Wheeling Compiler

The West India Negotiations.—On this subject the New York Evening Post of Saturday, says "we do not undertake to predict what may be the issue, but we know that Mr. McLane has proceeded in it to a point which never was reached by either of his two predecessors. It happens that we have access to know, on distinguished authority, that Mr. McLane, at the request of Lord Aberdeen, has prepared a memoir in writing, containing the propositions of our country on the subject of the West India trade, which has been communicated to the English Minister, and is to be laid before a Cabinet Council as soon as a full one can be obtained. This is an important point gained. The altered tone of the English ministry is also such as to induce the hope that an arrangement so essentially beneficial to both countries may not ultimately fall through."