Netherlands viii commence the duties of hls office as Mediator for settling the great Boundary tauestion between the United States and Great Britain. on the :sd of April, and he makes his award in three months. All the British and smerican documents have been receiy@ ed at the Hague.

 intportaat in,proDenaent.~--fisIr. Isaac sanderson, of Milton, has discovered a method of preparing common salt grass as substitute ior oakum in the manu- lecture of paste-boards and wrapping paper, by which considerable reduc- tiohin the expense is gained. We have examined the article, siia found t ins |every respect equal to that made of more costly materials, and do not hesi- tate to predict that it will almost if not entirely supersede that which at pre- sent supplies tile market. Tor all sorts oi binding 1t answers admirably, and as 1t is not so liable as the common kInd to warp, for light work it would be decid- edly preferable, even if the prices were the same, which is not the case, as MT. SandeFson's is afforded twenty per cent. lower than present prices. He ilas, we understand, made arrangements for ars- wering orders 10 any extent. The pro- its of the invention are secured to him by letters patent. Bost. Juon.

 

 The pay and subsistence of officers and cadets at Uest Point, from the year isD2 to Is29,i $l,435,9S6 75. The sum expended in the erection and re- pairs of building, and supplies by the Quarter Master, S535,s42 5O, making all aggregate expenditure on these two accounts of Sf,97i ,s29 l6, besides the furtlier sum of S.sf, ,f50 22, for supplies for the troops stationed at West Point. who formed no part of the Institutions.

 Since the organization Of the Aeade- ny to 1929, the number of Teachers and Professors employed has heen I2G.. and the amount Of pay received by them has been SIS4,696 3.

 , It is announced in the public prints, that new novel, by the author of pel- ham, the Disowned, and Deyereux, en- titled sspaul Clifford is in the progress of publication. It is said to be the fa- vorlte work of the author, that he has bestowed more labor upon it thar any other Of his publications, and that it d. bounds, in satiric descriptions of life. told with the fappiest hurnor. The au. thor is deservediy popular, possessing very extensive requirements, splendid style--though rather exuberant of or- nament, and much depth of moral re- hection. It is to be hoped that he will rot follow tie example of may of his contemporaries and ruin his reputation by "writing against time."

 Ihe Rdat RoQd.-The interest in our Rail Road appears of late, greatly to ins crease among the citizens. With a steady breeze on "Wednesday last, .lhe Gar sailed throughout the day filled with Passengers. A number Of .1ars riages and other fashionable vehicles were on the ground, and the interest