Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-15

'Our domestic policy has tended in the highest degree
promote the commercial and agricultural interests OF tn
United Staes and to draw into closer union the strong tie
which subsst between the different branches of The Anglo
Saxon The exchange of commodities between the two
nations is carried upon scale, the con
nexion of their monetary and mercantile interests direct
the mutual services rendered by the supplies of one country
the demands of the other constant that interruption
these ties would be social calamity OF equal magnitude
both But in addition these practical grounds Of amy
have in the United States the singular advantage Of being
footing of confidence and good will with the Government
and the party now in power British interests Americ.
still identified they have been since the indepen
dence the United States with the moderate and pacific po
Icy of the Wings and opposed by the violence of the Demo
therefore supposed the other side of the
Atlantic to be eagued, in Europe with factions in
mcal the existing Governments Of foreign countries in
imica to order, inmical to PEACE" .....~ E.. t.-
The writer goes on to speak of the brilliant
success of the mission of Sir HENRY BULwER, and
says:
"Thas gentleman has been received in the United States
with cordially than any Of his diplomatic predecessors.
He has had the sagac and good taste perceive that
British Minister Washington is only charged with the
transaction of business between Government and the
other but that he becomes with little attention to the
of the country, the efficient representative of England and
her people in the midst of the people of the United States
"Lord PALMERsroN himself has been wanting in this
policy Of Cancellation towards the United States, for he
has carried it its utmost limits In former times the corn
laws and the navigation laws would have been only conceded
foreign producers traders exchange for the largest be-
nefs England has abandoned them from higher motives of
policy with without reciprocity and without conditions
But in other questions exclusively affecting British in
teess in America concessions equally direct have been made
Sir Henry BULwER carried out with him very ample and
liberal powers for the negotiation Of treaty calculated to put
end to the rivalry which sprngng up between the in
teses and influences of Great Britain and Of the United
States in Central America That treaty has been signed
and awaits the ratification of the American Senate which will
probably be carried by large majority. carries into effect
the views have repeatedly expressed to the interests
Of both countries in that important part of the GLOBE which is
evidently destined to become of the chief marts of
change in the of the worl! II dscams and pro-
hbs the exclusive territorial asceEdency of either Govern
in that region and if Lord PALNERsroS has put
forward pretensons exclusive proectorate of the mouths
of the San JUAN they are presume reduced to the value
time ago assigned to them. We know, the
ary that the British Government has very wisely rejected
the proeed proecsoate of Costa Rica and hope has
abandoned the absurd and facou policy of setting up
the Central American Republics the expense of the
others" -. 49,.
The question of the future course of trade be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, important
though it may be, is of less immediate interest than
the proposal which Sir HENRY BULwER has recently
been instructed to make, for the opening of the
navigation of the st. Lawrence 10 American mer-
chant vessels, in exchange for the admission of Ca
madam produce to the United States on a footing
of complete reciprocity. Upon this subject the
Times says:
"The opening of the St. Lawrence has, since the
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by that of the United States of justice and of
policy formed of the principal subjects Of Mr. GALA
TINS mission in 1885, when protocols exchanged be-
tween that gentleman and Mr. HUsKIssoN the subject,
but without effect under the administration Of that ibe
raj At the present time, however, when the abo-
on of commercial restrictions become the basis of the
Icy Of this country, when lock for the progress of
wealth and activity by the concurrent progress of the wealth
and activity OF customers and competitors, ard when
colonial trade open all nations the ground OF
former reusa is swept away The ST. Lawrence forms
the boundary line Of the territories Of Britain and of the Uni
ted States in nearly half its prodgious connects
the chain of the lakes inland of the North Anne
rican continents it is, in fact the highway Of the North
Beyond all doubt to open that highway to the navigation of
the United States under certain conditions and tolls,
confer equal benefit the Canadian subjects Of the B
fish Crown and on their neghbors but may Justly
liberal spirit the markets of the United States be opened
Canadian produce. We trust that condition will be
ceped and have doubt these changes will powerfully
contribute promote the prosperity of Canada and with
turning prosperity strengthen its loyalty to the British
Crown" .' t... ....'
We venture to make these laudatory extracts
from our leading journal respecting Sir HENRY
BULwERs negotiations, although we may incite,
by their quotation, your neighbors of the Union
to exclaim again " Sold to the British" We per-
ceive in them nothing but what is eminenly advan-
tageous to both countries, and we do not perceive
that either has renquished any thing for which it
has not obtained, or proposes to obtain, full and
fair equivalent
The protracted sickness and increased years of
| Lord CoTTENHAM the present most able and ex-
cellent Lord Chancellor, have compelled that emf
nent Law Officer to resign his dignifed position
The resignation of Judge is rare event. and the
resignation of Chancellor much rarer one; for,
in nine cases out of ten, change of political par
ties in the seats of power anticipates any other
course of retirement, and, as the Daily NeWs OBJ
serves, the disease most fatal to Lord Chancel-
lor is an adverse majority in the House of Com
MONS" There has long been an idea floating in
the minds of law reformers that separation of the
Lord Chancelor's judicial and political functions
was desirable. The suggestion generally made is
to have an irremouabie Judge in the Court of
Chancery, and removable Speaker in the House
of Lord. - H. ~ ..
Baron RoLFE, one of the Judges Of the Ex-
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