Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-04-25


vanced the other side, since they absolute and para
mount Nothing in fact remains for 10 concede since
divided right all We conendng for and the very prnci
pie ofdivson admitted by the
The declaration which it becomes emphaticaly to
repeat is that have rights in the Oregon territory which
resolved and prepared maintain That expression
Of Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aberdeen certainly not i'm
temperate and consdered and have doubt that SUBJ
scquen events in the slightest degree diminished
their resolution adhere to ii, and to all that under
stood imply We nothing in the present posture Of a
fairs which calls for justify, subdued language
ON the part Of the English and persuaded
that false construction which has been put upon the very
guarded declarations Of the English Ministers Of the cir
calculated to msead public opinion the
United States and possibly to enhance the understandable
presumption of the American Government.
YaoM THE MORNING CHRONICLE or MARCH liz.
What will be the course of her Maesys Ministry
the Senate the United States give notice of the abrogaon
Of the convention This what the country requires to be
informed upon, and this what statesman like Lord Cha
rendon thought either imprudento unbecoming
ask Neither he any in England has TO learn that
tho President is equally unreasonable ia thu sIr ~
the husngs that his Secretary has obtuded the offensive
extravaganza after dinner speech contrast TO the dc
corous coueses of official correspondence As general
rule disclosures the part Of the Executive are mscevous
in proportion they either unnecessary OF pre-
mature. They however, unnecessary or premature ac
corng to the under which they made and
the country which they refer In the particular case OF
America publicity is the rule secrecy the exception Inc
nation thinks aloud and exhibits in the full light OF day all
all the elements Of its determinations Were this all, the
gain would be wholly side and should have the
advantage of the COOL calculating, silent man, the gau
Gus and improvdent child But such is not the Our
reserve mnterpreted and advertisements mscon-
sued whilst apparent supneness constitutes an import
in every calculation Of plausible and interruptions
opponent Where moderation perverted into fear, and 81
lence into consent is policy TO he explicit and when
NAV be ashness volunteer absolute line of conduct
may be prudence disclnim imputed one we cannot
help thinking that there certain negative points upon
which Lord Aberdeen owed his country to be explicit
No could be better known to his lordshp than that
through the American papers that almost every opinion
current England formed, and that the staple Of those
papers consisted in confident statements OF propositions said to
eanate from himself These he might and these he ought
to have dscaimed Until discIamed, they prophecies
that towards their fuflment and this not only
their tendency their intention At the present moment
those who have studied the question and those who take their
opinions on trust equally put confidence in the Executive
believing be Jealous of the national honor to buy
by any unworthy concession Now uncontradicted state
ment claiming be Official has the double mischief OF de-
ccirng the party and OF engendeng suspicious IN the
other Let people Of England believe that the Columbia
is to be abandoned and they divide into two parties
those whose acquescence the Government towards
what upon the honor of the country and those whose
opposition embarrasscs assertion Of IFS just rights
Surely the present stage of the negotiations something
definite than the very general savo OF the national honor
might hazaded We might at least have been told
that the policy of previous statesmen should be adhered
to- and that the present posture and gestures of Amerca
not be mistaken for claims We might too at least have
been assured that the question 10 be determined on its
own proper merits and that the respective titles were In the
same condition in 1918, in 1927, and in ls46
FROM THE EUROPEAN
We reqret Ia sats that pnxor and irritation have lately
called existence by The from Americas and
every day is calling existence war party as
fierce and unreasonable as the most furious Locofoco IN he
Union desire This feeling finds expression IN many OF
the journals and exists nfpvate society to greater extent
than in the columns of the daily press.
Even the Tines which has hitherto preserved great dgn
sko has.
forth two or three articles lately Of unmsakcabe kind
We panied notice this alienation, but gathers strength
with every fresh arrival from America The bulk OF the morn
ing papers yesterday take Lord ABERDEEN severely
for mncng matters respecting question on which the puoc
feeling Of the country is so strong
The general belief this country that when the ques
has been left in Mr.. Folks hands, message from the
Queen will afford Ministers opportunity OF declaring their
utmaum to Parliament They will take their stand what
they conceive be their strongest position IN the conrover
sy-make what the lawyers term " strong case, and
any attempt made to the Oregon by orce the result
will be that horrible alternative, war To this point affairs
are daily drifting.
That is anticipated is evident from the extraordl
nary the unprecedented activity in all the different dock
yards The other day, Portsmouth, IN order to test how
soon ship could be got ready for the Belle
rophon which was dsanted the me had her masts rig
ged her guns pointed her stores housedn short every
thing appertainng this splendid man-of put in
apple pie order sirty hours by the officers and crew
This feat considered the remarkable in the history OF
the British navy but rendered ridiculous by the auho
ties when the experiment had been completed, ordering the
vessel to be again dismanled.
FROM TIMEs MARCH IL.
The last attempt made by Minister at Washington
Mr. Pakenhap pursuance of the instructions he had
ceved from home, to reopen the negotiation by proposal Of
arbitration, abruptly frustrated by the prompt and peemP
tory rejection Of that expcden in Mr. Buchanans despatch
of the 5h Of February, and by the immediate publication oil
that correspondence On the following day but the dc
bate the resolutions for terminating the convention by no
iice began in the House of Representatives similar de-
bate afterwards commenced the Senate, and not
finished when the last advces left Washington Is clear,
from the position in which the question stood after the rejection
of the made by the British Minister, and also
from the positive Injunction negotiate which rs contained IN
the second Of the resolutions under discussion in both Houses
Congress- that the American Cabinet should make
step the adjustment of the controversy IL however
Mr. Polk and his advisers should the notice to terminate
the existing convention without accompanying that act by
fresh proposal calculated TO promote amicable settlement
trust that there will be hesitation the part Of the B
fish Government replying that by precise nmaton
what definite claims the Oregon territory really
would have been premature and tmed for Mr. Paken
ham to anticipate the action Of Congress" (as they call
in the United Staes) by offering uhmaum or any other
proposal that particular moment But as the de-
cson of Congress- and the which the President
pared take upon it, officially known, have no doubt
that Mr. Pakenham will be furnished with instructions to
bic him the emergency with Cancellation and with
moderaon but without the slightest surrender OF the dignity
the interests Of this country AT present no such final m
ucions have called for by the state of the question
We read with regret the language OF the Washington Ono
the avowed organ Of Mr. Folks government upon the receipt
Of the pacific intelligence which had just reached the United