New York papers to the 16th 'June have been received
by the ship Silas Holmes, being one day later than those received by the Hibernia. Mr. Allen re- signed, on the 15th, the Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.
" unsuccessful efforts," says the Nett York Sun, " to embroil this country in a war with England, rendered this course both fit and proper." " Some of the members of the Cabinet will follow the appropriate example of Senator Allen." Mr. Allen was the leader of the 54° 40' party. The same Journal states its be- lief that the Oregon treaty was ratified by the Senate on the evening of the 15th.
A correspondent of the Times, writing from Aden, on the 8d June, mentions that the cholera, which broke out suddenly in that place on the 6t1;May, had an 'rarely disappeared. This he attributes to the setting-in of the South-west monsoon. During the short period that the disease raged at Aden, four hundred of the inhabitants were cut of Distressing accounts continue to be received as to the progress of the scourge in the adjoining country.
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