The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clack.

Lord ASHBURTON has arrived in the United States.
His Lordship will find plenty to do in the accomplish.
ment of his mission to occupy him for several weeks.
HOGAN, whose arrest and dismissal by the authorities at
Lockport, on a charge of being concerned in the burniag
of the Caroline steamer, was noticed at the time; is •igain in
custody. He v2ntured a second time into the United
States, and was arrested upon old charges at the suit
of a rascally Sympathiser named THELLER. This
troublesome affair must be 'disposed of before anything
else can be thought of. Then there is the war between
Mexico and Texas, which will increase the difficulties
about settling the Boundary Question. The rumour
in New York was that the Mexicans invaded
Texas in two bodies to the number of 21,000
men, and that they were marching towards San Antonio
de Bexar, and Goliad, and Victoria. We would
take a bet that the Mexican army is less than or.e=
fourth of the strength above stated. We feel quite
certain that the invading Mexican army is not 5,000
strong, :;,nd also that if it penetrates far -into Texan not
a tithe of it will ever return to Mexico. In the United
States, the excitement in - favour of the Texans is
immense. Munitions of war for the Texans were col-
lecting at :New Orleans, and crowds of Sympathisers were
collecting in the frontier States, ready to march to
Galveston to the support of their friends. What we hare
now most to fear, is the annexation of Texas to the
United States. That is what all the Sympathisers are
looking forward to.

The Railway Rill occupies the French Chamber of
Deputies to the exclusion of everything else. On Thurs-
day and Friday the debates upon it were .very.animated.
but the subject is m holly witliOut interest to English
readers. The new Minister of Finance is exceedingly
sanguine as to the inexhaustibility of the national re-
sources. He is fbr commencing all the Froposed lines
without a moment's delay, and for carrying them on
simultaneously with the fortifications of Paris.
There is a good deal of miscellaneous news in the
French Papers, of which all that is most interesting will
be found either in our Foreign . Summary, or the sub-
joined extracts.
A circular has been addreFsed by the Director-General of
Customs to the different Customi-houses in France, announci4
that, as the Government of Russia and the United States have
consented to exempt French vessels entering their ports by
stress of weather, from payment of tonnage duty, there is to be
reciprocitr in favour of Russian and Amer ican vessels in French
ports under similar circumstances, as is the case with all the
other countries which have consented to this reciprocal engage-
ment. •

The Carlsruhe Gazette has the following letter from Vienna,
of April tl :—" Several German journals, copying certain
English and French papers, have repeated that the mission of
rageot, was for the purpose of negotiating a marriage be-
tween Queen Isabella 11. and a Prince of the house of Bavaria.
If such was the object of M. Pageot's minion, he might have
spared hiirse,f the troulie of coming here, Er the Northern
Powers would never agree to a plan, the melt of which would
be to deprive the family of the Bourbons of the throne of Spain
Gazette de France.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1849.

day, produced 1,62,31. A letter of Oliver Cromwell's, addressed
to his wife, " Elizabeth Cromwell," on the
_day following his
victory, o.er the Royalists at Dunhar, sold for 21 guineas.
COTS XOTif.A.I.I7.sE •
The Duke. of 'Northumberland left town on Saturday, for
Sinn House.

The Duche.a of Northumberland—is expected to remain a
fortnight longer at Sion House. .
Viscount and Vis Countess Beresford gave a dinner in Ca-
vendish-tguare on Saturday,, to the Lord. Primate of Ireland,
the Marquis of. Waterford, Fee. . .
The Earl and Conntesi of Chesterfield returned to town ficuL
Newniarket on Friday. -
His Excellency the French Ambaisador, gives a banquet at
Manchester House-this evening, in celebration otthe fete-day.
of Louis Philippe.
The Earl of Bandon is, we understand, to be appointed Lord
Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Cork, in
place of the late Earl of Shannon.
The Earl of Moto has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-
street, for the season.