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Although only absent from Galveston six months, I find that considerable improvements have & are still going on. No longer does the "picayune" system of bartering continue, but a good cash trade, and owing to the United States not having a commercial treaty with Texas, the harbor is full of European vessels, bringing manufactured goods & taking cotton* &c in return.

Texas, has at present French and American Ministers. a charge from England & consuls from England, France, U. States, Bremen, & Belgium.

Last October Cols. Williams & Hockley repaired towards to Mexico (at Sabinas some thirty or forty miles west of the Rio Grande) then  to west with other commissioners on the part of Mexico to arrange an armistice, a preliminary to a peace with that country.

 In these trans atlantic countries, we are kept alive by what is called an "excitement." The one on the tapis just now is the wish of the United States cabinet to annex Texas.