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BY THE MAIL.-The mail to-day brought dates from New York to the 2Oth and Washington to the 2lst.

 The fortifcation bill appropriating tOO niihoss and a haE to the repair of forts and public works has passed the house-l1e yeas, 66 nays.

 The ''Fiscal Agent" drags along in the senate. It is considered doubtful whether that the distribu- ton bill can command majority in the senate.

 In New York, on the 18th, large meeting of those opposed national bank, &c. was held in the Park, for the purpose of remonsating against the passage of these measures. Resolutions were unanimously adopted declaring that congress has constitutional power to charter a national bank; that national debt is national curse; that the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands, would lead to the as- sumption of state debts, and that should congress pass an act for the creation of any national bank, the people here assembled pledge themselves, to the other to cease not in their sxerons until its charter be repealed.

 This is the true spirit. and with such champions in the senate asBuchanan, Calhoun, Benton, Wright, Ac. who will despair of success?

 Mir. Jaudonc came home in the Caledonia. The Pha- delphia correspondent of the Journal of Commerce says that attributes his return to the urgent quest sf hs patron aad friend Mr. Riddle, whose for lorn coaditsa, it s thought, will be materially melo- rated by aa exposure from Mir. J. At least, Mir. Jsuion, it m said, has knowledge of facts, the posture of which will held Mr. Joshua Lippncott very uneasy. le

 The Chsrlsstoa Mercury says, some of the North era papers claim jurisdiction for the Fedrai Govern msnt in the Mcleod case-on the ground of is being "Nssisxai abair." What makes it national? Surely not the inpsrtinent demand made through Mir. Fox for McLsods release. lift did, England could take any case out of State Courts, and obssruct the course sf our laws, by impertinent interference.