The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-20 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

The British and North American Royal Mail steamer
llibernia, Capt. Ryrie, arrived here this morning shortly after
11 o'clock. She was much beyond her usual time, and fears
were beginning to be entertained respecting her safety. On
inquiry, we find that the cause of her delay arose from hav-
ing touched on the southernmost point of Cape Race, Nova
Scotia, during a thick fog on the sth inst., and then was
obliged to run into St. John's, Newfoundland, where she ob-
tained some trifling repairs, and sailed therefrom on the 9th
inst. She brings 71 passengers.
We have received our usual files of New York and other
American papers to the Ist inst.—three days later than by
the Great Western. The political news is not important. It
was rumoured that Mr. Packenham, the British Minister at
Washington, finding there is little hope of adjusting the
Oregon question, has proposed to leave the whole territory in
its present position for 20 years, under the joint protection of
England and the States, and with the stipulation that at the
end of that period its then inhabitants may attach them-
selves to either country, or erect themselves into an inde-
pendent sovereignty as they may prefer. The New York
papers hope that this rumour will prove authentic. We do
not believe there is any ground for it. The wish is, no doubt,
on the part of our transatlantic neighbours father to the
thought. The British Government cannot submit to any
more shuffling. The question must be decided forthwith, and
that Mr. M'Lane knows. A correspondent of the Commer-
cial Advertiser, writing on the 28th ult. from Washington,
says

" I am informed, on what seems to be good authority, that
Mr. ➢l• Lane has written to some of his friends in Maryland
that unless the United States shall recede from their posi-
tion on the Oregon question, war with England is inevit-
able."

The Courier and Inquirer, of the 31st, usually so temperate
in its tone, concludes au article upon the possession of Cali-
fornia with the bold remark, "We lay it down as an axiom,
to be enforced by imr, if necessary, that when Mexico ceases
to own Californio it must constitute an integral part of the
American Union."

The same journal contains the following intelligence rela-
tive to the Oregon question, which, according to all accounts
received. is entitled to credit. Polk is resolved to talk big in
his message to Congress, and yield not one inch to the
islanders. In fact, the Americans consider we have no right
whatever to be in that quarter at all :

" There is a good deal of speculation afloat as to the actual
posture of the negotiations between our Government and
that of England respecting the Oregan territory, and some
little uneasiness lest delay should breed discord. A general
impression prevails here, that a proposition to refer the
whole matter to arbitration has been refused by this Zio_
vernmeut ; and as the period approaches for the inc,eting of
Congress, the first week in December, there is so:,„ feverish-
',rent this topic
ness manifested as to how the President may
in his message. On this point we hazard
.nily this surmise,
Al in maiutahling the
that the message will not be less decid
of the Oregon than was
the President, and to
claim of this country to the whole
the inaugural message deliverer' by
language ol* the message, :emains to
_England.
which exception was taken in
"Whether Congress wig' England.
, go any further than mer,..,',y to
bree-
tsuthe
-..-e not to speculate ili,on what, in any mode in which i
re-echo in
inWslr vcehne
k can be treated, Will prove a ticklish
affair."

The following extract from a private letter received by
the Hibernia was posted in the Underwriters'-room, Liver-
pool, CAI Tuesday :
" On the subject of the Oregon, the President will main-
tain fully, and even in stronger language, in his message of
December next, the right of the United States to the terri-
tory than he did in the message of December last, unless,
in the meantime some conciliatory proposition emanate from
your Government, such as permitting the matter to rest kg