Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-03-28
MORE OF THE TREATY.

The free access which it is generally understood
that correspondents of distant presses often obtain
to the private proceedings and confidential doeu-
ments of the Government, Senatorial as well as Ex
eeutive, induced us few days ago to copy
from one of these journals what purported to be
the Dallas and Clarendon Treaty, with the amend
ments thereto proposed by the Senate It would
appear, however by the annexed letter from the
respectable authority of the New York Express,
that not only was the version of the Treaty and
amendments (which we copied from the Tribune
Inaccurate but the letter goes on and gives us the
proceedings of the Cabinet on those amendments
as they passed the Senate. We therefore copy the
letter of the Express presuming it to be substan-
TALLY well advised:
WASHINGTON, MARCH %.
Besides the Incidental consideration of other business
the Cabinet yesterday gave its final sanction to the Cen
trail American Treaty. based upon the resolutions of
amendment adopted by the Senate. The final shape
being at last attained to the satisfaction of the President
his signature added and its instant dispatch to Eng
land determined Such the haste that the very
fastest OF the Washington of the New York
press was sent for and charged with its bearer
of dispatches condition of his immediate departure
He leaves with the mail train to-day for New York and
Boston, and by the Cunard for Liverpool on
Wednesday He will thus be in time to have the rat
feation submitted to the English Government before
the expS;on of the time specified for negotiations in
April.
The National Inteligencer repubshed yesterday from
New York paper what purports to bethe Central Anne
rican Treaty amended by the Senate. But it should
not be assumed that this document is the treaty
sent for the approval of the British Government
have direct authority for knowing that the Convention
bearing the sanction of the Executive and which is
its way to England is not only different in form from
the Treaty, amended by the Senate but radically
so in substance. Indeed, the newspaper document
to be nothing else than the amended Treaty
ported from the Committee Foreign Relations which
discussed and rejected and in lieu of which the Gre
solutions, on which entirely treaty has been
drawn up, were substituted.
The approved draft of the Dallas Convention if such
may be called has been very carefully prepared
with view to every reasonable modification consistent
with the Senate resolutions which could further its ac-
ceptanee by the English Ministry 1t is said that Lord
NAPIER has been consulted in this connexon and pre-
sumptons advanced understood to have his acaues
cence the effect that the amendments will be accepted
in England Such however, is not the general conviction
here. The expectation is that England will prefer
fresh negotiation altogether upon the same or
basis favorable for u.s. rather than submit the
show of deaton the hands of Government which
the matter seemingly presents 1t is, therefore,
conviction with persons of authority in this
ion than to indicate that the treaty it goes out
will only meet conditional approval at most, leading
fresh negotiations and the immediate return of Mr. Dali
The bearer of dispatches this occasion is
Alex H. Evans.