The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

DISTRICTS.

AMEBIC AN NEWS

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING

By the Monongahela, Capt. Turly, arrived at this
port to-day from Philadelphia, whence she sailed on the
2d inst., we have received papers from that city to that
date inclusive. This vessel has made a rapid passage,
having left the Capes of Delaware on the sth inst. Capt.
Turley on his last voyage made a similar quick run.
We are glad to learn by this arrival that the run upon
the Banks had subsided on the 2d, and all the establish-
ments of the city were quietly doing business in their usual
way, except the Girard and the Bank of Pennsylvania.
The arrangements entered into jointly as to the issue of
notes and the deposit of 'securities, had restored confi-
dence in each other. Moit of them had already made
their deposit, and nearly all of them named their trustees.
These arrangements have been made with a view to re-
sumption of specie payments, on the Ist August next,
and in the meantime the paper of each of the banks (the
Girard and Bank of Pennsylvania not included), will be
received on deposit of payment of debts. The interest
of the State debt had not commenced payment on the
2d, but it was hoped that in a few days arrange-
ments to effect that desirable object, would he
completed. Governor Porter was still at Phila-
delphia for the purpose ; he was expected to
leave fur llarrisburc, with the Auditor-General on the
4th. " Governor Porter," says a Philadelphia paper,
" has done all that it was in his power to do to preserve
the honour of Pennsylvania untarnished, ample means
had been provided by the Commonwealth to meet the
demand of the public creditors ; but owing to the diffi-
culties which the Bank of Pennsylvania, the depository
of the public funds, has had to encounter, there will be
a temporary delay in the payment of the interest."
The quotations of the Stock and Money Market at
New York exhibit a better feeling. At New York the
sales of cotton on the
.Ist were 1,000 bags, without
change in price. • Flour remained firm at the late quo-
tations. Ashes dull, though offered a trifle lower. The
exchange on London 71 to 84 per cent.
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR 1841.

We learn from an official table that the aggregate of the
United States Army for 1841, was 12,539. Thus-1 Major-
General, 2 Brigadier do., 1 Adjutant do., 2 Assistant do., 4
Captains by brevet, 2 Inspectors-General, 1 Quarter-Master-
General, 2 As istant do., 2 Deputy do., 4 Quarter-Masters, 28
Assistant do., 1 Commissary-General of Subsistence, 1 Assis-
tant do., 2 ommissaries, 3 Commissaries with the rank of
Captain ; or, 57 in all commissioned, attached to the General
Staff. In the Medical Department-1 Surgeon-General, 22
Surgeons, 60 Assistant do. Pay Department-1 Paymaster-
General and 18 Paymasters ; 1 Commisary of Purchases and 2
idilitary Store-keepers. In the corps of Engineers-1 Colonel,
2 Lieu.enants do., 4 Majors, 12 Captains, 12 First Lieute-
nants, 12 Second do. In the corps of topographical Engineers
—1 Colonel, 1 Lieutenant 4.3°,4 Maiirs, 10 Captains, 10 First
Lieutenants and 10 Second do. In the Ordnance Department
—322 officers and men in all. Two regiments of dragoons,
numbering 1,498 men; 4 regiments of artillery, numbering
3,020 men ; 8 regiments of infantry, numbering 7,496 men.
GREAT BRITAIN AND TEXAS.
General Hamilton recently informed the editor of the New
Orleans Bee, that the dispositions of the new British Ministry,
are equally favourable with that of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet
towards the Republic of Texas, and that the evening before he
left London he signed, with Lord Aberdeen, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, a protocol strongly indicative of these friendly
feelings. He is hastening to Texas with the least possible de-
lay, to obtain the confirmation by its Government, of some im-
portant international and financial measures he has arranged
in Europe.