The papers announce the search of another American-se the fifth
belonging to Salem—by a British cruiser on ths.' Africa. These things are very awkward just now.
Accounts by one of the Halifax steam-ships bring the history of affairs in America to the 1st instant. The most really import- ant feature in the intelligence is, that it announces no event of any importance whatever. M‘Leon's trial had been delayed inde- finitely, by a technical error in the opening of the court at Lock- port, and by the complicated preliminary proceedings for removing the trial to a less excited part of the country and examining wit- nesses at a distance. It is reported that the Attorney-General thinks there is no evidence against the prisoner. Other matters were pretty much in state quo. Committees of the Maine Legislature were still reporting and resolving on the Boundary question, with all the indefatigable zeal of a local public body delighted at having got hold of an important national, to busy themselves about ; but they were less impatiently, by many degrees. es
