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THE TIMES. COLUMBUS> A. Wednesday, Afrit 90, IWB. -J. - ■■■■ - ■ ■■'■■■ ■■■■ ■ ‘■■-■■ - - ■ NEW PAPER. f The “ Albany Pattiol,” ia ef a now and nent paper, estab'ished in Baker comity. The “Paliiol” ia to be devoted .n the dissemination or Democratic princi ple., and ia published and edited by Messrs. Nelson Tift and Seth N. Botigliton. Suc cess to them. MR. RICHARDS. The Lectures of this gentleman have been attended by a select and delighted class of auditor* ‘We are sur prised that a greater number of persons do not avail themselves ol this rate opportunity, ■of witnessing the illsistrartion of ibe gland and mysterious phenomena of Na Ware, which his Lectures apparatus ■are so well calculated to*give. We cannot imagine how nil evening cotrld be spent, more rationally or agreeably. The Lecture to sight, is on rite subject electro-magnetism—said to be one of the | most elaborate and instructive of the whole ! course. IIANINGTON'S DIORAMA. AVe speak from knowledge when we say that this Exhibition is highly worth seeing. Johnson's formeT Carriage Warehouse, op posite the residence of C'apt. Schley—is se lected as the only room adapted to tho Ex hibition. We underwrite that the vision, will have the worth of his ticket, in amuse ment and wonderment. PUBLIC MEETING. Columbus in given to excitements. The buds and leaves of the vegetable world, ate not more suro to pul forth in the vernal sea sons, than the humors of the public mind ate to he stirred up, and exhibit themselves in a volley of explosive ebullitions. The latest flare-up, has grown out of the city contract with Messts. Howard & Echols, for the sale of the Water Lots. It has been a shortlived hubbub, springing up, flirting its fiery tail, and vanishing, all in the space of a week. So rapid, indeed, lias been its course, that we have had neither time nor opportunity to put our finger of journalism, into it. We have, therefore, nothing left to do, but to chronicle the fact, that a public question lias been made ar.d decided. The meeting was called by resolution of Council, to submit to the citizens, their vote upon the application of Messrs. Howard & Echols, for a release from < erlnin conditions attending the sale. Tho Council granted the prayer of the applicants, ami some dis satisfaction being manifested, it was deter mined to submit the question to the People of the city. This was done on Friday afternoon, when after a statement of Iris side of the case by Maj. Howard, a countcr-spcvch by Alderman Morton, (which wc did not hear ; hut which is spoken of as a very creditable eflort) and a speech from Major Wiley Wil liams, in support ts the decision of the Coun cil, the latter was sustained by a latge ma jority of the 200 citizens prsent. The ti tle of Howard & Echols is thus made com j>lcte. THE FOREIGN NEWS. The “ Caledonia” Steamer, it will be seen, was detained in England by the Min istry to bring out to Ameiica, the debate in Parliament in relation to Oregon. The rcadet, cannot fail to detect in the solemn iterations of Sir Robert Peel, both a pur. pose to iutimidate this Government by a show of John Bull’s teeth ; and a very con clusive proof that in earnest in her march to dominion Oregon. The Debate breathes both war and peace ; and whilo tire Premier hopes for an “amicable adjustment of the differences” between lire two countries, Ire adds very emphatically, •• but having exhausted every effort to obtain it ( Oregon) if our rights are invaded, we are UESOLVEn —AND WE ARE PREPARED TO MAINTAIN THEM.” The meaning of this is sufficiently intelli gible, and is, in petto, this; “We claim Oregon—we intend to have it; amicably, if by our supeiior diplomatic cunning, we can bamboozle the Yankees out of it, as we did the country of the Aroostook ; but by force, if that fa,ls, provided, we find lire “game to be worth the candle.” This is the plain English of lire speeches in Parliament. It is for the Government and the people of this country to take care to he prepared to meet hoih phases of the case—to treat me nace. when designed to allect unquestiona ble rights, with the cool contempt of con. acious power Si rectitude —Si to meet war, if fha/be the game, with the courage, virtue and constancy, we have inherited from our fathers. A Nation’s honor and its prosperity are indissolubly connected. We, of Ameri ca, are also “resolved —and we are pke- PAltr.D to maintain both.” U. S. Appointments.—A Washington correspondent announces the following ap pointments as either made or determined, viz: Chas. J. Ingcrsol l , of Pa. (M. C) Pleni potentiary to France. B. F. Elmore, of 8. C. (formerly M. C.) Minister Plenipotentiary to London, vice JJdward Everett. Gen. W. Jones, of Tenn. (late M. C.) Surveyor General for Wisconsin, lowa, Si c. vice General James Wilson, of N. H. remo ved, James llobsn of Washington, District Attorney for D. C - , vice P. R. Fendall, re moved. Andrew A. Kiticannou (late M. C. from Tenn.) Marshal of Southern Mississippi, vice Miller. Thomas L. Hamer (lateM.C. of Ohio) is talked of as Commissioner of the Patent Office, vice 11. H. Ellsworth. “We learn that the appointment of Min ister to England has been offered to Mr. Elmore of South Carolina, and that he las declined it on accountof other engagements requiting bis personal attention in South Carolina ” ICR. We arc glad to learn, that otir rity is out to be deprived of ibis delightful and useful luxury, this summer, as we bail cause to apprehend, until, very lately. We bear that an abundant supply ison its way. We do not think that the impnilatiumM|^^etff our city. It has been ntte^H > i'ot v. in out profit amti often, with enterprise Tins been better rewarded, hurt not fully successful front the misttrtren policy which has always guided it. To make the fee business profitable, there must be large and rapid sales iff the -article; and the in fallible rule for making heavy sales, in a hot climate like this, is to put the price dew withisi the reach of a great number of persons, fee has been sold in Columbus for 10 years, at from 10 to 5 cents —never we believe below five. At these prices on i -lyafew persons can afford to use it, con stantly, and therefore don't use it at all ice is exported from Boston to India, a six months voyage and sold at a profit, and wc venture it has not been dearer in Culcutta I than in Columbus, since the Jce trade was j established, foe is sold in Mobile and New iChleawsfor half a cent\he pound—in Colum bus, (which commercially speaking is us near Boston as either of those places, be ! sides the transportation up the Chattahoo ! cliee) a pound of Ice costs 10, 12 and some times 16 times as much. The disparity is enormous- If you ask an Ice dealer here, who lias lieen for years in the trade, without discovering (tie sectet of making it profita ble, why this disproportion should exist 1 lie answers with a smile at your simplici ty, that New Orleans and .Mobile are large cities, where consumption's great, and deal ers can afford to sell lute, |>ecause they sell much. And thus, he thinks he has fully answered the question find established the superior wisdom of his slowing away his Ice and letting it melt at 6 cents per pound to selling it at 2 cents. And that is the ef fect o( the high price. In pro|>ortion to population, this is just as good a market for Ice as N. Orleans—or rather it could be made so, if the Ice deal ers chose. The high price has kept it from general use. What is now regarded by the treat majority of the citizens as a luxti. ry, too expensive to he indulged in at 5 cents, would at 2 cents, he used sparingly at first, but soon, in large quantities, ns an indispen sable necessity—acontinued low price, would speedily form a public habit and taste which could not do without tho article. Let the imporleisof lco this season try the experi ment ; let them make the market, and they will fiud their profit in it. In the opening of the season, when their Ice-IJouses are full, and the melting most rapid, they ought to encourage the quickest sales by the low est prices. Lot them take counsel of Mr. Sutton, the present proprietor of the pipes which water the city. When the water was first introduced, the shrewd old gentle man set up his Hydrants in the middle of the streets, and kept them all day and night jetting forth the clear fluid, to the great de light of the citizens, who thought it a most pleasant thing to have water so good, so cheap, and so convenient. But, before long, the key to his liberality began to shew it self. People's wells were neglected, their pumps got out of “fix”—they became accus toured to the spring water and preferred it, “any how; 1 ’ and it was astonishing to see how many orders, the wise old man had, to con duct his pipes to yards and kitchens, as soon as lie shut up his street Hydrants. He, more wise than tho Ice-dealers, gave aw-ay bis water at first, that its utility might be dctnonsiiaied, and the public, obliged to buy it afterwards. JOHN M-BOTTS AGAIN” HEADED.” “ The elections in this quarter of the Stale,” says the Richuund Whig, “from present appearances, have gone adversely to the Whig cause—much more so than there was any reason to have apprehended.” The glorious news of the triumph of our “gallant and able champion,” .Runes A. Seddon, over John Minor Botts, the apolo gist—nay, the eulogist of John Q. Adams, and styled by bis own servile adulators “the Patrick Henry of the age,” gives siucerest pleasure to our venerable ‘‘Father Ritchie,” and to Republicans, every where, unbound eil joy. It is a “triumph which,” the Richmond Whig truly says, “the Loco Focos will value next after the defeat of Henry Clay ! “They” it continues, “have given to the mass of the Whig party heie and through the State, the melancholy conviction, that their cause isdeslined to eternal defeat, not so much from the strength of the open foe, as the secret treachery of some of its own members.” Mr. Seddon is elected by about 200 ma jority. In the city of Richmond, Mr. Botts’ majority is reducedfrotn tliatof Mr Clay’s— -503, to only 313 volts—a cleat loss of 220 in the Gibraltar of Whiggery ! Mr. Lyons, tho Texas Whig, is elected over Mr. Brooke the regular Whig nominee, by 186 majority! APPROPRIATIONS BY THE LAST CON GREsS. Tho Globe contains the publication of Ap propriations by tho last sum as follows : Civil aud Diplomatic expen ses $ 1,270,951 51 Revolutionary and oilier pen sioners 2,255,000 00 Support of the Army 3,929,763 30 Support of the Navy 6,350,789 68 Support of the Post Office De partment 5,166,003 00 Support of the Indian Da parlment 4,059,503 74 Support of the Military Aca demy 138,049 90 Navy pensioners 62,000 00 Fortifications 800,000 00 Improvements in the Terri tories 50,009 00 Miscellaneous 144 025 67 Total #24,235,038 90 The “American Star,” published at Lad range, tor. Df. Bronson, is oll'cred for ■ sale. LATKTROM TE>IA. By tlie arrival of the Steatfiabip Idhn S. McKim, we have intelligence from Hous ton and Galveston to the 20th inst. The President, has at last, issued his Pro clamation convening Congress on the 16th (day of June next; ‘from which we Icatn that the Government of the United States, lias selected the Ist-dr. 2d sections of Biown’s resolutions as the basis for consummating the proposed union. The enthusiasm of the friends tff annex ation, is overwhelming—bearing down all opposition before it. At a meeting held in WashingtoncoHHly, resolutions were passed in favor of immediate annexation, “ without referqpce to the wishes or concur rence of amy foreign or European power and rooonsmending the citizens of the Re public, in case the. President did not con vene Congress immediately, to meet as soon •as possible in Convention, to ratify the joint resolutions and form a State Constitution. The whirlwind of public opinion (says the Houston Telegraph) has swept down all opposition, aud the few opponents of annex ation have turned with dismay from the contest, if contest it can be called, when the opponents of this great measure only look ed around them owee to survey the field, and cry “ all is lost.” It was rumored at the seat of Govern ment, that communications had been re ceived from General Aristn, conveying as surances that the new Government of Mexi co is disposed to treat with Texas upon the basis of Independence~to which the Texan Government has replied, declining, nodoubt, the generous proffer, but like other ambitious aspirants, adding, we may sup|>osc, by way of conciliating Mexican indignation, that they, (the official corps,) “ have no personal objections to tho measure.” RAIL-ROAD IRON. The New York Tribune, says : Railroad Iron was worth £l2 sterling a ton in England at the latest dates received when the Post wrote its article, and is worth <£l2 10s. by the advices via Great Western,! equal to S6oi first c ist in England, while American Iron masters are now turning out good Rails tinder contract at a less price. Put on the freight and charges, with 20 per cent. Revenue duty, and English Rail road Iron would cost about S6O a ton in N. York, or any part of this country. But for the protective feamres of our tariff every toil of Railroad Iron laid down in our coun try ibis season and sot an indefinite period to come, (unless previously contracted for at a lower price) would here cost this exoibi tunt ptico, which would have gone to swell a henry balance of indebtedness against us. Now a great deal will be made at Lome, at a less cost, giving employment to American artisans and laborers, a market for Ameri can Provisions, and support to American Schools, Churches, &c. Stand by the Ta riff. and wc will have a homo made Rail road Irou at S4O a ton before Polk's let in is out. The above is the re-iternlion of the stale absurdity of “ high duties and low prices.” How it is, that the American Iron Manu facturer, can make Rail-Irons, any cheaper because of a duty on the foreign article, we find it impossible to imagne. We have never seen, jior can we think of, even, a plau sible guess at the reason. But it is easy enough to see, why, under a high duty on imported Rail.lron, augmenting the price, | by the amount of the duly ; the Ameiicnn article may command a higher price than it could ami ought to be sold for. leaving a fair profit to the manufacturer. The Tri bune says. “stand by the Tariff, and we will have home made Bail Irons at S4O the Ion.” It is our belief, that if Mr. Greely thought so, he would he in favor of a repeal of the Iron duties. It is had enough for tho Tariff’ blood suckers to lay the heavy hand of exaction upon us; but it is impossible to bear with equanimi y. the insult added to the wrong, when they tell us, “ Wc plun der you for your own good.” They tax us, and tell us, it will lighten our burdens; knock us down, and protest that it will have the singular effect, of making us stand tip! and worse than all, they keep repeating the argument, as if they thought we were such outrageous fools as to believe it. Tell it to the Marines, Mr. Greely ! PITTSBURG FIRE.. The cities North of us are contributing generously to Ihe relief of the sufferers by the late fire. Mr. Buchanan, Secretary of State, has given SSOO to the fund. The N. Y. News says. The Treasurer of the Pittsburg Relief fund, announces under d,te of Friday, the receipt of 81,608. Among the contributors were Chester Jennings, City Hotel, $100; Col man & Stetson, Astor House, 8100; Cur tis Si Hand, of Philadelphia, $100; the town Councilol'Stubenvillo have contributed SSOO. From Washington, Pa., $201; and $215 30 fiom persons engaged in the public service of the U. S. Arsenal. The Corporation ot York, Pa., has voted §SOO, and a munificent lady of the place ad ded $5(10 more. Gov. Sliunk has forwarded $30,000 of the State's donation. The Pittsburg Post of the 18th, contains a list of contracts for 94 new buildings, ma ny of them of the largest kind, and all good. They ought to change the name to Phoenix. The Editorof the Evening Post estimates the population ol the city of New-Yotk, as fill lows : New-York City, 400,000 Brooklyn 60,000 Williamsburg, Jersey city, and Hoboken, 12,000 Total 472,000 There were erected in N. Y. proper, du ring the last year, 1,210 buildings. Alnny of them cost from $20,000 to $10,000; and a few as high as $70,000. The Bump ok Caution. —The N. Y. News knows of a gentlemen who always travels provided witli a lady’s night cap, so that if any of the lintels at which he may be stopping catches fire, he can|in an emergen cy put the cap on. thrust his head out of the window, and unkc the people holiive him to be “a lady in distress.” Barki.t Martin, Esq., lias been nominated as the Democratic candidate for Congress in tin: district in Tennessee, lately represented by A. V. Brown-. all rbady. The Madisonian says, while lire rumors of war between Mexico and the U. States, are borne upon e*6ry Southern breeze, it j would be criminal as well as foofish for our Executive to send to distant sea->, squadrons ready for service, and leave the key to the American Continent, tire Goff of Mexico, unprotected. We rejoice, therefore, to learn, unofficial ly, that our grim old battle ships are acci dentally in positions to repel invaders and chastize pirates, and we should not be sur prised if they should continue in those posi tions until the questions of annexation and the payments of debts due the United States, on the part of Mexico, are settled. Growth or St. Louts.—A correspondent of the New York Journal ofCnmmerce, con siders it not unlikely that St. Louis will • contain 100,000 inhabitants in less than 15 vears from this time. Business of all kinds is at present a-ctive, and labor of every des cription finds employment and reward. The Democratic Convention of Florida recently held at Madison, have nominated Col. W. D. Mosley as their candidate for Governor aud tho lion. David Levy for Congress. On the 6th of May, the sun will rise par tially eclipsed. COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE. From the Globe we learn that “the lion* James Shields, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Illinois, has been ap pointed Commissioner of the General Land Office, and commenced the performance of his duties yesterday. Mr. Shields is an accomplished lawyer and gentleman, and one every way worthy to fill the station to which he has been called. He ha 9 long been a favorite of the people of Illinois and of the neighboting States, whose confidence lie lias won ns wo'l bv strength and probity ‘of character and amenity of manner, as by | the intellectual power he has manifested in the advocacy of republican principles. His appointment will be most gratifying to the West.” Among the passengers by the Great Wes tern aro Henry Inman, the celebrated pain ter, and M. Maillard, executor of the Will of the laic Joseph Bonaparte. M. Maillard was one of the stall’ of Joseph, when King of Spain. He will proceed from N. York to Joseph’s beautiful property at Borden town, which is left by the will to the prince of Lusignano. grandson of the deceased’s brother, Lucien. It is the intention of the young heir and his family to retain posses sion of this property which the late owner valued so highly.— Ex paper. ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER C. VAN EERBILT. It has been otir lot to make a number of tiips in the Wilmington Company’s Steam boats, between Charleston ami Wilmington; and we have never done so, without a lively sensibility to tho fact, that we were fool ishly committing our persons to great haz ard. The great good luck (for it is nothing else) which has attended that line for sev eral years, has been a theme of constant wonderment to ns. At no time sitx-e the line has been in operation, would we have been surptised to hear of the occurrence of some dreadful disaster to these boats. We of the South and West of Charleston, who are compelled to tuntlie peril of these cockle shells, to get to tho North, arc deeplyj in terested in this subject, and we seize the present occasion to denounce the insufficien cy of the Company’s Boats, for the purposes for which they me intended. In the first place, they are not sea-boats. In England a man would almost he bung for presuming to take passengers to sea, in such a cruft. They are long, narrow, week bulls that bend like a sapling on the back of a sea—they are unprovided with spars and sail enough to save them front a lee-shore, in ease of acci dent to the Engine; and in general they car ry very little more fuel than is necessary without mishap, to perform their voyage. In short, they are jtist fixed to go safely, if nothing happens ; but an accident in bad weather, to which that stormy coast is par ticularly liable, is almost certain lobe at tended with danger and loss of life. The late accident to the Vandeibilt most fitly illustrates the helplessness and danger of these heats in ease of had weather. Fr.m iht- Chart! Sion Mercury. STEAMER C. VANDERBILT. This steamer, sot whose safety consider able anxiety was felt, arrived at Wilming ton from this port on Tuesday evening last about 10 o’clcek, having broke one of her Shafts a few miles East of Georgetown, and had to perform the balance of the trip with one wheel. Wc copy the following letter from the Patriot ol yesterday. “ Wilmington, April 23,6 o’clock, A. M. Dear Sir: As you will first have it in yout power to inform the public the cause ol’tlie non-arrival of the steamer Vanderbilt at her appointed lime yesterday morning, at this place, I would inform you that after leaving the wharf at Charleston, a quarter past 3 P, M , on the 21st, we got on well until 11 o’clock, P. AL, when the main shaft, without any extraordinary cause ! whatever.’brokc short oll’ir the socket o( the j Water Wheel on the larboard side, which of course caused us immediately to slop I where we remained drifting at the mercy of the wind ami waves (for we had no mast or spare spar on board on which a temporary sail could have been rigged) for about an hour aud a half, while all hands were em ployed securing the Water Wheel from being submerged, and sufficiently discon nccting tire shaft from it, that the starboard Wheel might be made available for the pro pulsion ofthe boat—ibis being accomplish ed, the boat was put under steam again, aud we got along uncommonly well at the rate of 24 to 3 knots, until a little before day on (he 22d, when it began to blow so fresh from the East, as almost entirely to itnpedo our speed, when Captain Matshal had serious thoughts of putting about and running for Georgetown, but thanks to a meiciful Prov idence, the wind soon abated, and we kept on, tire sea being fortunately smooth, at the before mentioned rale of speed, and artived safe at this place, last night at quarter past 9 o'clock. Wo should have come much quicker could a purchase have been rigged to have hoisted the disabled YVater Wheel entirely out ot tne water; as in its situation it operated as a heavy back drag ■■ upon the boat. To Captain Marshall, much I ptaisevis due for hi4’tool, determined perse vering conduct. At about 3 o’clock yester j day afternoon, when about l* miles to tht j Southward of Cape Ftedt Ugfit, it being in I sight, we discovered a Steamer, supposed to be the Wilmington-, Captain Wade.just out of that port about 8 miles distant on the outside of us, that he might he enabled to give our relatives ami friends at home, sttch An account or the -cause >r oitr noli arrival Os Would allay their fears for our safety at all events, but he parsed ou without taking any notice of us. We ale Willing to hope for his sake, that Ire did not see us—for if he did see us, we lbink. that simply Tot- tire reason given he ought to have tun down to us, in order to know our actual condition, particularly as it Could.not possibly have detained him an hour, and he had then the prospect of plenty of spare time before him. We are extremely glad to see that the Mercury lias taken this subject in hand. The Editor makes the following animadver sions in regard to the late mishap. Conversing w-ith a gentleman who was on board the Vanderbilt during her recent trip, we learned with some surprise, that when the shaft broke, that boat was left to depend for her whole of safety and progress upon a single wheel. It was near two hours before the broken wheel could be disentangled, the steam reduced, Sec., so to give fair play to the remaining wheel. There was no mast to the boar—no sail—nor a spar on board, on which even a tablecloth could be rigged. The wind was meantime blowing lighily from the South East, and it was bright moonlight. It oidy required a slightchnnge of circuinstances—a dark night, and the wind fresh from the same quarter, to have sent the boat helplessly upon the breakers and render the loss of all on boatd a natural consequence. What rendered matters still worse, there was no means of raising up the disabled wheel, arid it continued the whole way, half buried in the water, a fearful ob struction to the feeble power left to the boat. A small spar would have been sufficient, but there was no such riling boat'd. Now if, under these circumstances, the Vanderbilt had been driven ashore and val uable lives had been lost, the public would haj-p been called upon to acquit the Wil mington Company of all blame. Con'd they have honestly done it ? Left as she was at the time of the accident, if the wind had been blowing hard on shore, she would have goneon the breakers ; if in tho oppo siie direction, she would have been driven outto sea, without fuel or provisions. Arid had weather is the time when such an acci dent is most likely to happen—because then the motion of a boat is least equable and the strain on the machinery most try ing. We do not believe that the Wilmington Company have any designs upon the lives of travellers, anti we confidently look to see an immediate remedy to these serious defi ciencies in their line. It will cost little and may save much. It may he indeed to them a mti-h more valuable piece of ocono my, than this saving of duck and spars ; (or we doubt very much whether any Coutt would jutlge as seaworthy a boat navigating tho ocean without the command of a yard of canvass. From the N. Y News. SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. The Steamet Caledonia arrived at Boston early yesterday morning, alter the Boston papers had gone to press. The mails were quickly sorted at the Boston Post Office, and arrived here last evening by the Long Island train. By this arrival wo have seven days la'er intelligence Ilian was brought by the Great Wes'eru, tho Caledonia having been de tained two days by order of the Government in order that she might carry out tlie deb te which was expected to arise in Parliament on the Oregon question. therefore on Sunday, lire Gilt. We have x.ortdon and Liverpool papers of the sth. Thera has been no arrival from-ihe United States since the departure of the Great Wes tern. Commercial affairs had not changed ma terially since the last advices. The opening ot the continental ports had improved the demand for goods, but the political news had depressed Stocks and advanced Cottonslight >y- Oregon. —The delate or rather the ex pression of the opinion of the British Gov ernment relative to Oregon, for which the steamer was detained, occurred in both houses on the 4th inst. Lord Clarendon in the House of Lords, andjLord John Russell it: the House of Com mons, drew attention to the peremptory man ifesto of the new President of the United States with regard to the Oregon territory. ! Sir James Graham of the Lords’on the part of the Ministry, and Sir Robert Peel in the House responded 10 their call. As the re marks ma e by the ministers were substan tially the same, we shall confine our report to the Commons. Lord John Russell rose to cal’ the atten tion of liic House to that part of the Presi den’ts message which relates to the territory of the Oregon. The course taken by the President of the United States was entirely new. The language used implied that the title of the United Stales was clear and un questionable, and that the full occupation of the Oregon territory was only dependent on the emigration of settlers from the States.— In disproof of these pretensions, he gave a minute sketch of all the proceedings relative to the Oregon, from the visits of the earlier discoverers down to our own day, contending that the claims of England were indisputable. Enlarging on the importance ol the tetrilo. ry in relation to our growing trade with China, and in the Pacific; deprecating the adoption of any lone of bluster and me nace; regretting that the conduct of the President of the United States had com pelled the puld.c notice of a question which ought to have been left to the ordinary course of diplomacy, he concluded by de claring that he would leave the matter in the hands of those who were entrusted with the protection of the honor of the country and the interests of the Crown. Sir Robert Peel, alter admitting the grav ity of the question, and rclerring to the ne gotiations of Mr. Canning to effect an ad justment of the respective claims of the United States and of Great Britain, which ended in the fa,lure. gave a btief account of the correspondence which ha3 taken place between the present Government and the American executive. So recently as the 19th of Februaiy last, the late Presi dent, Mr. Tyler, in a message to tho Sen ate, assigned, as a reason for not complying with a request to produce the correspon dence, that the negotiations were still pend ing, that they had been conducted in an amicable spirit; and that considerable pro gross had been made in them. He (Sir Ro bert Peel) could confirm the assertion as to the “amicable spirit,” but not as to the “pro gress.” However, on the 4tl> of March following, the new President, Mr. Polk, de livered that inaugural address which con tained the reference to Oregon. No dqilo malic communications had taken place since; all that was kuown was contained in the address. He considered it bis duty not to despair of a favoranle result} but if it were otherwise, be would uol liven object to lay on the tabla o(the House tits hole of the correspondence which had taken place. He deeply regretted that the President of the United States, in defiance of all usage, -should hare made the reference he did, du ring pending negotiations, and pointed to oilier cotvtingeaoiesi Not only did he re gret the reference, but the toive and temper in which it w 9 made. As the subject had been brought under discussion, lie felt it to be bis duty, on the part of the Government,to slate, in lan guage the most temperate, but at the same titnejthe most decisive, that the) consid ered that we have a right to this territory of Oregon which is-clear and unquestionable; that we desire an amicable adjustment of the difference hkiwee-n and the United that, exhausted every effort tcAbtain our rights are invaded, we are ■solved Jmd prepared to maintain them-. \ A A tremendous Wrst t cheers from all parts of the house this annuncia- The subject thaf^Bopped. The ‘limes ha#onf its blustering arti cles about thi*eoun written after live debate of whi* we haß above give a report. to all political ealeu lations, and assVmiiig thn-Mr. Polk’s inau gural address waMUie Mumifeslo of a Govern ment, and Inot for the bust ings. the President finds himseif and the Union placed in tiißresence of two wars, for the avowed pufposWowerritorial aggran dizement, and in dire* vinfftmn of (he whole policy of America Iryi to Mr. Trie one [with Mexico is so anx ' e ” oiheTVffli Great more remote, but also more inevitable\®the menaces of the Americans and circumstances a statesman of teulion would direct the public attentioynot andobgects those to the con- must attenVthem. The United provoke hut is illqjrepared to, carry them on. ‘l’he sanp democratic folly which makes theilyarrodnnt in the CabinSt, makes them habit in all ihatiion stitutes a nation's slffKtl) in (lie It is extraordinaj#(haMhe sbonl'l have advaifetl so l< of war ns to have a measure for Texas, by only two a measure for slking Ore gon, -a taken any care to provure for the means of consummat ing such tinparalelled acl^or defend ng them selves from the consequcftesot them. Are they not aware that in ■roporlion as they assume the illegal exi6C of sovereign lights on the desert shols of the Pacific, they expose the of the Atlan t c to ihe broadsides anlockade of British fleets 1 Have they fortMten, in their anxie ty to extend their institutions” to the whole America, that in the event of war they to encounter the most novel of all (Higers— that arising from the presence of Ihfttandard of freedom among a population of ifcves 1 Or is their blindness and infatuatiol in proportion to the injustice and criminalitAf their designs, so that, in their eagerness l> seize adjacent ter ritories! they cverlook t resources of their opponents and their oiln weakness 1 The consequences of such awar will prove in calculably disastrous. They would make brave men liesitato eve in a just cause ; but the boldness of the demi racies despises alike the justice of the cau *, and the terrible evils of the probable res If. PITTSE RU. An idea of the int se heat of the fire which desolated Pills irg may be inferred from ‘he fact that, in s ne of the iron stores nails were melted togc ier and formed solid ball*, iron safes wor melted, and large chain cables Conglnme ted into one mass. We see it stated in c Pittsburg Gazelle that the transportation insiness is going on in that city with great ctivity, having suf fered no suspension. One of the papers c itains the following accountof a ptnisewor y presence of mind and energy exhibited h ia lady of that city s “The very able goAnmentof the wife of the sheriff'saved tlßcounty jail during the fire. Sheriff’ Trovßo was absent, con veying a prisoner to tlB House of Refuge in Philadelphia ; the fcputy was also ab sent on business, ami llien the fire got up into that neighborhood Mrs. Trovillo had the whole burden oißier own shoulders. At the very height of le danger she called all the prisoners who mere not in the cells to the grate, and by nme let all the vag rants out. That donelshe set them to work to carry water up to tie top, anil this only saved it, as the roofwas on fire several times. The fellows Ivoiked like horses, and. as they merited,lso wo presume they received a discharge. ■lad the jail caught, we have no doubt sire of the prisoners would have hern biidd, and very proba bly the court-house A: at all events, it would have been greaA injured. $30,000 would have been a larS bill for the county at this time. For savßg all this, praise is due the lady of the shAtl. The citizens of WiAington, Delaware, held a public meeting Bn Wednesday, and appointed committees tßmakc collections in aid of the Pittsburg sufcrers. The Pittsburg paflrs of Wednesday mention three more rrlssing persons, viz: Mrs. Fleming, Mis. IV] tglone, and a ser vant gill. A public meeting was lo be held at Cin cinnati on Tuesday aftei roon in aid of the sufferers. A similar me ting is to be held at Hagerstown, in this late, on Tuesday next. — Balt. Amer. We copy ftom the I] ciiuiond Enquirer the foil swing iinformati i respecting exe cutive appointments, at 1 the course Presi dent P-*lk intends to pi kue in regard to re movals from office. We received by last tvening’s mail from Williamsburg, a comi uuication from “A Polk Man on the 4lh r November.” We have already touched I e points to which he refers. There is n< intention in Wash ington to remove ever; man who was put in by Mr. Tyler, or “vi ed for Gen. Harii son in 1810.” We ha i shown, for exam ple, that Mr. Wise, not rithstandino his own delicate relations to m¥ Polk, will be re tained as Minister in Brazil. “There is no “deteiliined hostility to Mr. Calhoun” aud his frields. For, it is but the other day, that Iw-. Elmore, a devoted friend of Mi. Calhou M and one of the ablest slatesmen in South larolina, was offered the highest mission ijihe world, viz: to Lon don I is probably trua as lias been stated in the papers, that MrJAlbert G. Southall, “a fitm and undeviatinJ friend ot Mr. Polk,” has been eupcrsedejl as Superintendent of Live Oak in Louisiana; but we have already given the explanation of the Madisonian. Mr. Cliirborne is a ‘resident of Louisiana, where the Live Oik is found, and a pre ference is therefore given lo him over Mr. S. j We have no dot!)', that as soon as the merits of Mr. A. Gl Southall are known to Mr. Polk, Mr. S. vJill not find his merits overlooked. Mr. 1-olk is not the man to persecute any section of the party, or do in justice, knowingly* to any man. The copper ore obtained at Lake Sup’e i tior is so i icli that jt commands f 20J per ton :’ at the noiks in Bpat-iii. THE TONE OF THE BRITISH TRESS. 1 We must say wc have been much amused 1 by tle comments of the English press brought 1 us by the Groat Western on the late mes- j sage of Mr. Tyler and Air. Polk. In some of their remarks the) are certainly very sati- ; rieal and very bitter. The troth is they do not know what to make of us. They feel, they see and know that the United Slates of America present a spectacle not before wit nessed since the world begun, ol industry, wealth, enlerprize and liberty, combining their influences, and producing “in halfacen tury or a little more, results altogether be yond former precedent, or even the wildest anticipation. These “fixed facts’* are bo fore them, and they are not to be blinked at nor passed by. Whatever may be the tolor of the refractions in our political atmosphere, whatever clouds may pass over us, there is no denying on their part, the existence of a mighty Western wb revolving in its own sphere,with regularity, with majesty and w ith light. Astronomy tells us that the highest moun tains on our earth, no more disfigure its sphericity, than the nuckerings of°its skin impair the rotundity of an orange. So with our own country. The prejudiced observers of Europe though they may discern a gulf here, and a cavern there, a disproportions!! elevation in one,part, and a subsidence of wide extent in another, forget that all these ineqalities do not alter Ihe great aggregate of our position, the rap.d increase of our population, the general happiness of our masses, the facilities of life, the freedom of opinion, the boundless progress of [education and the recuperative energies of a nation, whose only Contests after all, are as to what is best and what is most to be cherished ami revered. With all these impressions fastened on their minds, they cannot help looking west ward. to see what is the progress of events. O.ir trade is so iinportaant, at least to them that tjfey keep up their diplomatic relations with/the greatest care. They send thbif clMmest men to reside among us ss Minis, tap and Consuls. They maintain at a large yxpthise to their own government, a line of ’stcanfys. They modify, little by little, their commenfial regulations, as far as they dare, consistently with their own safety. They send over their agents to travel here, and re peat what they have seen. Their merchants and bankers visit us with the hiost patroniz ing air, and many of their Birmingham and Shuflield clerks condescend.to live among us make fortunes out of American dollars, marry American women, and enjoy American socie ty in grades they could by no possibility aI J tain at home. All this they do continually, and yctsomfi: how they are not satisfied with ‘YankeedOitt! after all! They are therefore delighted when they can discover some inconsistency, some folly, some misfortuce, with which to charge us. Republicanism is to them an anomaly in national existence. They like it some what when it pays well for British goods but in the abstract they abhor its tenden cies. The Texas question is ralher a harder pill for them to swallow than any which has yet been administered. Tbs infinitesmal does which they have taken at our hands, the homoeopathic treatment to which they havo been subjected, has occupied them very much no doubt. A riot, a mob. a savage duel, a badly written President’s message lias kept them so far, loyal lo their Kings and Cfnesns, and generally inimical to the progress of lib erty in a republican form. Kopudistion has also been ol greai sen ice to the English arie* loeraev. The rel or apparent inability ot some of our Slates to pay back pounds sterl* ing for railroad iron, and Englirh credit* withheld at tho very turning point in the pro gress of our internal improvements, has out. weighed in their estimates, the fidelity re. sponeibihly and punctuality ofthe more com mercial Siates of the Union, mid enabled tho shrewd Premiers ofEugland to keep English cap tal at home fora bankrupt government to borrow in its exigencies at three per cent, instead of its crossing the Atlantic to obtain seven. But annexation presents anew and fright* ful aspect to tin se Islanders. They do not understand it. They have annexed India, and some partsof Africa, the West Indies arid Canada, Australia and a part ofTregon. They have thrust themselves into China, and would have that ifthey could. In every part ofthe world lias England tried the policy of annexatiou, and by force of arms as often as by negotiation. But when the United States seek to xlly tn themselves a territory settled by their own people, an alliance sought by the territory itself, with its necessity appearing evident in many of the wieest men in onrcotiutry, then indeed is there a fresh alarm in England at our condition, fresh fears are entertained for our permanence, and fresh abuse from the Brilish press is sputtered forth. The real difficulty among ourselvns with regard to Texas is, as to the conditions on which she is to come inlo the Union. Btrt lor these, we imag ne its reception would bo unanimously acquiesced in. But England is die last nation in the world that should re prove the spirit ol acqusition and territorial aggrandizement in another. We find in the English journals some very curious remarks oil Air. Folk and Mr. Tyler, Sir Robert Peel has also expressed his re grets about us. It is really very unfortunate we do not please them. But Ipt us hope for the best notwithstanding! We imagine we shall survive their misgivings. The exten sion of our territory is not anew idea. About half a dozen years after the Declaration of In dependence, our statesmen of the limp, our poets and orators, declared that the Union was one day to have no boundaries bat the Atlantic and the Pacific, the frozen North, and the boiling Gulf of Mexico. A certain poet and divine, of whom the Quarterly Re view said that be was called Dwight, and bis “baptismal name was Timothy,” at that early period declared that North and South Ameri ca would in the course of events form parts of our great Republican confederacy. Let not our friends across the water marvel or grumble. “What must be, must.” [xV. Y. Sun. The following is said to be anew order of the Postmaster General. It will be very convenient for publishers : “Money for newspaper subscriptions, not exceeding 810 in each case, may be paid to a Postmaster for the purpose of being paid to the publisher of a newspaper at any other office. The Post master is, in such case, to give to the person paying the money, a re ceipt therefor and to advise forthwith tho Postmaster who is to pay said amount of such deposit. Upon presentation of this receipt, the amount is to be paid over. The Post master receiving the amount is to debit him sell llierevvith in his account, and the Post master paying that amount is to credit him self therewith in his account of contingent expenses.” T.ie notorious J. M. Bolts, Mr. Tyler’s bed-fellow, is suffering at present ftom ague and lever, and is scarcely able to“sturup it” through bis district. The Editor of tho Herald, is going to pass the next summer in Europe, and promises to communicate his “impressions” on “the stale of society In the countries thro’ which he shall travel there.” It is reported that he does not intend visiting L>u£.in again. The Madisonian, under Mr. Jesse E Dow’s management, is not to be called the Constellation, as at first proposed, bat the United States Journal.