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BOAT TICI:ETS.—TweIve Months, si. Os.; Six Months, 3i. Os.;
Three Months, 27. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on board the
Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
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THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, May 27.--Itt. -
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Iberia, Captain H. Mee
Cadizhan, sailed this afternoon for
sbon, , 'and Gibraltar, tilting out
Vigo, Oporto, Li
27 passengers, a full general cargo, and specie valued at
21,6351. for Cadiz, and 2001. for Lisbon: The Australian
Pacific Mail, Steam-packet Company's screw steamer
Kangaroo arrived this morning from Constantinople and
Malta, and, after coaling, proceeded-to Woolwich to em-
bark warlike atores for the East. The Kangaroo for the
past month has been engaged in the transport service,
and has been found a most efficient ship. The General
Screw Steam-shipping Company's steam-ship Indiana,
after a most successful voyage to Calcutta, and the
Cape, has arrived here to discharge her cargo and
land passengers. The Indiana delivered her mails at
Plymouth this (Saturday) morning. The beautiful new
screw steam-ship Candia, belonging to the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, reached the
port this evening, after a rapid run from the Thames,
notwithstanding the heavy south-west winds she had to
contend with. The official trial trip of this steamer is
to take place on .Wednesday next. The Royal mail
steam-ship Magdalena is to take out the West India and
Mexican mails of the 2d proximo. The new paddle-
wheel steam-ship Tamar, belonging to the Royal West
India Mail Steam-packet Company, is to take out the
mails of the 17th proximo. This steamer was officially
tried on Wednesday last, and attained an average speed
at the measured mile of over 14 knots, or 16/ statute
miles an hour. The Tamar was built by. Messrs. Pitcher,
of Northfleet, and is in the highest degree creditable to
that e,ininent shipbuilding firm. The United States
mail steam-ship Washington, Captain E. M. Fitch, with
dates from New York to the 20th inst., is expected to
arrive off Cowes, on her way to Bremen, on Friday next.
LADY EMILY PONSONBY'S NEW `YORK.—The new
novel, "Edward Willoughby," from the pen of the
author of "The Discipline of Life," has just appeared.
A great and permanent success may be predicted for
Lady Emily Ponsonby's new story. The author possesses
the happy talent of inculcating morality without feeling a
necessity to sermonise, and her tales, though breathing a
truly religious tone, have all the interest of the most excit-
ing novel. In the present instance, Lady Ponsonby has
sought to prove the danger of yielding to impulse, and
the various trials to which. Edward Willoughby is ex-
posed, until experience has rendered him a better and a
fj wiser man, furnish opportunities for the development of
t; V most charming and fascinating story.
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powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse
Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the die
tances of, objects viewed through them—of great im-
portance to the army, navy, and others. Messrs. S. and
B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.
Observe—opposite the York Hotel.--These telescopes pos-
sess such extraordinary powers that some, 3/ inches, with
an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons,
Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same tele-
scope can be seen a person's countenance 'three miles
and a half distant, and an object from 12 to 14 miles.
They are 'of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers
accordingly.— The Royal Exhibition, 1851. - Valuable,
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purposebe seen
andon tkhusrliracel-Course, at the opera-houses, country sce-
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are invaluable far shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera,
the msoisstiona,g every
camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful
race-course,
power ; an object can be clearly seen from 10 to 12 miles
-invented Spectacles ; immediately tin*
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at church at public as-
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The attention of Parliament will no doubt be directed
to the charges now for the first time brought under its
notice, and it is possible that, without interfering with
the efficiency of the several departments, reductions may
hereafter be made in the estimates now submitted.

THE CITr OF GLASGOW SCREW STEAM-Sum —This
ill-fated, screw Steam-ship, with its 480 souls on board,
is at length given up. As may be remembered she
sailed from Liverpool on the Ist of March, with 111
cabin and saloon passengers and about 293 steerage, her
crew numbering 76, including the commander, Captain
Morrison, and from the period of her clearing the Mer-
sey up to the present moment not the least tidings
have been heard of her. The breaking up of the im-
mense fields of ice to the northward of the bank, which
were borne down the Atlantic in masses, it is said of
some. 200 or 300 miles in length, no doubt overwhelmed
the vessel in an attempt to force a passage, and caused
her almost immediate destruction, not a soul
,escaping.
It is feared that other ships trading between England
and the United States, which are missing, shared a Simi-
lar fate. The Cleopatra, screw steam-ship, one of the
Liverpool- and Canadian line, which arrived out at
Portland on the 15th instant, reports having had
a narrow escape in the ice. On making the Gulf of St.
Lawrence to reach Quebec she got entangled amongst
some bergs, which carried away one of her iron plates
below the water line. It was fortunately quickly dis-
covered, and the . commander, Salt, had the
ptain
presence of mind to cause all the passengers to go to
the after pait of the ship, which had the effect of
raising the bow of the Cleopatra sufficiently to enable
the aperture to be covered in, and thus preventing the
ship filling. After some delay' the plate was secured,
and she proceeded on to her destination. It was most
fortunate that very little wind prevailed at the time.
Some 24 hours previously she encountered a terrific gale,
and had her decks swept of almost everything, losing a
portion of her bulwarks and stanchions on both sides,
and ice-house, round-house, &c., being carried away.
It is supposed that the City of Glasmow met with a simi-
lar accident, but, unhappily, with ass fortunate results.
The mail steamers which have arrived during, the week
still report the existence of large fields of ice in the
Atlantic, in the track of vessels proceeding to and from
the United States. The City of Glasgow and her cargo
were insured for 50,000/.
Tan ERICSSON' CALORIC SHIP. NEW YORK, MAY
13.—The caloric ship Ericsson, having been, raised and
nearly exhausted of water, was towed over to the Navy
Yard early yesterday afternoon, and was moored in the
stream opposite the ship-houses, the tide not being high
enough to take her into the stone dock, where she is
going to have some further alterations made in her ma-
chinery, which were contemplated prior to her recent
disaster. This morning she will probably be taken in.
She still draws not far from 20 feet of water, as she has
not yet been thoroughly pumped out, nor the muddy
sediment that collected in her while submerged removed.
Viewed externally, she does not appear worse than
might be expected if she ha d just returned from an ocean
voyage, and it is to be hoped that she is not essentially
damaged, aside from the injury received to painting,
furniture, decorations, &c. The reason for her going to
the Government dock is that others cannot now receive
her. No vessel is received at the navy yard except such
is the case, and a written certificate to that effect from
the proprietors of the several private docks presented,
lest it should be brought into competition with them ;
and even then, the charges are considerably above what
are demanded elsewhere.—New York. Journal of Cont

merce.
DISCOVERY OF BASE COIN.—A. parcel of forty-eight
counterfeit half-crowns was transmitted from Birming-
ham to Manchester on Wednesday, and, information
having reached the Manchester police, an officer was on
the watch and secured the man who applied for them,on
their arrival and received them from the railway clerk.
The coins were most excellent counterfeits, and their
ring unimpeachable, but they were very light, and easily
detected on that account. A great deal of base coin is
being "put off" at present in Lancashire, and scarcely
a week passes but the authorities of the Mint have in-
formation of apprehensions on that account.
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