AMERICA. Liverpool, Sunday, February 17.

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AMERICA. Liverpool, Sunday, February 17.

By the Royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Ryrie, we have advices from New York to the sth, Boston to the 6th, and Halifax to the Bth inst. From Canada the accounts are more satisfactory. In Quebec the Annexation candidates had been defeated. A despatch from Earl Grey, under date, Downing-street, 9th January, appears in the papers. He approves the dismissal from service of those who had signed the annexation document. The remainder of the document we give at length :—": — " Her Majesty confidently relies on the loyalty of the great majority of her Canadian subjects, and she. has therefore determined to exert all the authority that belongs to her for the purpose of maintaining the connexion of Canada with this Government, being persuaded that the permanence of that connexion is highly advantageous to both. Your lordship will, therefore, understand that you are commanded by her Majesty to resist, to the utmost of your power, any attempt which may be made to bring about the separation of Canada from the British dominions, and to make known in the. strongest manner her Majesty's displeasure with all those who may directly or indirectly encourage such a design; and if any attempt of this kind should take such a form that those who are guilty of it may, according to such advice as you may receive from your law advisers, be made responsible for their conduct in a court of justice, you will not fail to take the necessary measures for bringing them to account." The most interesting event in the transactions of the United States Congress is the | introduction of a series of resolutions into I the Senate by Mr. Elby. These resolutions propose an amicable arrangement of all the controverted topics between the free and slave State's-.' vf IHiei first maintains the admission of Calif ornial' into • the American Union, free from any restriction on the exclusion or introduction of slavery within its limits. In the 2nd resolution it is provided that territorial government should be established by Congress in the territories acquired from Mexico, without the imposition of any condition on the subject of -slavery. The 3rd and 4th resolutions contend that the western boundary of Texas be fixed on the Rio del Norte, from its mouth to the mouth of the Rabine. The sth and 6th asserts that slavery ought not to be abolished in the districts of Columbia during the existence of the institution in the Statet of Maryland without the consent of the people of the district, and a just compensation to the owners of the slaves, and that the slave trade under certain condition!, should be abolished within the federal district as repugnant to the common feelings of mankind. In the two final resolutions it is urged that provision should be made by Congress for the more effectual restitution of slaves in any State escaping into any other State or territory ; and that Congress has

no power to prohibit the trade in slaves between the several States, that being an arrangement to be decided, according to the principles of the constitution, by the particular laws of the States themselves. The resolutions were sustained by Mr. Clay, in * speech of masterly eloquence and ability, which produced a strong sensation on the Senate ; they were ordered to be made the subject of special consideration in the Senate, on Tuesday, February 5. The Washington correspondent of the Journal of Commerce says, — " I learn from an authentic source that the Captain- General of Cuba has been instructed by his Government to liberate the slaves in case of an invasion or insurrection. The Hudson's Bay Company, through the British Minister, have renewed their proposition, made during the administration of President Polk, to the United States Government, to dispose of all their possessory rights in Oregon south of 49 degrees, for 1,000,000 dollais. This proposition was communicated to the Senate in executive session. The price asked is the same as before." Late advices from Venezuela mention affairs exhibited a high degree of prosperity. General Paez was still in confinement. The coffee crop was abundant. Another engagement was said to have taken place between the Haytien and Dominican fleets. Some of the foreign merchants had refused to comply with all the requirements of the monopoly law in regard to the sale of foreign produce. The monopoly on coffee was taken off by a Royal decree of the Emperor on the 10th of last month. - Between 50 and 60 persons had been killed by the explosion of a boiler at New York.