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author's experience.—London Morning Journal.
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N A POSTOLICAL HARMONY of the
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respecting the Duration of our Saviour's Ministry, and NE.
hibiting the Succession of Events in close accordance with the
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MR. WAGIIORN.

A subscription is raising in the city to which the
names of many of the first mercantile firms are
already attached, for the purpose of assisting Mr.
Waghorn to defray the extraordinary expenses to
which he has been subjected by the Post-office in
transmitting letters from Egypt to London and
back. Such ate the services rendered to com-
merce and the country generally by the exertions
of this gentleman in improving the communica-
tions with India, t"at there prointhly never oc-
curred any case of the kind in which so strong
a claim for protection and support was esta-
blished. Our acquaintance with Mr. Waghorn
is now of above twelve years' standing, when
his great projects were still in embryo, and
we were led to afford him our cordial aid.
and by the powerful recommendations he brought
with him from India and the Cape of Good
Hope, and by marking in him an ardent, in-
telligent, and disinterested mind, which led him to
overlook or to disregard the immense difficulties
which lay in his way, we came early to the con-
clusion that all which it was possible for a single
individual to accomplish would be achieved by Mr.
Waghorn. In that long interval we have kept him
in view, moving as he did from India to England
and back again, one or twice in every year ; at one
time urging the merchants of the Indian presiden-
cies to second him, as they did most cordially,
in the cause to which he had devoted himself;
at another- fixing himself for months together in
Egypt, contriving - means to secure the friend-
ship of the Pasha, and for lessening the difficulties
of the route through the desert ; then, on his return
to England, engaged in making converts of the
merchants in London and the outports to the prac-
ticability, as well as the great importance, of his
undertaking, encountering some personal but more
official hostility, yet making way insfpite of oppo-
sition. So great was his activity and perseverance,
that an impression was gradually made upon the
Board of Trade, the Board of Control, and that
other almost unapproachable Board (by any private
effort), the East India Direction. The power that
sustained him in these immense and long-continued
efforts is almost beyond comprehension, but the
fact is quite undeniable, that whatever has been
done for the improvement of the communications
with India, and we hold it to be one of the greatest
and most substantial benefits ever conferred on the
country, is entirely and exclusively owing to the
exertions of Mr. Waghorn. All that has been
done by others has been done by following in the
path he was the first to traverse and point out.
Even new, though the realization of his plans is
ostensibly confided to the Post-Office and the East
India Company, with all the knowledge he has col-
lected and all the facilities he has provided, after
driving him from any participation in arrangements
which, but for him, would never have existed, we
find Mr. Waghorn, with energy scarcely slackened
by the years which have since rolled over him, es-
tablishing a private agency of his own for the com-
e.
municetions with India, and repeatedly getting the
start in point of time over both his powerful rivals.
Opposition, therefore, in this stage of his career,
is, in appearance, quite exhausted. But there is
yet one more danger to be surmounted. Mr.Wag-
' horn himself can undertake conveyance only for a
' portion of the route, though he can superintend the
whole : he must be indebted for the rest to the as-
sistance of the Post-office arrangements of this
country, and is at their mercy for the terms on
which they think fit to render him this service—
that is, he is at the mercy of a power which he has
repeatedly humbled at:d mortified, and offended
consequently past all forgivenness. The terms,
therefore, therefore. are such as to stifle his
undertaking, to crush him utterly, unless some
friendly hand is stretched out for his sup-
port. This, then, is the object of the sub-
scription now raising in the city ; and, where-
ever the circumstances out of which it arose
live became known, the srmpathv with Mr. Wag-
I horn has been unequivocally manifested. When
Ithey are more generally diflused and reach the out-
ports an.l maaufacturing districts, where his services
. arc still better understood and more highly valued
than in London, a large and liberal subscription
may safely be anticipated.
The Post-office tax, here referred to, is recently
imposed, and amounts to 2s. per ounce upon letters
from Malta to Alexandria alone, besides other
charges. If not expressly got up to crush Mr.
Waghorn, we should say that there is the strongest
prima facie evidence of it, and if so, it discovers a
meanness and baseness of spirit which should be
help up to universal execration.
The subscriptions raised in the city for this pur-
pose, in the course of the last three days, amount
to nearly 5001.--Times.

DISASTROUS VOYAGE OF THE
ROBERT ISAACS FOR NEW YORK.

( Extract of a Letter written by a Passenger.)
The ship Robert Isaacs, of Savannah, sailed from
Liverpool for New York on the olst of January.
The weather continued fine and the wind fair until the
Ist of February, is hick commenced with a severe
g,-de from S.S.W., and a heavy sea, ‘vhich caused the
vessel to labour much, and ship a great deal of water.
From the lot to the 6th of February we sustained almost
daily losses in sails and rigging, hut on the latter day,
at two p.m., being then under close-reefed fore topsail
only, the ship was suddenly struck by a squall,
exceeding. in violence what had ever been experienced
by the oldest seaman on board. In an instant our fore-
noun and tnizen-topmast with all their rigging and sails
attached were carried away, the mainmast rendered LISC.-
less, and the foremast greatly damaged. The main
rigginx WUS mostly carried away, and the fore and mizen
rigging greatly injured by the falling of the spars. The
lower yards in falling struck two of our boats, and
rendered them unfit for repair. Jib-boom and bowsprit
were injured.

The sea at the tine rose prodigiously, and the heavy
rolling of the ship rendered it impossible fur a long tone
to clear away the broken spars and sails.
A jury foretop mast was ri,,lged in a few days, and
we endeavoured to proceed on our voyage, being then
,n long. 36, but dur;ng the succeeding three weeks we
ad little else thin a continuation of gales of wind,
which ; carried ,wa••
almost all our sails, and the heavy
,'bourn:; of the &iip caused great apprehension of her
founderiag. On the 4th of March Cwi rudder head and
bolts broke away, after every atteinpt to strengthen it by
hawsersins; it was finally carried away on the
6th, by a tremendous sea, which at the same time broke
open the rudder case, and the water rushing in when
the chip rolled, it was the opinion of all on board that
but little chance of our escape remained.
As a last resource it was determined to lighten the
ship by throwing a part of the cargo overboard, but
little could be effected at this time, owing to waves fre-
qtently breaking over the ship.
On the 10th of March, the weather having mode-
rated, we recommr-need discharging the ship, and con-
tinued doing so until the 23d instant, when about half
or tesr,thirds of the goods had been thrown overboard.
From the 4th to the 10th of March the vessel drifted
entirely at the mercy of the winds, all attempts at re-
placiag the rudder having proved ineffectual. On the
latter date, however, a hawser with a number of drags
attached having been got overboard, it was found in
soma degree to place the ship under control, and all
hope of being able to proceed to the westward having
been long abandoned, it was determined to endeavour
to reach Fayal. Having missed that island, owing to
the temporary ruder having been driven out of its
place, we finally reached Angra Bay (Terceira) on the
30th ult.

Most of the passengers o❑ board this ship were
saved f:om the wreck of the Lockwoods, off Liverpool,
during the hurricane in January last.

No reprieve having arrived, the execution 4;)
Charles Doings, found guilty (at our last Assizes) of ad.
ministering poison to his wife with intent to murder her, is
expected to take place this day ( Saturday).—Norfolk
Chronicle.
CAPTURE OW A HORSE STEALER.—On the
night of Tuesday last, or early on the Wednesday morning,
a valuable grey horse was stolen from the farmyard of Mr.
I William Sewell, of Brampton, in Suffolk; and Mr. S.
immediately put out hand-bills offering a reward of Si. for
the discovery of the offender. On the Wednesday estrange
man, with a grey horse, was offering it for sale to Mr. Par-
fitt, butcher, of Shottisham. Mr. P. had never seen the
bills, but from the price asked, and other circumstances,
HOttSE FAlR.—There was some
he conceived the horse was a stolen one ; and after some
parleying and hesitation about changing for one of his own, bustle in the town on the week preceding the fair, but no
got the horse into his stable, and locked the door, telling, the great stir of business. Some of the extensive purchasers of
e horses had not yet made their appearance, and
man to call up in a short time. Parfitt then came off for carriag
1 Norwich, where he called at the Station-house, and there was only a slack inquiry for secondary coach and, ma-
Rave ittformat,on. L. H. Smith, the active police super- chine horses. W. Whitlam, Esq., of Tows, sold a large
1 `ate dent of the 13lofield Hundred, fortunately happened string on Saturday, and Mr. Hooker, of Firsby, a lot of
10. h.: there, and immediately set off in search of the man twenty-one of the best description. The general average
) with Parfitt. After travelling from sixty to seventy miles, of horses is reported to be uncommonly good ; prices ra-
-1 lnes found out the owner of the horse, and alto suc- ther of a lower tendency than last year. A later account
ce'Aed, with the assistance of Chalker, the Burgay officer, states that the fair has decidedly improved for first-rate
in• capturing the thief, about six o'clock on 'I bursday carriage horses and hunters, which are obtaining very high
mor-•'
.inir, ,it. Bur,gay . prices. The inferior are becoming in less demand, and are
offeredßrampton,
tte of
horse the Lie prove to be alabourer rom
d
n_oam_e of G.. 7e Smith. When he scarcely looked at, being nearly unsaleable at any price.
The string sold by W. Whitlam, Esq., mentioned before,
Chandler, "r 1 stated' thParfihti: fhaethgearvfearhnlid
inlamooe aCe'reeoargoef re learn consisted of fifteen horses, that produced the net
land, a, d that his brother was a laris,e dealer horses. It sum of 1,450/. ; they were purchased by those eminent
! „,,• f; .anti that the Err-oner Sroi,h had enlisted into the London de:/lers, Messrs. Dyson, Anderson, and Elmore.
77i , r,c, ,:ii,:,nt of Ir ' He ~ , ti-n ,1 fo-e R.•,be,t Thif Grafto,i estate, near Shrewsbury, was sold
lid .-:iler, Este., Lad f•ii. comnort..i io Beceles Gaul for j last week to Wm. Birch Price, Esq., of Myttoa Hall, for
trial for the affeecie.....Norfolk Chronicle-. I 21,5001.