The Arkansas banner., 1845-05-07

mates in the present year shall be a vote o1 G6.6OO,000, the amount of last years estl- mate. now proceed to call the attention ol the House to the state of the navy, and the demand we shall feel it our duty to submit to the House for an increase in the estimate tor i. We shall propose, in the course ot the present year, an increase ln the number oi men serving in the navy, of about ,, 300 more than those who are now actually employed, and of about 1000 more men than those vo- ted last year. Now the charge for the eX- penditure caused by that increase will be E184,000. We propose to take vote for two basins for the construction and repalr of steam yessels-one at Portsmouth and an other at Davenport We shall, therefore, propose to take votc in the present year for proceeding with the formation of those basins which received the sanction of the House last year. The vote Ipropose 10 ask for IS Gl81,- 0OO. We shall also take vote for the pur- pose of enabling us to maintain the steam na- w of this country. Cheers from Sir Charles Napier1 shall propose, l say, vote for the construction of vessels which shall keep up in this country a respectable steam navy suited to q peace establishment. Now, sir, on account of the services connected with the navy, and of the ordnance in immediate suhordinaton to the navy, there will be this year an increase in the estimates of nearly one million. Here the right honorable ba- ronet paused for short time, during which there was a buzz of conversation amongst honorable members. will now present to th of l,o nctI afp tnrf a total expenditure for the year. The charge for the debts is G21 ,365,000 for the fixed charges on the consolidated fund G2, 400, ,000, being total of G30,795,000 The vote of supply for the army is G6,678,000, for the ordnance G2, 42000, for the miscellaneous estimates G3,200,000, being together Gl8,- 895,000, and added to the charge for the debt, and for the fixed charges on the consolidated fund, G49, 9,690000. For the revenue of the next year will take G51, 100000 The charges for the present year, G49,690, ,000. With this increased expenditure, the revenue for the next year, even if the House did not determine upon the continuance of the pro perty tax, would amount 10 G51, ,100,0002'
 NEWS OF ANNEXATION IN ENGLAND.
 Thenews by the Great Western is quite in teresting, as showing the effect of the pas sage of the Texas reolutions upon our Bri- tish kinsmen across the water They appear to be perlecly astonished that they should have passed the Senate. It true, they knew that great popular ajority, had by the elec- ton of AIr. Polk, decided in favor of annex alton, but they relied upon Whig Senate to nullify the will of tie people Their dsap- pointment in this expectation is abundanhy apparent; and they speak of the President with coarsness of vitnperaton, which shows that their malice is equal to their re- grets. The London Times does not hesitate 10 say, that AIr. Tyler lad licd in regard to Texas, and that bIr. Polk repeats it. Such language used by an American journal and applied to the highest lunetionary in Eng lantl. would have been thought very vulgar and vicious; but coming as it does, from a Metropolitan paper of Great Britain, and bear ing about an '.oder" of royalty, we are to con slider tas in perfect harmony with refinement and good taste The Times seems to reln quish Texas with growl, seeing that NC are determined to haveit but blusters and swears that they will fight for Oregon. We shall see CoasiiiltioH.
 The Times thus discourses upon these sub jocts:
 "A lie repeated after it las been contradc- ted, and dscouled by well-inlormed and honest men. is a lie raised to a higher power-the square of a lie Mir. Tyler minated in a message some time ago, that doubts were entertained by some whether Texas had not originally formed part of the territory of the United States, and been improperly alienated from 1t; but }Ir. Polk resolutey aflirms. that ''FeXas was once part of our country. was uhwIsely ceded away 10 foreign power. is now ndePedent, and possesses an undoubted right to merge her sovereignty in ours.n The whole assertion is utterly groundless-6rst. because Texas formed no part of Louisiana when sold by France and, secondly. because the boundary treaty with Spain concluded in iol9 deiintIvely y wiped out all such equivocal claims fer eyer But in this discussion no argument Is practicable; the wolf is resolved on sezng his prey, and 1t sgnifes but little that the lamb stood driking lower down the brook
 Mr. Polk holds somewhat similar, though less precise language, as to the Oregon Terri tory. Hepledges himself at the very outset ol hls career, and with the full knowledge that negotiations are actually going on be- tween lis Cabinet and Great Britain. that the American title to the country of the Oregon Is clear and uaquestonable. But it may spare tune likely to be consumed in very improbable discussion, if we express an opin- lon at least as decided as his own, that in spite ol his maFauders, and what he terms ms constitutional rights, the territory of the oregon will never be wrested from the British grown, to which it belongs, but by war. Mr. Folk ayers, that to enlarge the limits of the ohion Is to extend the dominion of peace over additional territories and increasinG mil lions; but he will find that when they are so lar extended as to include the righl(ul possessions of the British empire, they will encounter the hostility and the resolution of people not inferior to the populace of the United States in spirit or in resources.u
 TRADE WITH TExAs.-The annexation of Texas IS measure of very great advantage to our manufacturers and mechanics. In the years of l838, '39 and 40, the exports of printed and plain cottons from the United States tO that cOuntry= arnonn+oJ to d5oEo