Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-04-25

should renounce altogether the plan Of Annexation.
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
The Steamship Great Western, Capt. Mathews,
arrived at New York on "Wednesday morning, the
10th, from Liverpool, after passage Of II days,
~ hours BY her arrival we are in possession Of
our files of Liverpool papers to the 29th ult, her
day of leaving, and London to the evening of the
2Sth ut, both inclusive.
Extracts from the Correspondence of the Boston ALIAS
LONDON, March 49, lsl5
March has thus far produced no really treat
event. European political afflirs have been, for
the most part, of secondary importance, and next
week we shall enter upon the fourth month of the
year, with no frghtlu perspective, unless the poit-
ica horizon in the United States makes that per-
spectiye.
The American news received by the steamer
Ilibernia was of an uncertain and unsatisfactory
kind. The Tyler dynasty had not closed, and the
Polk Cabinet was not formed, when the steamer
left. The Texas Annexation question was not set
tied in the Senate, although tappeared to be dang
ling upon one vote; and the Oregon Boundary
question was swinging to and fro, unable to find
majority in its favor. All was, therefore, conec-
ture, with John Bull, MS to the result Of the Tyler
Congressional term, until yesterday.
The Tyler message to Congress upon the slave
trade has been noticed, in and out of Parliament;
and if its author had evinced any sincerity in his
former acts regarding slavery and the slave trade,
llllS HISS WOulu nave gulUeu Sulc IOlOT " MN
but his principal object has been to take Texas,
and thus, as John Bull believes to extend and per-
petuate slavery, this message is regarded as hyp-
ocrtlcal attempt to polish his extensively damaged
reputation.
Mr.. Tyler made ore great mistake in his mes
sage, by asserting that the system of apprentice
ship in the West India colonies was in full force
whereas any school boy could have informed Mr..
Tyler that the system was abolished ten years since.
However, the assertion was made by the President
of the United States, and the message roughly
handled by the press and in Parliament. On the
18th inst, in the House of Commons, Mr. Adam,
member for Leeds, called Sir Robert Pees atten-
ton to the message, and read passage from it,
which stated that when slaves were captured by
the British, instead Of being returned to their
homes, they were transferred to the British possess
sons in the West lndies and made the means of
swelling the amount of their products by u system
Of apprenticeship for term of years; and it must
be obvious that while large interests were enlisted
in favor of its continuance, it would be impossible
to suppress the nearous traffic in slaves.
Mr.. Adam asked Sir Robert Peel whether Mr..
Tyler had been correctly informed, and whether he
had any grounds for such an assertion respecting
liberated Africans.
Sir Robert Peel, in reply, said that he regretted
that the President Of the United States should send
formal message on the subject to Congress, with
out fl st asceraining, accurately, what is the real
MES. If the President should think fit to appoint
Commission to ascertain the true state of such
Africans, so far from making any objections, the
British Government would offer every facility for
carrying on the inquiry, that the Commissioners
might present true picture.
AS to the system of apprenticeship, the Premier
said it well known that it was altogether abo-
ished in the West Indies "No negro who has
been captured, and liberated and sent there, is
now, or ever has been, made to serve for time as
an apprentice. lie is perfectly free when he lands
and is entitled to all the ranks of freedom. Ne
groes captured on the coast Of Africa by the Brit
lsh Government are generally taken to Sierra Lee
one, and there they are at liberty to determine for
themselves whether they will 90 or not to the West
India colonies"
AS to another allegation in the message, that
subjects of the United States and Great Britain are
concerned III carrying on the slave trade, Sir Rob-
ert Peel said it a matter for very serious
sideration He was not prepared to deny that fact;
but if the law can reach the application of British
capital to the continuance Of the slave trade he
hoped it would be enforced with rigor that would
put an end to such practices.
The famous message having been thus disposed
of in Parliament, the press took hold of 1t, and
shook it and its author numerically.
The arrival of two packets at Liverpool, from
New York, with advices to the 9th inst has placed
us in possession of highly important information.
cdulilp III tills lllcllgtHCC lS puS
sage of the Texas annexation bill through both
branches of Congress, and the signature of the
President to the bill. This news has created a
great excitement in the metropolis. 1t was sent by
an extraordinary express to London, on "Wednesday
night, and appeared, with Mr.. Folks message, in
all the daily papers of yesterday The news had
an immediate effect on the consol market all class
es alarmed, as it is feared that Great Britain
will protest against the annexation of Texas in Pc
remptory terms and that serious trouble must event
ually grow out of this affair. No news has been
received from the United States in long time,
that has claimed more serious attention, has been
considered so alarmngt the interests OF both Eng
land and the United States. All the daily papers,
without exception devoted, yesterday, several col
umns to American affairs, and all gave leaders up
on the Texas annexation project, The Morning
Herald, Ministerial journal, devotes long article
to this subject, and speaks OF the mad JOY and fran
tic despair of political parties in the United States
on the passage of the Texas bill. But however the
question may be viewed in America, the Herald
says, there are parents and guardians to be spoken
with-these parents and guardians are Great Brit
ain, France and Mexico-rand the latter 1t is sup
posed, will seek aid and protection from her "pow-
erful protectors! |" The Herald believes that as
the United States will now come into direct con-
tact with Mexico, she will prove thorn in her side,
which no political surgery can extract and that, as
every rational man in the United States is aware
that in few years the Southern States will over
power the Northern, no rational man anticipates
very long duration for the present constitution of
the United States The present gain Of Texas
must, therefore, be looked upon as the sures symp.
tom of decay, rather of speedy ruin in any State
The Morning Chronicle attacks the Tory Gov
eminent of England, and attributes all the blame
of the Texas annexation project to the Peel Ad-
ministration This journal says IT is much more