UNITED STATES. -- On Saturday morning, the steamer Acadia, Captain RYRIE, reached the Morsey, in a few hours less than eleven days from Halifax. She left that place on the 19th, and Boston on the 16th of December, with eighteen passengers. The news by this arrival, extending over seven days, possesses no striking feature. If we except the intelligence from Canada, where Sir Charles METCALF has experienced the hostility of the house of assembly for dismissing the Lafontaine ministry. By a vote of forty-five to twenty-four, the house expressed its sympathy for the ex-ministers, although Sir Charles declared that their dismissal was owing to the pertinacity with which insisted upon conditions relative to official appointments at variance with "executive prerogatives." He will not be able to go on with the present assembly -- that seems clear; and whether a new house would be more pliant, is very problematical. The "responsible government" theory has taken a strong hold of the French Canadian party, and, as a natural consequence, their strength will be directed against Sir Charles METCALF'S government, which has discarded it. The news for the United States is without interest. Nothing worthy of note had occurred in Congress, where the business of the session had hardly commenced. The various committees had been formed, and the reports from the different executive branches of the government had been delivered in. A rumour prevailed, that Mr. FOX, our ambassador at Washington, was about returning home, and that his place would be supplied by Mr. PACKINGHAM, late British minister at Mexico. The on dit may, or may not, be correct. From Mexico intelligence had arrived, that Santa Anna had forwarded the October instalment of the indemnity due to the Untied States -- a fact which has improved him in the good graces of the Americans. A British fleet in the Gulf of Mexico was giving some uneasiness to Brother Jonathan, who professes to see in it designs upon Texas inimical to his interests. President Houston was making an effort to dispose of the Texan navy, which was also constructed into a confirmation of the rumours about Great Britain having her eye upon Texas. The rate of exchange at New York was 108¼ to 108½, where the Stock Market was in a state of great excitement.
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