The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-16
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FOREIGN.
OUR RELATIONS TOWARDS ENGLAND.
THE RIGHT OF sEAHCH-A MORMON EXODUS TO BRITISH
AMERIcA-THE PACIFIC RAILROAD AED THE HUDSON
BAY COMPANY.
From tie London POST jane 90
Last night Mr.. Hutt was to have moved the fol-
lowing resolution: ''That it is expedent to dis
continue the practice Of authorizing her Majesty's
ships to visit and search vessels under foreign haps
with view of suppressing the traffic in saves.''
The honorable gentleman, we are glad to saw was
induced to postpone his motion-a motion which, at
the present time, has altogether become unnecessa-
ry; first because the law officers of the crown have
with perfect accuracy, reported that the right of
visitation and search cannot lawfully be exercised
In time OF peace independently of treaty; secondly
because the Gordon of British cruisers around Cuba
Is about to be removed; and thirdly, because the
government and people of the United States appear
to be satisfied with the course which the British
Admiral on the station and her Majestys ministers
IN this country have taken, in disavowing anv eX-
cess of authority which may have been committed
by British officers and in rendering full frank and
honest explanation.
The war fever in the United States, fomented by
cX parte and exaggerated statements has happily
subsidized with degree of unanimitv and CELEBRITY
which is highly creditable to the good sense and
discretion of transatlantic friends. If in a sim
gle instance any British officer has exceeded the
strict limits of his instructions, the suppression of
the most infamous traffic which dis~raccs humanity
may be pleaded as his justicatiOn and though this
excuse perhaps has little weight in the Southern
States, in those great and enlightened Northern
communities, where slavery does not exist, and
where the slave trade is considered a crime, the
verdict of popular opinion, always firmly be-
Hevcd, could not long remain adverse to the anti
slave trade policy of this country.
The cause of complaint in this case having been
removed, what earthly benefit could be gained by
Parliamentary discussion abstract question o.
public lava question in the investigation of which
no doubt many loose opinions would be hazarded
calculated to revive in America all that excitement
which the moderate and just conduct of the British
government has sensiblv and so successfully tend
ed to alay? The Cabinet at Washington has still
the Mormon difficulty upon its hands; and whether
these strange fanatics should quietly remove to
Sonora, or return to the Salt Lake City, minus the
jmpedjmctd of wives and children, to oppose the
authority of the federal government, we can only
say that the suppression of the first organized re
belon which has occurred in the United States is
Il duty from which, on every ground of religion,
morality and decency, Mr.. Buchanan cannot turn.
But the alleged exodus of the MormOns NAV not
unnaturally be associated with that extraordinary
and unexpected nroad Of American citizens which
we hear is about to take place into those rich and
fruitful portions of British North America which
the iudsOn's Bay Company has hitherto consigned
to secresy and barbarism. The discovery of gold
in Nancouvers Island is attracting thousands from
California, and before the lease Of the company be
determined, busy and thriving communities will be
established in place which at present has no vir-
tual or efficient government. The Mormons have
removing into British territory, and if they are as
much addicted to gold, as they are to pOlvgamy
they may, for aught that the company can do, at
once colonize the island and make important set
Elements the mainland, Fucas straits
the very point which is destined to form the Pa
ciic terminus of the proposed nteroceanic railroad
How Sir Bulwer Lytton would deal with such a
ready made colony is a question which, of course.
we cannot presume to answer But if the rough
and ready adventurers of California choose to
squat upon British territory, the first thing that
must be done will be the administration of some
form fjusticc by means of Lynch law or vigilance
committees: for the IIudSon's Bay Company, though
they have at the island chief factor who is called
governor. possess no military police force to
preserve peace and order. Under these circum-
stances we consider it to be a most gratifying event
that tonight Mr.. Roebuck has announced his inten-
tiOn of directing the attention of the House of Com
mons to the question of the 1udsons Bay charter
1t is well known that both Mr. Labouchere and
Lord Stanley when at the colonial office, dis
posed to constitute NancOuver's Island and some
portion Of the adjacent continent into separate
British colony. The present Secretary of State
may, in this respect, take the same view his pre-
dccessors, but we most respectfully suggest that the
lease Of the Company has been forfeited for the non
fuGllment of the covenants contained therein, and
that as the IIudsons Bay authorities have svsema-
tically opposed instead of promoting the colonial
tion Of the island, their claim for compensation is
just valid their charter, which contains grant
OF territories that, III the time OF Charles IL,
dOubtedy belonged to the French Crown and never
were Incorporated in the British domnOns until the
conquest of Canada in 1853. We therefore trust
that this question of compensation will not be de-
termned until the opinion of a court of Justice has
been taken with respect to the forfeiture of the
lease.
We wish honorable gentlemen tonight to re-
member that the Hudsons Bay Company has ever
been the constant and irreconcable opponent of
the extension of British institutions on the conti-
nent of North America. The sordid interests of
few mOnopolsts have hitherto been regarded with
a degree of tenderness which the Parliament of
England has not extended to the great East India
Company. Canada demands the restoration
of the .'The Kings Posts'-lands which the Prov
ince had leased to the company. Canada demands
further, that its boundaries shall be defined: and
if Mr. DawSon's motion in the Provincial Parlia-
ment be carried. the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council will before long have to determine
that question. as well as the question which hither-
to has escaped all legal Investigation namely, the
validity of the charter which Is alleged to have i'm
posed the boundaries.
should the decision of Parliament and of the
Privy Council be in favor of Canada, the Hudsons
Bay Company will, no doubt, ask for compensation
Their claim NAV be stated in a very short form. 1t
will be a claim of compensation for the usurpation
of territorv-for illegal profits long enioyed-for
misrulc and miSgOvernment, and ma-administra-
ton and for the fraudulent suppression of every
fact connected with the physical geography and
natural productions of the country, except when
Sir George Simpson rashlv advised to write n
book The government have been recently asked
to aid and assist in the formation of the line con-
nectinr Halifax with the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada The sum required to be guaranteed is
fl2O OOO-a sum almost insignificant when com
pared with the imperial object Of rendering indie
pendent the communication of this country, through
out the year. with her magnificent North American
colonies But the guarantee in reality only amounts
to ESQ, 600 year.
The Legislature of Canada, New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia have each voted 100000 year. and
fen miles of wild land either side of the line for
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