The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-13 00:00:00

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THE UNITED STATES.
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVEND4L—Congress closed its
sittings on the 174.11, and as it would appear not in the most
orderly manner. A correspondent of the New York Courier
and Enquirer, says—
" I shall not attempt to detail the rowdyism of the last
two days of this session, as enacted in the house ; the conduct
of the majority was factious and disorganising in the extreme,
and tending to the destruction of all respect for the
legislative body, while that of particular prominent in-
dividuals was boisterously insolent and disgustingly vulgar,
and cannot be paralleled except in the purlieus of the most
besotted portions of your city. The like of it may have been
before witnessed at a subterraneous carousal, but never in a
legislative assembly.
" The Senate confirmed the nomination of Mr. Cushing as
Commissioner to China, and of Dr. Clemsen, sou-in-law of
John C. Calhoun, as Chargé to Belgium. The executive
withdrew the name of Mr. Walworth for the vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of Judge Thompson, and substituted that
of J. C. Spencer."
No bills of any consequence were passed at the closing of
the congressional sitting. The Finance Committee of the
Senate had been discharged from the further consideration of
the subjects referred to it., and the chairman stated, with re-
ference to the omission of any provision fur the. debt due en
the Ist of January next, as proposed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, that the debt last year was 25,385,000 dollars. It
was now 2,293,000 dollars less.
On the Ist of January next, the debt would be reduced to
fifteen and one-third millions; according to every reasonable
probability, there would be no diminution in the revehue
from any cause.
Some stir had been created by the arrival of a special !!tf:F-
senger with dispatches liar General Almonte, the resident
Mexican Minister in America. Several of the New York
papers proclaimed that Mexico was decidedly favourable to
the annexation, and would gladly join the Union at any
price. However, the very contrary of this turns out to be
the flirt.

The New rock Commercial Advertiser has it that Santa
Anna would not listen to any overture for the acquisitiot. of
Texas by the United States, but repeated his former hylata-
lion that the annexation would lie regarded by Mexic, :is
declaration of war. Such. moreover, was the tone ~t
Mexican papers without exception.
The officers of the Poinsett reported at Mobile that 14.0)0
troops had assembled and were quartered at Vera Cruz, and
that large quantities of military stores were arriving there
An English brig with ammunition, &c., had just arrived Iron
Tobasco. The Mexican authorities were loud in their de -
nunciations of vengeance against the United States.
A Spanish journal, published in New York, gives the text
of a dispatch from Senor Bocanegra, the Mexican Foreign
Minister, to General Almonte, which reached the latter gen-
tleman on Thursday, by way of Havannah. This dispatct
was forwarded after the arrival of Mr. G. L. Thompson at
the city of Mexico, on his mission from the Government at
the United States; and was forwarded by way of Havannab.
expressly to meet and contradict any rumours that might ba
set afloat in this country, of willingness on the part of
Mexico to assent to the annexation of Texas. •
Senor Bocanegra informs General Almonte, in the most
emphatic terms, that Mexico will never assent to the annex •
ation—that the Government and the nation are immovably
determined to resist the project and reject all proposals for
its eonsummation, whether accompanied or not by offers of
compensation. And General Almonte is authorised and in-
structed to contradict, in the most formal manner, any asser-
tion or intimation of a different character.
The Acadia steamer had arrived out in due course..
COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, JUNE 21, r.m.—The sales at the Board of
Brokers this morning were to a moderate extent at a de-
cline from yesterday's rates. Ohio Sixes fell off 1 per cent.;
Canton Co., 2i; Farmer's Loart, 2; Stonington Railroad, I ;
Long Island Railroad, 14: I:orwich and Worcester Railroad,
; Paterson Ilailrot:1, a; and Reading Railroad, 11.
• At the• Publ`'e Stock Exchange, Ohio Sixes declined 1 ;
Farmer's Loan, 1 ; Norwich and Worcester Railroad, 2 ;
CAtittni Co., 3; Illinois Bonds, l ; and Long Island Railroad,
2, per cent. _ _

-Exchanges of every description remain inactive.
The Trustees of the Franklin Bank of Cincinnati have
declared the eighth dividend of five per cent. payable on the
10th of July. .New York stockholders will receive their divi-
dend at the Bank of America.

Foreign Exchanges—London is at 109 a 1091 ; Paris,
5.261 a 5.25 ; Amsterdam, 391 a 40 ; Hamburgh, 35i ; Bre-
men, 78i a 79.

BIRMINGHAM ELECTION.

THURSDAY EVENING.—As the nomination approaches the
interest hourly increases, and it is needless to say the utmost
anxiety prevails to know precisely how the canvass for the
various candidates proceeds. The following notices from the
gentlemen in the interest of Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Sturge
have appeared :
"The canvass of Mr. Scholefield's Committee exhibits a
decided majority for that gentleman over his opponents:
numbers united. The returns, however, are not yet com-
pleted. Mr. Spooner's canvassers are earnestly requesting
electors who decline to vote for the Tory to promise to vote
for Sturge. How the honest portion of Mr. Sturge's friends
''cdri continue blind under such circumstances is inexplicable.
Sturge's friends have issued a placard, stating that Mr.
Scholefield has retired, and they are uniting with Spooner's
party in pursuing the most weak and pitiful inventions to
mislead and decoy the lees intelligent of Mr. Scholefield's.-
,supporters. Feargus O'Connor, too, has come to their aid
in a flaming printed address, villifying Mr. Scholefield in
characteristic terms. O'Connor now recommends Joseph
Sturge quite as furiously as he not long since abused and de •
nounced him in the columns of the Northern Star. Of course.
Mr. Spooner's friends are sanguine as to the issue, under
these circumstances, but if Mr. Scholefield's supporters per-
severe in their efforts, and the electors are faithful to their
promises, Birmingham will not be handed over to the Tories
by the Chartists."
Mr. Sturge's friends say—" Our Committee has just issued
this bill Mr. Sturge's Committee congratulate the Radical
electors on the fact, that the canvass reports show a decidea
majority of votes promised for Mr. Sturge in preference to
Mr. Scholefield. The remarks in the canvass books opposite
the names of those who are entered as doubtful are also de-
cidedly favourable to Mr. Sturge.
" Mr Sturge explicitly declared that he would give every
elector an opportunity of recording his vote, and that ought
to be sufficient to convince the most sceptical that Mr. Sturge
will poll to the last moment the poll is open. This is his ir-
revocable determination.' "

The nomination takes place to-morrow morning, in the
Town-hall.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
On Thursday one of the chief attractions was the appearance
of Signor Moriani in a new part, viz., that of Percy in Anna
Bolena. So great was the success of the new tenor in Lucia.
that there was a natural curiosity to see how he would shine
in this second character, which has been rendered illustrious.
by Rubini and Ivanhoff. His reading of the part is neces-
sarily, from the style of his singing, entirely different from
that to which we have been accustomed. There seemed to
be something like a want of firmness in his higher notes. The
duet with Grrisi, " Per Pieta," he sang charmingly. He
infused into it that true pathos, and that elegant ex-
pression, which is in him so peculiar, and the piece was
enthusiastically encored. The intensity of feeling with
which he introduced the beautiful trio in the second act,
was one of the most effective touches of the evening.
Grisi last night literally surpassed her own magnificence.
The rush of her voice into the finale of the first act was one
of those things that create quite a thrill in tbt hearer.
Anna Bolena used to be one of the most hackmied of Doni-
zetti's operas, but it has been laid on the Shelf for three
years, and its revival is welcome, not so much for its own
merits, as for the admirable performarte of Grisi. Henry
VIII. could not have a more fitting representative than
Lablache, who, every inch of him, looks the bluff monarch;
and most admirably does bl voice tell, and excellently does
he support the trios where the bass voice has an accompani
ment for the other two, that is like that of a stringed instru-
ment. The little character of Smeaton was played by
Favanti, and Giovanna was sustained by a debutante named
Giuseppine Rosetta, who, without an extraordinary voice, ig
a pleasing and tasteful singer—superior to those who have
generally filled the character in England. The principal
artists were called for with acclamations at the end of each
act. The opera was followed by a fantasia on the horn,
played by Puzzi, because it was his benefit; and this was
followed by a divertissement, in which Fanny Elssler danced
the Saragossa. The second act of Guglielmo Tell, the best
act in the opera, distinguished by the duet between Arnold
and Matilda, the splendid trio, and a host of magnificent
choral effects, was another musical attraction of the evening,
the principal characters being sustained by Persiaui, Mario.
Fornasari, and F. Lablache.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX :VIA_

GISTRATES.

A meeting of justices of the county of Middlesex was held
On Thursday, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green, Mr.
Sergeant Adams in the chair.

Mr. WILKS drew attention to the Bill before Parliament
to enable justices to establish houses of refuge for juvenile of.
fenders. It was not likely to pass this session, but whenever
the time came for considering it ha should oppose it.
The Court adopted two resatitions on the clauses of the
Metropolitan Buildings BM, condemnatory of the power
given therein to the• Secretary of State for the Home De.
partment, enabling him to nullify. the appointment of sur-
veyors, and compelling the payment of 2001. out of the
county rate towards the charge of two official referees and a
registrar.
Mr. ROTCH said that neither of these resolutions met his
approbation. The Government measure was forced upon
them by the manner in which the magistrates had far
merly exercised their power of election. One of the county
surveyors appointed by the magistrates was Mr. Charlea
Mathews, the actor—(A laugh)— who openly said that he
kept the situation for his aged mother. Another of their
surveyors resided in the north of England, and was a great
unknown as far as his district was concerned. A third was
incapable from age and infirmity. It vis a matter of as-
tonishment that the Government had not taken up the sub-
ject before.—( Hear.)
On the motion of Sir B. HALL, a county rate of ld, in the
pound was agreed to.

Mn. CAARLES IiESIBLE'S READINGS OpSIIAX-
SPEARE.—The desire to hear the masterly readin
of %hak-
speare, by Mr. Kemble, increases as the series draws towards
its close ; and on Thursday St. James's Theatre was well filled
in every part during the reading of the Merchant of Venice..
The purely comic portions of the play were those in which
Mr. Kemble most excelled, and he brought out all the
touches of humour with good effect. The more subdued
scenes of the serious parts of the play he also delivered in a
delightfully easy manner, remarkable for correctness of enun-
ciation and apparent freedom from the trammels of art. The
audience appeared fully satisfied with Mr. Kemble's delinee-
tion of Shylock, and applauded very cordially.
The Duke of Sutherland has bought the beautiful
property of Glenarback, which lies upon the north bank of
the Clyde, immediately opposite his son-in-law's -(Lord
Blantyre's) splendid mansion, at the cost, we are informed, of
14,000/. We may thus expect that his Grace add the
Duchess and family will honour this neighbourhood by
frequent visits, the more especially as the Marquis of Lora
will speedily form another interesting link in the noble
family's connection with the west of Scotland.—Glasgow
Heraki. -
ROYAL VISITS TO BRIGHTON.—We believe there
is very little doubt that the King of the French inteiids to
visit her Majesty some time in September ; and, as the
long talked-of' purchase of Norris Castle hasbeen abandoned,
there is no place so likely as the Pavilion to be choserrreir the
reception of the Royal visitor. The King of the French has;
been expected for some time at Eu, where his Majesty's
horses and carriages arrived several days ago. We b.ear
that the Duke of Devonshire is awaiting the King's Arrival
at his chateau to pay a visit to his Majesty, • for the pur-
pose, it is said, of receiving instructions relative to the King's
intended visit to our Most Gracious Sovereign.—Brighton
Gazette.

INCENDIARISM.—We are sorry to learn that two•
straw stacks, the property of George Sligo, Esq , of Csbrmylg,
Haddingtonshire, were on Friday consumed by wilful tire.
An itinerant bookseller has been taken up and lodged in
lialdington gaol, against whom there are strong suskieiona.
I —Caledonian Mercury,