The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Kennebec (Me.) Journal.

IMPORTANT

The Joint Commission.-In the Kennebec Journal of May 21st, we published the letter of Mr Stevenson, our Minister in London, with an extract from a communication of Lord Palmerston of April 3, proposing a joint commission to survey and settle the North-eastern Boundary line, from which we learned that the British Government had submitted to ours, a " draft of a convention for the purpose of regulating the proceedings of the commissioners."

Until recently we have been ignorant of the nature of this " draft," but are now compelled to say that our worst apprehensions are fully realized. We are not able to inform our readers by authority of the precise terms of this " draft," but can say that they are wholly inadmissible.

Mr Forsyth, the U. S. Secretary of State,, has been here, where the Governor and Council are in session. While in Portland last week, he had a conference with Gov. Fairfield, Mr Williams, Gov. Kent, Col. Davies, and others, who met him there on his invitation, and subjected to them the proposition of the British Government. They were unanimous in the opinion that Maine could not agree to it, and they regarded it only as calculated, if not designed, to make a further and severer test of the patient forbearance of the State, by delaying any equitable settlement.

What action the Governor and Council may take on the subject, we do not know, but understand that the Governor and other gentlemen, who were consulted at Portland complied with Mr Forsyth's request, by making a counter proposition such as they thought Maine would agree to.