The Arkansas banner., 1846-04-01
From &e ". Fork Commvctal Advertiser, Mqycl 5 POST SCRIPT!
vERY LATE FROM ENGLANn

i4At LA l. EROM ENGLAND.
 The fast sailing packet-ship Toronto, Capt. Tinker, has just arrived from. London via Portsmouth. Left the latter port the 9th of February. and has made the passage in g days When in latitude 45o and from lon- gltade d7' to 53o, Capt. T. had 10 drive his ship through quantities of ice.
 We are indebted 10 Capt. Tinker for the use of London papers of the 6ih and 7th of F February, the only late papers received by the ship.
 FROM THE EAST.
 by thls arrival we have the important in- teiligeaee that the aAngl6AIaslAsl -pnejees for the 'anhexatlonp of the puniaub, long mel dIated and prepared for. has been put in min oi Xeeuiion-annexation not by the consent of boih parties, but by means of SUI efior force on the part of one, and at the cost of dread tul bloodshed and suffering to lhe other. The result can hardly be doubtul, though the struggle maynot be brief.
 The only notice that we find of the Liver pool cotton market IS in the London paper o( the Eth, which says that tine sales of the 9th were 6,000 bales, principally to lhe trede-- Prices conlinued firm.
 The failure of the potato crop continued to be the subject of general interest and re- mark.
 There Is nothing new from Ireland. The country continues to be u scene of excite ment and agitation.
 The 'Timesn of the 7th has an article commenting the course of Mr. Calhoun.
 The House of Commons has been almost exclusively engaged upon railway bilis-es- peclallY fer lfeland-during the two days of which we have accounts.
 In the other house the Marquis of Clanri- cade had brought forward proposition of relief for ireland.
 Arrived al Grayeseha on the 5th, Phladcl- phia, from New Y York.
 Arrived al Liverpool on the 6th of Febru- ary, Anne GImour, from N. Orleans; Venice, from N. Y; Jane, from Savannah; Nllliam Ward, from St. Johns, N. B.
 The opinion we expressed yesterday, that thepressure for money had passed its strength, has been confirmed to-day. Discounts are still difficult, bat the funds have experienced d farther advance of nearly I percent, and eXchequer bills are also higher
 
 We hear that the payments to tie acceun- tart general by railway companies amount to E9,000,000. From that to Gl0,000,090 was our estimate from the commencement.
 We held that to be the air estimate of the amount that would be actually raid to the ac- counlant general; when others, who spoke with much assumption of official authority, would not coudescend to name the gross amount at less than I30,000,000.
 The same parties, 1t Is true, have lately stated the amount paid in for railway deposi- tes tt not morethan G5,000,000 The pun chases made to-day by the broker for the court of chancery have been equal, it is said to .C500g00,
 They have been effected for belioof of railway commttes. who are now renvesiine the stock and exchequer bills which they had previously sold to enable them lomake good their depositcs to the accountan; general in moncy.-.1for1tiag Chronicle, F'eb GA From tfc ~. y. Courier. and other papers Mtrcl 5
 FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
 The packet-ship Toronto, in remarkable passage from London of twenty-two days having sailed on the 9th ullimo-brings LIS some later accounts. We are indebted 10 Capt. Tinker for late numbers of London papers.
 Sir Robt. Peel, on the 3rd, said that inas- much as the mail for America was about to sail from Liverpool, he would announce his intentions concerning the duty on timber He proposed to make a reduction of the duty which should ultimately fix it at l5s.; now i, is 25s.
 From the 5'h of April 1917, the duty OH hewn timber is to be reduced 5s., and the next year by the same amount On sawn timber the duty was to be 6s. on the 9th Of April, 1917, and 6s. more in the next year, Until April, lS47, the duties would remain precisely as they are.
 This amendment did not reach us by the last steamer
 Lord Morpeth had heen elected to Parlia- ment without opposition from the West Ri- ding of Y orkshire, and as that k great agri- cultural country, the Morning Chronicle triumplis in it, as an indication that even the landed interest IS giving way on the corn laws, and assumes from this election, and OLlNi ltih44Nt.stPtiNs hht to state his proposals over again, he would go for an absolute and immediate repeal of the corn-laws. The Chronicle still thinks he may do so.
 Large orders were in England from, the continent, Belgium, and Holland, principally for barly and rye.
 By ihe Yorkshire, Intelligence was receiv- ed of the debate on Nr Aliens resolutions repelling the interference of European pow CTS in the affairs of this continent, as well as the postponement of the Oregon debate in the Senate. The news was regarded as highly pacific.
 correspondent of the Times, after assur- ing them ;hat Indian corn will soon be re- gafded as second only to wheat as all arllcie of food, insists that it should be raised m, and imported from, the British colonies.
 FAILURE OF THE STEAMERS MAiL.-The Steamship Cambria sailed from Boston on Sunday afternoon, leaving five passengers and 5000 letters. which left New ork on Saiur-