AMERICA.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 63, 13 May 1846, Page 3

AMERICA.

A correspondent of the Commercial Advehtiser, writing on the 28th ultimo, from Washington, says :—" lam informed on what seems to be on good authority, that Mr. M'Laae has written to some of his friends ia Maryland, that nnles* tLe United States shall recede from their position on the Oregon question, war with England is inevitable" The Oregon question remains in the same painfully uncertain state. It is believed that Polk would concede a great deal more than he can do, coneistently at least with his first impudent manifests published to please his party. The chief feature in the advices from America bears upon the Oregon qu-ston, which is the subject of universal discussion amongst the journals. The Journal of Commerce gives the following rumour; —''It is rumoured that Mr. Pakenham, the British Minister st Washington, finding there is little hope of adjusting the Oregon question either by compromise or arbitration, ha 3 proposed to leave the whole territory in its present condition for 20 years, under the joint protection of England and the United States, and with the stimulation that at the end of the fc&id period its theD inhabitants may attach themselves to either country, or erect themselves into an independent sovereignty, as they may p;efer. If such a proposition has been made we trust that it will be accepted ; for the effect of it would be to give the whole territory eventually to the United States. If the whole territory is open to settlers from England and the United States on equal terms, it will at the end of twenty years contain ten Americans to one Englishman Such are the migratory habits of our people, and so accustomed are many of them to frontier life, that they will go to Oregon in crowds, while Englishmen will only go by dozens. This arraflgement will enable the English fur com* panics, as well as our people, to continue their operations over the whole territoy for twenty years by which time the wild game would probably be pretty much killed off." The Mormons have by their absurdities called iato being a numerous party in the neighbourhood of their settlements, which under the name of AntiMormons was carrying fire and desolation amoncst tbeir dwellings, no less than sixty of which hid been burned down. The Anti-Mormons had announced their determination not to desist until they had totally expelled their opponents from every place in Hancock county, Nauvoo included. A conflict between the two parties was apprehended. There was a probability of some change in the cabinet at Washington, but all apprehensions of a Mexican war had utterly died away.

Whatever be the cause or causes, immense expense is being gone to at this moment, and seems to be weekly increasing, in defending the coasts of England from invasion or attack ; and it is loudly reported that both the army and navy are to be forwith increased. A public meeting at Manchester has voted a petition (unanimously) to Sir Robert Peel, to open the Ports for fjod of every description. Lord Metcalf is returning home from Canada. He is exhausted. It is supposed he will not long survive. General Rosas having rejected the offera of the allied powers, the Argentine fleet was seized by the British end French ships of war on the Ist August, and steps taken to drive Oribe's forces out of the Banda Oriental, a vigorous blockade of all the Buenos Ayrean ports being at the same time established, The vessels of war had r-ceived orders from Captain Hothain to be in readiness to take British subjects oa board if required. The Buenos Ayreans had gunk ships in the mvr to prevent the approach of the combined squadrons, and a severe coQscription hud been prrclain-.ed. On the 2nd August the English and French plenipotentiaries, after demanding their pas>ports at Buenos Ayres, landed at Monte Video, and issued a mauifesto, in which, after stating the failure of their negociations with the government of Buenos Ayres, thty announce their objsct to be the establishment of the perfect independence of Uruguay Affairs remained much in the same state up to the 21sf August. Two hundred English marines lnu been laiuitd ht Monte Video, and the general opinio.i was that Rosas wou'd resist to the l^t.