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taken six large whales. The meg were saved, bet the
vessel weal down. The greatest danger is from the large
Selda of Ice approaching and joining one another, or by the
kr-herlis irtliag • ship betwixt them • if that he the rove
map, is insonsailile An ire-berg is a large piece of ice or
congregated snow, from Iwo to three hundred feel high, Of
different leagthe *ad breadths : you tway judge of their rise
oboes 1 tell you that they are seven Imes as mulch wilder
water. Thee bergs, tusking she ground in 100 fathoms
water, permit the ire hrraltiag op, and why's brokeo up
prevent its dispersing or drifting to the southward. We
beer at tiles, tlnrire clear weather, counted as wise, aa
live bemired of these hags masses floating almost when its
the inflornce of the tides ; had I inn actually sera Awn 1
would wrarerly have believe) *nth musses of ice could have
oceumulated We found some metiers, who are poor misera-
ble wretches, !nisi/ entirely so seal and sealowl. Thry
are very indolent, only providing food for the day, peeper-
kW however a quantity of seal fur the season when the sea
is Awes over, which is ashy for two or three .moths, as the
itellirroce of the tides, winch at springs rise to lea feel, gree-
n*, opens it clue in shore.
" We ere now fast in the 1ee...-osie water to be wren aronnd
us; hut every shift of 'dad hes coosiderable ialluesce on
se that in a few hour, we may be again quite out of it—
mi mach for Arctic Expeditions
that
but little tinge or.
opporlossity, 1 caw uoly add, that ee have made rounders-
ble discoveries on the nature of varialino, particularly the
deviattna of varieties, which we glad ti be from 3 to 4
drjettes." •

FOREIGN INTELLI::ENCE.

PARIS PAPER.

PAM% SUPTFMII2I. 18.
;ISM iBULLITtIf OF THU OUCHES, or •EtUY's

Hs& v.re.
4, Nee lord themes, has passed a good day, sad is is
the must sasisfarsory state
" depteaslier Id, eight o'clock Is the netting.*

NINTH BULLET/N. •
to TN. night har breo stet ruing. The Aro strip lasted
from midnight to half-oast four o'clock. Every tbiag guru
en r ,earviir avid n01:1517
0 September, 17, right o'clock in the worming?'
It is brlsevrfil at St. Petersburg's that a great
S .rereign has not made known hi• real ►note lest
I.e should his burdened with printings. which would
nut fail to be presented to hien in the nom• of all
the petty Princes. - fiesabingh Uursespondenre.)
The Dirt of Norway has rejeeted„hy as gyrat
majority. the propositions which the 'Swedish Go-
vernment had made to it for changing sum articles
in the Ctn►st►tution. It also ►ejected, by '67 voices
to fire, the proposition of goi:ig ill a body to meet
the K►tng on the frontiers of the kingilf-m. Two
State Counsellors, holding pint -j; tulles. have
been on the point of being insiwached ; one of them
escaped by an equality of votes, when the President
voted in loos favour.—(Gasette of Angsbuig.)
The Poste du Nord. a PetersburVi Journal,
publisheu some details. of due discoveries made by
Captain Knizi bue, commanding toe leurik.—
There are several groupes of islands situated in the
Great Ocean, between 9 and 10 degrees Ninth ht.
and 189 and 190 degrees Wert long. f Green-
wic!ts One of those groups.* has irceived the name
of the itornaitzuw Islands ; two others of them are
by the u.stives called Ilatldk and Ligien. The in-
habitants resemble those of the other islands of glue
Ocean. The Russians were received by them in the
most hiesidly wanner. It was a dangerous contusion
on the breast prevented M. de Kotzebue from conti-
using his voyage in the northern Pell ; the physi-
ci:ins• apprehended an inevitable death if he pro-
longed his stay in the Frozen Zone. There was ins
hoard only one officer capable of reiihmi;ig him.
It was impossible then to risk the safety of the
crew, who would then be placed without a guide.
The bookseller Eymery, is about to publish ■
work, which, under existing circumstances, can(((( t
fail of being sought after. It is an historical re-
lation, interspersed with anecdotes, of the Congress
of Aix-la-Chapelle, and which, commencing with
the opening of the Congress, will appear iii ;farts.
each part consisting of two pager. the price is
60 cents.

ROME, AUGUST 4f.4.

It is said that the Archbishop of Naples, the
Cardinal Buffo, has excommunicated the tribunals
which condemned the assassin Ciappa, heratsse he
was a Priest. and the Cardinal re;ards the juris-
diction of the secular tribunals a+ usurped. But
this measure has not been approved in Kun►e, where
the ju.tice of the sentence has been acknowletly,ed.

MADRID, SEPT. 8.

The following details. extracts of letters from
Vera Cruz, of the 18th June, which have been just
received, can give an idea of the situation of the
Vice-Itoyalty of Mexico :
" Basic) is . every-day more infested with insur-
gents; they sheet themselves there in numerous
bands. and cannot be ',mooed, because the escort
of convoys and couriers employs the greater part of
the troops.
" Gen.Lineres wt ites from Trapuato, that Colonel
Bustamente was attacked the 428th April by the
Father TWITS, who commanded 1,400 nom fie is
said to have entirely routed the rebel., who hard
10,4, according to the General'. dispatches, 200
men, killed or wounded.
" They write from Valladolid, doted the 17th of
May. that General Aguirre had dispersed the Junta
of the lestentezent Gayer ttttt rest, which was fixed at
Juxicato. The member• of this Junta are tr_
led at Puresswilito„ General Amigo ha. latrly
possessed himself of the fort of &extols, on the sea
coast. towards the south.
'They write from Xalapa. that the divisidn of
Amore attacked the chief of the rebel►. Vergers,
in his fort--mud that the latter, after an 'obstinate
combat, which tested seeress hours, took to flight,
abandoning a part of his unisoitione.
" Three couriers bum Mexico were detained
some days at Xakipa, the troop which escorted them
having been obliged to go to the succour of the gar-
rison of Jacornoleo. attacked by a baud of lemur-
gents, who retired ou the arrival of the reinforce-
ment.

6' A division of the anny of General Zamora has
attacked sod taken the rebel Garay (.econd chief
of the band of Victoria), who was smug flour one
tamp of isrsorgents to another.
" Letters from Tampico. received by the schooner
La Ceram, cosier= this news. The repnrt was in
circulation in the above port, that there had beer,
seen at Meta•Gorda (Gawesion) armed men, Milli
to belong to the colony established on the river Tri-
nity (Champ d'Asyle).
The Adjutant to the Viceroy, D. Joachim ',Ay-
es, has srnved here from Mexico, with dispatches
fir Spans, that are mid to be very important. He