The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-11 00:00:00

CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, JUNE 17.—The death of the Hon. Anson
Brown, of New York, will be announced in the House to-
morrow morning. Mr. Curtis, of this city, has known him
lone and well, and probably will be called up to announce
the death of his colleague with the customary resolutio s.
The Bankrupt Bill still slumbers upon the table of the
President of the Senate. The friends of the measure
dread its fate, and seem to fear to call it forth. I know of
but two Administration Senators at present who will vote
for it--Mr. Walker of Miss. and Mr. Norvell of Michigan.
Mr. Buchanan, I understand, is to submit the motion of
postponement nominally, with the view of obtaining an ex-
pression of opinion from the people, but in reality with a
view of postponing action until the Presidential election is
over.
Mr. Bell has made a very able speech in the House of
Representatives to-day, upon the Sub-Treasury. His
subjects have been, among others, the prolific but interest-
ing ones of Eeecutiee Power, Banking, its increase, and
the causes of that increase, and expenditures. He shows
that the President has, in many important particulars—in
removals from office, for example—a greater power than
the Crown of England. There, many of the important
officers, nearly all, if not all, connected with the Treasury,
are beyond the contr.' of the King. The banks, from
Executive documents, he proves, have been multiplied by
the friends of the Executive, and but for the enor-
mous imports growing out of the over-trading com-
plained of, he shows that the Government would
now have been thirty millions in debt. Mr. Bell
also ably
porters of the Administration upon the subject of a United
set forth the inconsistency of the sup-
States Beek and other institutions—condemning prac-
tices by professions, and professions by pretences. Mr.
Banks, of Virginia, professed to think many of these mat-
ters irrelevant to the why ct, merely because they were
pungent. When his own friends have spoken, it has been
in order to speak of all subjects, from abolition to the
selling of white men, and from matters pet sone! to Gene-
ral Harrison, to those
ell-impoi tent to Mr. Van Buren.
But that which is an offence for one, is considered very
proper for another.
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fiec and Oconee having rendered them quite impassable.
(Front the New Orleans Bulletin, of June 8 )
FROM TEXAS.

By the arrival of the stt am-packet New York, Captain
Wright, we have received Galveston papers to► the 3d inst.
They contain no further news from the western frontier,
and little else of general interest.
The Cr ilian says business of every kind is completely
at a stand, and our wharves, which, during the wild:sr
wore such a business-like appearance, are about deserted;
everything is dull, the merkets being confined to small
sales of articles fur immediate consumption. We shall
discontinue ou: prices current until the fall business

commences.
The steaT-boat G,nstilution crildred one of her
boilers, and a Mr. Rice was so scalded, that he died in
consequence.
President Lamar was in Galveston; and we see a notice