The Liverpool steam-ship arrived y escerday at Liverpool, having ma , !••
the voyage from New York in fourteen clays. She brings Presi- dent VAN IlemeN's Message on opening the second session of the twenty - tilt h Congress of the United States.
This document, as far as we can judge from a hasty perusal, is inferior to most of its predecessors both in style and in matter. The few points of interest it possesses may he briefly mentioned : and we shall recur to it next week, it; on more deliberate examination, further notice shall he found necessary. Mr. VAN states, that no official correspondence relative to the None h-costern Boundary had passed since the close of the last session of Congress; but he felt assured that an offer to tbrin a joint commission of si:ry cy and exploration would be met by the British Government in a conciliatory spirit.
retbrence to the proceedings on the Canadian frontier. the President descants at great length. The substance of his remarks is this—that Anieriean'citizens violate the laws by malting military incursions into Canada, and that they are liable to the saute punishment as it' they per- petrated outrages within their ow 0 country ; that the existing laws have been and will be fanIcm i executed by the United States Government ; but that whether those laws are sufficient, it is for Congress to decide. Of this part of the Message it may he said, that the tone is friendly, but rather languid and that the boast of the execution of the laws is not borne out by facts.
The foreign relations generally of the United States are declared to lee satisPactory. The revenue will he sufficient to meet current expenses—provided that the payment of the instalment of the former surplus revenue tee the (litre rent States is again postponed. The most prominent portion of the Message is devoted to a defence of the policy of the Government towards the Banks, The President Tekt'S to the ease with which the late commercial and financial diffi- culties were surmounted, and the prompt restoration of specie payments. as proofs of the 'wisdom of adhering to the " constitutional standard of value ;" and he maintains that the impression of the necessity of a National Bank must thereby he removed. [The Opposition party will declare, that but for the )'resident's operations on the currency, there would hay e been no sospension Of specie payments at all.] Considerable sums leave been paid for the purchase of Indian titles to land, and numerous tribes of Indians have been removed to a territory West of the Mississippi. They are said to be turning themselves to agricultural employments. The carriage of mails on railways and alterations required in Post- office contracts demand the attention of ('ongress.
The jurisdiction of the State Courts of Justice and that of the Su- preme Court of the United States not (infrequently clash ; and the Pre- sident thinks that " such" disparaging discrepancies" in the administra- tion of justice ought not to continue. These, we think, are all the important points of the Message.
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