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ing, having left New York on the 1st instant. She brought a very valuable cargo, and 152 passengers. The only political news of importance by this arrival relates to the Boundary question. On the 27th of June, President VAN BUREN had transmitted a message to Congress enclosing correspondence between Mr. Fox and Mr. FORSYTH ; from which it appeared, that the British Government had accepted the last proposition from Washington, to appoint Commissioners to settle the line, and refer disputed points to an arbitrator. An amicable arrangement was universally expected.
Commercial afilmirs were still unprosperous in America. The Bank of the United States was reducing its expenses, and acting with prudence. There would be no dividend for the half-year ending in July.
LETT, a man of infamous notoriety, had been sentenced at Oswego to seven years' imprisonment for setting fire to the steamer Great Britain ; but as the Sheriff was conducting him on the rail- way by night to the prison at Auburn, he contrived, though in fetters, to leap off the carriage and make his escape.
