The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-24 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

NEW YORK, AUG. 7.—Upon this sub ec there is
not much that can be said to send out by the British
Queen for the information of our numerous European
renders.

We are without a tariff, without a currency, with-
out credit, and should be much better off if; for a few
months, we were without a Congress. The Tariff
Bill has passed both Houses ; and as it still contains the
distribution clause, the President will veto it. Still

the Attorney-General thinks that the present law is
sufficient to enable the Government to collect the re-
venues under it. In the mean time all' duties are
paid under protest.
Congress will adjourn in a delicious row in two or
three weeks, perhaps in less tune. We hope so; but
not before the Senate passes the treaty with Great
Britain.

In th 3 meantime all the interested parties are satis-
fied with the treaty, and Lord Ashburton is preparing
to return home.

A few miserable politicians and office beggars are
trying to form a third political party, but it will not
succeed.

The cotton and corn crops are abundant, and Heaven
is smiling on the industrious and deserving. In the
meantime Satan takes care of his own in Wall-street,
and is stirring up the elements of strife in Congress.
(Correspondence of the New York Herald.)
PASSING OF THE TARIFF.

WASHINGTON, FRIDAY EVENING.—The Senate
passed the Tariff Bill this afternoon, precisely as it
came from the House, by a vote of 25 to 23 ; Messrs.
Preston, Rives, and Graham voting with the twenty
democrats against it—Mr. Henderson, absent ; and
Mr. Berrien refusing to vote. It will go to the Pre-
sident to-marrow, and early in the week a veto may
be expected. A great row will then take place, and
efforts will be made to adjourn at once, but a Revenue
Bill of some sort will no doubt be passed.
The House cleared the private calendar of all Bills
to which no objection was made.
TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN.—It gives US
great pleasure to announce 'that everything connected
with this important affair is now in a fair way to be
speedily and amicably settled. The last of the Bri-
tish Commissioners from Maine passed through this
city yesterday, on his way home from Washington.
He states that all the details of the treaty, as we have
before given them, have all been • agreed to, and
signed by all parties interested, and nothing
remains but the ratification of the treaty by
the Senate, which is expected to take place now in a
very few days. Indeed, so confident do all parties
seem about this business, that even in Canada the
price of wild lands has doubled within the last two
weeks; and emigrants and settlers who before were
fearful to locate themselves for fear of a war, are
rushing to the land offices, and vieing with each
other as to who shall become permanently settled in
the colony the soonest. This is a good sign ; and, in
addition to the above, we learn that Governor Kent,
of-Maipe„, who is still in Washington, has written
letters home, expressing his full conviction that the

Boundary Treaty- will-be confirmed by the United
States Sata`e.

BALTIMORE, Auu. G.—From gentlemen who ar-
rived from Washington last evening, I learn that
°there
are rumours that Lord Ashburton has deterinined
upon leaving the city in a very few day. 4, preparatory
to his return to Europe, and that- the Boundary
difficulties between the two nations had been posi-
tively and amicably settled. The following, in the
American of this morning, seems to be confirmatory
of what I have heard :

" Gentlemen who have just returned from Wash-
ington state that rumours were very current there,
and generally believed, that Lord Ashburton would
leave that city, in a few days, preparatory to his de-
parture for England, the terms of the treaty which he
was sent to this country to negotiate having been con-
cluded to his satisfaction. It was also stated that

Mr. Webster designed to resign his office as Secretary
of State soon after the adj mrnment of Congress. Of
course we do not know what credit is to be attached
to these reports, but, as the same rumours have

reached us before from other sources, t is possible
that there may be some truth in them."
A decline of 50 cents per barrel has taken place in
flour during the past week. The market is now well
stored, and I roward-street standard brands can be had
at 5 dots. 5) cents. per barrel ; City-mills too, has
fallen to 5 dots. 87f cents.; Susquehanna, 5 dots.
62f cents. Inspections of the week are 10,059 bar-
rels and 324 half-barrels, besides 82 barrels rye flour,
and 259 corn mehl."l Wheat is corning in plentifully,
and rules froth 1 dol. to I dol. 15 cents., according to
quality. Beef cattle in demand, and sales were made
at 4 dots. to 5 dots. per 1001 b. Whiskey, in hhds.,
25 cents., in barrels 26 cents.

The matter of the treaty i 4 not yet decided, and
many fears are entertained upon the subject. The
navigation of the St. John's, said to be given up to
the United States, is a very equivocal grant. Outside
of the line at which the United States boundary strikes
the St. John's is a fall of 75 feet, which renders the
river utterly unnavigable. The navigation is pot and
cannot be made available without the cession of the
land on one side of it. This fact has hitherto been