The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-26 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, PiIoNDAT.—We have received, by the arrival
of the packet-ship Cambridge, Captain Barstow, which
reached this port at an early hour this morning, New York
papers and adyices one day later than those brought by the
steamer.

The debate in the House of Representatives on the Oregon
Occupation Bill was suspended, the excitement in con-
nexion with the success of the annexation scheme had ex-
perienced a lull, and altogether affairs remained in statu quo
The Washington correspondent of one of the journals, under
date the 30th ult., remarks that the •democracy of the
House had become rather alarmed at their belligerent posi-
tion with regard to England, and expressed on that day a
willingness to have the Oregon Bill modified, so as to make
it conform to the treaty stipulations; and that their amend-
ment not being prepared, the debate was arrested for that
purpose. The same writer gives the following outline of the
debate in the House on the 30th ult.:—

" The House to-day was occupied in the consideration of
the Oregon 841, speeches being delivered by Messrs. Thomp-
son, of Mississippi ; M'Clerland, of Illinois ; and Owen, of
Indiana, in favour of it ; and by Mr. J. R. Ingersoll and
Mr. Elmer, against it. All these gentlemen maintained that
our claim to the Oregon territory was perfect, though the
two latter were not clear that it could rightfully be extended
north of latitude 49 degrees ; and they, as well as Mr.
Owen, were in favour of giving the notice to Great Britain
required by treaty, before we attempted to establish a Go-
vernment on it ; and they expressed their convictions
that not to do so could not but be highly offensive to
Great Britain, and would be, on her part, a sufficient cause
of war against us. Mr. Ingersoll begged gentlemen to reflect
where this war that is so much searched for is to be carried
on; it certainly would not be either in the distant territory
of Oregon, nor yet at the homes of those gentlemen of the
west who were ever so urgently pushing this measure, but it
would be on the high seas, wherever our commerce shall
float, and throughout our whole Atlantic coast and on our
north-eastern frontier; and he asked gentlemen if we were
there prepared to meet such an emergency."
It is stated that Mr. Calhoun remitted to Mr. Everett by
the last steamer a most decided dispatch, demanding from
our Government positive information relative to the refusal
given by the authorities of Bermuda some time back to de-
liver up some slaves who, after murdering a family in Florida,
escaped to the island.
The Massachusetts Anti-Annexation Convention, after
adopting an address stating their views, had adjourned
sine die.

TILE CAMBERWELL POISONING CASE.—On Monday
the inquest on this mysterious case was resumed before Mr.
Carter, at the George Canning's Head, Grove-lane, Camber-
well. After other, but not very explicit evidence, the Co-
roner summed up. The .two first branches of inquiry, he
stated, were quite satisfactorily answered, namely, the iden-
tity of the bodies and the means by which their death had
been caused, which was clearly shown to be the poison of
arsenic taken in their tea ; but the third inquiry, as to how
and by whom it had been administered, was the question of
difficulty. He carefully went over the evidence, and pointed
out its bearings as it might affect the three individuals who
only seemed to have had any means of access to it, namely,
Mr. Montague, Mrs. Montague, and George May, and left
it entirely to the jury to say whether any of these, and if
any, which, could be in any way held to be culpable. After
upwards of two hours' deliberation, the jury, about seven
o'clock, returned a verdict " That the deceased persons came
to their deaths by having taken the poison of arsenic in their
tea, but by whom administered there is no evidence before
thenkto show."