The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-06 00:00:00

UNITED STATES

By the packet-ship North Ameiica, Captain Sowler, we
have received New` York papers to the 19th ult., being four
days later than those brought by the Britannia. The North
America has made the passage in fifteen days.
Although much is said in the papers which we have re-
ceived of Mr. M'Leod and his trial, we can find little worth
transcribing. Mr. Crittenden, the attorney-general for the
United States, accompanied by Mr. Robinson, the new United
States Marshal for the Western District of New York, left
the latter place on the 18th ult. for Albany on their way to
Lockport, to attend the trial of M`Leod. Measures bad been
taken to repress any outbreak on the part of the populace
during the trial. It was expected the trial would take place
on the 22d ult., but the New York Herald, of the 19th men-
tions that " there is reason to believe that the trial will be
postponed to an indefinite day next summer ;" and this ap-
pears to be confirmed by another paper, which states that
the trial will probably be postponed—" A commission to
examine Captain Drew, now in England, will be asked for,
and it is presumed will be granted." The following extract
from the Courier and Enquirer will be read with satisfactory
interest :

" We are happy to add, from the same undoubted source,
that the personal relations between Mr. Fox, the British
Minister, and Mr. Webster are of the most friendly nature;
and that both of them have distinctly said, within the last
few days, that there is not the slightest probability of any-
thing occurring to disturb the amicable relations existing be-
tween England and the United States. The visit of Mr.
Crittenden to Lockport is more for the purpose of exhibiting
a proper interest in the trial of MlLeod than to make any
demand for his release. There is nothing in the official com-
munication of Mr. Fox to Mr. Webster of an offensive cha-

racter."

A proclamation had been issued by the new President,
dated 17th March, convening the two houses of Congress to
meet in the city of Washington on the 31st May next, to take
into consideration " sundry and important matters princi-
pally growing out of the condition of the revenue and finances
of the country."

The fracas between Mr. King and Mr. Clay had been sa-
tisfactorily adjusted, by the latter withdrawing every offensive
expression which he had used in relation to the former.
The elections in Canada were proceeding throughout the
provinces amidst great excitement, and in many places riots
had taken place.

Business at New York is represented as in a deplorable
state. On 'change, all seemed to be holding back for the ar-
rival of the Columbia, at Boston. The letters by that vessel
would, we know, be in New York on the 21st ult., and, as
they contained very cheering news, and would relieve all the
apprehensions felt for the fate of the bills drawn by the Bank
of the United States and transmitted by purchasers to Eng-
land, they would tend to dissipate the gloom which rested
over the mercantile and money market of New York.
In foreign exchanges for the North America a fair amount
of business had been transacted, at previous rates. Sterling
bills were quoted at 1071 to 1071.
The share market had not undergone much fluctuation.
The shares in the Bank of the United States had declined, at
New York, to 151 for cash, while they stood at Philadelphia,
on the 18th ult., at 17k.