The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-09 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

We have received by the packet ship Montezuma, which
arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, New York papers to the
18th of March, twelve days later. Their contents are not
important. The National Intelligencer states that the fol-
lowing appointments have been made by the Presidant,with
the consent of the Senate :

" James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of
State; Robert J. Walker, of Mississipi, to be Secretary of the
Treasury ; W. L. Marcy, of New York, to be Secretary of
War ; George Bancroft, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of
the Navy; Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, to be Postmaster-
General; John Y. Mason, of Virginia, to be Attorney-Gene-
ral ; Alexander H. Everett, of Massachusetts, to be Commis-
sioner to China ; Benjamin G. Shields, of Alabama, to be
Charge to Venezuela; William H. Polk, of Tennessee, to be
Charge to Naples ; Albert G. Jewett, of Maine, to be Charge
to be Peru ; Robert Armstrong, of Tennessee, to be Consul at
Liverpool."
From the statements in the papers, it appears that Gene-
ral Almonte, the Mexican Minister, had sent Into the new
Executive a strong protest against the annexation of Texas,
which he terms an " unparalleled outrage."
The papers publish a letter of Mr. Cushing, giving his
views on the present position of the United States and
Mexico, growing out of the annexation question. According
to this gentleman's opinion, it is improbable that any difficul-
ties will spring from the resolutions passed by the last Con-
gress. He thinks that Mexico is in no position to make war
against the United States, when she was unable to carry on
an offensive war with Texas alone.
The New York Herald thus notices the condition of some
of the delinquent States :
" Within the past week or two several Legislatures have
adjourned. The Legislature of Illinois adjourned on the Ist
inst. During the session several important Bills connected
with the State finances were passed. The most important
one was that in relation to the payment of part of the interest
on the State debt, which secures the canal loan of j 1,600,090,
insures the completion of the canal connecting the waters of
the Mississippi with those of Lake Michigan at Chicago, and
provides for the resumption of, payment of part of the an-
nual interest on the State debt, gradually increasing the per
cent., until the fall interest is paid annually. Illinois can, in
fact, no longer be considered a delinquent State, although
the resumption of. payment is not complete, but the State
can take a place between the delinquent and solvent
States. . .

"The Legislature of Maryland adjourned on the 12th inst.
During the session several Acts and amendments to Acts
were paased providing revenue to pay the interest on the
public debt of the State. A Bill was introduced setting a
time, the Ist of July, to resume the payment of interest of
the State debt, and another to fund the interest in arrear to
the Ist of April next, at 5 per cent., but neither parsed. Had
the Legislature remained in session a few days longer, we
have no doubt both these Bills would have become laws, but
the constitution of the State compels an adjournment at a
certain time, and all unfinished business is consequently
abandoned. _ .

"The Legislature of Pennsylvania are still in session.
The Appropriation Bill, providing for the payment of the
interest due in August and the expenses of the common-
wealth, is still under consideration in the Lower House ; it

will probably pass, amended, so that whatever funds may be
in the Treasury on the Ist of August unappropriated, will be
appropriated to the payment of the interest then due."
Foreign Exchange was fiat : sterling, at 1091,! to 1093 A ;
francs, 5-25. _ _ .

The New York. Courier and Inquirer says, relative to the
Oregon :
" Dr. White, who has recently removed to Oregon, writes
to his friends near Ithaca, that a colony is rapidly settling at
the falls of the Willamette, where Oregon city has been
founded, containing a population of several hundreds, four
stores, three saw-mills, and two flour-mills, one of which has
five run of stone, and cost 15,000 dollars. They have a re-
gular colonial form of government, five counties being repre-
sented by thirteen Members. The Legislature had just closed
a session of eight days, during which twenty-five Bills were
passed. Dr. White, though not a Member, by paying 10
dollars, purchased the privilege of speaking upon one of them,
proposing to abolish the manufacture, introduction, or sale of
ardent spirits into the territory. It passed unanimously and
became a law. Everything is prosperous; the crops are good,
and Dr. White expresses the belief that the region on the
Willamette is one of the most healthy, delightful, and pro-
mising regions on the globe."
The Canadian intelligence by this arrival is unimportant.
The Houses of Legislature had presented addresses of congra-
tulation to the Governor-General upon his elevation to the
Peerage.
The Mexican advices, Vera Cruz, to the Ist ult., state that
everything was quiet.
Santa Anna was still aprisoner in the Castle of Perote, and
the general opinion was that he would neither be put to
death nor banished, but would be imprisoned for the remain-
der of his life. Generals Bassedre and Canalizo, Santa Anna's
principal minions, had been removed to the fortress of Cha-
pultepec.
The Texas question was still agitated in many of the
Mexican papers, the editors appearing to oppose the right of
the United States to annex that country as strongly as ever.