The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1845.

The questices of the Oregon is only one of many
affairs which England has to settle with the United
Stater, and perhaps of all, if we look at consequences, it
is of the least importance. For the last fifty years that
republic has been extending its arms towards the Gulf of
Mexic:s, by purchasing new districts, occupying others
by force, and, last of all, by means for which we find no
other tepee so appropriate as swindling. Louisiana was
obtained from BONAPARTE for a small sum, partly be-
cathe he thought thereby to annoy and injure England,
but chiefly because he could make no use of it, and
found the money useful at the commencement of his
imperial reign. The Americans thence laid claim
to the whole of Florida, and wrested one half of
it by force from the helpless and spiritless
Spaniards. Then came the Teem affair, which,
from begitming to eed, has exhibited the American
character in a most unfavourable light, and has been
distinguished alike for wantsn aggression, deceit, and
trickery. Parties from the neighbouring states emi-
grated at different periods, squatted in the best parts of
the Lrel, and professed to be merely settlers in the
Mteeican territory. At last they formed themselves
ieio a community, renounced allegiance to the lawful
rulsre of the country, declared themselves independent,
then p. titioned to be admitted into the Union, and pra-
t. cted against the men whom they had robbed and ex-
po:led. Any person of common observation might have
seen what these squatters had in view, how little re-
' Atance the Mexicans could make to their en-
croachments, and how quickly the Government of
Washingteei would admit them into the Union,
and protect them at all hazards. For many
years there has been a perfect understanding
is. tween the two parties on the subject, and TYLER, who
bee time President by accident, and seemed not to be
overburdened with moral principle, at last and in due
time called for annexation. The call was responded to
by a great number of the states; and POLK, from choice or
necessity, joined in the cry fur annexation, or more pro-
p speaking, robbing a weak and defenceless neighbour
of her rights. After deceiving both England and France
by the most egregious duplicity, Texas was recognised
--sts`i an independent state, and by another turn it threw
swell' into the arms of America, which rejoiced mightily
at the trick, received its new offspring with open arms,
and coolly asserted its right to the territory on the
greind of ancient claims. This endless system of en-
erenehment must be viewed by England and France and
gesin with serious alarm, because these rapid strides to-
wards the Gulf of Mexico threaten at no distant
pi rio.l their possessions in the Wet t Indies,
steel lead to the conviction that sooner or later the
Americans will attempt to control the whole of the trade
in these extensive regions, and seize the first opportu-
nity of x t end in g their dominion over all the valuable
Man's in tie Caribbean seas. It is true that cannot
happen immediately, because even more valuable and
mote important conquests are first to be made. Mexico
must he disposed of, and when California is occupied—a
pry je,A openly avowed—and Texas, with its numerous
harbours and rich soil, has acquired sufficient strength,
th it attair will speedily be settled. The Mexicans have
se, power whatever of resistance ; they are even more
hviplow3 than the native race whom the Spaniards extir-
pated, and, were other powers to stand by idle, the
contest would he sooner settled than that between
Mote rime, and Cortez. If emigrants in hundreds can
be induced at present to cross the Rocky Mountains to
settle in the Oregon territory, e e should hear of tens
of thousands for hundreds rushing to Mexico from every
state in the Union, allured by the wealth and fine
climate of the country, the rich and vast silver mines
yet unexplored, and the prospect of carrying on a trade
with the extensive regions of the north and the south,
eesrtain to be even more productive than the most
valuable mines. These are prospects which may well
encourage emigration to the south ; and it ought to be
borne in mind, too, that the very acquisition of Texas is
the most dangerous blow that has yet been given to
the seeurity of our West India possessions. Whatever
may be said about only one-half of that territory being
allocated as a slave-holding state, no doubt exists that