The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

America to the Ist instant, being four days later than the

advices previously received

Owing, in all probability, to the expectation that the Cale-

donia would reach this port before the South America, very

The anxiety

few papers were brought by the latter vessel
to obtain the intelligence was intense : the piers were
crowded the whole day.

THE

M'LEOD CASE

UTICA, WEDNESDAY,

Late last night, and during the whole of this morning,
witnesses arrived here in great numbers, both for the prose-
cution and the prisoner. The survivors of the Patriot army,
which was in possession of Navy Island when the Caroline
was destroyed, have come, with all the officers of that short-
lived provisional government of which M'Kenzie was Presi-
dent pro tem. From Buffalo, Canada, and for a great extent

along the frontier, the cry is " still they come."
Mr. Bradley and Mr. Gardener, Mr. Spencer's associate
counsel for the prisoner, have arrived from Canada with vo-
lumious testimony, taken under commission, and many wit-
nesses to sustain his defence, and all parties are now ready
to go to trial.

It is now, however, well understood that the trial will not
commence until Monday next, and, in the mean time, Judge
Grindly will clear the calendars, both civil and criminal. It
is not at all improbable that the case will occupy twelve or
fourteen days.

The evidence of those upon the boat, says the Herald,
in relation to the identity of Nl`Leod, is much less conclu-
sive than of those who swear they saw him go and return
with the expedition from the Canada shore.
For the defence an alibi, probably unsuccessful, (says the
Herald) will be attempted to be proved. Some have en-
tirely refused to testify. They swear they did not see
M'Leod with the expedition. We judge, continues the
Herald, that though a strong case will be made against
M'Leod, the jury will not agree upon a verdict : but that
the trial will show that the destruction of the Caroline was

wholly indetens

The Herald thus concludes :—The grounds of difference
between the two great countries are daily and hourly growing
broader and better defined ; the atrocious kidnapping of Col.
Grogan has stirred the whole northern frontier to a deed of
mutiny, and there is the strongest necessity for prompt and
energetic action, either to maintain peace or to prepare for

The New York Herald of the Ist contains an account of

an interview with Mr. Wells, the owner of the Caroline,
and one of the witnesses on the trial of M`Leod. He says
the Navy Island expedition was a failure, that the boat was
unarmed, and that no moan will swear that he saw Al'Leod
shoot Durfee.

An alibi, by oral testimony, Swill be one branch of the de-
fence; the next will be the examination recently taken in
Canada to negative the positive evidence that M`Leod
took part in the affair of the Caroline. Another branch of
the defence will be, the general character of the transaction,
the circumstances of the times; in short, impunity will be
claimed on the ground that the Caroline was engaged in an
open war on the British Province, and that she was cut off by
the order of the proper authorities.
The sales at the Stock Board had been large on the day
previous to the vessel sailing, and prices had generally de-
clined. The M`Leod affair and the outrages on the border
had had a great influence in the monetary circles.