The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-06-25

field of enterprise. The meeting was vel attended
and many interesting statements were made. 1t was
stated that the Hudson's Bay Territories comprised
FEseveral vasS regions as large as Canada IN extent,
and not inferior to her soil, and in all the requisites
for forming a nation, and it was contended that the
whole of that tract of country was properly Canada.
1t originally was New France or Canada, and was
still Canada, having been conveyed as such to
England by Treaty in 1862. But the Hudson's Bay
Company now exclusively occupied it, prohibiting
immigration and agriculture, and almost every at
tempt to improve it. 1t was a country the produce
Of which ought naturally to pass through Canada
hands. AT one time its products passed through
Canada and enriched Montreal. This was in the time
of the Northwest Company; but on the union of the
two Companies the trade was again diverted, and all
the products were made TO pass by way of Hudson's
Bay to England. The very furs purchased in Toronto,
were got, perhaps, only ninety miles distant, at Pene-
tanguishene, whence they were sent to Lake Huron,
and then to Hudson's Bay, and so to England, Cana
dian merchants purchasing them in London and
bringing them back to Toronto. The stockholders
in the company were amassing a great deal of wealth
from the monopoly they usurped. Their trade sales,
in March last, amounted to e45O,O 900. What their
sales were elsewhere it was impossible to say, as they
were not in the habit of communicating much
information about their affairs to the public. The
history of the fur trade was coeval with the history
of Canada, and it only required an acquaintance with
it to be satisfied that the company had no title to the
exclusive rights and privileges they now claimed"
1t was argued, therefore, that the Hudson's Bay
Territory should be claimed as being properly Cana
Ia, dlQ IL was suggested mat instead Vi III SLOW
method of appealing to the British Government, a
company like the old Northwest company should be
formed to contend against the Hudson Bay Company,
even as the old Northwest Company successfully con-
tended.
The meeting finally resolved, 'Tbat the claim of
the HudsOn's Bay Company to exclusive right of trade
over a large portion of British North America, is
injurious to the interest of the country so monopolized,
and in contravention of the rights of the people of
the British North American Provinces and that
Ga petition from the Board of Trade be prepared and
presented to the three branches of the Canadian
Legislature, praying that steps be taken to ascertain
what are the legal rights of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany to the territory and exclusive trade claimed by
that company in the northern part of this continent,
and to pray them to adopt such measures as may be
necessary to protect the rights of the Province
RUSSIA ON THE AMoOR.-The river Amoor, in
northeastern Asia, which the Russians have taken
possession of, is seven hundred and fifty miles in
length. Before the seizure Of the lower part, the
limit of the Russian dominion on the south was in
latitude ffty-seven degrees seven minutes. Its navl-
cation is safe and easy, but does not last long, as the
sea of Ochotsk, into which it empties, is frozen up five
months in the year, say from November to April.
The scientific commission sent out by the Emperor
Nicholas assembled the AMOR above the point where
it entered Siberia, and discovered that its banks were
and animals. Since the close of the last war it has
been understood that the Russian ships, now in har-
Dor at Cronstadt, are to be sent into the sea of
Ochotsk, whence they will proceed to navigate the
AMOR, for the purpose of hydrographical geography.