The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 19:—The political ball has at
length been opened in Congress by the introduction of re-
solutions
adverse to the sub-treasury scheme, and a pow-
erful speech in favour of a repeal of that law by Mr. Web-
ster, in the course of which that statesman condemned
the policy of the administration of Mr. Van Buren in mak-
ing a national debt (now about $4 500,000 a governing prin-
ciple; and closed with remarking that the "new adminis-
tration would have to manage the affairs of the Government
without means, while the present Administration had expen-
ded `37.500,000 beyond the receipts of the Government."
This speech is copied far and wide. It may be named in
connection with this gentleman, that it is confidently
affirmed that he has been tendered the post of- Secretary
of State, or Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Crittenden,
of Kentucky, it is said, will be the new Attorney General.
The affairs of China will probably occupy the attention of
Congress at an early day, as M. ex President Adams has
submitted a resolution for all the information on-the sub-
ject to be laid before the HouSe. The Report of the
Secretary of the Navy has been read, but it contains
nothing of interest to European readers, except that the
experimen:s with Paixhan guns, on board the steam-
frigate Fulton, are favourably mentioned, and the two
new steam-frigates are to be completed by the cunning
summer.

Some excitement has been created by a statement . to
the effect that a British regiment had been ordered into
the disputed territory, and had arrived at Madawaska,
Our most authentic accounts affirm that these troops were
sent thither by the Governor-General of the British pro-
vinces, Lord Sydenham, without the knowledge of Sir
John Harvey, who immediately apprised Governor Fair-
field, of Maine, of that fact, in consequance of the ‘• ar-
rangement of non-occupation" between► him and General
Scott. Despatches were also sent to Washington and
Montreal. Thus the matter ►emains for the present.
The report of the Treasury, which was forwarded to
you by the last packet, doubtless furnished the extraor-
disiary fact that the exports of the United States, for the
year ending September 30, 1840, exceeded the imports by
$26,716,059. 1 call this en extraordinary fact, because
it is the first commercial phenomenon of the kind that has
occurred since 1825, when the imports were $96 340,075,
and the exports $99,525,388 One of the main causes of
increase has been the great export of wheat to Liverpool;
another, the unusually abundant crop of cotton in the har-
vest of 1839 40. By way of enabling you to judge by
comparison, I subjoin the commerce of five years:—
Imports. Exports
1836 5189,985,742 $127,663,040
1837
1838
1839
1840 " 104,805,891 131 521,950
According to the Postmaster's report, the Post-office re-
port for the year ending June 30, 1841, the receipts were
$3,539,266; expenditure, $4,759,111; leaving a defi-
ciency of $219,845.
Advices from Texas confirm the account given in my
last, of the escape of 125 Texans from the Mexicans, who
intended to murder them. Only eight , Texans are re-
ported as killed, but great numbers of the Mexicans. It
appears that the Texan Government think of making a
road to Santa Fe, in New Mexico, to secure a share of the
trade and dollars of that region. The project is urged by
the Texan Secretary of War to his Congress, and the
length of new road required from Austin, Texas, would be
600 miles.

I mentioned in my last the disappearance of a Mr. Suy-
dam, President of a bank in New Jersey ; and the doubts
created thereby as to the causes of the mystery and sta-
bility of the institution. The integrity of Mr. Snyham
and the correctness of the bank arc fully established ; but,
alas !at the expense of his life. He was foully murdered,
as is believed, by a carpenter named Robinson, against
whom he had a mortgage of only $6O ! He was evi,lently
robbed of a gold watch and money. His body was found
on Tuesday, buried in the cellar of anew house belonging
to Robinson. The supposed murderer is in custody. Thus
has society been deprived of, an ornament, and a large fa-
mily of a tender and exemplary father.
More troops have been sent to Florida, but there is no
favourable prospect as yet from the seat of Indian war.
The seizure of the brig Tigris, of Salem, by the British
brig of-war Water Witch, on the ground of being a slaver,
because she had on' board a black boy, said by the owners
to have been " shipped at St. Thomas's as a free lad,"
has created much talk and some feeling in this country.
The vessel is daily expected at. New York, with an Eng-
lish prizcmaster on board. Iler cargo 'was coffee and
ivory, and she was seized oft the African coast.
The extensive drug stores of Messrs. :Trippe were
burnt, at New York, on Tuesday. Damage $15,000,
but insured.
A laige artificial lake has been formed near Cleveland,
Ohio, vs a reservoir for the canal. It is described as tbo
most extensive artificial piece of water in the world, as it
covers 13:000 acres.
Suicides have been mournfully frequent. On Monday
W. H. Jcfferd, E'q., a respectable merchant of New York,
destroyed himself ; Mr. Underhill, postmaster at Amherst,
on the same day: Mr. E. Davey. of Greene, on the
previous Saturday ; Mr. G. W. Warner, a printer, of
Providence,--on Tuesday ; and Mr. Boelim, a. German, at
Alba, New York.
Mr. S. Maynard, a married man, was mulcted to the
tune of $4,000, in a court at Worcester' on Monday, for
basely seducing a young lady. " Served him right."

SUPPLY OF WATER.-LONDON
AND WESTMINSTER WATER COMPANY.

TO THE EDITO1? OF THE SUN.

long a.a the projectors of the scheme of sup-
plying the metropoli; with water from wells near. Watford,
and the supporters of that measure, limited think observa-
tions to matter of general import, the Directors of the
West Middlesex Water Company did not think it incum-
bent on them to notice their proceedings, they relied wi:h
perfect confidence on the refutation which the various
charges made against the Companies, have 'received in
the Committees of both Houses of Parliament, where
those charges have been fully investigated.
Adverting, however, to the unfounded and delusive
statements revived and put forth in the new prospectus
of the proposed Company, and to the published speeches,
resolutions, and petitions of the different parties who sup-
port the scheme, the Directors, so far as these statements
apply_ to the West Middlesex Company, now feel them-
selves ogled upon to c'dniredict'llient tu, the pitest,:ungia'aii-
ied`tetms.v•ttbd theralso fec,l assured'ilhat if the evidence
contained in the Parliamentary documents referred• to, bad
been fully and fairlyequoted, or .was more generally known,
by the-public, the' plojecters of new "Companies would
'find few. stiportitir in the diitriet,df 'the West Middlesex
Company.. - ''
After the evidence given by Mr. Phillips* to the' Oetn-
mittee of the House of- Lords appointed last Session of
Parliament to inquire into this matter, no doubt can exist
as to the purity and salubrity of the water at present sup-
plied. He fully corroborated,the evidence and confirmed
the analysis made by Dr. Bostock in 1828, and again in
1831, at the instance of the late Mr. Telford, by showing
that the water obtained fiom the Colne• and the springs
near Bushey was less pure than the water now supplied
by the Company ; and as regards the quantity, it 'has
been so often made apparent, that the present supply is
msst abundant, and that the Company has ample power.
to increase the quantity to any extent that can possibly
be required for many years to come, no question was
raised on that subject.
The other points, namely, monopoly and price, were
minutely investigated nearly twenty 'scars ago by a Select
Committee of the House of Commons, since which very
great improvements in- the works have been effected, in
order to render the water bright and pure at all seasons,
whieh.desirable
.object the Company have completely ac-
complished; and although these improvements have been
attended with very a large outlay of capital, •yet .no in-
crease whatever in the rates has been made.

By order of the Board of Director;
M. K. KNIGHT, Secretary.
Office of West Middlesex Water Works,
Jan. 8, 1841.

* Vide Minutes of Evidence and Report of the Lords' Com-
mittee en " the Supply of Water to the Metropolis. Sessions,
1840. • . • •

MR. RICHARD PHILLIPS, pp. 91, 92, 93:
Saline
Analysis of Thames water Quantity. Contents. !-
taken at Barnes, West 1 Gallon,
11iddlesex Works weight 101bs. 18 6-10 grains'
Water at Bushey Same: 21 8-10 grainis.

SEWERS OF WESTMINSTER AND
PART OF MIDDLESEX.

„ , • ct• .
A Special_Meeting of the Court of Sewers for the ciiy
and Liberty of Westminster and part of the County of
hfiddlesex, will be holden at the Sewers' Office in Greek-
street, Soho-square, this day, to hear parties who may ap-
pear against the Presentments of the Jury on the Itao-
- and Counters Creek Districts.
The Contractor's bills for the quarter ending Michael.
mas, 1840, amounting to 6,7121. 17s. 9c1., are laid upon
the table of the COmmittee-robm for the inspection of the
Commissioners.

THE HISTORY OF A FLIRT, WRITTEN BY
HERSELF.—To analyse and lay bare the secret and intri-
cate workings of that easily besetting sin of human nature,
vanity, is the laudable object of the authoress of these vo.
!times, who has furnished forth :a biography that may well
be placed upon the quicksands of the human heart, as a
beacon 'to warn those just budding into life from the perils
of conceit. The authoress of this most useful, and most
agreeably and elegantly written novel, is entitled to com-
mendation upon three separate grounds. In the first place
all her circumstances, or to speak theatrically, her inci-
dents' are natural and most probable. The .reader has no
unreal mockeries to cont with—no Banquo.like
glidings to watch and rem er. The- main currents of
the tale flow smooth! to a final confluence, bearing with
them the memory feelings of the reader. Secondly,
the language is at once piquant, sprightly, and dialoguisb,
as free from bombast on one hand as it is from vulgarity on
the other. Lastly, the object, or rather the moral of the
work, by which it and all similar productions should be
tested, is unexceptionable, for no thoughtless or giddy
woman can rise from its perusal without feeling that it
must be her own fault if the lesson it inculcates is thrown
away...—Moining Post.
The climate of Britain, so remarkable for
fickleness of temperature, has given rise to an infinitude of
ingenious inventions for the protection of those who are
constitutionally predisposed to suffer in health from such
causes; but, while every other part of the human frame is,
by some laudable application of the arts to manufacture,
rendered impervious to weath , the face must still remain
exposed ; and the peen'. delicacy of the Female Com-
plexion undoubtedly ergoes great, though gradual,
change from the ct of excess, either of heat or cold,
upon its surface , n this instance, Rowland's Kalydor
affords the so much desired and valuable protection ; main-
taining, unimpaired, that peculiar brilliancy of tint—ad-
mired beyond all other possessions; and, as a preservative,
is equally efficacious, whether against the injurious degree
of heat felt iu crowded assemblies, or exposure to harsh
winds, and the low temperature of the winter 'season.

MORNING EDITION;