The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

Grave." It is not figurative, or coloured ; but a
I ictly true echo of his sentiments:—

MY GRAVE.
BY THOMAS DAVIS.
Shall they bury me in the deep,
Where ipnd-forgetting waters sleep?
Shall they dig a grave for me,
Under the green-wood tree?
Or on the wild heath,
Where the wilder breath
Of the storm doth blow
Oh, no ! ob, no!
Shall they bury me in the Palace Tombs,
Or under the shade of Cathedral domes?
Sweet 'twere to lie on Italy's shore;
Yet not there—nor in Greece, though I love it more.
In the wolf or the vulture my grave shall I find !
Shall my ashes career on the world seeing wind?
Shall they fling my corpse in the battle mound,
Where coffinless thousands lie under the ground ?
Just as they fall they are buried so—
Oh, no! oh, no!
No ! on an Irish green hill-side,
On an opening lawn—but not too wide :
For I love the dip of the wetted trees—
I love not the gales, but a gentle breeze,
To freshen the turf—put no tombstone there,
But green sods deck'd with daisies fair,
Nor sods too deep ; but so thtit the dew,
The matted grass-roots may trickle through.
Be my epitaph writ on my country's mind,
" He serv'd his country, and lov'd his kind."
Oh ! 'twere sweet unto the grave to go,
If one were sure to be buried so.

MEXICO and the UNITED STATES.
(From the Journal des Debats.)
The United States deserve applause for the prosperity
they have gained, and good wishes for its prolongation. They
form a great nation which cultivates most admirably the soil
on which it is planted by Providence, and has opened vast
fields to civilisation, but the domain allotted to them is quite
sufficient to satisfy any ambitious and enterprising people. It
is ten times the extent of our France, which nevertheless is a
very fine empire. All the acquisitions required to consoli-
date them, and make them masters of their own possessions
they have alreeady won by force or negotiation. They have
the Valley of the Mississippi and Floridas, and all that origi-
nally belonged to the Indians. What more have they needof ?
Have not their twenty millions of people sufficient room in
their vast territories? If the United States knew their own
interest, they would be contended with what they havei-The
civilised world cannot view with indifference their aggran-
disement on the Mexican side, for every inch of ground they
gain in that direction is so much given up to the infamous
institution of slavery. For the political balance of the world
the conquest of Mexico by the United States may create
eventual dangers, which, though distant, it will not be super-
fluous to guard against. Europe, therefore, watches with
care a great empire which oceupies in the east and in the
north an immense surface covered with a population of
sixty-two millions, double that of France andthat of Austria,
and quadruple that of Prussia, and cannot help being fillet
with the contemplation of another colossus which may
occupy the whole space of the isthmus of Panama from the
mouths of the St. Lawrence to the Columbia River in the
Oregon, thus acquiring the disposal of the most productive
cultivable lands and the richest mines of the earth, and ex-
tremely redoubtable at sea. Between the autocracy of Russia
on the east, and the democracy of America thus aggrandised
on the west, Europe may find herself more compressed than
she may one day think consistent with her independence and
dignity. It is not for the interest of Europe that the
entirety of America should be in one hand, nor do we think
America herself wishes it. Well, then ! The conquest of
Mexico would be a wide step towards the enslavement of
the world by the United States, and that a levy of bucklers
by the Mexicans at this moment would lead the way to this
subjection. There is, therefore, good reason why the public
mind should be turned with attention towards what is now
passing on the other side of the Atlantic.