In our last Postscript the result of Mr. Mtsbo's trial
was an- nounced. His acquittal by a New York Juiy.; after a very patient hearing of the evidence and a very brief de ion goon it—tle
strictness and perfect fairness of the forms by which he was tried— and the broad and intelligent view of the case taken by the pre- siding Judge—have given an agreeable turn to the history of the affair. It may be safely asserted that the trial has occasioned the warmest satisfaction in this country, not only on account of Mr. M`LEon's personal safety, but also because it has evinced the high spirit of justice which prevails in the United States. This result, coupled with the release of GROG AN, who was illegally seized by some British volunteers on the American side of the boundary, cannot fail to remove much of that soreness of feeling which con- stitutes the real difficulty in the questions still pending between the two countries.
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