From an English Paper.
AMERICA AND TEXAS.
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The intelligence brought by the last arrival
from the United States is of great interest and i'm
portance 1t appears that special envoy has ar
rived at Washington from the Texan Government.
commissioned to make an official offer of annexa-
ton on the part of the latter. The same offer was
made in the yearsel837, and was then rejected.
but under very different circumstances At that
period the acceptance of the offer of Texas would
have involved the United States in an expensive,
embarrassing, and somewhat uncertain war with
Mexico, and alsoiRfhe very probable contingency
of a rupture with England Moreover the public
mind in the U. States was very much divided on
the subject of slavery, and great jealousy existed
on the part of the New England States in regard
to any accession of Influence in the Union to the
Southern interests 3fet


In the present instance also il appears very un,
certain whether, on the. whole, the annexation of
Texas may not be an event rather favorable than
otherwise for British Interests IF it deprives us
OF means of annoying the United States and so
far. removes the temptation to a war, it is by no
means certain that this ought not to be looked on as
an advantage. A war withtbe U. States, even if
successful beyond our most sanguine expectations.
would be calamity of the most fatal description
Moreover, the andexation of Texas would give
great additional preponderance in the Union to-
the interest upon which we must necessarily relv
the most for maintenance of friendly political
and commercial relations with England-that