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ENGLAND MOVING ON OREGON.

 The Edinburgh Review discusses, in an elaborate and able paper, the character of the Oregon Territory. It is represented as "a land of magnificent scenery and healthy climate, with limited agricultural capabilities, with large proportion of unproductive soil, but with fertile ground enough to form the home of new nation; poor in harbors, and deficient in navigable rivers, but yet by no means inaccessible, and possessing an admi- rable geographical situation for commercial purposes.

 It then thus discusses the question:

 Who shall possess he Oregon 2-" The land which is to command the North Paci- iic, and give the law to its myriad Islands. cannot long remain unoccupied It calls loudly on those who have foresight-on those who can estimate the promise of the future-to forecast its destiny. The Ameri- cans never show themselves deficient in this branch of political wisdom. They are fa- milar with what we can scarcely realize the rapid march of time in the Western world Almost before we have satiated ourselves With the mere contemplation of newly-dis- covered portion of the wilderness-before Its lines are mapped out, and the names oi It's natural features become familiar to our ears-the wilderness is gone, the mountains stripped of their forests, the rivers alive with navigation. The Far West will change as rapidly as the East has done In the words of Washington Irving: < The fur-bearing an- mals extinct, a complete change will come over the scene; the gay fur-trapper and his steed, decked out in wild array, and tinklinp with bells and trinketry; the savage war chief, plumcd, and ever on the prowl; the