The Britannia, which left Boston on the 1st instant and
Halifax on the 4th, arrived at Liverpool yesterday evening. The intelligence is interesting and important.
The Texan Convention finally agreed to the annexation on the 4th July, and Texas is now a State of the Union.
The report that Mexico had declared war against the United States is 410t confirmed.
But those political matters are of less interest than a great fire which had visited New York. It broke out at three o'clock on the morning of the
• 19th July, in an oil-store. The firemen were prompt and energetic, until a terrific explosion of saltpetre, and the fear of more, daunted them; while they hung back the fire spread with fury, and continued to do so until ten o'clock; then its progress was arrested, in some parts by change of wind, in others by the interposition of great fire-proof buildings. Meanwhile, many store-houses occupied by the first merchants in the city, some three or four hotels, together with several blocks of the finest dwelling-houses skirting along the lower end of Broadway, had been destroyed. The loss is estimated at five or six millions of dollars; but it is generally covered by insurance, which will fall pretty equably on many fire-offices. Ten or twelve persons were missing.
The crops of the country, so far as the result had been generally ascer- aained, will be a fair average. The wheat crop is secured, and turns out to be fully equal to that of last year. Cotton promises well, but it is too early for the result to he known.
Previous reports, that Pennsylvania would punctually pay the interest on her debt, due in August, are confirmed. The ringleaders in the late anti- rent riots in New York State had been liberated on bail for one thousand dollars each. They were fancifully named "Big Thunder" and "Little Thunder." The troubles in that quarter have entirely subsided.
There had been a destructive fire at St. John's in New Brunswick, with ,a loss computed at 60,000/. Quebec was in a ferment on the 17th July, some madman having pro- phesied another conflagration; but the prophecy was not accomplished. A letter received at Boston, and written at San Domingo on the 7th July, • mentions a battle between the people of Hayti and San Domingo; the ' Haytiens being completely routed.
The Globe is "glad to hear that Government are furnishing large supplies of old clothing for shipment to Quebec."
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