The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-14 00:00:00

UNITED STATES

PIIII,ADEITITIA, Dt 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.
er:ul speech in fav,.tu- of a repeal of that law by Mr. Web-
ster, in tee course of which that state, m:,n condemned
the policy of the administration of Mr. Van Burcn in mak-
ing a rational debt (now about $4 500,000 a governing prin-
ciple • and closed with remarking that the •' new adminia-
tam ion wou!d have to manage the affairs of the Government,
without means, while the Present Administration bad ex pen-
(led 500.000 bejoecf the receipts of the Governmea)t."
Ttiis speech is copied far and wide. It may be named in
connection svi•li this gentleman, that it is confidently
affirmed that be has been tendered the post of Secretary
a 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 fur 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
experimerys with Paixhan guns, on oard the stem-
frigate Felten, arc favourably mentioned, and the two
new steam-frigates are to be completed by the enauing
sunur. er.

Si:me exci'eTent has been created by a statement to
effect that a British regiment had been ordered into
tb,.. 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 Svdenhant, without the knowledge of Sir
John ILivey, 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 W4shington and
Mown at. Thus the matter remains for the present
The report of the Treasury, which was forwarded to
you by the last packet, doubtless furnished the extraor-
dikary fact that the exports of the United States, for the
year ending September 30, 1840, exceeded the imports by
$26.716,059. I call this an extraordinary fact, beeaue
it is the first commercial phenomenon of the kind that has
ecurred since 1825, when the imports were $96,340,075,
ar.d the exports $99,525,388. Oneof the main causes of
increase has been the great export of wheat to Liverpool;
another, the unusually abundant crop of cotton in the liar-
vert of 1839-40. By way of enabling- you to judge by
comparison, I subjoin the commerce of five years:—
Imports. Exports.
1816 5189.985,742 $127,663 040
1837
1838
1839
1840
According to the Postmarer's roper', the l'oat-office ',-
port for the year ending June 30, 1311, the vccipts were
$3,539,266; expenditure, $4.759 111; leaving a de&
c ei;cy of $219,845.

Auvices from Texas confirm the account given in my
last, cf the escape of 125 Texans from the Mexicans, who
intended to murder them. Only eight Tt xans are re-
ported as killed, but great numbers of the Mexicans. it
appears that the Texan Government think of triaki:4; a
road to Ssnta Fe, in New Mexico, to secure a shoe ut the
trade and dollars of that region. The projee is urget by
the Texan Secretary of War to his Congress, aid the
length of new road required from Austin, Texas, would be
GOO 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-
Hit), of the institution. The integrity of Mr. £uyham
and the correctness of tic bank are fully established ; but,
alas lat the expense of his life. He was foully murdered,
as is believed, by a carpenter named Robinson, against
whom he held d mortgage of only $6Ol He was evi lently
robbed of a gold watch and money. His body was found
on Tuesday, buried in the cellar of a new house- belonging
to Robinson. The supposed murderer is in custody. Thu,
of Salem, by the British
has society been deprived of an ornament, and a largo is..
on the ground of
roily of a tender and exemplary father.
More troops have beet' sent to Floc ikla, but there is no
Tgoignrlies,
favourable proTeet as yet from the scat of Indi trt war
feeliuF inst'lltis country.
being a slaver,
because she had on board a black boy, said by the
ad,"
to have been " shipped at St. Thomas's
free ownersl
has
Tg
The
::weeiadzrum; Water acothfe rtt
al ‘'leVki brigt
and
Ilitd,
The vessel is daily expected at New 1 ork, with an Eng-
lish prizemaster on board. tier
ivory, and she was seized cargo was coffee and
off the African coast.
The extensive drug startsof N
_ i lesst s. Tripp': were
burnt, at New York,
but insured. on Tuesday. Damage $15,000,

A large artificial lake has been formed near Cleveland,
Ohio, as a reservoir for the canal. It is described as the
most extensive artificial piece of water in the world, as it
covers 13,000 acres.
Suicides have been mournfully frequent. On Monday
W.ll. Jeffercl, E q., a respectable merchant of. New York,
destroyed himself ; Mr. Underhill, postruasur 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. . _ _

Air. S. Maynard, a marriel Man, was mulcted to the
tune of $4,000, in a court at Worcester, on Monday, for
basely F educing a young lady. "•Served him'right."

DISTRESS IN 111 ARYLEBON E.—Yesterday, at
one o'clock, pursuant to public advertiscmcnt, a publicnicotine-of the p3rishioners of the extensive and opulent
p iish of St. Marylebonc, took place in the spacious board-
room for the purpose of taking bito
air part of distress and destitution
producedos docfr thet
onn Courthouse,o
, the
ethe large
poorer classes by the present incle-
ment weather, and the best mode to be adopted for (Arm.
tually relieving it, in the parish of 'St. Marylebone, The
rest it Was the cellectioa of about 3001.