AMERICA.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 91, 26 August 1846, Page 3

AMERICA.

The New York Herald states, from •♦ a private and confidential source," that Sir G. Simpson, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, is in Washington, and thut in compliance with his requeet, Mr. Pakenham had visited the Secretary of the Treasury and other members of the government. " Sir Giorge Simpson departed, and is now in New York, highly elated with the belie£ that the posftion which Mr. Polk intends to assume on the Oregon question in his message, is highly favourable to the maintenance of peace bitween the two countries, and to an agreeable termination of this difficult question."

The emigration to Texas and the far west is immense. The Mormons were endeavouring to effect a sale of Nauvoo to Roman Catholics of Cincinnati. It was expected that not less than 2,800,000 barrels of flour would received at the port of New York alone, from the interior. Prices are rising. The New York Courier says—" Assuredly there are soma millions barrels of flour (estimating five bushels of wheat as a barrel of flour) on hand beyond our largest consumption of this country and its ordinary exports. Canada is not free from the potato disease. In the western districts the crops are damaged to a serious extent. The projected fortifications and improvements on the frontier were on a magnificent scale, and will take two or three years to complete-

Texas accounts are to the 12ih ult. The papers annouce remarkable discoveries of thfi ruins of anoient cities in the interior. The contest for the representation of Texas in the United States Senats was proceeding with great spirit.