The Westchester packet-ship, which sailed from New York on the
14th of March, and, after a perilous passage of twenty-seven days, arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday last, brings intelligence from the United States and Canada, two. days later than that pre- viously received. There are numerous reports of hostile prepara- tions on the frontier, but none of them worthy of the slightest notice. Wanting money, Governor FAIRFIELD of Maine is crip- pled in his operations, and Sir Joux HARVEY seems resolved to avoid it collision. No special ambassador had been positively named, but the almost universal impression that the Boundary question would be amicably settled, is not impaired.
The mercantile news is gloomy. There had been many failures. Several banks in Alabama and Michigan had given way ; and sus- picion being general, the notes of many other banks were refused in New York.
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