The New York herald., 1866-03-30
THE CANADIAN FISHERIES.

Consolation for the ProvinciaIs-The
criiicss 20 support severai Iho.ssn nd
Miles Away . Principle IL Has Given
ENGLAND INCLINED TO GIVE UP HEa FISHERY
From the London Post, March IL
In the presence OF subjects possessing more immediate
interest Il has probably saped the attention OF the
general public that Saturday next by the Of
the notice given by the American government the Rec
procy treaty, regulating the fisheries and trade as
between that country and the provinces Of British North
America, will expire. The subject been little dis
affecting relations with the United States is so little
appreciated that will not be out OF place give
OF the various phases through which the ques
tivn has passed, ~ well as OF It's present position
II Is TO be observed that the important part of the
qucstion-and, indeed the only part upon which din
culties arisc-is that which relates TO the right
claimed by Americans OF fishing In the accent to
tho pruvnces and the nature aud OF those rights
which have hitherto been regulated by tho morbund
treaty SUCH and differently arded both by
Americans and the provincas, as 10 have led TO long
disputes and conflicting claims which, It is 70
be feared. will be now rcopcned and which, unless they
arc treated by both sides With disposition 20 make
mutual concessions accordance with the liberal spirit
tons the two countries than any question that
has OF late years arisen not excepting even the Of
the Trent and the Alabama
when negotiations were opened at the close OF tho
American OF Independence, one Of the points most
strongly Insisted upon by John Adams was the rccoSn
tion OF the right OF Americans TO ash IN all the aa
cent TO their country so much importance did he attach
TO this right that he declared be would rather
tnue the forever than abandon H. and the treaty Of
1888 accordingly embraced clause recognizing The right
OF the Inhabitants OF the United States 10 hsh wherever
they had nshcd BEFORE
The question reopencd NJ the conclusion o. The
second American war, and the r'rht claimed received
for the FIRST time Limitation by tho treaty signed
on the Goth OF October, 1s1a hessrs Rush
and Gallstin, the commissioners on benalf oi
the United States, while retaining the right ol
entering bays aud creeks for the purpose of repairs and
Of curing their fish and drying their metz and also tho
general right to sh, abandoned rs exercise within the
limit of three miles from the coasts hays and creeks Of
the provncs THE state OF ,hgs continued Tor some
twenty years but IN 1s4l complaints began 10 be made
OF encroachments and tresgasses BY American nshng
boas aud among other things asserted that they
had trapsgrcssed the treaty by fishing within tho
three milo limit In the Bays of Fundy ana Chaleurs and
the strsits OF Canso II was coneudcd BY the pro.
vincias that ID the csc OF the Bays OF Chaleus and
Fuudy Qhc atter OF which sixty miles across
the three mile limit must be measured, not from tho
coast Itself but from line drawn the bay from
hcailand 20 hcadiand, inside which u asserted no
American fisherman should be allowed to come From
this construction which eventually endorsed by the
law occrs of the English Crown Though In terms which
make " certain that they had not read the
rcaty constant disputes which at last grew ntol
arabic, and on June s, 1854 was signed at Washington
ve convention now about TO expire known as the Rect
proeity treaty. BY this, In addition 70 the powers
aimea ana admitted by the treaty OF 1918, liberty was
IVA 'he Americans 70 take nsh throughout the seas