The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-18 00:00:00

- -UNITED STA-T-ES NEWS.

'(Fhrther particulars from the New York papers
of the.2Bth ult.) - -

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

Thank God at last. This country—this glorious
land—has at length reached the bottom. We have
touched the solid rock—in commerce, currency,
politics, religion, virtue, demoralization, folly, charla-
tanism, and good sense. From this day forward, the
march of the republic will be onward and upward,
in every element of civilization and sound economy.
Our negotiations with England are making great
progress, and every symptom indicates a long, last-
ing, and honourable peace. Our difficulties with
Mexico do not look so fair, but the Mexicans can be
thrashed into decency. In domestic politics we arc
in a very interesting state. For the first time since
the revolution, we have a President making the ex-
periment of governing the country without a party,
but simply trusting to the principles of common sense
and rectitude of a free people. This has produced
some confusion in the action of Congress—and caused
some discredit to the public finances—but things will
yet come right. The next Presidency is three years
off—and little can be said of the result of the pre-
sent state of parties.
In commerce and currency there can be no mis-
take. In the greater portion of the country, the rot-
ten banks have been closed, and things are adjusting
themselves to a specie basis. The Bankrupt law has
less effect than had been anticipated. The season is
promising, and great hopes are formed of the coming
crops. The whole active commerce of the nation is
reorganizing itself, on a sound basis. Congress will,
unquestionably, pass a new revenue law, Increasing,
the duties—but the embarrassed States cannot re-
cover in many years. The great State of New York
is the first to lead the way in resuscitation -of public
credit, and the principles of honesty.
In morals, philosophy, and religion, we are also in
a fair way of improving. Extravagant habits of living
have gone the way of the broken banks and financiers,
that is, to the devil. The great temperance reform is
increasing. Every month we have a new science, or a
new religion starting up—hut Prophet Joe Smith, the
Mormon, seems to be the most successful among
modern apostles. _ _

On the whole, we begin to feel quite comfortable
in this country, and hope they get along pretty well
in Europe.
FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.

Lord Ashburton is getting along very elegantly in
Washington. Ills first official public dinner was a.
brilliant affair, and went off with great eclat. The
wines and fruits from England were much admired,
and swallowed with great gnat.' He has had several
dinners and fetes given to him, played at cards with
Mr. Clay, drank wine with the President, and had an
old familiar with the veteran lion of literature, John
Quincy Adams.. He is likely to make his mission suc-
cessful and pleasing to all parties. Our two leading
literary characters have left us ; Irving has gone to
Spain, and Paulding gone to New Orleans and the
Hermitage, in the suite of ex-President Van Buren, to
see General Jackson, and hear the old lion roar once
more before he dies. Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Paul-
ding, are by this time at Louisville, whence they go
to Ashland to meet Mr. Clay. The latter gentleman
is by this time at Pittsburgh, or even nearer home.
Lord Morpeth, when last heard from, was at New
Orleans. He, too, will probably visit Mr. Clay at
Ashland. Boz and his lady have arrived at Cleveland,
on• their way to Niagara Falls, where he spends a few
days, then down to Montreal and New York ; he will
be here the latter end of May, and return to England
in June.

THEATRICALS IN THE UNITED STATES.

The summer season not having fairly opened yet
anywhere, we have little to tell relating to theatricals
other than to chronicle the whereabouts of the actors.

The Seguin troupe appear likely to succeed at the
Park for a few weeks. They had a good house the
first night, a poor one the second, and a tolerably
good one the third night. They are a singular in-
stance of an operatic company being successful
without having one really great singer among them.
Seguin is the best. They are all capital musicians,
but none of them have a first-rate voice. Mrs. Seguin
is a beautiful musician, very correct, and very cold ;
but her voice is thin, and in its upper notes wiry and
harsh. Still the whole of them combined caused
the opera of Norma to be received with considerable
applause.
Mrs. Sutton and Nagel are giving concerts N. itli
great eclat at Mobile, where Brown has taken his last
benefit before coining north. Barton and Mrs. Rich-
ardson, and Bill Chapman, are also there.
Fanny Elssler had not left Havana at the last ac-
counts. She was drawing good houses at the Tacon,
which she has again taken on her own account.

Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwillian; have left New
Orleans, on their road to the north. The Italian
troupe have not succeeded well there.
Forrest is in Boston playing a round of tragedy.
Clara Fisher is also there, with a company containing
Miss Lee the dancer ; she is making honey. A new
drama called Harry Lorrequer, has been got out there.
Love is also there.
Miss Turnbull, Madame Stephan, and Sylvain have
reached New Orleans, from Cuba, where they were
only tolerably successful.
A. Adams, Weinyss, and Harrison are playing in
Baltimore with Mrs.
Lewis.wis.

Burton had a good benefit at the Chesnut-street
Theatre, Philadelphia, the other day. He brought out
Bubbles of the Day, which was highly- applauded.
None of the theatres are doing much in
Butler, the tragedian, the pretty Miss Beynold6,
Lambert, Thayer, and Mrs. Lewis, are playing in
Washington.
Dinneford and Jamieson are making money at
Pittsburgh.
Latham and Miss Melton are in this city doing
nothing.
Jim Crow Rice has just closed a fine engagement
in Boston.

Chippendale, Billy 'Williams, Mrs. Knight, &c., are
all at the Park, where they are great favourites.
-Thorne at the Chatham, and Mitchell at the
Olympic, are doing a first-rate business.
The Bowery is going down, Miss Cushman's is
going up, and Niblo will open rich shortly.
Braham'is at Philadelphia., on his way to the west.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN CONNECTICUT.—HRISey
Coon went, on Sabbath evening last,
.to the house of
one of his neighbours, and informed the family that
his wife was either dead or dying from a dreadffil
accident, and begged them to accompany him back to
his home, which they did. Upon their arrival they
found the woman still living, but burned in a most
shocking manner. A physician was sent for, and
' he pronounced it impossible for her. to jive more
than a few hours. Previonsla she had refused to
give any satisfactory account of the 'condition she was
in ; but now, finding she could not live, she confessed
it was the work of her husband—that he had beaten
her till she was • insensible, then. tied her to a chair
and threw a shovel full of burning coals.. upon her
body. The wretched woman died in about two hours
after she was first found by the neighbours. A jury
of inquest was called, which pronounced a verdict of
death by the bands of her- husband whereupon he
was immediately arrested.—Nofrich Courier, April 23.
'UNITED STATES TROOPS.—It seems that our Go-
vermnent are apprehensive that the "Western Indian.,
will take part in the troubles between Texas and
Mexico; they are, theretbre, concentrating a large
body of troops near the frontier line. The present
force, under the command of General Taylor, consists
of .the following troops :—Dragoons at Port Towson
184 at Fort ;Jessup 123, at Fort Gibson 71 ; Infantry
at hurt Gibson 140; Dragoons at Fort Wayne 142 :
total 669. To - this force is to be added the Gth
regithent of Infantry now at Jefferson-Barracks, 800,
to march immediately to Fort Towson; five com-
panies of Dragoons to move from Fort Leavenworth
to Fort Towson, 360 ; and the Ist regiment of In-
fantry from jefferSon Barracks to Fort Leavenworth,
75.
The whole disposabiO force under the command of
General Taylor will then be 2,004.
MURDERS IN AR AN SAS .—The Retsina (Ark.)
Shield, of the 9th, contains in that one paper ac-
counts of three murders in the State. The first arose
• from a dispute between a Captain Morehead and a
man in his employ named Robert. Lyons, which
resulted in the death of the latter, by Morehead
shooting him with a shot gun. The second
was at Pine Bluffs, where a man- named Wm. Mac-
daniels, with a bowie knife, .committed an unpro-
voked murder upon the body of an old and respect-
able minister of the Gospel named Gross. The mur-
derer made his escape. Of the third, in which a man
named Samuel Gillespie was killed by the Seneca
Indian Agent, the particulars had not transpired.
HORRIBLE MURDER lN lOWA.--By a letter in' a St.
Louis paper of the 14th, we notice a terrible outrage
at Burlington, lowa. J. P. Bradstreet having a. diffi-
culty. with a citizen of the place, S. W. Ross, bro-
ther-in-law of the latter, provided himself with one
of Colt's revolving pistols, met Mr. 13. in the street,
and discharged the contents of five of the barrels at
him, each shot taking effect. Mr. 8., though terri-
bly wounded and dying, returned the fire, and dan-
gerously wounded Ross. Mr."l3. has since died.
Miss Hamblin, • or Miss GOodrich, who murdered
her husband the Mobile theatre, has, it is supposed,
committed suicide. It is said that she was a wild
girl, " looking as if she was going into a state of
lunacy, while her husband looked like a poor victim-
ized idiot." The body of a young lady was found in
the Ohio, near 'Warsaw, about the 17th instant, sup-
posed to ye been the victim of murder.
A LADY MURDERED.—Mrs. Estes, residing about
four miles from Owentown, Kentucky, was inhu-
manly murdered in her own house, a short time since,
during the temporary absence of her husband. Her
skull was broken by a club.
FLORIDA WAR.
It is now said that really and truly the Florida
Indians. are• so nearly used up that there are only
!Suety warriors left there. Our array is every other 1,