It Seems To Be Generally Conceded That The Treaty Of Annex...

CC?5 Itseems to be generally concedec that thetreaty of Annexation cannotnow pass the Senate. The nature of the accompanyingr documents is said to be altogether unprecedented, and contain sentiments and positions in the highest degree dtsgraceful to our nation. We have as yet read but a small portion of them. - Among them we find a letter frora Mr. Calhoun to Mr. Packenham, the British minister, April 18, 1844, in reply to a communication of Lord Aberdeen, which stated that -'Great Britain desires, and is constantly exerting herself to procure the general abolition of slavëry throughout the world." Mr. Calhoun answers, that he reeeives this statement with "deepcern": that it is vvith "still deeper concern" he finds it announced in the same despatch, that Great Britain desires to see slavery abolished in Texas: that the consummation by Texas of thisdesire "would endanger both the safety and prosperity of the Union:" that it is the duty of this Government in self defence, to adopt the most effectual measures to defeat it: that the abolition of slavery irrexas vvould really place that country under the control of Great Britain, and thus give her a chance to opérate on slavery in the States through our weakest frontier: and as the only means of avoiding this result,-he announces to the British minister, that a treaty of annexation had already been been concluded with Texas. Mr. Calhoun then argües that the slaves are much'better offthan the blacks of the free States; that the two races, where they are nearly equal in numbers cannot peaceably live together without one being subject to the other; and finally concludes that "what is called Slavery is in reality a polüical instüution, essential to the peace, sqfety, and prosperity of those States of tlie Union where it exists." - We intend to publish a portion of this remarkable document. There is a plainness, a directness in Mr. Calhoun's ideas, a coming right to the point, which we like, ( and which contrasfs to great advantage ' with thestudied ambiguitiesof our ' ern doughfaces. __ . {LThe National Intelligencerannounces the conclusión of a Treaty between the United States and Prussia, but not yet ratiiied. That paper says: "The effect of the treaty is understood to be to reduce the present duties on tobacco and rice imported into Germany from the United States; and, on the other hand, to afford facilities for the introduction into the United States of severa! branches of Germán manufactures for American consumption." Negotiations for a favorable foreign market for Rice, Cotton, and Tobacco, monopolize the atiention of the government so exclusively, that it finds no time for attending tothe immense productions of the free States, the citizens of wjiich must be conteut with such foreign encouragements ás individual enterprise can secure.tLr" We are mdebted to Mr. McClelland for a copy of his speech on the bill rtiaking appropriations for certain west-" ern rivers and harbors, ín reply to Mr. Holmes and other Southerners who contended that such appropriatioiïs were unöonstitütiönal and anti-democratic. It appears tö be conclusive in its reasonings; álthough the objeetiön itself was puerile itnd absurd, and was advanced only for want of something more forcible.