Vermont Phœnix

LATER FROM EUROPE.

By the ship St. Lawrence, at New York from Liverpool, the Editors of the New York Commercial Advertiser have been furnished with London files to March 10th, and Liverpool to the 11th, both inclusive, being four days later than our last previous advices.

The papers say that the Earl of Durham's health is in such a state as gives uneasiness to his friends.

The Queen, it seems, has exerted her prerogative to bestow upon her husband that precedence which the House of Lords had refused to grant him. An order was gazetted on the 6th of March, declaring that Prince Albert, Duke of Saxony, &c. &c. should on all occasions take place, pre-eminence and precedence next to her Majesty.

Mr. Featherstonhaugh and Mr. Mudge have not yet made their report upon their survey of the N. E. Boundary Line.

Lord John Russell has suggested the position of affairs on the Boundary Line as an argument for maintaining the strength of the British army in Canada. Nothing, however, was said of the prospect of a war.

There was great complaint in debate in the House of Commons, on an account of the frequent desertion of the British soldiers in Canada, to the United States, and the formation of a veteran battalion, with higher pay, for the lines have been suggested.

THE N. E. BOUNDARY.

Lord John Russell in the course of some remarks upon the estimates and the army, stated:

"That the whole difficulty with relation to the boundary question in America was, the failure of his noble friend and the Government to make a reply to the ultimatum sent from the United States. His noble friend in the course of last year, had transmitted a project for the purpose of finally settling the question with the American Government.—After the lapse of a considerable period the American Government sent back a different one, called a counter project, with various provisions of their own. At the same time that these provisions reached this country, arrived gentlemen who had been ordered to make a survey of the part of the country in which the disputed boundary existed. These gentlemen were now employed in making a report of their survey, and as soon as the report was received, an answer would be given to this counter-project of the American Government. That was the state of things at present, which would show hon. gentlemen that there was not the want of any attention in making answer to the ultimatum, as the hon. member called it, of the American Government. There was another question—namely, of claims made by citizens of the State of Maine to parts stated to belong to this country, which had led to proceedings between the Lieut. Governor of New Brunswick, and the authorities of the State of Maine. That had led to some correspondence which had appeared, and it had led to the necessity of protecting the road and the shores by which our troops moved from New Brunswick to Canada, and which it was necessary to provide against, as gangs of persons roved about on parts held not to belong to either party. He would not go now into the general statement which his right hon. friend the Secretary of War would presently make, and he thought that he (Mr. Macaulay) would show that they were not liable to be charged with asking for too great an estimate, if they were to retain the means which were necessary for preserving this great empire in its state of safety, and at the same time of resisting aggressions, from whatever part they might come."