12 APRIL 1845, Page 2

The intelligence from the United States is scanty enough. The

relations with Mexico were all in disorder, in consequence of the in- tended annexation of Texas. President Polk had selected a Cabi- net described as somewhat Ultra-Democratic. In the Senate, Mr. Allen of Ohio, a violent Anti-British politician, had been appointed Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations ; and General Cass, notorious for his Anti-British intrigues in Paris, had been selected as one of the Committee ; facts which corroborate the supposition that Democratic and hostile opinions will prevail in Congress. Meanwhile, the " settlement " of Oregon by the citizens, their wives and children, proceeds apace.