Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-10-07


his Holiness will regard il as an insult and that It
viii be imperative.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL has left Ireland, and has
joined her Majesty in Scotland. What was the
object or what has been the result OF his conference
with Lord CLARENDON, is yet unknown. One re-
port is that an abolition OF the vice-regal court has
been determined upon. Anotheris that difference
0 opinion exists between the two noble conierees in
respect to the judicial proceedings about to com
nence against the parties concerned IN the late out
freak. Among Mr.. O'Brien's papers some have
been found which implicate the Catholic ecclesias-
ical body TO very great extent. -Four pre'ates,
Including an archbishop are said to be compromised
in these disclosures. Lord JOHN RussEIL-for
what reason it is not sated-wishes an amnesty
for the past towards all ecclesiastical offenders.
The Lord Lieutenant, il is said, desires that all par
ties, whether lay or clerical, should be treated alike.
One curious circumstance connected with the Pre-
miers visit TO Ireland is, that he has been subpCncd
to attend Mr.. O'Bren's trial as witness on his
behalf. All sorts OF rumors atoat with respect
TO the state of Ireland. One account states that
new organizations and combinations are Matching
at the town Of Carrick on SUR, and the Sieve
namon mountains, under the management OF Mr..
DoHENy, whilst another represents that person as
being inmate of the Castle of Dublin, 10 be pro-
duced as witness for the Crown at the approach
ing trials.
The bill providing for the Recommending proceed
inge upon bills at subsequent session at the stage
which they had reached at preceding one, will
very much facilitate business, and save great deal
of valuable time. You have, / believe, adopted
similar measure in your Congress-.
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK says that he does not
intend to visit Ireland, and that he intended
to do SO. He has published a letter in answer to
some sympathizers with Mr.. Mitchell He says
that he regards Mitchell as traitor to his Queen,
and felon by the verdict of jury. He speaks in
high terms Of approval Of the course adopted to-
wards Ireland by Lord John Russels Ministry,
and intimaes that, If these sentiments are to make
him unpopular, he does not care twopence for the
popularity he loses thereby.
The Times newspaper has lately published two
or three very ably written articles, in which it adopts
much improved tone of speaking about the Uni
ted States. The writer says that he has been re-
monstraed with Tor representing that the American
papers from which he SO frequently quotes, the
lVep Fork Herald and Tribune, fairly typify the
temper and feeling of the United States towards
England. He hopes that they do not; but since
their circulation is, he states, greater than those of
other American journals, he cannot avoid inferring
that they speak the sentiments of the people in the
same proportion. 1t would not be difficult, even
admitting his statements, to refute his conclusions.
No doubt he is aware of this himself but he seems
DESTROYS Of retreatng from his false position with
the least possible admission of error
Some very lar-seeng politicians fancy that they
perceive in NANcouvER's ISLAND future bone of
contention between the United States and Great
Britain. The importance of this island, from lis
geographical position, in the event OF communca-
ton being made through the Isthnus of Panama
between The Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and also
trDm Ifc md i,C
extensive coal depostes, SO valuable and necessary
to the success Of any steam communication between
California or Oregon and China, have it is said,
attracted the attention of the people Of the United
States, and induced an irregular colonization by
squatters from which future difficulties may arise.
Colonization by the British is regarded as the best
and in fact, the only means of preventing this con-
tngrncy. The mode proposed In aeeonaf .IisI, this
colonization is, to say the least novel one, being
neither more less than 10 cede to the Hudson's
Bay Company the exclusive right OF colonizing the
island until the year 1859 A great deal Of discus.
sion, both in Parliament and through the press has
been had upon the subject. The oppnsers of the
administration charge the Government with hav-
ing in This affair sanctioned huge "job !" but they
have not, by any means, proved the assertion. Nor
have they proposed better plan of colonization.
The administration say that British settlement is
necessary; that il is not probable that the House
Of Commons would grant the necessary funds for
direct colonization by the Government and that,
therefore, the settlement of the island must either
be abandoned or delegated 10 others. The Hud.
sons Bay Company have come forward both with
the money and plan Of operation. They propose
to take the island until 1859, to sell the land in
small allotments, and apply the proceeds, as has
been done elsewhere, to the purposes Of COLOMBIA
ton. Upon the whole, admitting it necessary that
something should be done, il is probable that the
best possible has been done, providing for the set
Element and improvement of an important colony
without any expense TO the mother country. Would
that England could provide in similar manner for
few more of her distant possessions II was
curious observation made by Lord JOHN RUSSELL
the other day. that many Of the British colonies did
not produce men capable Of discharging properly
the official duties connected with their local govern
ment, and that il was necessary to send out persons
from England to hold such positions. This was
certainly not the case with the United States during
the greater part Of their colonial history and when
they asserted their Independence, they found men
not only capable Of welding colonial government
under the direction Of Great Britain, but also of es
tablishng government Of their own, in opposition
10, and in defiance of the mother country. The
time is not, perhaps, very distant when British In.
Ola and Canada may have similar power
LONDON, SEPTEMBER IA.
London is comparatively empty and quiet, but the
good cltlZens appear to have always some eycitablc