The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

JOHN TYLER

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

In the Senate the treaty concluded by Mr. Cushing
with China has been received and read. It is understood
that it secures for the United States many important ad-
vantages, and it will doubtless be confirmed. Mr. Allen,
of Ohio, renewed the motika he offered at the last ses-
sion, calling on the President for copies of all the cor-
respondence with Great Britain relating to the Oregon
dispute. This motion was finally carried-24 to 16. So
this will shortly be blazoned to the world.
In the House, Mr. John Quincy Adams has fin .lly
succeeded in having the rule of the House rescinded
which provided against the reception of petitions refer-
ring to the abolition of slavery. Those petitions are
now on the same footing as all others, and are received
and referred. The vote stood 108 to 80. Mr. Adams
has been working for this object, which he has now suc-
cessfully accomplished, for the last ten years. So much
of the President's Message as related to the annexation
of Texas having been referred to the Committee on Fo-
reign Affairs, the Chairman of that Committee has re-
ported a joint resolution for carrying the project into
effect. The resolution is as follows :
" Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United
States.

" Resolved, &c.—That annexation and union between
the United States and the republic of Texas take effect
as settled, the 12th day of April last, in the folio, in..
words, viz.
[Here follows a copy of the treaty of annexation.]
" Resolved,—And the said articles are hereby de-
clared to be the fundamental law of union between the
said United States and Texas, so soon as the supreme
authorities of the said republic of Texas shall agree to
the same. And it shall be the duty of the President of
the United States, so soon as he shall be officially notified
of such agreement on the part of Texas, to announce the
same by proclamation.

" Resolved further by the authority aforesaid,—That
it is understood and intended that whatever was stipu-
lated to be done immediately, or at a fixed period, after
the exchange of said compact, shall be done immediately
or in a like period after the supreme authorities of Texas
shall have formally agreed to these resolutions."
Mr. Ingersoll gave notice that, on Monday, the 23d
instant, he would move to go into Conimittee of the whole
House on the state of the Union, for the purpose of tak-
ing up this Bill.
Mr Benton, in the Senate, has introduced his counter
proposition, proposing that Texas (proper) be annexed
with assent of Mexico.
The Bill is as follows:
"A. Bill to provide for the Annexation of Texas to
the United States.

" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the United States of America in Congress as-
sembled, that the President of the United States be, and
he hereby is, authorised and advised to open negotiations
with Mexico and Texas, for the adjustment of bound :-
ries and the annexation of the latter to the United States
on the following bases, to wit:—
" 1. The boundary of the annexed territory to he in
the desert prairie west of the Nueces, and along the high-
lands and mountain heights which divide the waters of
the Mississippi from the waters of the Rio del Norte,
and to the latitude 42 degrees north.
"2. The people of Texas, by a legislative act, or by
any authentic act which shows the will of the majority,
to/express their assent to said annexation.
"3. A state, to be called the State of Texas,' with
boundaries fixed by herself, and an extent not exceeding
that of the largest States of the Union, be admitted into
the Union, by virtue of this Act, on an equal footing
with the original States.
" 4. The remainder of the annexed territories to be
held and disposed of by the United States as one of
their territories, and to bo called the South-west
Territory.'
" 5. The existence of slavery to be for ever prohi-
bited in the northern and north-western part of skid
territory, west of the 100th degree of longitude, west
from Greenwich, so as to divide, as equally as may he,
the whole of the annexed country between slave-holding
and non-slaveholding States.
" 6. The assent of Mexico to be obained by treaty to
such annexation and boundary, or to be dispensed with
when the Congress of the United States may deem such
assent to be unnecessary.
" 7. Other details of the annexation to be adjusted 1,3,
treaty, so far as the same may come within the scope of
the treaty-making. Power."
The Bill was referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs without being read.
The other discussions of Congress, are not of any
moment.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
The Secretary of the Navy, in his report, states the
navy of the United States to consist of 6 ships of the line,
I razee, 14 frigates, 21 sloops of war, 16 brigs and
schooners, 3 store ships, and 8 steamers float. There are
on the stocks, in en unfinished state, 4 ships of the line,
9 frigates, 1 store ship, an iron steamer at Pittsburgh,
and 1 at the navy yard at Washington.
The vessels in commission have been thus employ( d:
--In the home squadron, under Com. Connor, the frigate
Potomac, the sloops Vincennes, Vandalia, and Falmou;h4
the brigs Somers and Lawrence, and the steamer Union.
In the Mediterranean, under Com. Smith, the frigates
Cumberland and Columbia, sloops Plymouth and Fair-
field, and store ship Lexington. On the coast of Brazil,
tinder Com. Turner, the Columbus, 74; frigates Raritan
and Congress, sloops John Adams and Boston, brig
Bainbridge, and schooner Enterprise. In the Pacile,
under Commander Stoat, the frigates United States and
Savannah; sloops Cyane, Levant, and Warren; schooner
Shark, and store ship Relief. The East India squadr,n
remains as before, and is under Commander F. A. Parker.
The squadron on the coast of Africa, under Commander
M. C. Perry, consists of the frigate Macedonia, sloop;
Saratoga and Decatur, and brig Passaic. The scptadi
under intended changes will mount 83 guns. Of this
squadron the report says:—
" The operations of the squadron have, it is believed,
exercised a favourable influence in preventing the slave
trade. With the provision of our law denouncing it as
piracy, and the presence of our own naval forces, with
authority to visit all vessels under the American flag, it
is not probable that our citizens will engage in this
graceful and perilous traffic, or our flag be used by others
to any great extent.
" If other Christian nations would inflict the same
punishment on the offenders, it is not improbable that the
trade would cease."

The following vessels have been employed in the spe-
cial service designated:—The Constitution to carry H. A.
Wise to Bio, and cruise in the Indian Ocean ; 11w
steamer Princeton, to try sundry experiments ; the
steamer Poinsett, to make surveys near the I3alize ; the
brig Truxton, to bring home the remains of Corn. Porter;
the steamers, Colonel Harney and General Taylor, to
transport recruits and supplies ; the schooner Phenix
and brig Oregon, as packets between this country aid
the Isthmus of Darien. The force proposed to be em-
ployed during the year, commencing on the Ist day of
July, 1845, consists of 10 frigates, 13 sloops-of-w,:r,
7 brigs, 2 schooners, 4 armed steamers, 3 small steamers,
4 store-ships, and 2 small vessels, less than last year, but
more than is authorised by the appropriations.
The above particulars comprise everything of interest
to the English reads-r.