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From the New York Sun, Extra, April 4.

ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH QUEEN.

LATE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM ENGLAND.

The British Queen, for which public expectation had been excited about for a week, arrived at quarantine this morning at 3 o'clock, bringing us our full London and Liverpool files to the day of her sailing, 10th of March.

The Queen experienced a very rough and disagreeable passage, and on the 30th ult., having then been out twenty days, found herself obliged to put into Halifax for fuel. She left Halifax on the 1st, and made the passage to this port in three days.

The news she brings is of the most intense interest, and we hasten to lay it before an anxiously expecting public.

The people of England appear to have been panic-struck at the intelligence which reached that country by the packets George Washington, United States, and Westchester, from N. York. The first named vessel took out the news of the stoppage of the United States Bank; the second that of the indictment of McLeod; and the Westchester, Mr. Pickens' report in Congress on the McLeod affair. These three causes combined, created a sudden panic among all classes of persons, and the funds at the Stock Exchange were materially lowered in consequence.

We find it utterly impossible, in our limited space, to give at this moment even a synopsis of the comments of the press upon this intelligence; but upon Mr. Pickens' report, which seems to have created the greatest shock, the London Globe says: "The painful effect which this intemperate 'party document' must otherwise produce on the strongly-cherished hopes of the people of this country, of an amicable adjustment of the dispute, will be much relieved by the tone of the principal speakers in the debate which ensued on the question of printing the report. We see nothing in this manifesto of empty and unreasonable denunciations, qualified as they are, by the strong expressions of dissent and reprobation with which it was received, to shake our belief that peace will be preserved."

In the House of Lords, on the evening of the 5th, reference to the Congress report, its effect upon the funds, &c., was made by the Earl of Mountcashel, who felt disposed to doubt the authority of the document, and appeared to suspect that it had been got up for stock-jobbing purposes. He thought that, if genuine, a document more violent had never been penned by one country against another. We earnestly invoke our readers to study it in extenso for themselves, and then judge themselves what chance exists of fair or just treatment for Great Britain from those authorities with which such a catalogue of insults could have originated. If the Hudson Government be, as we believe it will be, against the report, is there not ground to fear they may be too feeble to resist the war faction."

MOST IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE!

The Times and other papers state as a positive fact, that some part of the squadron, believed to consist of ten sail of the line, which had been engaged on the coast of Syria, had been suddenly ordered off the coast of America, to support the remonstrance of the British Minister, Mr. Fox, against the "judicial murder of McLeod."

INFANTRY FOR HALIFAX! - The Times also states that "three battalions had been put suddenly under orders for Halifax, and adds, "God knows how the home service of the realm could be furnished after their departure."

The Atlas says, "WAR with AMERICA must and will as surely follow upon the murder of McLeod, as the light of the morning follows the darkness of the night; but then this war will be a war without any definite object, except revenge for an injury which cannot be atoned."

We cannot occupy any more space with this exciting subject at this time, but we promise to refer to it again hereafter.

The news from the Continent we find of very little interest.

In France every thing is quiet as at our former dates.