A recently-arrived vessel from the United States brings intelli- gence
of some progress towards the settlement of the North-eastern Boundary question. The States of Massachusetts and Maine have appointed Commissioners to act with Mr. WEBSTER, the Foreign Minister. Lord ASHBURTON will have no official cognizance of the seven gentlemen introduced to the negotiations : they will consti- tute a sort of hydra-headed attendant genius to Mr. WEBSTER, speaking through his mouth ; who will thus be like a diplomatist bewitched. Their promptings may perhaps be somewhat difficult to give voice to. Five of the seven, however, are Whigs, and probably of moderate views ; and the very fact of their appointment, to discuss a totally new arrangement of a "conventional line," which is to be final, speaks for the sincerity of the border States in their desire to lay the long-protracted and dangerous question for ever to rest. lithe Commissioners have honesty, common sense, and a fair share of information, the nine men may relieve the two great nations of all chance of war on that point ; and they may thus give a proof that other no less troublesome questions might be settled by simi- lar means.
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