7 APRIL 1849, Page 2

The latest accounts from the United States are not very

favourable to the plans and prospects of our Ministers : it appears that an angry feel- ing has been excited against Mr. Bancroft for a too ready promise of coasting reciprocities under the repeal of our Navigation-laws. But the principal news is the adhesion of Henry Clay to the abolition of slavery. His plan, no doubt, is prospective, and limited in terms to Kentucky. But the fact that so cautious and far-seeing a man overtly confesses the necessity of providing for the extinction of slavery, proves how wide and rapid has been the extension of such an opinion. America has awakened to her greatest danger, and thus finds a guarantee for her ulti- mate safety.