Our Affairs With Mexico

The foreign negotiations of the government are under the direction of the Secretary of State. The present incumbent is John C. Calhoun, the Annexationist and advocate of Eternal Slavery, who was unanimously placed there by a Whig Señale. Our minister to Mexico is Mr. Shannon, formerly Governor of Ohio, and a servile. we believe, of the truest kind. In his instructions to Mr. Shnnnon, Mr. Calhoun lays down the doctrine that the U.' States have the fullest right to make a treaty of Annexation with Texas without the consent of Mexico, and she would have not the slightest cause of complaint. Mr. Shannon addrcssed a letter to the Mexican Government, in which he assures them that the proposed rnethod of carrying on the war with Texas would be viewed with a feelingof disapprobation in the United States: that neither the threats of Mexico, or the actual invasión of Texas would retard annexation at all: and that therefore the U. S. Government solemnly protested against the invasión, and the atrocities by which it was intended it should be accompanied. - To. this the Mexican minister, Mr. Rejon replies, recapilulating the interference of Americans in the history of Texas, and taxes with bad faith and duplicity the whole intercourse of the United States with Mexico on this subject - concludi.ngwith the declaration that Mexico will never consent to thé Annexation, anJ will throw upon the Government of ihc IT. States all the consequences of unprovoked aegression.Mr. Shannoh replies to this under date of.Nov. 4. He says, in substance, ■ that he can hold no cornmunication with the Mexican Government except in language respectful to himself, and the people and Government hc represents - and that the note of M. Rejon repealedly and in the grossest terms charges the Government of the U. S. with falsehood, with artífice, intrigue, and projectsof usurpation - among others that Gen. Jackson had sent Gen. Houston to Texas on purpose to excite rebel lion against Mexico. Mr. S. said tosuch imputations hecould not reply.-- He demanded that the note be withdrawn: he was about sending a courier home, and wished'an early reply. On the 6lh, M. Rejon replies, that no language used by him is harsher than that repeated in the American minister's note, wli e re the Mexican government is again and again spoken of as barbarous - and that the Mexican government is quite as tenacious of its dignity as the American can be. Mr. Rejon then goes rapidly again over what he considers the just cause of complaint on the part of Mexico agninsl the United States, and says in conclusión, that "so far from wilhholding the note, the more it is meditated, the grealer appears the necessity of letting it remain precisely in the language used; and thereiore he is instructed to re-produce it in all its parts, and to add if by reason of Mexico's thus using her undoubted rights, the subsisting friendly relations between fhe two countries are to he interrupted - the Mexican government in acceptirigthe hard conditions forced upon it, will repel unjust aggression, holding-the government of President Tyler responsible for all the evils which may ensue." In the meantime, the most sanguine anticipations of war are indulged by many of the papers, and Mr. Shannon's immediate return is predicted. For our part, we see nothing very alarming thus far. - The whole affair seems to be rrothing more than a contri ved plan to get up a Hltle dust wfjile. the annexatie- project should bc corrsunamated".