AMERICA.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 115, 26 November 1858, Page 3

AMERICA.

The steamer Northern Light, Captain Tinkeljpaugh, arrived at Southampton on the 19th August, with New York advices of the 7th. Later news had been received from Utah. The territory was perfectly tranquil, and the general officers wero in high favor with the : Mormons. None of the soldiers of General Johnstone"*- army were allowed to enter Salt Lake City, and strict orders had been issued prohibiting any interference with tho Mormons. The Peace Commissioners had left for Washington. The news of the success ofthe Atlantic cable was received throughout the country with gratification and., surprise, failure having been generally anticipatedIt was said iv a despatch of the Gth from Washington, that Lord Napier wrote a letter to Governor Douglas, of the Hudson's Bay Company, advising him to interpret Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's instructions in the most liberal manner .regarding his treatment of American • wiiners. His lordship fully appreciates the advantages to accrue to his government from the -early development of New Caledonia by Anglo Saxons, and. his judgment is that the Hudson's .Bay Company sshould relax their police regulations, and remit the onerous taxes which they have imposed on doubtful authority. The tenor of the dispatch was considered highly liberal. A despatch from Toronto, dated the 6th, states that Parliament met that afternoon, and the" announcement was made that the hon. Mr. , Carteir, in connexion with the hon. John A. Macdonald/ was forming a ministry, and the House adjourned till the following day. •Mr. the Special Commissioner from ~ Washington to; New Caledonia, had left New York by the California steamer, charged to make such representations to. Governor Douglas as •would'induce him to mitigate the rigors of the • policy of the Hudson's Bay Company and of the 'servants' of the British Government towards miners' and traders from .the United States. He ;,was alfio instructed to counsel the latter on the t duty-of obeying the laws-of the country, if : they expected, to be protected in their business purjuihi. y