It is in its negative character that the fresh intelligence
from the United States is most remarkable and most satisfactory : no new symptom of hostility has appeared ; the hostile tone of the Legis- lature and the press is not supported ; a very summary termination to the negotiations, which it was said the British Minister had been instructed to make, has not been made; Mr. M‘Lson is not to be tried at Lockport, the scene of the first outrages upon him; and a rumour obtains, that when his trial comes on, the plea that Eng- land is answerable for the act with which he is charged will not be resisted. At an interchange of courtesies with the diplomatic body in Washington, the New President expressed a confident hope that friendly relations with the European Powers, whom those gentlemen represented, would not be broken for ages. The State of Maryland, which, as a slave-holding community, might perhaps not be expected to be the most friendly towards England, has set the example of discountenancing the unqualified demands of Maine,—not questioning the justice of the claim which the sister State puts forth, but recommending conciliatory advances and a willingness to adopt an equitable adjustment of the dispute.
Upon the whole, the aspect of affairs is strongly inclined towards a more peaceful and speedy conclusion of the immediate dispute than at first appeared possible. Brother JONATHAN'S excitable temper has subsided to a calm ; and his vigorous understanding, backed by a sense of his own interests, and probably by a more generous sense of the sincere dislike to war, on its own account, which this country has evinced, will help a right settlement of the matter. Mr. M'LEOD seems safe ; and a cloud of bloodshed, bank- ruptcy, and ruin, which hung over the inhabitants of both coun- tries, passes by without a storm.
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