
Message; and this reluctance to avoid giving
offence, arises altogether from the pr.seworihy
desire TO heal, rather than to fonent the cause
of difference between us and the United States
; respecting the Oregon. Some Of the articles
we have given are able and comprehensive
; views Of the question al issue argued, Of course
with an allowable amount of national feeling
and prejustice, but presenting, on the whole, a
ust and generous standard of reason and logic
One cause, perhaps, why the Message has
sgrseably disappointed expectation here is, the
well-tined observations in which it INDUCES re
spectng a liberal tariff. If the Oregon is the
bane, the proposed reduction of the tariff is the
=, sntdote in the new Presidents missve to Con.
: gress. The style of the document has elected
praise, and although Mr.. Polk has been snubbed
by European puplic,sts as nouveile homme, he
a has given proof, in this much criticised docu
{ ment, ofthe possession Of literary powers that