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 me great tiger hunt in the Senate has passed without harm 10 any one. Mr. Benton made sn ar- spment ID two sections, containing dreadful on- sought on the late administration, but speaking rather despondngy, and fl mortified by its ID regard to the Mexican protocol. The arguments, however, were not new, but Iatfet tesenbled those oi the Inteiligencer that subject, which. sgain were the arguments made use oi by Sr de Ia Rosa, the Mexican. Minister. here in Washington, in his correspoEdence with Mir. Buchanan. The resemb- lance was so striking that Mir. Foote he only ena- tor that replied 10 MF Benton directed the attention oi The Senate to il, averring that if all these srg
 menis had not been suggested by one and the same person, they very much looked like the prninc ot one and the sHine mind All this. and what l have yet 10 relate about if, has passed in secret session, and s, of conrss not supposed to be known but you remember i!ie dGae de paidis st the Count ot Louis XIV, whose motto vas foul esi su. So you see everything is known here, even what passes in secret session.
 MT Benton at iBsi moved that the protocol having been signed by our commissioners, the honor of the country requires that its sense should be adopted or words 10 that effect, which resolution was laid on the table withoat division, it being contended by Mir. Foote that as the protocol contained nothing but the sense of the treaty. which had already been ratified by the Senate, t wouldoe awork of supere
 rogatiun to pass separately upon it. The whgs were to man against the resolution, and acted wisely. Had inc Senate sanctioned the resolution, t Woutu nave gwen sntnctent ground to Mexico 10 claim damages, for the claims from the prosecution 1 of which her citizens were cut of by the treaty, as the adoption Oi the protocol by vote of the Uuied States Senate would have couriaaiveiV shown that the treaty and the protocol were mol dentic in their
 meaning. This negative proposition Mir. Benton himself did not pretend h establish and 90 his lution fell, eoETolsrv, to the ground.
 The protocol settled, there is no longer any mat ter oi moment before the Senate. As to the arrange. nent which Mir. Bancroft is said to have entered into with the British authorities in England, ii amounts 10 nothing but friend neighborly con- yersation, which believe isthe latest knck- -knack out of the diplomatic vocabulary of Europe The only official account have of i s from the state ment made by the Mir. Labouchere, in Parliament
 and there the matter rests. There can be no treaty between England and the United States in regard to iniernational navigation laws, till England has re- pealed her laws on the subject as they now stand
 and this is not yet done, of course .no official steps have yet been taken toward an arrangement with the United States Neither must if be believe, that Mir. Bancroft meant 10 give up our coastwise trade, or invite England to a participation in the same: the talk in London was simply in regard to that clause of our treaty of and navigation which requires vessels 10 carry the products of their own country and not the products of thiId country, in order io be assimilaed to the national flag repeal of that clause would certainly do nc harm in the present state Of our commereipl ,palne and that of Great Britain respectively. England will yet have to make further concessions to her manufactures. TRUTH TELLER.