The Roscius packet-ship arrived at Liverpool yesterday, with intelli- gence
from New York to the 26th July. It is important, though it may be expressed in few words. From the statements of the National Intelligencer, an official paper, it seems certain that the Commissioners for Idassachussetts have come to terms with Lord Ashburton; and that the Commissioners for Maine have so far assented as to allow the matter to be referred to the Senate-
." The line agreed upon," says the correspondent of the Morning Herald, "is that which was proposed by the King of Holland. as far as the small lake near the rise of the river St. Francis. Thence it runs down to the South-west branch of St. John's river, leaving out a strip of our territory about a hundred miles long and twelve broad. This belt of land is what we glve up, though the King of Holland gave it to us in his arbitrernent. But in lieu of that, we are to get the free navigation of the St. John's river, but with- out access to it except above the Great Falls. We also get Rouse's Point, on Lake Champlain ; a place to which some importance has been attached in a mi- htary point of view."
There was little change in the commercial world.
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