The latest accounts from America were brought to Liverpool on
Welnesday, by the Virginian, which left New York on the 14th of August. The commercial and monetary difficulties of the United States were still considerable ; business was dull, and the ac- counts of the continued pressure on the English money-market had excited much alarm in New York. Cotton at New Orleans had been " totally stagnated." The schooner which landed the men who made the attack on Coburg has been seized. She is the Guernsey, an American ves- sel, owned at Rochester in New York. Some arms were found on board. Another " Brockville outrage" had occurred-
" The Allierie:111 54'MM-boat St. Lawrence was fired into by a British armed schooner, near Brockville, Upper Canada. The St. Lawrence was pafefialg- down the river on her regular trip, when she was hailed by the schooner, and ordered to hoist her colours. This was not done, and three muskets were that
fired upon her, and a cannon was got out for the purpose of being used; but the boat was out of reach. The American steam-boat Oneida was des- patched to Kingston to investigate the matter ; when Captain Sandon, the commander of the British forces on the lake, expressed his surprise and regret, and immediately sent for the captain of the schooner to investigate the matter.
Mr. CLAY bad been making a tour in Canada. lIe was cour- teously received at Montreal by Sir JOHN COLUORNE and the Bri- tish officers.
The Montreal courier says that all the State prisoners are to be liberated, on condition of " quitting the province for ever."
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