13 JUNE 1846, Page 2

In Mexico the United States seem twhave "caught a Tartar":

their General on the Texan frontier is hammed in by superior fonds, and hiAvampplies:-ard cut off. Meanwhile, their volunteers desert, and libealk of raising an army of forty or fifty thousand men by consci*on. Conscription and taxation, the worst oppro- Wigan of deassiSie states—such are the pleasures which war brings to the Democratic 'Union! It is by some supposed that Mr. Polk is only using the Mexican campaign as a means of evoking the martial ardour of his countrymen, so as to be in readiness for war with this country : he is more likely to evoke a strong sense of the disagreeable incidents of war.