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LETTERS FROM THE METROPOLIS.
NO W.
New YoRK. March 81, |:

NEW DIRK, March ~, loil.
We in this city, as well as others throughought the
country presume had lived in the expectation of re-
celvlng very important intelligence from Europe by
the Caledonia. She arrived at Boston on the Goth,
and we received the news by Express on the Sue
ceeding day. She brought nothing of any grca, inn
portance, with reference the main topics of anxiety
and conjecture. Not syllable with regard to affairs
in China, -no,hng satisfactory to the effect pro-
duccd on the London Market hy the third Suspension
Of our Southern Banks and not much with reference
to the case of McLEop, Of which VIC not fully
informed before. Lord Pamerston has repeatedly
made the avowa that the British Government
fully sanctions the destruction Of the Caroline, and
Lieut.. McCoRMIcK has been honercd by the grant of
pension for services rendered on that occasion. The
London newspapers are filled with remarks on the
imprisonment of Mcleod, which successfully rival
the rawlings of the Montreal Herald and fairly the
counterpar,s of the vaporings in some of our city
journals The Times has the following long sentence
upon the subjcct-which, by the way, is emlneny
pacific, in comparison with the comments of several
of its contemporaries. Should the hostile spirit
and for months past prevalent amongst the hot
Drained democracy Of the northern sates-not lus-
fed, us ii unqneslonaby is not, by any act or move
mcnt the part Of Great Britain, and only to be
counted for by the tendency Of wanton violence
cuse itselfby further vioence-shou'd that bad spirit
we say, proceed to the inIqity of fulfilling certain
wishes proclaimed in Congress, and executing one
Canadian fellow subject for the faithful discharge Of
his duty to the British crown we suspect that no
casustry false philanthropy will prevail upon any
government Of this country, present or future, wing
conservative to forcgo the rights Of retrbuve JUS
ce, and shrink from such retallatory measures as
may best become the honor and best insure hereafter
the safety of her Majcsiy's people"
Hear the London Atlas on the same subject" The
Americans" says that journal, "have just perpetraed
against u of The most fragrant insults that was
ever Offered by civilized nation to another. They
have seized upon officer in her Maestys service,
who under the orders of her Majesty, attacked and
destroyed an American steamboat and they have,
through their government and through their members
in Congress expressed Their determination Of trying
him upon accusations of and murder, and, If he
should be found guilty, of hanging him."
"There men still alive who took part in the last
war between England and America. If we were to
watch an opportunity to catch one of these men IN
our country, and were to seize him and hang him, we
should do precisely the Americans doing in the
case of Mcleod" In this last quoted paragraph the
sapcn, editor of the Atlas to be impressed with
the notion that the time of the Carolncs destruc-
States. But let me quote the concluding clause of his
article upon the subject; of Mcleod has been in any
way injured, reparaton must be made-or ire must
go TO irar. This is no question of air drawn boundary
lines no rng grievance; it is vital, for upon it de-
pends Immediately the safety and respect of every
Engishnan abroad, and hardly more indirectly, nj
though perhaps less Immediately, the safety Of every
Engshmen at home. Sorry indeed should we be Ia
see ourselves at war with nation which may be said
to consist almost of our grandsrcs grandsons hut
If the dire necessity should be forced upon us If
have no other way left Of preserving the lives OF ou
fellow citizens, if these Americans will become muir
dorers OF Engllshmen, then ,rar nth them eren rer
the troyld in arms 10 back them"
Soyou see the stupidity and ignorance are not al
upon one SIDE there's some consolation in knowing
that, though must be confessed there's enough ol
\ either side for both.
: The London Spectator turns the whole matter Il
party purposes, and takes occasion to charge Ior
g PALmERsToS with having involved numerous ques
tons OF dispute with lhe United States which take
l. sngy might have been dismissed with comparatIv
ease rs they arose in succession as now TO battle ever
/ art.
t but little Literary Intelligence of any interest wa
brought out by the Caledonia The British Maya
zines for March are not interesting as nsual-
- Blackwood contains Review of WORDSWORTH wr,
zen with ahlllty-but not such one as Chrlsophe
North himself would write II contains also contIh
alton Of Ten Thousand a year-which has bee
~ very popular and at lmes exceedingly interesting
= Us incidents, however, are too wire drawn, and ii
G. whole storys expanded to than twice the lengt
n; in WHICH it ought to be contained. The Dublin Tn
., e versity Magazine give. another chapter of Char
4 OMallsv, one Of the most amusing picture. of u
,g present doyFrascr has nothing important. and II