THE LATE PRESIDENT POLK.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 387, 29 December 1849, Page 3

THE LATE PRESIDENT POLK.

The following circular ha* been issued by the United Statei' Legation :— " Official intelligence has been received fat this Legation thnt Jamei Knox Polk, 10 lntely President of the United States, expired on the 15th day of June last. Unlike his predecessors, ho lias ended life before the evening of old age, but not before completing an illustrious and memorable career. The judgment of his countrymen ever marked him out for high Services. Raised successively to the first placet in thfl rState— Chairman of the most important Congressional Committee ; head of the House of Represent! fives of the whols American people ; supreme magistrate in his own commonwealth ; President of the Federal^ Republic— he ever approved hia fitness for (he highest trusts, excelling not more in station, than in laboi iousness, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. He defined, established, and extended the boundaries of his country. He planted the laws of the American Union on the shores of the Pacific. His influence and his counsels tended to organize the national treasury on the principles of the Constitution, and to apply the rule of freedom to navigation, trade, and industry. Most beloved where best known, he lived happily, and died in the midst of his country's unexampled prosperity, which his own measures had contributed to establ sh. I invite the Consuls and Vice- Consult of the United States and all others of my fellow-citizens now in the United Kingdom, to share the sorrow of hit family and hit country. His memory ng a public man lives in honour, and will en. dure ; the youth of of our country will be formed to virtue by emulating the purity of his private life.— George Bancroft."