The Royal mail steam-ship Britannia arrived at Liverpool at two
• o'clock on Thursday morning. She left Boston on the 1.8th instant, and Halifax at eleven o'clock on the night of the 3d ; thus tanking the passage from Boston to Liverpool in thirteen days. The Royal mail steam-ship Caledonia, which sailed from Liverpool on the 19th Sep- temb'
er arrived at Halifax on the 30th, in ten days and a half, and pro- :ceededfor Boston.
The British Queen, which sailed from Portsmouth cm the 1st Sep- tember, arrived at New York on the morning of the 16th ; having been fourteen days thirteen hours on the passage. The Great Western, which left King Road, Bristol, on the night of the 12th September, reached New York on the 27th ; the voyage having been performed under fifteen days.
By the Britannia we have received New York papers to the 30th September inclusive, and Boston journals of the 1st, and Halifax of the 3d instant.
The latest accounts previously received from New York were to the 7th September. The present accounts extend, therefore, over the long period of to enty-fbur days. No events, however, of leading importance had occurred in the interval. Presidential electioneering contianed the all-absorbing employment of the citizens of the Union. Mr. Webster had visited New lurk, and had addressed crowded meetings of the Whig or Anti. Administration party. He announced most confidently, that, in his opinion, the election would go against Sir. Van Buren ; and that, of course, a change of the Administration was inevitable.
The stock and the money market had not undergone any material change. The prospects of war between England and France were hailed with too much satisfaction by the Americans ; who calculated on obtaining, in the event of hostilities, a greater share of the commerce of the world.
A correspondent of the Slam:Erni says that the Origon territory, in the North-west, is likely to become a source of fend between England and the United States. Mr. Cushing, a member of Congress, is to take a leading part ill opposing the claims of the British Government.
The exchange on London was 1OS to at which considerable business lied been transacted. There was it plentiful supply of bills in the market, but not more than to meet the demand. Bills on Paris were scarce, and were quoted at 5f. 20e. The shares in the Bank of the United States were quoted at 63. The entire stock of cotton on hand in the 'United States is stated to be 50,000 bales, last year at this time it was 6asmo bales.
A correspondent of the New /-ork Ktpress writing from Havannah, in August last, says---" Our city is again becoming a nest of robbers and assassins, and gambling rages with all the fiereeness of long-subdued passions. From the highest officers oh' Government to the lowest grades of the people, all are intent upon inonte--a game prohibited under the severest penalties by Taeon. Even the Captain-General is a professor, haying lost in one night, a short time since, 500 ounces (5.500 dollars) to Count Santevenin. This state of things naturally begets robbing, and scarcely a day passes but we hear of people being stopped in the street and despoiled : mid such is the relaxation of our government, that a ti ogre who lately killed a soldier. by stabbing him to the heart, has been released ; his defence being that he had taken out his knife to fight another negro, and the soldier. in clasping hint in his arms to arrest him, ran 1111011 the knife and killed himself. The country is in a
terrible state—a band of robbers having assaulted a small town, and robbed it of 14,000 dollars."
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