busters. Ido not think that the course to be, pur sued is jet fully determined. The attitude of Spain towards Mexico greatly increases the difficulty of dealing with the question. The views of the Presi dent upon the acquisition by any European Power of territorial possessions upon thia continent are no •ecret. He adopts what ie known as the Munroe doctrine. But the Dsmocratic party (whose speaker and exponent he must be) go beyond this. They expect acquisition— that out of the action of Spain towards Mexico a complication will grow which « ill enable this Government to reap some advan. tages lor the United States. It is not difficult to conjecture to what ends these aspirations tend. The fute of war may throw Cuba into our hands, either as the result of direct action or through the inter vention of Filibustering expeditions under the Mex ican flag. Mexico, too, may come under the protec tion of the American flag, to play a little longer the farce of Gvernment; or, what is more probable from the present appearances, its. northern pro vinces, Sonora and Lower California, may, by treaty or by the help of the Filibusters, be added to the possessions of the United Stales. Should the i negotiations now going on at Washington by the i agents of this dismembered Republic result in a treaty and purchase, that would be a short way of disposing of the latter questions. But should they terminate unsuccessfully, then the expeditions which have been for some time past organizing in Texas and other Southern States will go forward, and work out the same result. Then would foHow, as before, treaties, the acquisition of territory, the debts charged upon the territory acquired or its revenues, commissions te determine the amounts due, and, finally, the substitution of the United States as debtors, in the place of the miserable, broken-down, corru-pt factions who now caricature the forms of government in Mexico. The periodical Central American discussions are also Kkely -to come off during the session. The Nicaragua route, notwithstanding the negotiations with M Belly, and the grants to White, to Stebbins, to the Philadelphia Company, and all the compli cations produced by & succession ol u responsible Governments, is still unopened, nor, to all appear ances, is it any nearer being opened than it was a twelvemoth since. 