The sailing-packet South America arrived at Liverpool on Thursday evening,
from New York, after a voyage of only fifteen days and a half. She brings accounts from that city to the 2d instant, two days later than by the Acadia. Nothing further had transpired in Congress respecting the detention of Mr. M`Leod. But the Buffalo Commercial says-
The required sureties for that gentleman were given on Wednesday, by Messrs. Brotherson of Queenstown, and Buell of Lockport ; and M‘Leod was forthwith discharged from custody. No sooner was he released than a very numerous band of armed men—one account says two or three hundred men— 'interposed, and forcibly reconducted him to gaol ; where he is yet confined. The avowed object of this disorderly and unlawful proceeding is to afford the owners of the Caroline an opportunity to arrest M‘Leod for the destruction of that boat, and thereby detain him on this side of the river."
There is some doubt, however, as to the correctness of this infor- mation. It is said not to have received much credit in New York.
Commercial affairs had undergone little alteration. Foreign ex- changes closed at if to 8-; and United States Bank Shares had fallen to 48, but afterwards rose to 50.
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