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 Staie and to draw into closer union the strong tie
which subs between the different branches of The Anglo
Saxon The exchange of commodities between the tw
nations is carried upon enormous SCALE the con
nexon of their monetary and mercantile interests Is direct
the mutual services rendered by the supplies Of country
the demands of the other constant that any interruption
these ties would be social calamity Of equal magnitude
both But in addition to these practical grounds Of amy,
have the United States the singular advantage OF being
footing of confidence and good will with the Government
and the party in power. British interests in America
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
we therefore supposed the other side of the
Atlantic be sagusd, in Europe, with factions
mca to the existing Governments Of foreign countries
imical to order, inmcal TO PEACE"
The writer goes on to speak of the brilliant
success Of the mission of Sir HENRY BULwER, and
says:
That gentleman has been received in the United States
with cordially than any Of his diplomatic predecessors
He has had the sagacy and good taste to perceive that
British Minister at Washington is not only charged with the
transaction of business between Government and the
other but that he becomes with little attention the
of the country, the efficient representative of England and
her people in the midst of the people of the United States
"Lord PALMERsroS himself has been wanting in this
policy of Cancellation towards the United States for he
has carried to its utmost limits In former times the
laws and the navigation laws would have been only conceded
foreign producers traders in exchange for the largest be-
nes England has abandoned them from higher motives of
policy, with without reciprocity and without conditions
But in other questions exclusively affecting British in
America concessions equally direct have been made
Sir HEsRY BuLwER carried with him very ample and
liberal powers for the negotiation Of treaty calculated 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 1t carries into effect
the views have repeatedly expressed the interests
Of both countries that important part of the globe, which is
evidently destined to become of the chief marts of
change in the of the wor! It dclaims and pro-
hbs the exclusive territorial asceEdency of either Govern
in that region and Lord PALMERsroN has put
forward preensons exclusive potecorae Of the mouths
of the San Juan, they presume reduced to the value
we time ago assigned to them We know, the
tay that the British Government has very wisely rejected
the poered proectoate of Costa Rica and hope has
abandoned the absurd and facous policy of setting up
the Central American Republics the expense of the
others"
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: n."."
"The opening of the St. Lawrence has, ever since the
peace of Client been urged upon the British Government
by that of the United States Of justice and of
policy. 1t formed of the principal subjects Of Mr. GALA
TINS mission in 1895, when protocols exchanged be-
tween that gentleman and Mr.. HUsKIssoN the subject
but without effect, under the administration of that be-
raj statesman At the present me however, when the abo
on of commercial restrictions become of the po-
Icy of this country, when look for the progress Of
wealth and activity by the progress of the wealth
and activity of customers and competitors and when
colonial trade is open to all nations the ground of
former resals swept away The ST. Lawrence forms
the boundary line OF the territories of Britain and Of the Uni
ted States in nearly half its prodgous
the vast chain of the lakes inland Of the North Anne
rican continent; it is, in fact the highway Of the North
Beyond all doubt to open that highway the navigation Of
the United States under certain conditions and tolls is to
confer an equal benefit on the Canadian subjects of the Br
fish Crown and their neghbors but may justly
quire that, this be made, it will be made in
liberal spirit the markets of the United States be opened
to Canadian produce. We 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" .=
We venture to make these laudatory extracts
from our leading journal respecting Sir HENRY
BuLwER's 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 eminently advan-
tageous to both countries, and we do not perceive
that either has relinquished any thing for which it
has not obtained, 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 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 Chancellor'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 .......
Baron RoLrE, one of the Judges Of the Ex-