The case of Mr. TYLER, President of the United States,
is mor- tifying : he got hold of the Chief Magistracy by luck, and it is slipping away from him without his having made anything of it. He burned to immortalize his reign, but has burned in vain. So clearly is his cruel case discerned, that it is assumed that he will make some desperate effort at greatness ; and two enterprises ap- pear to be ready to his hand. Texas might be annexed. The idea did not originate with JOHN TYLER, for CIIANNING wrote against it before JOHN TYLER was born to the knowledge of the world about four years ago. Still he might accomplish it—if circumstances favoured. But they look unpropitious. President HOUSTON of Texas would, it is true, like annexation, in order to secure his own property and person ; but Texas has a President-elect ready to reverse the policy of the actual incumbent, as well as the United States ; and the election of Mr. Assort JONES to the Texan Presidency is understood to indicate that the people prefer a necessitous independence with the pro- -f building an imperial republic, rivalling the great elect u. ' ^..se and absorption. The threats, too, which Union, to presem......,. tended to drive them into the arms of the United States, begin to subside ; for Mexico makes pacific overtures, and it is said that England and France are to settle the dispute between Mexico and its quondam province. If so, independence will be facile and safe for Texas. That scheme failing, some think that Mr. TYLER may turn to Oregon and seize the disputed territory ; leaving a war as a legacy to his successor. It would take longer to seize that vacant tract of country than Mr. TYLER has time to spare : though he may still have time to do mischief, he has not enough to grow im- mortal. It is very distressing. Why not be the MARINO FALIERO of the United States, and make a bold push at imparting a really sovereign power to the Dogate or Presidency ? There are plenty of loose fellows about the Union—" Sy mpathizers," " Locofocos," and such persons, who would make very pretty conspirators ; to say nothing of a contingent of Repealers led by Mr. ROBERT TYLER ; who might be paid by the " rescue " of Canada, if not of Ireland itself. Jouw TYLER might fall, like FALTER° ; but, falling or rising, he would certainly be immortal, and would no doubt be dra- matized out of hand, either in blank verse or music.
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