uch disastrous results." A long debate ensued, which was continued by
adjournment; but on a division the motion was negatived by one hundred
and fifty-five against eighty-nine. A few nights afterwards, on the vote
being proposed, in a committee of supply of L22,565 for New-Zealand,
Mr. J. A. Smith stated that negociations had been resumed between the
Colonial office and the New Zealand Company, and that the result only
waited the final approval of Lord Stanley, who was absent from town. He
asked, if the hope of a favourable issue were not realized, whether Sir
Robert Peel would afford another opportunity, before the close of the
session, for some remarks on the present state of New Zealand, Sir
Robert Peel promised to do so; but expressed a strong desire to
co-operate in the colonization of New Zealand, and to bring the
differences with the company to a conclusion. It would seem that
government were now, indeed, convinced that the policy of the government
of New Zealand was unfavourable to the prospects of the colony; for
about this time Captain Fitzroy was recalled. Government also appears
to have been convinced that some better policy must be adopted; for Mr.
Hope, on the occasion of the last debate on New Zealand, stated, that
a gentleman unconnected with the subject had been called in to give
his advice, and he was now engaged in arranging the matter for his full
consideration.

QUESTION OF THE OREGON TERRITORY.

The great question of this year between Great Britain and the United
States was the boundary-line running through the Oregon territory. The
proposals of the British government to Congress were not acceded to; and
up to this period, negociation, in which the British cabinet had shown
themselves desirous of terminating the dispute amicably, had failed. The
American authorities asserted a valid claim to all the territory, and
were unwilling to allow any portion of it to be given up to England. In
the present year, the dispute assumed more the aspect of war than it
had hitherto done; for Mr. Polk had been chosen president, and he was
decidedly hostile to the claims of the British to this or any portion of
this territory. His hostility was clearly unfolded to the world by his
presidential message to congress.

The inaugural address of President Polk being of such a belligerent
nature, naturally created strong apprehensions in the public mind of
England of an intended encroachment upon our rights in the m