Arkansas intelligencer., 1845-06-07

that the question Of annexation stands % tho
ERNEST footing. Every well informed person,
who does not partially Judge, admits the grea. mu.
suaI advantages tha, would arrive from an uaiSa
Of the two countries. Oar las, .advices from
Washington assure US Of speedy consummation
Of tho necessary steps 10 immediate annexation
Our position in regard to England every day
becomes more interesting. The English govern.
ment under The pre.ence of claim to Oregon,
are menacins and threotning war. while really
the only thing which could create any ilIfsels
ing. is her chagrin at the defeat Of her machi.
nations with the Texan people, whom she has in
vain persuaded to reject the proposed offer Of an.
nexa,on. England stood by and witnessed, for
several years, the inroads Of the Mexcans upon
Texas, after sho had acknowledged the independ.
of the latter, without even offering to exert
the power and influence which she then had aud
now has over TO Mexico, to oueII such inhuman.
and barLarous proceedings, although frequently
appealed to by Texas to act in the case. Bu,
when she finds that power has tired of her vain
opportunities upon them, and looks to another
quarter for the ever ready and proffered assist.
ance, she at once in the most gIaring manner
shows her mennness by offering, for certain com.
mercial privileges, to ensure her Independence Of
Mexico; thereby displaying plainly her nercena.
ry motives, and hatred to this country. Never
until she found that propositions of annexation
were submitted, did she interest herself in Texan
affairs; then she came, and with the greatest com.
plncency offers 10 guaranty her independence, up.
on tho sole proviso, that she would renounce her
intentions of annexation with this country. Tie
English papers are leeming with articles upon the
Oregon question, from which we extract the fol.
lowing as specimens /; the first we copy from the
Crescent City:
.Ihe London Times Of the 10Th ul,, thus con.
cludes one Of its articles on the Oregon question:
When we reflect on the difficulty of transport.
ing even party Of settlers across the whole con-
tlnent Of America, on the mpractibility of opera.
ling beyond the frontiers of the Union. either to
the South or West, and on the impossbity OF
reaching the Columbia river by sea, excepting in
time Of peace, we are disposed 10 regard the nc.
tual danger Of an attack on our settlements on the
Oregon as purely ilIusory; and we have no doubt
that long before this intelligence reaches the forts
on The coast of the Pacific, they will have been
placed by Sir &. Seymour. aud the squadron un:
der his command, in an efficient state Of Defence
We may add lha. other inlimatons of the same
nature are thrown out, though more obscureIy, in
other numbers Of the Times for the past month.
Tile English People and Oregon.-The London
correspondent Of the New York Gazette thus
writes, under date Of the 18th ut
am anxious to hear Of the effect produced by
the news of the last steamer. The public feeling
here is at fover heat, and there is not John Bull
Of them all who does not swear that Oregon be-
longs Of right, to Great Britain, and never shall
be wrested from her. Not one in ten thousand,
however, has yet uscertaned whether it belongs
to her JamaIca possessions, or is a branch Of the
Niger, or an island in the Pacific Ocean. ..,
The general ignorance Of the English public on
all subjects of This kind, is really laughable, and
without pretending to understand in the least de-.
gree, the merits Of the question, the whole nation
is ready to go to war at moments warning. Tex.
as, slavery and Oregon are the war notes-th
two former are the real sores.
Pacific Rail Road.-Mr. Whitney, the protector
of rail road from Lake Michigan to the Oregon
Territoty, has advertised that he will leave New
York on the Goth, to survey or 500 miles of the
propose route. He will start at Green Bay.
thence down the lake to Milwakie, thence ives,
TO the Missouri river, and return by St. Louis.-