The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-16 00:00:00

The papers of the latest date from Boston are filled with
the important news from India and China, which they had
just received by the packet-ship North America, which sailed
from Liverpool on the 7th ultimo. From the contents of
these papers, it is lamentably manifest that the Anti-English
feeling is rising to the effervescing point, and is stimulated
rather than sought to be allayed in quarters where one might
expect a very different sort of agency to be exerted. An ex-
tract or two from the speech of Governor Kent to the legis-
lature of Maine, will serve as evidence onjthis point. After
alluding to the various obstacles ind delbys which had pre-
vented an adjustment of the Boundary Question, he says :
The time cannot be far distant when the question must
assume a more definite shape, either peaceable or warlike ;
and much as we may deprecate the awful evils and miseries
of war, we ought to be prepared to meet the issue, if such,
after all, is the determination of our opponents, with the
firmness of men who feel that they have the right, and who
will not yield to threats or force the inheritance of our fa-
thers, and the rightful territory of our state. The unanimity
which has characterised our state on this question, in the
midst of all our political excitements, is a sure guarantee that
the people are ready to sustain their rulers in all judicious,
temperate, yet firm and decided measures, and that it is re-
garded by them as too sacred and too solemn a subject to be
made the instrument of any mere party schemes or move-
ments.

He adverts to the occupation, by order of the Gover-
nor-General, of the posts at Tamiscouta Lake and Mada-
waska, by British troops, and says :
I cannot but view this proceeding, as my predecessor does,
in his reply to Sir John Harvey, as " a direct and palpable
infringement of the subsisting arrangenient," and as taking
military possession of that portion of the contested territory.
And if the suggestion of Lieut.-Governor Harvey, who seems
not to have been consulted in relation to this new act of ju-
risdiction, and who evidently regards it With regret, if not as
an infringement of subsisting arrangements, be disregarded,
and the British troops are permanently located at Madawaska,
I shall feel it my duty to reiterate the request already made
to the General Government, and to urge upon that govern-
ment the justice and expediency of taking military posses-
sion, on the part of the United States, of the territory in
dispute. The General Government owes it to Maine to
move forward in this matter, with promptness and energy,
with a sincere and even anxious desire to preserve peace, but
with an equally firm determination to maintain subsisting
engagements on our part, and to insist upon a full perform-
ance from the other party.

In the Boston Morning Post of the Ist instant, in a long
article on the subject of " War with England," there occurs
the following among many other passages in the same spirit:
There are now questions between the two governments
which may never be peaceably settled—indeed it is not say-
ing too much to declare that they never will be settled with-
out a resort to force. These are the North Eastern Boun-
dary, the burning of the Caroline, and also the North Western
line. Who can read the insolent letters of her Majesty's
minister at Washington, without feeling a glow of indigna-
tion rush through his veins ; without feeling himself, it an
American, insulted ; and how equally pleased must the same
man have felt when he read the calm yet firm and dignified
response of the Secretary of State. What would be the effect
of a war with England 7 On this there would, of course,
be a variety of opinions, but in the end we believe it would
do us no harm. It would improve the navy, and would teach
us to look more to the resources of our own country, anti be
less dependant on England.
From the above paper we extract what follows :

The case of M`Leod and the Caroline.—There appears to
be a great many errors abroad both of fact and opinion
(says the New York Sun) in regard to this case. It is some-
times alleged that M`Leod is indicted for murder and arson,
sometimes that he is only arrested upon the charge, and
sometimes that he is out on bail, and has actually gave home.
We understand the facts to be, that he has been arrested
upon a warrant issued by a ,magistrate before whom coin-
plaint was made against .him—that ha has not yet been indu,
ced, but that his case will be presented to the first grand
jury that is to be empanelled for that county. As to his
being out on bail, it is impossible, unless some magistrate
has taken the responsibility of violating the law, the charge
being of a nature that no bail can be taken. He is, there-
fore, undoubtedly still imprisoned awaiting the action of the
grand jury.
The Niagara correspondent of the New York Herald writes
with reference to this affair

LOCKPORT, Jan. 25, 1841.—The trial of M`Leod cannot
take place until the 4th Monday in March, unless a special
commission of Over and Terminer should issue, which is not
probable. His case will come before the Grand Jury at the
County Court, to be held early in February ; but that court
can only indict him. The evidence before the Grand Jury is
private, of course, and not to be reported. It has been
stated, in some prints, that he was to be tried immediately—
this may have misled some. .

I have not been able to obtain any information in relation
to his history, to be depended on. There is nothing peculiar
in his situation in jail, except that he sleeps all day, and is
up all night, probably expecting assistance from Canada, to
enable him to escape. If I can find any one who can give
any of the information asked by you, I will procure it to
be done.

The statement that Mr. Brotherston, the cashier of the
Suspension Bridge Bank, bad become M'Leod's bail in 5000
dollars, is also erroneous. M`Leod was arrested under a
charge of murder, which is not a bailable offence. The
excitement on this affair increases every day. Meetings are
are all holding over the western district, and if an attempt
be made to rescue him, I would not answer for the conse-
quences.

In the New York Courier, of an antecedent date, (Jan. 28
we had the following paragraph :

M`LEon.—We learn from the Buffalo Commercial Adver-
tiser, of the 23rd instant, on the authority of a gentleman
from Lockport, that Mr. Brotheriton, late cashier of the
Suspension Bridge Bank, had becoine bail for Mr. M`Leod
in the sum required of 5000 dollars, and that he was to have
been liberated on Saturday last. Another person direct from
Lockport, informed the editor that this was to have been
done provided the Canadian authorities would indemnify the
securities, and not otherwise. The matter therefore still
remains in statu quo.—New York Courier.

VERY LATE FROM THE PACIFIC.
JANUARY 30.—The schooner Coquette, Galt, arrived at
Baltimore on Thursday, in the ilerXshort passage of 69 days
from the port of Islay, in Peru, near Arica. The republic of
Bolivia was in a very disturbed state' and the opinion was
very general that a revolution would break out shortly. In
expectation of the event, the Peruvians were about to declare
war against Bolivia, and were concentrating their forces, pre-
paratory to joining one of the revolting parties in the latter.

TEXAS NEWS.
NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 16.—Business generally was reviv-
ing in the Texas towns, and considerable husiness was soon
anticipated. The news of the recognition of the indepen-
dence of Texas by Great Britain, increased the confidence of
the Texans in their strength and resources. The Herald
says there had been several instances where one dollar specie
had been paid for five of the Texas notes,
The government and people of Texas were coming to the
belief that the Mexican invasion was mere moonshine, and
that there was no longer any danger from the Indians.

FLORIDA.—The following information, communicated in a
letter from an officer of the army serving in Florida, to a
friend in this city, may be relied on as correct.—Globe.
FORT FANNING, J. 121 1841.—Major Belknap has,
through the aid of one of Captain Page's delegation, suc
ceeded in bringing in fifteen hostiles, among them the chief
of the Tallahassees and his family. He expects to bring in,
some twenty or thirty more, and has his runners out nego-
tiating with them. Detachments from our command have
been pretty constantly out, scouting and escorting, but have
met with none of the enemy yet in the field. We have here
a report that Gen. Read, with a large detachment of volun-
teers, surprised a party near Deadman's Bay, taking six war-
riors and two negroes. The General is now on his way with
his prisoners to Fort Macomb. The express also brings in-
telligence of forty Indians having come in at Fort King.
Two Indians were killed and one wounded by the Georgia
Volunteers, fifteen miles south of Okefanoke, on or about
the 12th ult.