The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-11 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING.
The despatches by the packet ship Sheffield, which
sailed from New York on the 13th ult., were brought
here this morning by the City of Wexford steamer. Tho
packet is off Holyhead, becalmed.

The boundary question had been (!iscussed again in
Congress, but in a spirit so calm and unexceptionallo as
to encourage the belief that it will ultimately be settled
to the mutual satisfaction and honour of both countries.
The cone of debate in the House of Representatives on
this subject is strikingly in contrast with the belligerent
notions entertained some time back by certain American
statesmen.

It is gratifying to observe also that the warlike pen-
chant in which a portion of the American press has of
late indulged, has given way to more pacific and rational
views. The files, by the present arrival, exhibit little,
if any appearance of this feeling. The war fever has
evidently cooled. This may, perhaps, be owing, in some
measure, to the attention of the country being occupied
with the spring elections, which were in progress when
the packet sailed, but everything points to the conclu-
sion that Jonathan, now that reason begins to rise supe-
rior to false notions of patriotism, sees the folly and the
danger of quarrelling with his best friend and customer
—Great Britain.
The latest news from England received at New York
was to the 20th of March, by the packet ships South
America and Sheridan.
United States Bank Shares are quoted in the New
York papers of the 13th at 7.5ic. to 76c. The rate of
Exchange on England was 72- to 8 per cent. premium.

Last week, as the Duke of Wellington steam-
packet, Captain Bushell, was on its passage from Boulogne to
Dover, a large whale was discovered half-way across, f o
steamer 'wed within thirty yards of the monster, which ap-
peared to be about thirty feet in length.
MELANCHOLY CASE.-00 Friday afternoon
an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at the Ship; Stone's-
end, Borough, on the body of a male infant not named. It ap-
peared in evidence that the mother of the child is a respectable
young female from a distant part of the country, who, on being
seduced and abandoned, came to London to hide her shame.
She took lodgings a month ago in Newington-causeway, and on
Monday last gave birth to the object of the Coroner's inquiry.
The child, after repeated denials on the part of the mother, was
found in her box dead. She had provided 'baby-linen for it.
Mr. Gellatley, a surgeon, of the London-road, said the child
wanted four or five weeks Wits full time, that it had breathed
for a short time, and there was every reason to believe would
have liveclif it had been properly attended to. The body had
no marks of criminal violence, and the child died probably from
accidental suffocation. The surgeon said that on account of
Ending herself in that situation, she had meditated self-de-
strdction, and if she thought it were known to her family and
friends, would take the earliest opportunity of destroying her-
self. Verdict—" Natural death, from want of proper assistance."
ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.--At the last sit-
ting of the Dumfries Synod, the Rel. Mr. Wright of Hutton,
stated that, within the last five years, there have been not
fewer than between 200 and 300 cases w ithin the Synod bounds,
wherein th 6 fathers of illegitimate childien contrived, by one
villainous ark or another, to trample on the rights of poor help-
less, females, and avoid doing anything for the support of their
own effspritig.— Scots Times.
LONqEVITY.—There arc now living in Unioo
Yird, in this town, six persons whose united. ages amount. to
502, being an average of 83 years, viz !---Jatiii Betts, 93; John
Swallow, 90; Wm. Broom, 87 : Wm. Palmer, 80; Samuel
Palmer, 77 ; Wm. Livings, 75. Chelmsford Chrenicle.