The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-14 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY, APRIL 13.
ARRIVAL OP THE CAMBRIA.
The Royal Mail steamer Cambria, captain Jud-
king, arrived here this morning, after a quick voyage
of eleven and a half days from Boston, and nine days
and eighteen hours from Halifax. She has brought
upwards of 120 passengers.
The advices from Texas, received at New York,
have thrown rather a damp upon the glorious project
of annexation.
'Texas is very shy—she doubts if
annexation will be entirely for her benefit. The
Government paper opposes it altogether ; and so great
a damp is caused in New York, that most of the press
view the subject very coolly, and the New Tork He-
rald doubts if Texas will be annexed at all.
Advices had been received at New York, from
Cuba, to the 18th ult. They were unimportant.
The following are extracts from these papers :
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS—TWO
WEEKS LATER—PROBABLE REFUSAL OF
THAT REPUBLIC TO ANNEX.
The steam-ship New York arrived at New Orleans on
the 13th with advices from Galveston to the Bth instant
inclusive.
The advices, in an annexation point of view, are very
important.
There is an evident determination on the part of Texas
to refuse to accept the plan of union to the United States
as oared by Congress. It is stated that the British
Charge " has obtained a pledge from the Ex-President
Houston to exert himself to the utmost to prevent an-
nexation," And President Jones has already nearly com-
mitted himself to the same end.
Subjoined is the news :
(Correspondence of the New York Herald.)
Galveston, Texas, March 4, 1845.
Dear Sir,—We have all, in this section of country,
been looking with considerable anxiety for your journal,
to see what opinion you may have formed relative to the
recent discomfiture of the " Warwick of the Democracy,"
as he is termed here, God save the mark, but it appears
that you have not either deemed it necessary to expend
your shot on him, or, that being without the proper in-
formation, you did not think it advisable to hazard con-
jecture.
Th. advent of Duff Green, in this country, was pe-
culiarly auspicious. His arrival was heralded in
a long article in the Telegraph, of Houston, entitled
the Warwick of the Democracy," which, it is
shrewdly conjectured, was written by bitntelt He
arrived at Galveston and created a good deal of ex-
citement by giving out that he was en route for Mexico,
to watch the movements of that Government, by
authority. He returned with a batch of informa-
tion of all kinds ; bringing, at the same time, the cor-
respondence between Shannon and Rejon—winked slyly,
put his fingers to his nose, and spoke knowingly of mat-
ters supposed to be going on in Mexico—insinuated very
gently that he had given Mr. Shannon immortality by
writing the diplomatic dispatches—talked of his con-
nexion with Mr. Calhoun—spoke of the distinguished
Southerner mentioned in Mr. Tyler's message to the
Senate, which first put him on his guard-with regard to
the designs of Britain on Texas and abolition—and, in
short, he very meekly, by " insinuation,"
Duff Green,
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suite of rooms (for privacy)—your Minister boarded
and lodged in a room with a dozen at the same time—
and commenced his practice as adviser-general to
the nation—proposed that the whole tariff regula-
tions should be changed—proved it by certain funda-
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doings, it now appears, was only preliminary to his
grand debit, which came off shortly after, as follows:
He proposed to Dr. Jones, President, to sign or recom-
mend a Bill for frontier protection, which was to be
done, without cost to Texas, as follows: General Green
and his associates were to be incorporated into a com-
pany, with power to levy war on Mexico, to conquer and
annex territory, and to pay the expenses of the war
with the spoils. To do this they were to have the pri-
vilege of inducing some sixty thousand Northern In-
dians to migrate to Texas, to be placed under the
control of the company, to carry on the war with,
wrong
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as politely insinuated to him, that if he did not sign such
a Bill when passed, that he would make his seat anything
other than one of roses—in fact, that he would revolu-
tionise the country. The result was that he was ordered
out of presence, and proclaimed as you have seen. So
ended the matter.
The General, however, is not satisfied—he has sworn
the oath of allegiance, and sworn likewise that he would
be in the next Congress, &c. To this end he has taken
up his domicile in one of our depopulated counties, gone
into a mercantile business—that is, trade with Mexico,
alias smugglin,, and will have, I doubt not, the honour
of being an M.C. from San Patricio next session. I in-
tend to look after him occasionally, and let you know his
whereabouts, and what he is at.
There >s no news hers. The people are opposed to the
Bill of annexation, and the opposition is gaining ground.
A fair treaty, as a State, assuming our public debt, &c.,
would be accepted almost unanimously, but they do no
like this mongrA annexation.
Yours, truly,

AS MODEUS.

(From N. 0. Republican, March 14.)
Papers from Galveston to the Bth inst., and from
Washington (the capital) to the Ist inst., have reached
us by the steamship New York. It appears that some
of the Texans are not at all pleased with the terms of
annexation contained in the resolutions just passed.
They look at the measure as a one-sided affair al-
together, and that they would be sadly-shorn by their
big sister Republic, in their acquiescing in the sacrifice
of their customs, dues, public property, Szc. &c., as the
price of their admission into the Union. The National
Register is really savage at " the actual pit and grave of
insignificence and infam," which these resolutions, as it
states, would plunge the Texian nation. The Register,
however, is the organ of the anti-annexationists, who are
but an insignificant fraction of the people.
The Galveston News still advocates the cause of an-
nexation.

The general appropriation Act of the last Congress
authorises the payment of 137,340 dolls., which seems to
be nearly the whole amount of the annual charge of the
Republic.
The export of provisions is becoming a leading feature
in the commerce of Texas.

(From the iVutionalh;gister, Government organ.)
If the people of Texas choose to revolutionize their
Government and institute some new and different repub-
lican organization, they may do so without the leave of
a foreign Government " first had and obtained." But
the United States have acknowledged our title to be re-
cognised as an independent nation, both de facto and de
jure. Should we adopt the course designated by their
resolutions we at once lose the benefit of that acknow-
ledgment. We pass into a state of Imbecile and hope-
less dependence upon that power—to be annexed 7—cer-
tainly never, until their aspiring partizans shall cease to
need the material we now furnish them for the manu
facture of political capital. Our relations with other
Governments dissolved, and our own nationality re-
nounced, the United States may consent to hold—as
they shall have consented to place us—in a state of
penultimate but unaccomplished, annexation !
But even this consent of the American Congress,
meagre and valueless as it is to the people of Texas, but
for which we are required to give to the United States a
lien upon onr country's sovereignty—this worthless cor.
sent, as if begrudged to Texas, is eked out to her at a
miser's usury, and is shackled with what lawyers call
" conditions precedent." Passing by the required sa-
crifice of our right to adjust the boundaries of our ter-
ritory, the consent of that Congress, even once more to
entertain the Texas question, is coupled with the cold

assurance, that if we are ever admitted into the Union
at all, we must cede to the United States " all our
mines, minerals, salt lakes and springs, also all our
public edifices, fortifications, barracks, ports and
harbours, navy and navy yards, docks, magazines,
arms, armaments, and all other property and means per-
taining to the public defence." We must also yield up
our revenue and our capacity to raise one, which single
item, under the financial regulations of our foster-
ing stepmother, would bring into her treasury at
least three hundred thousand dollars per annum ; for
which we have her kind permission to retain our public
debt, and keep our public domain; subject, however, to
the payment of the debt, and circumscribed within such
limits as:she may, hereafter, be pleased to assign to our
territory, in the exercise of her characteristic and far-
stretching diplomacy which once reached even to the
western banks of the Sabine ! We must, moreover,
truckle to her pet abolitioni44, by obligating ourselves
to prohibit slavery north of the parallel of thirty-six
degrees thirty minutes, known as the Missouri Compro-
mise line.

We have always been a warm and hearty advocate for
the cause of annexation ; but never did we dream that
the approval of the people of texas would be required
to a proposition so absurd—so degrading as the one pro-
pounded by this resolution. Our space does not now
admit of further detail. Suffice it, that we contrast our
present elevated position, as a people, secure in the enjoy-
ment of peace, and in the speedy acquisition of acknow-
ledged independence ; secure in the wealth which the
commerce of Europe is about to pour into our lap, and in
the increasing value of our lands, arising from ex-
tended occupation, and the investment of foreign capital;
secure of becoming " the most favoured" by those
powerful and wealthy sovereignties, whom both interest
and policy impel to cherish our prosperity and growth,
that their markets may be supplied with our staples ;
and secure that the increase of commerce will speedily
render no less consistent than desirable, a great diminu-
tion of the present tariff, with the alternative presented
by this resolution, of Texas divested of all these high
privileges and advantages ; shorn of her attributes as a
nation ; crippled in her commerce, in her prosperity, in
her domestic resources ; depresst d by the burdens of
public debt and direct taxation ; her land in consequence
depreciated in value ; and in the event of final annexa-

tion upon the proposed basis, our public domain not only
razed and mortgaged to secure the payment of our debt,
but even eviscerated of its mineral wealth, to swell the
federal treasury.
This is indeed but a dim and totally inadequate view of
the actual pit and grave of insignificance and infamy into
which the House of Representatives of the American
Congress have proposed to plunge this nation.
" Since he, miscall'd the morning star,
Nor man—nor fiend bath fallen so far !"
[From the Civilian and Galveston Guzene

The article which we now copy to-day from the
National Register, affords gratifying evidence of a return
on the part of the friends of annexation in this country,
to a proper sense of self-respect, and an understanding of
the position which Texas may and ought to assume in re-
lation to the question. Our friends beyond the Sabine
have lost sight of the homely adage that it takes two to
make a bargain, and only studied how to shape measures
so as to make the " reciprocity all on one side," until at
length their utter selfishness and disregard of the respect
due to Texas as an independent nation, which has thus
far maintained her nationality, rights, and liberties,
begins to produce the natural fruits of disappointment
and aversion in those of our citizens who had looked to
that quarter for a magnanimous and disinterested regard
for our welfare and happiness. The helpless and perish-
ing beggar may, without hesitation, accept the most
humiliating conditions for and agree to become the
menial of; him from whom he receives the means of
averting famine and death ; but the sturdy yeoman,
whose honest industry and strong arm afford him all th-
means of subsistence and protection requisite to his con-
dition and habits in life, may well shun the banquet and
the association, if invited into the society of the more
wealthy and presuming, when his acceptance is to be
coupled with acknowledgments of vassalage and in-
feriority.

(From the Galveston Weekly News.)
We have already furnished incontestible evidence that
the British policy in opposition to annexation has so far
succeeded, that her Britannic Majesty's Miniter has ob
tained the pledge of President Houston to use his best
endeavours to defeat that measure.
We are told, that upon condition of our renouncing
the American Union for ever, the monarchical powers of
Europe will then terminate our formidable war with
Mexico " forthwith, and compulsively." The same
friendly promise has been made, from time to time, for
the last seven or eight years ; and its repetition. just at
this particular crisis, when the speedy success of annexa-
tion is beyond all reasonable doubt, is exceedingly well
timed, in order to create a re-action in the public feeling
of this country. We are not told whether this friendly
mediation is again to be attended by another " armistice"
as a necessary preliminary step, to be afterwards " im
proved into one of more convenient duration." We are,
however, assured that " France and England will openly
submit to the consideration of our Government and
people inducements for us to remain independent." Such
information as this is usually confined to the chief agents
of Government as a matter of State secresy. and is rarely
furnished to the public journals, except for the purpose
of political influence and foreign counteraction. This
announcement is made in the positive and unqualified
terms of a negotiator, who has participated in all the
Cabinet secrets and intrigues of both hemispheres.
The public need not be surprised should this singular
manifesto prove to be the harbinger of party organiza-
tion, and of great exertions in this country, to counter-
act the labours of our friends in the United States and to
defeat this great measure here, after it has triumphed
there.—" We shall see."
The Civilian of the Bth has the following paragraph
in relation to the export trade in provisions, &c. :—We
still look, with great confidence, for the period when a
highly important and lucrative trade will be done in the
exportation of many articles from Texas, which have not
hitherto come into the account of the foreign trade of
the country. Within the last year important advances
have been made, and there is a good prospect that they
will continue until the many important but dormant re-
sources, which are capable of making Texas the most
prosperous country on the globe, are developed.
The same paper, referring to the fact that the trade
between Galveston and Havannah is beginning to attract
attention, and the prapect that it will ultimately become
of great importance, publishes a list of the rates and
charges for commission, &c., on purchases, sales, &c., in
Havannah.
The same paper of the Ist instant has the following
paragraph in relation to Gen. Duff Green's misunder-
standing with the Texian President. It seems from this
' that the affair has not been settled, as stated.
We observe a statement in some of the United States
papers that the matter between the President of Texas
and Gen. Duff Green, which led to the revocation of the
exequature of the latter, has been " settled," and the in-
ference is left that an amicable adjustment has been
made of the whole affair, to the satisfaction of the Pre-
sident—We are informed that no adjustment of any
kind, furtner than appears from the proclamation, has
ever been made of the matter, unless a remark of the
President that he regretted the necessity which com-
pelled him to take the course he did, may be so consi-
dered. Neither he nor his friends believe that the pro-
clamation: was predicated upon any misapprehension
or insufficient cause whatever. The American Minister,
we have understood, entertains similar views.
THE IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE FROM

TEXAS.

HOSTILITY OF THE. GOVERNMENT TO AN

NEXATION.

We give, in another column, late and highly important
intelligence from Texas, from which it would appear
that annexation is as far off as ever. The organ of the
government—the National Register—is, it will be seen,
exceedingly batter and determined in its expression of
hostility to the House resolutions, and it is quite appa-
rent that so far as the Executive of Texas is concerned,
the terms offered by the Congress of the United States
will be rejected with the utmost sewn. We are str• nell
inc'ined to believe that the artic'e in the RegiAer was
wri, ten by President Jones himself. It is couched
in his style, and there can be no doubt that it ex
presses his sentiments. How the mass of the people
are disposed to treat the matter remains to be seen; hut
whatever the decision or the popular will may be, the
completion of the measure may be now regarded as in-
definitely postponed.
It wilt be recollected that immediately on the pa.swtge
of the resolution leaving to the President the choice of
the alternatives, the House Resolutions, as they are
called, being the one, and Mr. Benton's bill the other,
Mr. Tyler selected the former, which it now appears was
the most unpalatable to Texas. What is the natural
inference if the Executive of Texas refuses to annex on
these terms ? Why, another protracted appeal to the
people, and the probability is, that the influence of the
Government, and various other interests, may be able to
defeat the project altogether. There certainly cannot
be any doubt that the resolutions are less favourable to
Texas than the treaty rejected by the Senate, and con-
templated by Mr. Benton's resolutions, which were to
negotiate on the same principles. And it was very well
known at the time, in well-informed quarters, that the
feeling in Texas was likely to run counter to the reso-
lutions selected by Mr. Tyler.
It would appear, therefore, that Mr. Tyler and Mr.
Calhoun, in selecting that alternative, had some inkling,
probably through Duff Green, that such a proposition
would be negatived by the Government of Texas, and
was not likely to please the people, and that by selecting
it the whole annexation question would be again thrown
before the people, in our elections throughout the coun-
try, and that thus the question would remain as unsettled
as ever. The conduct of Mr. Tyler, and the hasty man.
ner in which he dispatched his messenger to the Govern-
ment of Texas, after selecting the worst and most un-
palatable resolutions, would thus seem to imply that he
did not wish to see the question settled, and desired to
take it out of the hands of Mr. Polk altogether, leaving
it to popular discussion for future direction.
It would appear, from a recent vote in secret session
of the Senate, made public the other day, that the Pre-
sident is prohibited from selecting any other mode of
annexation, so that in every point of view, and on all
hands, the question is afloat again.—When we take all
this into consideration—the movements in South Caro-
lina hostile to Mr. Polk—the determination of the Whig
party to resist annexation to the latest gasp—and
various other matters ; we arc very much inclined to
believe that annexation is as far off as ever, and that the
battle must be fought over again.
(From the New York Herald.)
The Texas National Register, a paper recently esta-
blished at the capital, contains a long and able article
on the Annexation Bill, which was then known to have
passed the United States' House of Representatives,
and which afterwards became a law. It opposes it very
bitterly, on the ground that too much is required of
Texas, and too little is yielded to her. The sacrifice
of her nationality, the ending of her stipulations with
foreign Powers, the surrender of the public property,
and the other •conditions demanded are thought tco

great a price to pay for the privilege of being admitted
as a State at some future time, if the United States' Go-
vernment see fit to do so. The same paper publishes
the following paragraph by way of comment upon the
propositions made in England to repeal the duty on
cotton :—The political importance of its speculations is
entirely nullified by the prospect that the cotton of the
United States, as well as that of Texas, will be admitted
w thiLbenefit of this new regulation.

" The removal of this duty on cotton will enable the
British Government to throw vast commer•ial advantages
into the hands of the merchants and planters of Texas.
We have every reason to believe, that if we conclude to
remain independent, this duty will be removed from all
Texas cotton introduc, d into English ports, while it will
be retained upon that produced in the United States.
Under this discrimination in our favour, may be also
embraced sugar and tobacco. In this way, our rival-
ship with the United States will be almost instanta-
neously established ; for, under such an arrangement,
they wculd gain by the change an increase of profits
of not less than forty per cent. per annum."
THR UNITED STATES AND MExico.—The Not Zonal
Intlligncer of yesterday morning, in one of those well
considered articles, which distinguish it as an intelligent
and statesmanlike journal, after adverting to the remark-
able fact that while hazviding all the chances of war
with Mexico, by the propesal to annex Texas, Congress
has actually cut down the appropriations both for Army
and Navy—asks this significant question :
" Should Mexico at once (53 is altogether possible)
issue her commissions, and, lending her flag to the pri-
vateers of all countries, let them loose upon our trade,
what is to be done ? Is the President of the United
States to make war of his own authority ? Can he do
so with no appropriations except those for a state of
peace ?" _ _

Who shall answer ? And if there be no authori

and no means to resist aggression without convening a
special Session of Congress, what is our position ?
OCEAN STEAMERS.—The organisation of the lines of
American ocean steamers is neatly complete. We shall
soon have three or four fine steam packets plying regu•
larly between New York and Liverpool.
(From the Neu) York Tribune.)

WASHINGTON. MARCH 19.-S. S. South;vorth, now o

the New York Custom-house, was to-day appointed con-
sul to Japan. I believe this is a new office. Mr. Zadock
Pratt wanted to have it made a full mission.
MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTH CAROLINA.—The ful-

lowing order, adopted in the House of Representatives
of Massachusets on Wednesday, will show the stand
which that State has determined to take in respect to
the matters in controversy between her and South
Carolina :
" Ordered, That the Committee to whom was referred
the message of the Governor upon the subject of the
treatment of the Hon. Samuel Hoar, in South Carolina,
be directed to report to the Legislature, resolves to the
following effect, viz.:—
" That Massachusetts is restrained from further pre-
sent action in behalf of her citizens imprisoned in South
Carolina solely on account of their colour, and from the
exercise of her own powers to protect the commerce of

her citizens, by her Unwillingness to do the slighted vio
lence to the Constitution of the United States, the pro

tection of which she is claiming for her own citizens in
the premises.
" That South Carolina having, by her constituted au-
thorities, interfered to prevent access to the Courts of
the United States within her territory, it becomes the
duty of the General Government to afford to the citi-
zens of our Commonwealth, while in another State, all
the rights guaranteed to them by the constitution of the
United States; _ _ _

" And that Massachusetts now demands, and will con-
tinue to demand, that the General Government make
such change in the jurisdiction of the federal courts, or
such provisions by law, as will enable any citizens of
Massachusetts, who may hereaftvr be imprisoned in
any other State solely on account of his colour, to urge
his claim to liberty and protection in the courts of the_
United States ; and that ur senators and repr.scnta
tives be requested to lose no opportunity of urging this
subject upon the consideration of Congress."—New York,
ch 20.

(Correspondence of the Tribune.)

WASHINGTON, MARCH 22, 1845.—We have an inte-
resting item of news to-day, which is, that M. Bodiswo,
the Russian Ambassador, has formally entered a protest
with our Government on behalf of the Emperor ot. Russia.
against the annexation of Texas. 'Fli-ugh but a rumour.
the source from which it c.,m,s entitles it to con-
sideral

I umien.t4ntl that letters tltv, been received from nu
Ch.:l::‘ at Texas (or the locum tehens of the C1ia1.,..6,11:p.
to the ausene o. Alajor Donci.tm, whutn we are paying
to be there), stating that tht pe.pb. of Texas will not
accept our prop,sittori fa. annexati..n. It may bk th::t
th- :,tar of Tex-.s will 3er refuse t,) shine to tut
consielh.t►on

MEXICAN AFFAIRS. Ihe .New 0 leans Picayune of
the 12:h inst., gik the g paragraph :
%Ve learn that the A,.exican Consul in this city, SF MIT
Anaugoiz. has recelvod instruo ions to elose the Consu
late in this city, and that he intends d,ing so before the
close of the month.

I .EX A S.- l'he National in teldgencer copies the stric-
tures of the Texan papers OH the subject of Annexation
with t. is remark Our readers must rec• ive a dif-
ferent impression from the perusal of them than we do,
if they c,n imagine any form of annexation whatev,r,
that the United States could possibly agree to, which
would be acceptable to, or aecepte:l by, the authors of
these commentaries."

MONEY MARKET, MARCH 29.
15,000 Uni ed States 6's '62
5,080 New York State s's '5B
1,000 Ohio 6's '56 .........
1,000 Kentucky 6's
1,000 Illinois Special 4
10,000 Penn. s's b3o 76
25 Shares Mech. Banking Association
10 .2Etna Ins. Company B7
100 Farmers' Trust
50 Canton Company ..........
100 Morris Canal 32
125 East Boston
34 Housatonic RR
250 Long Island RR
50 Erie RR blo 31-,}
50 Mohawk RR 631
58 Utica and Sch. RR.
175 Nor. and Wor. RR.
4

114
1014
97

250 Stonington RR. 4O:
150 Reading RR. 49
50 Wilmington RR.
MONDAY, MARCH 31, Two P.M.—The Stock Market
still continues very much depressed, and prices without
any material alteratioa. Stonington fell off per cent.;
Long Island, ; Reading Railroi d went up ; Morris
Canal, ; Mohawk, 1 ; while Norwick and Worcester,
Erie, Farmers' Loan, Pennsylvania Fives, Canton, Vicks-
burg, Ohio Sixes, and Indiana closed firm, at Satur-
day's prices. The transactions were very limited to-
day, and the prevailing opinion seems to be that prices
must continue to decline, until they come somewhere in
the vicinity of the va!ue of the socks.