The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1848,

Fresh advances of money are absolutely necessary
for the prosecation of the war against Mexico, and,
by a rather untoward conjunction of circumstances,
there is every probability just now of a monetary
embarrassment in the United States. Either this diffi-
culty must be mastered or the dream of the Polk
Administration will be unrealised. Unless an addi-
tional instalment of nearly 20,000,000 dollars be im-
mediately obtained, the illustrious JAMES K. will
find himself approaching the term of his Presidency
in a somewhat unfortunate attitude. To the odium
of a concession, in regard to the Oregon territories,
will be added the disgrace of a fruitless expenditure in
prosecuting the invasion of California and the other
portions of the Mexican dominions. As yet the chances
of
new advancements to the war department at Wash-
ington are decidedly dubious. Cash has already been
abstracted so repeatedly from the pockets of Jonathan,
and squandered upon an unprincipled expedition with
such effrontery and extravagance, that it is scarcely
probable that fresh supplies can he very long filched
from the community,; or that if voted by Congress they
will be collected otherwise than with sullen unwil-
lingness. Ilowever much the task of wresting such
enormous war contributions from the multitude may
tend to render Mr. President Poet( unpopular, wrest
them:he must from his fellow-citizens, or otherwise his
Government will be for ever remembered, in the
history of the United
States, as the most rash, the
most unconscientious, the most ruinous, the most brag-
gart, and the most ineffective that has ever wielded
the sword and held the balance of the Anglo-Saxon
Republic. The President is consequently at this
moment in the very crisis of his career as asnsionjus;
adminis-
trator. What may be the upshot of the es
opened, the national representatives will have toud:i'teld t.cloo
for themselves, for the public. opinion. of the
is exercising but. little influence over the
States
councils of the national legislataurreen—tiyth, e
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tion of affairs having,
citizens apathetic to a very. areilm,
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a patriotic
Meanwhile,
actuate the public men of Mexico, though in wary so
loose and discursive as to promise unfavourably forv: the
maintenance of their nationality and thel A
Npryel eerlv4natctoens
of their original boundaries. President l
merely a partial determination to battle against the
aggressors, but the Members of Congress, on the
other hand, are so resolute in their adherence to the
cause of the states by which they have been cleosen
representatives, that they have passed to a first
reading the following valiant and 4-nitied propo-
sitions :—" First,-,that in the event of the citlr of
Queretaro (the present seat of the Mexican Go;ern-
ment) being threatened with an invasion by the
American army, the Congress shall be removed to
the city of Aguascalientss; sec end, that the Clow•ern-
ment shall listen to no Proposition of peace so
long as the invading forces do not evacttate
the national territory which they occupy, and
cease to blockade the parts of the republic ;
third, the same Government, under its strictest. re-
sponsibility,
shall dictate such measures and prgjec's
as will be sufficient on its part, to carry on the -war."
If the acts of the Administration were only consonant