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ARRIVAL Of the GREAT WESTERN

The Steamship Great Western, Captain
Matthew's, arrived a, New York on the 10th
inst, bringing London papers of the 2S,h,
and Liverpool Of the 29th of March.
Cotton is lower, both in the Liverpool and
Hsvrc markets.
Texas, Sc.-Thc fuaI passage of the an
nexing resolutions was known in London on
the 26,h Of March, and Of course afforded
material for some newspaper thunder. II
10 amusing to see how the subject is dealt
with, no, on its own merits or consequences,
but as a theme for English party discussion.
The Chronicle makes a great noise about it.
II says:
We confes. that we are much more mortified than
surprised TO find thus question terminated, like all
others in which the Tory administration had To com.
bat the arts or the ambition Of foreign and Of rival
powers, that is, by the total discontinue Of British
interests and views, whether dictated by feelings of
Justice, OF security, or OF humanity.
The question uf the independence or absorption of
Texas io,s handed orer 10 The Tory government as
O fair field for the ercrtion Of their diplomatic skin,
and Of the hundred neans at a governments dlspo.
sal for the working ont Of fits ends. In these the Tory
government has most miserahly failed.
The American government have decided upon the
annexation of this immense country. containing 300,-
600 square miles, and are about to establish over that
region their system Of slave-culiivation IL tcds, in
ssxd a. question Of life and death TO American siu.
rery. tchich If confined 10 its o,cn exhausted soils,
must hare DEFINED and met a natural death al no in
eaieuiabhe lateral Of time, bat which now. having Sc.
cured Ia il most ample room and root, cannot be ex-
pecicd to pause ill i, fills the whole territory to the
Pacific, and dcluges the New World. from which it
had been partly stayed or driven, with its flood of mis-
erv and crime.
There were a variety Of mems at an English min.
listers dsposal-Mexican fears, Texan interests, and
American horror Of slavery and of planter denomina-
ton.
The Standard eff course thinks that the
British Ministry did well not to take any de.
cided course of opposition, for which it as
signs divers good reasons. For instance
If the Texans, ahon, 60 900 whic Inhabitants, are
DESTROYS 10 incorporate themselves in the Northern
Union we do not see who has either The right or the
power to hinder them-still less can we guess n mo-
tive for interfering in the matter, for it is much better
for all pnriies-lhe United States exceptedT,,ll'at The
South Western territory should he open TO all attacks
and r~epiisals provoked by the United States, than
that il should serve the purpose of the republic, under
the disguise Of a false independence and neutrality.
With reference to the Oregon question,
tle Standard says
1t is not impossible that the States may have
enough 10 do in putting Texas in order 10 give us time
TO look about us. AZ all events, we trust that our
ministers will not give them any help. by a rash de,
parture from the "somnolent and silent system,
which, inconvenient as 1t may I've for newspapers and
opposition orators, is often of wonderful utility in d.
plomacy as well as in war.
The Presidents Address.-Mr. Polk.
inaugural was published in the London pa
pers Of the 26th. and received with a con
siderable degree Of editorial civilIty. The
scribes seems all 10 have been decided,
pleased with its comparative brevity, but 81
far as we have seen, confine thenselve
mainly 10 an abstract Of its contents, witt
only an occasional remark.
On the 9Th ult. the Seine was frozen owe
Al Paris; the ice was strong enough TO sus
tain the weight Of carriages.
The New Customs Act.-The new Gus
toms Bill, repeating the duties on a larg
numhs. Of articles which have previousl
been subject to duty, and reducing the du
ties on several others, came into opera,io
on Saturday morning. March 22d, at III
Custom house. A great number of free en-
tries were passed in consequence for good
which have for a considerable time bee
housed in the bonded warehouses, but wIic
are now free of duty, aud the officers of III
warehousing department will no doubt b
very busy for a time, until the goods on hand
now declared to be free of duty, are all de
livered, when it is expected that the bulk G
the FREQ goods imported from the preser
time will be delivered from the quay at tn
side Of the importing vessel, thus doing ava
with the necessity of placing them at all
the bounded warehouses.
H,use Of Lords, March 10.
OREGON Nj Roebuck asked whether Governme
had any objections to lay before the House the neg
tiations between this country and the United s tat
on the subject of the disputed Oregon Territory? II
reason for asking was 10 h. found in existing circur
stances in the United states though he was the Ia
man who would desire to cas-, a slur on a grea, n
,,on. He understood, that IN 1878 u convention W
entered into between this country and the Uni,
States, the purport of which was, that the Terri,o
in dispute upon the Oregon should he considered as
matter upon which no determination had been co,
10, and that the whole question should be left open,
Under these circumstances, the House of Rcpresen
The English were not, he believed, a people al all
cushioned to buster, or express themselves in a m,
ner which should rouse the Indignation OF those W
whom they conducted negotiations; but il must
apparent 10 everybody that this was a most extra
binary proceeding.
II it arose from the weakness of the American I
ecutive, il beloved foreign nations seriously to C,
elder the matter. II the House of Representa-
passed such a bill. III were sanctioned by the Sen
and urged upon the President, he migh, be forced
give il the effect of law while we, having taken
precautions, bat trusting to their COOL faith and
comfy Of nations, would find ourselves divcsted of
means OF protecting our own rights. II This case
been properly looked into, they should at once h
declared that the United STATES had no rights west
the Rocky Mountains; and n the nppOtlaIluns wi
had been broken up were to lie recommended,
trusted they would be put on a proper footing,
that The United STATES would lie called on 10 sh
what right they had to cross the Rocky Mounis
at all.
Sir Robert Peel replied, that Mr. Roebuck had rio
ly described the convention; which was framed
last for ten yeas. II was renewed in 1927, and ex
ed again in 1898 bni il wns also provided that ne
or party should terminate the arrangement with
giving a years notice. With respect 10 the rego
lions with the Executive Government of The I'm
States, they have not been brought TO a close al
would not I've consistent with his duty to produce
correspondence to The House. Mr. Roehuck W.
zee that our relations were not with the House of I
reseniatves, but with The American Executive.
Robert quite agreed with Mr. Roebuck that notl
could be more unseemly than to use any languap
blus'er or menace; but. while forbearinp TO do SC
hoped The House wonld not infer that her Males
Government are notdeeply sensible Of the import,
Of this subject.
SwIrzERLAsp.-The Extraordinary Diet hayin,
ferred the questions Of the Free Corps, the Jes
and the Amnesty TO the Committee, the Com
sioners had disagreed respecting the competeDc
the Diet 10 decree the exclusion Of the Jesni,s.
majority consisting If Messrs Nenhans, Munzir
~ - n~ra. .a..- Ill.