American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-01-26


ton and Iiberality of the members of the Anti
corn league, was evinced at a late meeting in
Manchester, where il was resolved to raise one
million t,oo hundred and fifty thousand dollars as
new fund for carrying OH the war againt the
monopoly. During the continuance OF the
meeting three or four hours, the enormous sum
of three hundred thousand dollars was subscribed
The land owners are getting up agricultural
meetings in favor of the corn law, and to de-
nounce Peel. They are represented however,
to be tame affairs.
Napoleon's favorite mameuke Roustan died
at Dourdan in December.
Col. John Greenwood, editor of the despatch
es of the Duke of Wellington, committed sui
eide on the 27th Dec.
The activity in steam-frigate building con-
tinues.
The tank, holding 100000 gallons, Of the
Liverpool and Harrington Water Works, burst
on Thursday January |. Two women and
child were drowned, and eight other persons
received bad Commissions.
COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN NAPLES
AND THE UNITED STATES. A treaty of COM
merce, it is said was signed on December Sd,
at Naples, with the United States. The
American cotton, it is said, is not to pay more
than ten ducats entrance duty, in place o!
twenty, so that it is placed on the same footing
as that of the East Indies or Egypt. The
wines of Naples and Sicily are to be admitted
into the Union on paying the same duties as
the wines of other nations.
The Oregon Queslion-Peace The commit
tee of the London Peace Society have memo
razcd Rir r. Peel in favor of settling this
question by peaceful rather than by other
means, whatever provocation the British gov
eminent may receive to adopt warllke tone
and policy. They earnestly dcprccate war be-
tween the two nations, and urge the propriety
of settling the dispute by arbitration.
Rail Road to Oregon. Preliminary negotia-
tons arc OIL foot for the purpose of construct
! ing great central line of railway to connect
the cities of Halifax and Quebec, in British
North America, with the view to its ultimate
extension, in the lapse of years, to the mouth
of the Columbia, in the Oregon territory.
| The London Examiner of the 9th says the
/ Message of the American President turns out
not to be the very dreadful thing which people
expected. Mr.. Polk has evidently become
more moderate, in language at least. He may
still breathe the spirit Of the ear West" but
he has modified his words
COM1IENTS ON THE ME5siGE-EIIE
OREGON QUESTION.
From Wilmer & Smiths European Timcs.l
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
( The first Message Of President Polk to Con.
gress, has created, as may be readily supposed
a greater amount of attention in England than
any similar document from the head of the
! American Union has done for years. Public
feeling was directed to the Message long before
/ it arrived; its tone, hostile or otherwise, formed
abundant scope for conjecture in the press, and
even during the exciting time of the ministerial
crisis, journalists, overwhelmed by the import
ance 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 an
excellent passage. 1t was generally under
stood, we may state in this place, that the
steamship which left Boston on the LIST Of De-
cember, conveyed copy Of the Message to
Mr. McLane, the American Minister, put ii
the fact were SO, care was successfully taken
/ that neither the spirit nor the substance Of the
/ Message lranspired
! We have given elsewhere the spirit of the
English press on this important document
Our transatlantic readers will be struck by the
absence Of all irritation in the remarks OF the
great organs Of opinion in this country, rela-
tive to the Message; and this reluctance to avoid
giving offence, arises altogether from the praise
worthy desire TO heal rather than to foment
the cause of difference between us and the
United States respecting the Oregon. Some
of the articles we have given are able and COM
prehensive views of the question at issue, az
gued, of course, with an allowable amount Of
national feeling and prejudice, but presenting,
on the whole, just and generous standard of
reason and logic.
One cause, perhaps, why the Message has
agreeably disappointed expectation here, is the
well-timed observations in which it INDUCES
respecting liberal tariff 1.-THE Oregon is the
bane, the proposed reduction of the tariff is the
antidote in the new Presidents missive to Con-
gress. The style of the document has elected
| praise, and although Mr.. Polk has been snub-
bed by European publicists noupet homme, he
has given proof, in this mucll-criticised docu-
ment, of the possession of literary powers that
command respect, if they do not always force
conviction.
Since the Message came to hand, another
arrival has brought us the correspondence laid
before Congress between the British and Anne
rican Ministers OH the subject of the Oregon
The misfortune of such documents is, that they
are too voluminOus for the perusa of the great
world. The London Times has devoved q &C.
ries Of articles to the consideration Of this cor
respondence, more particularly with reference
to the two points upon which MIR. Buchanan
insists, namely, first, the title arising from
prior occupancy; and, secondly, the cession Of
the Spanish claim to the United States.
The paper in question endeavors to show
that the maintenance of these two nights is in
compatible; that If one is correct the other can
| not be sustained. The prior occupation, aud
the after cession, may be cited as distinct facts,
but they cannot confer one title. Two bad IT,
ties can no more make good one, than two
afli!matives can make negative.
We should like to have presented our read
ers with these articles, as they are considered
inthIs country to be able, if not unanswcrabla