The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOn, SUNDAY.—By the royal mail steam-
ship Niagara, Captain Ryrie, we have advices from
New York to the sth, Boston to the Gth, and Halifax
to the S:h inst.
From Canada the accounts are more satisfactory.
In Quebec: the Annexationist candidates had been de-
feated. A dispatch from Earl Grey, under date
Downing-street, January 9, appears in the papers.
He approves the dismissal from service of those who
had signed the annexation document. The remainder
of the dispatch we give at length :—" Her Majesty
confidently relies on the loyalty of the great majority
of her Canadian subjects, and she has therefore
determined to exert all ie authority that belongs
to her for the purpose of maintaining the connexion
of Canada with this Government, being persuaded
that the permanence of that connexion is highly
advantageous to both. Your Lordship will, there-
fore, understand that you are commanded by her
Majesty to resist, to the utmost of your power, any
attempt which may be made to bring about the
separation of Canada from British dominion, and to
make known in the strongest manner her Majesty's
displeasure with all those who may directly or indi-
rectly encourage such a design ; and if any attempt
of this kind should take such a form that those who
are guilty of it may, according to such advice as you
may receive from your law advisers, be made respon-
sible for their conduct in a court of justice, you will
not fail to take the necessary measures for bringing
them to account."
The most interesting event in the transactions of
the United States Congress is the introduction of a
series of resolutions into the Senate by Mr. Elby.
These resolutions propose an amicable arrangement
of all the controverted topics between the free and
slave states. The first maintains the admission of
California into the American union, free from
any restriction on the exclusion or introduction
of slavery within its limits. In the second re-
solution it is provided that territorial government
should be established by Congress in the
territories acquired from Mexico, without the
imposition of any condition on the subject
of slavery. The 3d and 4th resolutions contend that
the western boundary of Texas be fixed on the Rio
del Norte, from its mouth to the mouth of the Rabine.
The sth and 6th assert that slavery ought not to be
abolished in the districts of Columbia during the ex-
istence of the institution in the States of Maryland
without the consent of the people of the district, and
a just compensation to the owners of the slaves, and
that the slave-trade, under certain conditions, should
be abolished within the federal district as repugnant
to the common feelings of mankind. In the two
final resolutions it is urged that provision should be
made by Congress for the more effectual restitution
of slaves in any State escaping into any other State
or territory ' • and that Congress has no power to pro-
hibit the trade in slaves between the several States;
that being an arrangement to be decided, according
to the principles of the Constitution, by the particular
laws of the States themselves. The resolutions were
sustained by Mr. Clay, in a speech of masterly elo-
quence and ability, which produced a strong sensation
on the Senate ; they were ordered to be made the
subject of special consideration in the Senate on
Tuesday, Feb. 5.
The Washington correspondent of the Journal of
Commerce says—" I learn from an authentic source
that the Captain-General of Cuba has been instructed
by his Government to liberate the slaves in case of
an invasion or insurrection. The Hudson's Bay
Company, through the British Minister, have re-
newed their proposition, made during the adminis-
tration of President Polk, to the United States Go-
vernment, to dispose of all their possessory rights in
Oregon south of 49 degrees for 1,000,000 dollars.
This proposition was communicated to the Senate in
executive session. The price asked is the same as
before."
Last advices from Venezuela mention that affairs
exhibited a high degree of prosperity. General Paez
was still in confinement. The coffee crop was abut],
dant. Another engagement was said to have taken
place between the Hayden and Dominican fleets.
Some of the foreign merchants had refused to comply
with all the requirements of the monopoly law in re-
gard to the sale of foreign produce. The monopoly
on coffee was taken off by a royal decree of the Em-
peror on the 10th of last month.,
Between 50 and GO persons bad been killed by the
explosion of a boiler at New York.