The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-08-19

her title 10 separate residence OF her own,
and the best one at that.
MINNESOTA AND BRITISH COLoSI-
ZATIOS.
important Debate In the English House
Of Commons. Tr7
On the goth Of July, q very important
debate took place in the British House Of
Commons on the subject Of the renewal Of
the Hudson Bay Company's charter. Mr.
RoEBccx moved the following resolution:
"That the privileges Of tie Hudson Bay
Company about TO expire ought not to be
renewed that the legal validity of the ex.
elusive rights claimed by the Hudson Bay
Company, under their charter, ought at
once to bc determined by process of law
and that so much of the territory hitherto
held by the Hudson Bay Company as may
be needed for the purpose of colonization,
ought without delay to be resumed by the
Government Of this country"
Mr.. RogBucx asserted that he had in
view the building up 10 British North
America Of great British lines Of settlement
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific oceans,
which would act as q colonial counte.pose
TO the immense and "0vershadowing" ma
tional territorial power of the United
States
The British project Of an interoceanic
Railway was clearly forcshadowed IN his
speech:
Goods could be shipped In London. and car.
ried without transhipment 10 the western shore
Of Lake Superior. This has been effected by
rendering, among other things, the ~. Law
renee navigable by great ships, and the English
were now further across the great continent Of
America than the Americans themselves. Al
though America had established . State on the
Pacific called Oregon, he believed the line OF
route from Halifax to Lake Superior exceeded
In extent any possessed by America. Taking
the western side Of Lake Superior to the Rocky
Mountains, they would cut the new colony
which the right honorable Secretary for the
Colonies proposed to establish; and he believed
piaus had been laid before the right honorable
barOnet for carr ing a railway completely
across the sentiment, 40 that direct communi-
cation would be established between England
and Vancouver island, by way Of Halifax. This
was . magnificent scheme. tie believed the
right honorable Secretary Of the Colonies was
y, , =, ,s ",S nleS"e es ~ abat smhon
and no would tell the right honorable baronet
have achieved greater things than even he fSir
Is. Lyttou) had done for literature, and his name
Colonial Minister. TIE accomplishment of such
scheme 'ronid unite E"sfand "'th paneourfr
Island and they rouid be enabled ridsiy 10 srisnd
the eipiii eaton If England.
The effect OF American competition on
: English energy is shown in the following
sentence:
Tn next measure should be to plant colony
, Rocky Mountains. and he entrssted the right
honorable gentleman to carry out this object
sofa woI I send her colorf. 10 he Territory, and
they would have to iight over again boundary
tween this country and America some years
ago.
The Cabinet Ministers assumed, in some
., - o.. U
measure, the same tohe' or DoL"hR Lhr-
rox stating that il WAS the desire of Gov.
=,
ernthent to make powerful Wi'tary "h"
naval stations at Vancouver Island. and to
-,
from the Atlantic, to tho Pacific into which
:,
the immense trade oi Chlna ana DINER Fast
or, countries wo,J fall
"n .'""''N' ''
Ihc Government was IN course OF ncgO-
tia,ion with Canada upon a proposition by
which the latter was to assume the sole
charge of the colonization and government
Of the new district, in which the privileges
of the Hudson Bay Company were to ter.
inmate
II, Env,pn disclosed in this discussion
views oi colonization oil grasp anu gran
denr which will make him the PIrr oi Colo.
NAL Secretaries. lie approaches the SUB.
;ac, With ,ba, s,,yu;,e s,ith in tho ,p,pr,