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SHIPPING INraLLTGENCE.

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CUSTOM-HOUSE. SEPT. 20.
SMPS IP,NTEEto 114Wanbs.—The Britannia, Roberts, frem
Rio Janeirfi ; Wit!wood. •Fisher, from Hasannah : Edinburgh
11 Cantle. Hutton, front Leith; Triton. Smith, from Memel; Brie-
r set, Hoorn. from ditto ; George and Ellen, Allison, from ditto ;
h'Dwarentle, Dryden, from ditto; Hope, Ord, from! ditto ; starling,
Keith, from Cadiz; Earl of Ciancarty, Heath, from Batterdam ;
Trusty, Mather, from Quebec ; Frau Corhertoa; °omen, from
Hatuburgti : Flying Fish, Smith, from (Mend ; -Manley, Sayers,
freak St. Vincent's.; Loyal Briton, Headley, front Alexandria ;
Prince Regent,' Taylor, from Tobwo ; Walter Mathews, Maul.
else, from ,Harlhagon • X.V.Z., White, from Memel; Gustav,
Gass, from Dao talc ; I"ersuch, Frenu, front CUD; Lustre. Wood-
ward, Irani Quebec; Herald. SOpwith, from ditto; Onyx. 'Wil-
liamson, front Dc ; Gratitude, Comebv, from Memel ;
Renewal!, Cromartio. from Barbadoes: Merlin, Weeks, from
Jamaica; Alice, Knight, frun. Hamburgh : Duke of Kent,
Cotaiwortb,' from Pernambuco and Havre; Zephyr; Thirmpsort,
from Belfast; Henry Davidson, Barclay, from Jamaica; Alpha,
Lowea, from Memel ; and Lavinia, Smart, from Figuera.
tNTEUED OtiTwAans:—The Aurora, Jackson, for Smyrna;
Queen airtime, Fenner, for Jersey ; Dolphin, Ludvigsan, tor
Eisinore and Copenhagen ; Providence, Moore, for Mainore and
st. Petersburgh ; Unicorn, Wilson. for St. Vince:lea ; Sandwich,
Aden]. few Grenade; Vreuw Elizabeth. Bteene, for Ostend, Bru-
, gee, and Ghent; Ouvenoight, Rooderkirk. fur Rotterdam and
Amsterdam ; Isabella, Robson, for Elsinore and Riga; 'Flinches,
Leith, for Pillau. Konigsberg, and ',Thing ; Heiner and Sophia.
Garraway, for Dominica ; Zephyr, Thompson, for Belfast; and
Abeona, Lewis, for Dublin.
CLEARED OUTWARDS FINALLY AT GRAVESEND.—The
William Etherington, Harrison, fur Elsinore and St. Petersburgh ;
and Fortitude, Stewart, for Calais.

Cosmetic°, Ourwenns.--.The Johanna, Rehoff, for Elsinore
and Copenhagen ; Aurora, Hollett, for Halifax and Si. John's,
; Saxony, Palmer, far Coruna* and Vigo; Regular Packet.
M'Llitthon, for Pernambuco and Seara ; Fame, Stoakley, for
Fillau, Konigsberg, and Elbing ; Rotterdam, Laming, for Rotter-
dam; Harrier, Brown, for Hamburgh ; Commerce, Fournier, for
Calais ; Driver, Hodgson, for Havannah ; Prince Frederick.
Atharden, for Rotterdam; Orcstea, Nicholson, for Dantzic ; and
Four Slaters, Foreman,fur Seville.

CLEAVED Oerw.►nos TO IsELAND.—Tho Richard and
Ann, Way, for Dublin.

FROM LLOYD'S LISTS

FALMOUTTT, SEPT. 19.—Arrived the Sappho, Smith, from St.
John's, New Brunswick, with fore and main yards carried away.
PLYMOUTII, SEPT. 19.—Arrived from the Downs the (lanai!,
Mills, for Teneriffe ; and the Minkle, Bagshaw, for Malaga.
PoitTaitouTH. StPT. 20.—N0 arrivals or sailing&
DEAL. SEPT. 40.—Passed through for the !liver. the Killing.
beek, Smith, from Antigua, with the loss of boats,eze. in a gale
from the 9th to the 13th inst. • and the T•rtius, Levet, from
Teneriffe for Ilamhurgh. Arrived from the River and remain
the Cape packet, Kellie, for New South %Vales ; the Earossa,
iiuteltioson, for India the Orman, for Barcelona; the
Jean, lnnes, for Sicily ; the Martha, Frew. for New York ; the
Nile, Stokes, for Gibraltar; tha Sophia. Drury, for Minnnichi ;
the Resolution, Ward, for ditto; the Diana, Dates, for Para;
the Catherine; Fligg, for Gibraltar; the Alfa, M'lverson, for
for Enos ' • the Etrack, 31'Lettn, for Vera Crdz ; and the Fanny,
Borras,forM alta.

GRAVESEND. SEPT. 20—Arrived the Brancepeth Castle.
Andrews, Rival, Leslie, Mary Ann, Kate, Amity, Clay. Ann,
Lange, Mary and Ann, Bell, and Hero of the Nile, from Memel ;
Active, Ash, from Lisbon; Margaret, Miller, from Hamburgh
Oporto, Covey, from Figuelra ; Eliza, Johnson, from Antigua ;
Prince Regent, Taylcrr, from Tobago i Elizabeth, Brooks, from
ditto; Ellen, M'lver, from ditto; British Tar. —, from
Jamaica; Perseverance, Ashton. from Oporto; Cntlersmoil, Re.
mington, from Demerara; Arethusa, Clements, from Quebi..o ;
BuPewell. Smith, from Jamaica; and Isabella, Munn, (rein Hon-
duras. Sailed the Supply, Scate, for Copenhagen ; and Ann and
Emit, Robson, for Hamburgh.
STORNAWAY, SEPT. 9.—Lsst net we had a heavy gale from
the southward, during which the onp Safeguanl drove on the
rocks in the inner harbonr, and filled with water.
. .

Hnsttaxx, SEPT. 18.—Between Friday night and Saturday
morning, weather very thick, the Pomona, Ilotlge, struck on the
Elbow-end Sand, unshipped her rudder. and became water-logged.
She has this day been broupht tip tolsarbot.r, by the Here steamer,
great part of the cargo damaged.
Coax, SEPT. I7.—Arrived the Hope transport, from Pores
Ent,UM, to take in troops.
GALWAY, SEr•r. 17.—The Mary, Finnie, from Jamaica for
London, put into thin• port yesterday, with loss of all her sails.
rails, bulwarks. and one man overboard. during a gale 10th inst. ;
it is expected she will be ready to proceed in about sight days.

The Mary. Finney, from Jamaica to London, put into Galway
on the 16th inst. in distress ; one man washed overboard.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF TILE SL.4VE PO-
PULATION OF THE IVEST

[Prom the Barbadian of August 51
At • Meeting of the " Members of the Association formed
September 15,11323, for the purpose of affording religinuainatruc-
dun to the Slave Population ;"
The Loam Bruno, of thepiocese in the Chair;

The Louk Blau o r opened the Meeting by stating, that he had
requested their attendance, not, he was happy to say. for the pur-
pose of mooring nny new measure, but only for the revival of an
Association, formed by the Clergy and Planters in Abram, 182$.
The proceedings of that Association he bad read with very sincere
pleasure ; and he was happy to state, as the result of his inquiries,
that very great benefits had been derived from it. operation, and
several estates placed under a regular course or catcchetical in.
struction, coMmenced at that period, and eootinutd uninterrupted.
ly to the present time. To that Association he row proposed to
give additional efficacy, by its union with the " Socie7 fur the
Conversion and Religious Ins:ruction of Negro Staves.' From]
this union a mutual bet,efit would be derived. no Parent So-
ciety would be enabled to appeal more confidently to the British'
and %Vest India public. by referring to the strong disposition thus
evinced in the colonies for the religious' instruction of their de-
pendent', and the Branch Associations' throashont the colonies
would derive still greater assistance through the increment means
of the Parent Society. The objects of this Society were to impart
religious instructions to the Negroes through the agency of Clete'
and Catechists; and he had ventured to propose to that Society the
exclusive application of their fttndt to the provision of the Letter. A
wish had been expressed with which he would most gladly comply.
that he would state to the Meeting. the nature of the dome Of a Ca-
techist—the qualifications and deCi/MMIMUI required of bini—a tut the
restrictions under which he would be required to act. lie pro-
poied,then,to impart religious inetructieu to every plautation,throma