The Oregon question is settled in the Ainerican Cangress. The
notice is to be given, and in friendly terms. At the beginning of the week, adverse reports were received ; the Representatives having refused to concur in the " amicable " form which the Senate had adopted for the notice. The Senate stood firm ; the Representatives, in conference, receded from a position which they had taken up with a show of angry determination ; and the notice, with just sufficient verbal amendment to save the dignity of the Representatives, was affirmed in the spirit dictated by the Senate. These incessant shifts it is difficult for more stable English politicians to follow ; and some persons advise that no attention should be paid to them. They deserve, however, just sufficient attention to secure that England should always keep before the American people, and the world, a perfectly just, rea- sonable, and practicable proposition; a precaution due to the friends of peace and justice everywhere, and especially in America.
The charges against Mr. Webster have come to nothing. Mr. President Polk has given his official denial in vindication of the Ex-Minister, and has declared that Mr. Webster had the Presi- dential warrant for all the money that he used : so that the accu- sation may be deemed to be scattered to the winds. The disgrace remains with Mr. Ingersoll, the calumniator of his political rival.
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