New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-20


10 the Provision trade there has not been much
activity lrsS Burer ia cheaper FOR low and mddling
kinds ard Dutch hes improved, owing ~ liz scarcity SIS
o. per cwt Ia American the bus!nees has been
ins
The money market, althou gh Sufficiently stringent
somewhat eGsier during the last few days Bankers
Bills 81 to q Seconds u 70 Money on Call 81 70 81
The Psnk Of England s Sill! doing 81 and the average
( of Cons1As is 96!.
PEEPS Policy.
The first aad most important partof peels scheme
which relates TO Corn has already passed through its
mos; critical stage-the Committee. The second
reading Of the bill will take place in the of
the presen, week Nothing can prevent the meas
ure passing the popular branch Of the legislature.
Business continues feel The slagna,on con.!pgen,
the interregnu and every days delay creates pecun
airy loss.
The question still asked is What will me Lords dos
this point lite diversity Of opinisn prevails
But the prepondersnce Of opinion L. that the Lords will
pass the bill Every day adds the weigh. OF probability
10 this concurrence OF opinion.
Their Lordshjps know well that they Of necessity
be %orsted 10 conflict with the nation and they will
not II is generally asserted and believed push
commercial policy.
Sunday serni-ofIicia organ OF the Government as
sers unhesthtDely that the Government have major.
y of more than twenty in favor Of the ministerial
scheme Before the bill is the table Of their Lord
ships House this number will have considerably Ia.
creased
with interest here but the feeling is not absorbing
because il is assumed. as matter OF business as a
Ot self interest that greatly extended reduction
on BIitish manufactured goods will, nay must follow
the contamination OF Peers policy.
The critical Of the two countries respecting the
Oregon throws all other questions connected with the
United States into the shade at the present moment
Once se,,le that bone Of contention matter by what
means attention would be directed exclusively
the Free Trade policy oithe United States
The causes that divert attention from matters
purely commercial the OF American citizens
would then be concentrated on their own Tariff
The Proeconists the evening OF Monday, in their
tmid fears protested alarm lest the reduced duty
American hops would drive the home grown as;ce OUT
OF the market Sir Robert eel refused participate IN
these fears and boldly adhered TO the reduced duty in
which he succeeded
UNFOLDING the present dulles but here too the Premier
was memorable. European Times.
From Wilmer and Smiths European Times.
The Oregon Question.
We have given in another columns the converse
ton which took place in the House oil Lords relative
10 the state of our relations with America, between
the Earl of Clarendon and the Earl OF Aberdeen, on
Tuesday evening last The speech OF the Foreign
Secretary, it will be seen. conciiatory but de-
termined He expressed the strongest desire for
peace coupling il with the assurance that it could
yet he preserved and ntmating that nothing would
be left undone 10 preserve il, consistent with the
honor of the country. But he gave no information
az TO the state Of the negotiations he refused 10 pro-
duce ali the papers asked FOX and only consented
submit portion Of them to the House, alleging,
reason, that the public interest would suffer by the
inspection OF the whole. Nothing Gun be inferred
from the tone of this conversation as to the turn
which matters likely 10 take on this mooied sub
jeci.
1t would be folly, however. to regard the bland
and polite language of the British Minister rs ex
pressing the feeling of the British nation. We re-
greet TO state that anger and irritation have lately
been called into existence by the news from Amer
lea and every day is calling into existence amongst
US war party fierce and unreasonable as the
most furious Loco. Foco in the Union can desire.
This feeling find expression in many OF the jour
nails and exists in private society to greater extent
than in the columns of the daily press. Even the
Times which has hitherto preserved great dignity,
and exhibited high talent on the Oregon question.
has put forth two three articles lately OF an un
mistakabc kind One OF these we have deemed
il best TO present readers. rs il refers 10 mat
tiers in which the citizens Of the United States will OF
necessity take interest We are panied TO notice
this alienation but il gathers strength with every
fresh arrival from America. The bulk OF the morn
ing papers of Yesterday take Lord Aberdeen severe
~ 10 task for mincng matters respecting question
ON which The public feeling of the country Is so
strong.
We have US yet no certain intelligence that the
Senate has adopted the resolutions OF Mr.. Colqult,,
of Georgia; but they received the support OF
Mcssrs Webster and Calhoun, il is assumed they
VIII pass That pOuy, huO DOlu houses uclDS tiius
agreed upon giving the twelve months Notice. the
manag cement of this delicate question will fall eX-
clusively upon the President. How will he meet
this serious responsibility Having claimed the
whole of Orcgon-haviug withdrawn the offer OF
the 4gth parallel without the navigation OF the Co
lumbia nd,discarded Arbitration with contempt
in what position is he to settle this question, and
preserve" al the same time, in the words OF MI
Coouitts resolution 1.-The friendly relations OF the
two countries 7" That is the kuouy point. Can
Mr. Polk reccdc with honor can he negotiate
without recedingl The game is now thrown into
his hands and he lncurs responsibility nol 10 DC
cnvied.
The general belief in this country Is that when the
question has been left in Me- Polk Stands, Message
from the Queen will afford Ministers an opportunity
of declaring their ultimatum 10 Parliament They
will take their stand on what they conceive 10 be
their strongest position in The controversy-tnake
on, what the lawyers term strong case aud II
any attempt is made 10 possess the Oregon by force
the result will be that horrible alternatye-war To
this point affairs are daily drifting.
Tha, the worst is anticipated. is evident from the
extraordinary the unprecedented activity in all the
different dockyards The other day. al Portsmouth
in order 10 how coon lineofbattle ship could
be got ready for sea. the Bellorophon, which was
dismantei at the time, had her masts rugged, her
guns pointed. her stores housed-in short. every
thing Rppertaning TO this splendid man 'o-war was
pat in "applepie' order in sirty hours BY the Off
marksbc in the history of the British navy; but ii
was rendered ridiculous by the authorities, when
the ex pertinent had been completed, ordering the
vessel 10 be again dsmantled.
From the London Times of March II.
The statement Of the Washington correspond
ence of the Ne,c York Herald that Mr. Pakenham
submitted his ul:matum 10 the consideration of the
American Government the evening OF the Goth
OF February, and that Cabinet was Immediately
held 10 deliberate upon that detnIve proposal. Is,
we have reason 10 believe, wholly without FONDA
ton 1t is equally false tina, Mr. Champion
brough, Instructions TO Mr. Pakenhsm to reopen ne
co,lsns BY an offer of the 49Ia parallel tue whole Of
Vancouvers lslsnd and the navigation Of the Columbia
for 20 years.
These statements are however, made by certain os'
CANS Of public opinion the uaited States with such an
air Of confidence that not surprised maj some Oh
contemporaries IN this country should have been
imposed upon by them in spite Of the manifest sesufci-
,y OF the suggested Tae correspondent OF TIE
Sew-lors Herald affects 10 know what the
OF :he British Minister'S proposition was although
unwon;ed scrupes deter him from revealing IL The
fac: IS that such proposition could have have been
made all especially pending the debste on the resolu
lions which then actually going in the Senate OF