New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

Mr Van Buren arrived at New-York on Wednesday, last week, in the ship New-York, from Liverpool. A committee from meetings of his political friends waited on him at Staten Island, to know when it would be convenient for him to receive their intended testimony of respect, to which he replies

"Duly sensible, as I am, of the honor which my political and personal friends propose to confer upon me, I have, nevertheless, felt it to be my duty to incur the responsibility of disappointing their wishes upon this occasion.

"Having understood that serious alarm is excited in New-York by a malignant disease, I have greatly preferred landing quietly in the city, and meeting my friends as I have formerly done, to being received in a public manner; particularly when from the apprehensions entertained, all festivity must be discordant with their feelings."

His letter containing this declination having been read, it was resolved that his sentiments were another proof of his republicanism.