The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-31 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.

The British and North American Royal mail steam-ship
Acadia, Captain Harrison, arrived at Liverpool yesterday,
bringing the Hon. L. M'Lane, United States Minister to St.
James's, several members of his family, arid a large number
of passengers.
The annexation of Texas to the United states, it will be
seen, has been agreed to by the Texan Congress. The ques-
tion a4to the course Mexico will adopt is yet problematical.

(From the Galveston News.)
We are indebted to Mr. Briggs for the following interesting do-
cuments, which we hasten to give our readers. Verbally we
hear from Mr. B. that the propositions for our independence have
been submitted to the Senate. They are not yet made public, but
it is understood that they are highly objectionable, and will be
promptly rejected.

Executive Department, Washington, June 16,1845.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives,
I am happy to greet you on this interesting occasion, as the
representatives of the people, again assembled is the discharge of
your high and important duties. The call of an extraordinary
session of Congress at this early day, by the Executive, was not
made without the most mature deliberation, and a due reference to
the great crisis which has arisen since your late adjournment, in
the affairs of Texas, as well as the almost unanimous expression of
public will, which took place throughout the country in regard to
the same.

The Executive has now the pleasure to transmit to the Honour-
able Congress, for such action as they may deem suitable, the pro-
positions which have been made on the part of the United States to
this Government, for the annexation of Texas aid its incorporation
as a state into that great and kindred confederacy; together with
the correspondence between the two Governments, which has arisen
out of the same. This correspondence, entering as it does very
fully into the views and sentiments of the Goverments in question,
renders it unnecessary for the Executive to add (for the information
or consideration of Congress) but little thereto in reference to the
proposed measure.
The Executive has much satisfaction in observing, what no
doubt will forcibly arrest the attention of the Congress, that al.
though the terms embraced in the resolutions of the-United States
Congress may at first have appeared less favourable than was de-
sirable for Texas, that the very liberal and magnanimous views
entertained by the President of the United States towards Texas,
and the promises made through the representative of that country
in regard to the future advantages to be extended to her if the
consented to the proposed union, render those terms much more ac-
ceptable than they would otherwise have been.
The state •f public opinion, and the great anxiety of the people
to aot definitely upon the subject of annexation by a Convention
of Deputies, as prescribed in the resolutions of the United States
Congress, induced the Executive to issue his proclamation on the
sth of May, ult., recommending an election for sixty-one De-
puties, to be held in the several counties throughout the Republic,
on the:4th of the present month, and to assemble in Convention at
the city of Austin, on the 4th of July next. This recommenda-
tion has met the sanction of the citizens generally and the de-
puties in the several counties, so far as heard from having been
elected upon the basis proposed, It is contldently expected the
Convention will assemble at the time and place fixed upon.
To this Convention the question of annexation and the
adoption of a State Constitution will probably belong;
and they will determine the great question of the na-
tionality of Texas, u to them shall seem most conducive
to the interest, happiness, and prosperity of the people whom they
will represent. It is important that the " consent of the existing
Government" should be given to their exercising the powers
which have been delegated to them, in order to comply with a
requirement to that effect in the resolutions on the subject of an-
nexation, passed by the American Congress. For this purpose,
the present extraordinary session of the Congress of the Republic
of Texas has been convoked, and to its wisdom as a co-oruitiate
department, the Executive now submits the determination of the
matter.

The services to be performed by the Convention will be arduous,
and will probably engage it for a considerable period of time, and
the Executive would respectfully recommend to Congress the pro-
priety of making a suitable appropriation for the payment of its
Members, as well as the officers it may find occasion to employ.
The Executive has the pleasure, in addition to presenting Con-
gress the propositions concerning Annexation, to inform them,
that certain conditions preliminary to a treaty of peace upon the
basis of a recognition of the independence of Texas by Mexico,
were signed on the part of the latter, of the city of Mexico, on the
19th of May last, and were transmitted to this Government on the
id inst. by the Baron Alley de Cyprey, Minister Plenipotentiary of
his Majesty the King of the French, at that court, by the hands of
Capt. Elliott, H. B. M. Charge d'Affaires near this Government.
In consequence of Gm signing of these preliminaries, the Executive
believed it to be his duty to the Congress to make the fact known
to the people of Texas, and to declare and proclaim a cessation of
hostilities between Texas and Mexico, until the same could be
communicated to, and acted upon by, Congress and the Convention
about to assemble. A proclamation for this purpose was conse.
quently issued on the 4th inst., a copy of which is herewith trans.
mated. The preliminaries being in the nature of a treaty, will,
with all the correspondence in relation thereto, be forthwith com.
municated to the Honourable Senate for its constitutional advice,
and such action as in its wisdom the same shall seem to require,
The alternative of annexation or independence will thus be
placed before the people of Texas, and their free, sovereign, and un-
biassed voice, will determine the all-important issue; and so far
as it shall depend upon the Executive to act, he will give im-
mediate and full effect to the expression of their will.
His situation in regard to the important subjects now communi.
cated to Congress, has, since their late adjournment, been one of
great delicacy and embarrassment. Questions of much difficulty
have been presented for his determination, upon which the fate
and welfare of the country depended, and without precedent or
constitutional guide for his governance, he has been obliged to
assume, in consequence, great and severe responsibilities. He
trusts, however, that Congress will approve the course he has
adopted, and, by their enlightened counsels, relieve and direct him
in the course hereafter to be pursued in relation to those questions.
The Executive is happy to announce to Congress that Texas is at
peace with the world ; that with all foreign Powers with whom we
have had intercourse, friendly relations are maintained. The dif.

ferent tribes of Indians on our borders, with whom treaties exist,
have continued to observe the same with good faith; and within
the last few nays infermation has been received that the only band
of Comanches within our limits, who had maintained until then a
hostile attitude towards Texas, have sued for peace, expressed a
wish to be permitted to come to Bexar to celebrate a treaty of
friendship, which, on the part •f this Government, has been c, tn.
plied with.
The arrangements made at your regular session, for additional
companies of rangers to be mustered into service, has been carried
into effect, asd have afforded adequate and efficient protection to
our frontiers. The receipts into the Treasury have been sufficient to
meet the various expenditures of the Government. A specie cur-
rency has been maintained without difficulty, and all the Exchequer-

bills which were in circulation at the period of your late ad-
ournment, have been redeemed and withdrawn from circulation,
and the Executive is happy to congratulate the Congress and the
country upon a state of peace, happiness, and prosperity never be.
fore experienced !. y Texas, and rarely if ever equalled by so young
a ras! tn.
remains for the Executive to express an assured confi-
de:. ai in your individual wish to sustain the best interests of
Texas, and the fervent hope that lie who holds the destinies of
men and nations in his hand, may crown your deliberations with
his richest blessings.

JOINT RESOLUTION.