The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1856-01-09

Washington City, December 81.
The Annual Message Of the pres;den; Of the United
states was yesterday laid before both Houses q Con-
gross II is IS follows
Fslloup-citi-eas 81 de Senate and
ef Tie House az Representatives.:
The Constitution of the United States pro-
vides that Congress shall assemble annually
on the first Monday Of December, and i has
been usual for the President to make no cum
muniestiou of a public character 10 the Senate
and Louise Of Representatives until advised
Of their readiness 70 receive il. have de-
fcrrei to this Usage until the close Of the first
.aanth Of the session; but nv convictions OF
tluty vii! moi permit me longer TO postpone
The Discharge &c the obligation enjoiued by The
Constitution upon the President " to give to
the Congress Information Of tie state of the
Union aud recommend to their considera-
ticn such measures as he shall judge necessa-
~ and expedient."
Ii is matter Of c0ngratulation that the
Republic is Tranquility advancing in career
of prosperity and peace.
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Whilst relations Of amity continue to exist
Powers, with some Of them grave questions
are depending, which may require the consi.
Iteration 81 Congress. Of such questions the
INST important is that which has arisen out
of the negotiations with Great Britain in re-
ference 10 Central America.
By the convention conslaied between the
twn Governments on the 18th 81 April. 1859,
both parties coyenan:ed that " neither will
ever /" occupy, or fOrtiiy, or colombo, or as
sumo, or exercise any dominion over Nicara-
qua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any
part Of Central America"
II was the undo1bted understanding Of the
United States, in making this treaty, that all
the present States Of the former Republic Of
Central America, aud the entire territory Of
each. woEld theneeforth enjoy complete in
dependence; and that both contracting par
ties engaged equally, and to the same extent,
for tic present and for the future; that il
either then had any claim Of rightin Central
America, such claim, and all occupation or
saih ority under il, were unresersedly re.
linquishcd BY the stipulations Of the conyen-
ten; aud that no dominion was thereafter 10
be exercised or assumed IN any part of Cen
tral America By Great Britain Or the United
States.
This Government consented to restrictions
10 regard 70 region Of country wherein we
had specific and peculiar interests, only upon
the conviction that the like restrictions we're
in the same sense obligatory on Great Britain.
But for this understanding of the force and
eject II Tie convention il would never have
been concluded BY Us.
SO clear vas this understanding on the
Part Of tile United States that, in correspon-
dence eoRtempseneOus with the ratification
Of the convention, il was distinctly expressed
that tie mutual covenants OF non.occupation
were not intended 70 apply 10 the British
establishment al the Balize. This qualifica-
ton is TO be aseribed 70 tie fact That, in vir-
Tue Of successive treaties with previous 50.
,ereigns d the country, Great Britain had
obtained a concession Of The right to cut
mahogany Or dye-woods az the Balize, bul
with positive exclusion u all domain o.
sOyereignty; aud lkds Il confirms the natural
construction and understood import of the
treaty IS 10 all The rest u tie region to Which
tie SipvlatiOns applied.
II, however, became apparent, az an earl,
day after entering upon the discharge &c ml
present functions, that Great Britain still
continued in The exercise or assertion Oflarg,
authority in al that part Of Central America
commonly called the Mosquito coast, aa,
covering the entire length u the State 4
Nicarsgaa and part Of Cost Riea; that 81,
regarded the Balize as her absolute dDniin
aud Was gradually extending lie limits u
lie expense sf ,hc State 81 Honduras; and tia
she lad formally culoniked considerable
iusalar grvBp, known as the Bay Islands, ant
belonging 81 right 70 ,lias state.
Ail these acts or pretebsions of Grea
Britain, beiBg contrary TO the right Of tl,
States " Crnifal america, and % the mani
fest tenor of her stipBlstiOns with tie Unitrt
states. as understood by this Government
have been made The subject Of negotiation
through tie American Minister ID Lnnign
/ transmit herewith tie instructions 10 bin
ON the subject, and the correspondence be
tween him and the British Secretary f.
Foreign Affairs, by which yuu will percei,,
that the twa Governments differ widely an,
jrr@eoi eilcably as to the construction 81 th
convention aud lis ELECT on theif respective
rslauons 70 Central Amcrira.