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The Northumberland brings London
papers to the Sth ulr., two days later
The comments of the papers on Oregon
matters are warlike. The Chronicle re
peats that England will take nothing short
of the Columbia river as the boundary,
and that the United States must not pre-
sumo upon her supposed unwiilingness to
engage in war.


1t is apparent from this, combined with
the history OF the past, and the present
acts of the British Government, that il has
not, and never had, the intention of com
promising the Northwestern boundary, on
the parallel Of 49, Four times has ihis
offered compromise been refused. Hun
dreds of times has 1t been asserted by
high authority that it could never be ac-
cepted. England will never accede to
any proposition for settlement on the
line Of 400 until q contest for more Is
hopeless; and we should understand the
character of that government better than
to suppose tina; it would retreat without a
struggle. The power of England is based
upon public opinion, Her statesmen
have had the tact to persuade the world
that 27,O00,000 Of people, one halt of
whom are on the point OF starvation, and
the greater part of the other half taxed to
the extreme limit of endurance, with Co
Ionles in a state of incipient revolution in
every quarter of the earth, formed the
most powerful on the globe. The mo-
ment the lalsehood of this pretension is
discovered, Great Britain sinks into con-
tempt. She cannot sustain herself against
the general competition and the universal
hatred of mankind. And her statesmen
wisely calculated that it would be better
to risk for brief period the uncertain
chances of war" than to grant to her for.
mer Colonies terms in their might which
she rejected when they were compare


lively powerless.


Great Britain will not, cannot. dare not


offer the parallel of 49o as line of com


promise. 1t would preserve peace, per


maps, with America, but it would be hel


ruin in Europe, Asia, and Africa; for one,


it was understood that she had succunhe,


to distant and little understood Republic
what would not be the exactions of he


present pretended friends, but nutural. bin
ter and interested enemies.


How foolish, then, is it for our rulers +
suppose that peace can be secured b,
f claiming to the foIty-ninlh any more thai
by insisting upon the ffty-fourth degre
of latitude? How idle the argument
which they use without the hope of con
vincing either hearers or readers, merel
for the purpose of gaining time and renu