Our American advices are full of interesting points. The Senate
has voted a large sum to be placed at the disposal of the President for the purchase of Cuba. It seems to be the fact, therefore, that notwithstanding the opposition of extreme parties in the North or South,—the one blindly resisting anything like an increase to the territories of the South, the other contemplat- ing the forcible rather than the pacific acquisition of Cuba,—the balance of the states really desire to see the operation effected peaceably. It would be obviously a short cut to the actual suppression of the foreign Slave-trade in Cuba. We have already noticed the report that Mexico is offering two of her disorderly provinces to the purchase of the American Republic. A London contemporary gives prominence to a ridiculous "Declaration of Independence" for the South, apparently issued by some gentle- men in New York whose names are about as much known on either side of the Atlantic as that of an unlucky wight, who, a few years since, announced that Queen Victoria had no right to her throne but that he was the rightful heir.
