The discussion between the Governments of Great Britain and the
United States, according to present appearances, has expired. A new batch of diplomatic correspondence has just come over, about that and other topics ; in which Mr. WEBSTER lays this ghost of the Ashburton negotiation by cleverly bringing about a drawn game. The right of " search " and of " visit," he says, are pretty much the same thing : no concession was demanded or made- on either side; but the right is one which the United States ought not to concede. Thus he justifies the principle asserted by the President, but gently lets fall the assertion of fact that a con- cession bad been made ; so that both parties are left, with due dignity, in statu quo.
The other diplomatic points are questions aright, as to person and property, arising out of the cession of the disputed territory ; but they seem likely to be settled in the ordinary course of official routine.
