The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-06-16
From the N Y. Journal Of Commerce
THE DALLAS CLARENDON TREATY


Whatever doubt existed to the reasons which Inn
Ill tho British government to reject the Dallas Caren
- teatv il now removed by Lord Palmerstons speech
~ o House of Commons on the Goth ult as published on
t maze this morning. published in this morning is
the Union His ordship said that, although none OF
L Senate amendments unimportant, all objection
80 them would have been waived by her Majesty govern
t were it not for that emitting all reference to the
bf,aal cession of the Bay Islands to Honduras This
nce il was thought necessary to resist for the pro-
on of British coloniss in Honduras and this is the
l and only reason why the Central American question
ons unsettled. We confess are unable to see how
che interests of British colonists in Honduras could
ibly be affected by the refusal ON the part OF the
ro;ted States Senate to become party indirectly to
,.c i,etween Great Britain and Honduras of the
80 terms % which they were uniformed, and to
Ei,h only a casual reference made in the Dallas
arndon treaty for the purpose of binding the United
c. 10 insist on Honduras performing certain acts as
;tion TO the Resumption of dominion territory
I'll a have always maintained belonged absolutely to
tht repubc and which Great Britain unjusty withhods
r refusal OF the United States to accept any such obi
ration did not interfere in any way with the power
f Honduras as an independent State, to make any
toyap she thought proper for the possession OF the
p,y Islands All that we wanted was, that the provis
Of the Clayton Buwer treaty should be faithfully
d h the cession of the Bay Islands to their rightfu
onnor With the mode OF form in which they were to
L ,s,ted wa rad nothing to do, and still less with the
manner in which Honduras was tc govern her recovered
property The privileges and protection to be given to
British subjects in Honduras was matter altogether Tor
the British and Honduras governments 70 ue'erie Win
rh;cb wa have no concern and the Senate's amend
ment as we understand it, only the erasure OF those
n of the clause in the British and Honduras treaty ~
,oraed in the Dallas Clarendon treaty which involved
fine limited States in the private arrangements of Great
Rdtain and Honduras. If, far as the United States
are concerned Great Britain was willing to abandon
e sovereignty of the Bay Islands as opposed to the
obvious meaning of the Clayton-Bulwer convention
the senatcs amendment rendered that act OF justice
only the more easy of accomplishment and rendered all
future misunderstanding next to impossible and II, as
Wa are unwilling to believe it the intention of the
British government to cede the nominal sovereignty of
the islands while they reserved protecorate over them
with power dictate and interfere in their institutions
and government must rejoice that the Senate refused
to be party to any such arrangement which would be
quite as Objectionable to this country as the retention by
Great Britain of her present pretended dominion
them and quite as productive of future trouble.
For the present we may regard the negotiations for the
settlement Of the Central American controversy the
basis of the Dallas Clarendon treaty at an end What
future arrangements the two governments will come to-
whether to abrogate the Clayton Buwer treaty. and
turn to the quo previous to 1885, or commence fresh
negotiations with view to the due execution of that
conventon-we unable to conjecture but whichever
be the course adopted repeat that we see no reason to
apprehend any disturbance of the present friendly rea
tons between the two countries that there any OBJ
sace the settlement of all the points in issue which
time and mutual good cannot overcome without
m, loss of national dignity any sacrifice of important
ntere ITS The fundamental principle of an arrangement
has been already agreed upon the only thing to be done
is to deter inc how that principle shall be carried out