The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-17 00:00:00

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LONDON:
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1842.

By the steam-packet Columbia, arrived at

Liverpool on Saturday morning, after a passage

of eleven days, we have received a series of
New York papers to the 31st ult., inclusive;
Beston papers, of the Ist ; and Halifax papers,
of the 3d.
In another part of The Sun we insert the reso-

lutions which Mr. CLAY has laid on the table of
the Senate, for amending- the Constitution of the
United States; which is the most import-

ant piece of

political information these

papers bring-. Mr. CLAY'S object is to restrict
the Executive power, and he proposed that
no Senator or Representative, while he is such,
shall be appointed to any office; that a majority
of the two Houses of Congress, instead of two-
thirds, as HOW required, shall besufficient to give
a Bill vetoed by the PRESIDENT the force of law,
after reconsideration by the Congress, notwith-
standing his veto; and that the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Treasurer shall be annually
elected by a jo►nt vote of the Senate and
House of Representatives. The resolutions have
been printed, but no time appears to have been
appointed for* taking; therffinto consideration.
Tile other business before the Congress seems
of little interest out of the United States. It re-
lated chiefly to a Bill for suspending the opera-
tion of the Bankrupt Law till July 1842, which
was on the table, and to fiscal measures, the
United States Government being so pressed fur
cash, that an appeal was made to the House of
Representatives ad misericorditun, otherwise
Government bills would be dishonoured to the,
extent of 250,000 dollars.
JOHN C. SPENCER, of New York, is appointed,
we see, Secretary of War, in the place of JOHN
M'LEAN, of Ohio, who declined accepting the
appointment.

Amongst the illustrations which these papers
bring of American manners we may mention a
considerable robbery on board a steam-boat, and
the conviction of a Mr. Justice WILEY as a-re-
ceiver of stolen property. " Well," says the New
York Eaiiress," may it have shocked the people
hat a Minister of Justice and a Magis-
trate, bound by his oath to uphold the laws,
should boldly stand forth and openly violate
them—that he should consort with thieves and
burglars, and stoop so low, for the sake of a few
paltrf dollars, as to become the medium be-
tween the robbed and the countenanc-
ingrobbers, countenanc-
in their crimes; and assisting in their villany."
We trust, from such remarks, that crimes of
tbis kind are not frequent, even in a country
which has for a long
period received-int. her
• bosom many of the worst charaeters of 5r...
Lord MORPETH was at New York,
+ eras
,sitpresent at this man's trial.
"!" An expedition, which bad been despatched
'''frOzn Texas to Santa Fe, " more as friends than
foes," " to open commercial relations," consist-
ing of two detachments, one under a Coloqel

CooK, and the other under a Colonel M‘LEop,
has been entirely captured by the Mexicans,
partly it is said by the treachery of a Captain
LEWIS, and marched off to Mexico. They seem
to have given up their arms without fighting.
Some apprehensions are entertained for the lives
of these prisoners now that SANTA ANNA is
Dictator.

The Illustrious, with Sir CHARLES BAGOT,
the new Governor-General of Canada, reached
the quarantine ground below New York on the
30th ult. Sir CHARLES was to leave New York
for Canada on the 3d inst.

The Judges of the Court of Sessions had quashed
the indictment against NICHOLAS BIDDLE and
other parties connected with the United States
Bank, on the ground of inforthality.
_

' The markets at New York were rather dull,
but we notice that some purchases of corn and
flour had been made for the English market,
and some purchases of cotton, chiefly for the
markets of the Continent. Very little, it is
added, was purchased for England. Such a cir-
cumstance makes us regard it as of importance
to remind our readers that the Americans can
now better dispense with our markets than we
can dispense with theirs. If they cannot now ob-
tain all the manufactured articles they require
from the Continent, it is clear that the Conti-
nent will soon be able to supply them.
Woollens and hose they already procure to a
considerable extent from Germany; cutlery
and other hardware are also obtained from Dus-
seldorf and Liege, as well as Sheffield and Bir-
mingham. The wants of the Americans, then,
if we obstinately continue to refuse to take their
corn and other raw produce, may be supplied by
the Continent, but it is not so easy to know where
,our artisans will find a market equal to that of
the United States.
Some of our theorists recommend us to colo-
nize the islands in the Pacific Ocean, in order to
obtain, at the end of a century or two, a market
equal to that which the United States now offers
for our goods. The folly of throwing away a
certain and most valuable connection, for the
sake of one, to be somewhat less valuable two
hundred years hence, is probably not to be sur-
passed by any folly into which a theory ever led
writers and politicians. It is no recommendation
to us that the colonies are to be ours, that is,
governed by the same merciless aristocracy as
now rules us, and which, if allowed, will no doubt
continue at the end of 200 years to misgovern
the colonies and starve the people just as at
present. Whatever advantages our distant colo-
nies may offer to us two centuries hence, the
United States offer to us now, and the mono-
mania which would cut them off is infinitely de-
plorable, compared to that wretchedness which.
sometimes drives individuals to take their own
life, or the lives of others.

Madrid Journals of the Bth instant have been
duly received. On the previous day the Senate
unanimously voted an approval of the conduct
of the Government in refusing to allow M. DE
SALVANDY, the. French Ambassador, to present
his credentials to the young QUEEN instead of to
the REGENT, as provided by the Constitution.
This vote was received with the liveliest demon-
strations of joy out of doors.
The Madrid Funds on the Bth were stationary.
No bargain for cash was transacted in the Fives.
On the 7th, four bargains were done in the
Threes for 1,260,000 reals, at 23* for cash and
221 for sixty days; twenty-nine bargains in the
Fives for 13,020,000 reals, at 33* 33 fur cash,
34, 33i, j, 3i3 , 33k, 1-16, for various dates.
Exchange upon London, ninety days, 37f.

There is not much political news of import-
ance in the Paris Journals of Friday and Satur-
day. On Wednesday M. DE SALVANDY, the
French Ambassador, arrived at Bayonne with
his. suite. On Thursday the. Chamber of Peers
adopted the Address in answer to the Speech
from the Throne, by a majority of 126 votes to
1 ; having previously voted. the appearance
of the Editor of the Siecle at their bar on the
18th inst., to answer the charge of publishing.
a libel upon that very sensible, but far from im-
maculate, body. M. CHAMBOLLE, the Deputy,
has addressed a letter to the President of the
Chamber of Peers, ayowing'himself the writer of
the implicated article in the Siecle. The Cham-
ber of Peers will not be likely to take any notice
of M. CHAMBOLLE'S letter.

The draft of the Address of the Deputies, in
answer to the Speech from the Throne, pleases
the Paris press-just as little as the Speech itseP;
of which it is4a mere echo.
A serious disturbance took place at the Italian
theatre of Alexandria on the 23d ult., during the repre-
sentation of Della Lucia di Lammermoor, in consequence
of a dispute between some Italians, who were vocife-
rously applauding the prima donna (Signora Polani),
and some Englishmen, who wished to hear the perform-
ance. The Italians were severely punished by. the Eng-
lishmen's fists, and forced to fly. Ladies fainted, and
the performance was concluded with the first act, every
one having left the theatre. The Mahometans who were
present were much scandalized, and exclaimed, " Those
are the Europeans, who have some here to civilize the
Turks !"
This affair produced an unpleasant result on the morn-
ing of the 26th ult. Dr. Grassi, accompanied by M.
Ceruti, the Sardinian Consul-General, and a M. Clere,
were walking on the square, when they were met by a Mr.
Brooke, accompanied by some other Englishman. Mr.
Brooke, addressing the Doctor in Italian, asked him " If
he had called him an ill-behaved. person ?" to which
the Doctor replied, " It is true ; because you dis-
turbed public order in the Theatre." Mr. Brooke
then struck the Doctor with his fist on the face. M.
Grassi placed his hand on his sabre, but M. Clere pre-
vented him from using it. Mr. Brooke then snatched
the sword from M. Clere, and broke it into pieces. M.
Ceruti then declared, that he considered this a personal
insult, when another Englishman replied, that he was
ready to give him satisfaction on the spot. The Italians
then withdrew, and it was feared that they might, in their
anger, use their daggers against the Englishmen.