The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-25 00:00:00

EVENING ED rioN

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My God, no hymn for Thee ?"—HERBIIRT.
The ceremonies which take place on Christmas Eve
lite of a most pleasing character, and serve to amuse us
to this dreary season of midwinter, These old customs
should never be forgotten, for there is much goodness
pervading them all ; end if the rich and poor would
thus be periodically brought together in harmless festive
much gloom and discontent would disappear.
Now the houses and churelies stuck up with evergreens
tend their beautiful berries--the merry carols sung
about the streets and in the villages—the waits, or night
teue're—the cheerful bells, which begin their peal at
Midnight to hail the birth day of Hiss whom all true
Christians regard as the s.:lvator of mankind—are na.
!urally caleuleted to impress the imagination with
Joyous ideas of the most lively sort ; and these arc in
no small degree enhanced by the very numerous early
recollections of clef.!hood with which Christmas and
its festivities are connected.
Christmas carols continue now to be sung, and some
Of them arc an excellent means of handing down Catho-
lic Christian truth among the humbler classes. The
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
publishes several sets of carols, and it would be well if
jt would publish some of the older kind, such as " The
Black Decree," " Ye mortals all," " The Holy Well,"
" 0 fair Jerusalem," and, above all, an ancient one
called " The Slumbering Sleeper." The " Carnal and
the Crake' is an old and very singular production. It
is said that the " Glory be to God on high," sung by
the angels to the shepherds at our Lord's nativity, was
the earliest Christmas carol. The word" carol" is from
teratare, to sing, and rota, an interjection of joy. In
London the bellman gives about a large paper of verses
concerning the nativity, which is ornamented with prints
of the Saints and the Holy Family. A Christmas poet
"Now, too, is heard
The poor but pious minsled, through the streets,
With carol new : and oft, amid the gloom
Of midnight hours, prevail the accustomed scund
Of wakeful waits whose melody, composed
Of hautboy, organ, violin, and flute,
And varicus other instruments of mirth,
Is meant to celebrate the coming time."
The festival of Christmas is the greatest of all the
feasts of the year. In the Roman Catholic Church, at
Midnight, between the vigil and the festival of Christ-
bias, the mass is celebrated, and the solemnity of the sa-
Orifice is greatly increased by the time of its occurrence.
Imagine the solemn sounds of the great cathedral bell
is the large European cities, succeeding the merry ring-
ing of Christmas Eve, and then the choir lighted up in
all its pomp for the celebration of masses on the dawn of
the nativity, the who!e church ornamented with ivy and
holly berries, and the full voices of the whole congrega-
tion singing the Adeste Fideles. The following well-
kticown lines of our northern bard relates to the mid-
bight mass, and to the festival of this hallowed season :
" On Christmas Eve the bells were rung ;
Oa Christmas! Eve the mass was sung :
That only night in all the year
Sae the stoled priest the chalice rear.
• The damsel torin'd her kirtle sheen,
The hall was dressed with holly green ;
Forth to the woods the merry men go,
To gather in the misletoc.
Then opened wide the baron's hall
To vassal, tenant, serf, and all l"
The custom of annual donations at Christmas and
on New Year's Day is very ancient, being copied by the
Christians from the Polytheists of Rome, at the time the
public religion was changed. These presents, now-a-days,
are more commonly made on the morrow of Christmas.
From this circumstance the ft stival of St. Stephen's
has got the nickname of Christmas Boxing-day, and,
by corruption, Boxing-day. In London and in many
Parts of Europe large families and establishments keep
regular lists of tradesmen's servants, apprentices, and
tither persons, wko come about, making a sort of annual
claim on them for a Christmas-box on this day. But
this season is par ticularly dear to children, who anxiously
count on their little Christmas-boxes for months be-
forebard. So, in the kinder lird of Child's song :-
4 Now Christmas is come, and Psppy's come home,
With a peg-top for Tommie, a hussif for Sue,
A new bag of marbles for Dick, and fur Joan
A workbox ; for Pheehe a bow for her shoe;
For Cicely, singing, a humming-top comes ;
For dull drowsie Marie a sleeping tap meet;
For Ben, Ned, and Harry a fi4.e and two dean's;
For Jeenie a box of nice sugar-plumbs sweet."
Quotations at great length, and most apt to the
subject, might be meth: (rem old and modern English
authors on the subjt ct of no cry and sacred Christmas ;
had we have now at our tongue's end much from Her-
rick, Milton, Herbert, Ste utt's collection, Bishop, He-
ber, Washirigo n, Irving, &:., indeed requiring stern
'elf-denial to pass them by, but we do so, judging that
the strains of these would not Le new to any one of our
readers.
But pardon, perhaps, may arait an extract from
that beautiful work, " The Cathedral ;" and the public
lawn surely bless the name of Williams often as they
Peruse the enchanting book. Here he sings :
" The Chr ismas dawn. She thro' the warming night
Her leaning child bath to that cradle led,
And bids him all unlearn but the meek sight,
And Heaven's own lesson, of the homely shed,
The babe and mother. Nature now is dead,
And darksonie ; but in wintry skies is set,
A wreath that glitters o'er that infant's head,
Her fairest stars are round His cradle met,
Like gems of light within his kingly coronet."
And, to show what a meditative effect these ancient
Customs may exercise over the hearts and minds of those
least dispose d to sacred things, we hear the adverse voice
of poor Charles Lamb thus exclaiming, " The elders
With whom I was brought up were of a character not
likely to let slip the sacred observance of any old insti-
tution ; and the ringing out of the old year was kept
by them with circumstances of peculiar ceremony. In
those days the sound of those midnight chimes, though
it seemed to rouse hilarity in all around me, never failed
to bring a train of pensive imagery to my fancy. Yet I
then scarce conceived what it meant, or thought of it as
a reckoning that concerned me. Not childhood alone,
but the young man till thirty, never feels practically
that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need
Were, he could preach a homily on the fragilities of life :
but he brings it not home to himself. But now, shall I
confess a truth ? I feel these audits but too power-
lully." And, then, with what imaginative power does
Poor Lamb discourse cn the horrors of death ! The
!election must come upon all of us, after all, in serious
feeling that the commemorative institutions of our fore-
14thers are not things to be contemned or lightly
esteemed, and the " new lights" of this frivolous age
Will ill supply their place, or do their work of leading
us to meditation and repose half as well.
In the northern parts of England the time of Christ-
mas is celebrated with right good wassail and glee, and
the religious services of the holy day are well attended ;
indeed, the churches arc crammed. But in the Isle of
ken one of the most interesting festivals is still fully
Preserved. A writer in Fraser's Magazine for May
last, evidently a truthful and observing communicant of
curious facts connected with that minimum of an isle,
thus informs us :—.`rhere is a singular and ancient
custom preserved on the island, which is known by the
name of the Eail Voirrey,' the words in the Manx
tongue for ' Mary's Night.' It is probably older than
Popery, and therefore may be religiously observed as a
sacred institution of' the primitive fathers. Oa Christ•
tuas Eve, or Mary's Night, the people assemble in vast
aumbers at the parish church, where the solemn Liturgy
is duly read and a sermon preached, and afterwards the
People remain in the church, singing carols even until
Midnight." The writer then goes on to describe the
orders of the people who assemble, the composition of
the carols, its uses and abuses ; but we can only at pre-
sent refer the reader to the entire article, entitled " The
Church in the Isle of Man," and we promise him that he
will find interest in a close perusal of it.
And now, Christian gentlemen of England, do not
turn away the merry carol boys and carol girls from your
hospitable doors. Let your charities have respect to all,
and while the dependants of your ancestral halls are
carousing around the yule log, think kindly also of them
who are without. Let the sour Dissenters sneer, but
be assured much holy gospel is learned from carols.
There can be no harm in singing " Christ " from one
card of the country to the other—yea, with St. Paul, we
should rejoice. Speak kindly and profitably to young
and old around you,tor, says George Herbert,' pleasant-
ness of disposition is a great key to do good." All
men hate perpetual severity, and therefore our Mother
Church does well to draw forth our mirthful affections
is sayings and doings of goodness. Este perpetua I
AY, even as you look out upon your winter gardens of
holly, yew, and box, and your groves of laurel, laures-
tine, and bays, with the clumps and avenues of lofty
Pines, firs, cedars, and cypress, forget not the pleading
of the fair poetess :
" A suppliant to your window comes
Who trusts your faith, and fears no guile:
He claims admittance for your crumbs,
And reads his passport in your smile.
" For cold and cheerless is the day,
And he has sought the hedges round ;
No berry hangs upon the spray,
Nor worm nor arts' eggs can be found.
" Secure his suit will be preferred,
No fears his slender feet deter ;
For sacred is the household bird,
That wears the orange stomacher."
Dear readers, such are the delights of the wintry
days, and may you long live to use them with gratitude
and, joy. A merry Christmas and a happy new year
to all and each of you : be mindful of yourselves, and
remember the poor.
CHRISTIANUS CATHOLICUS.
December, 1840.—Morning Post.

The Earl and Countess of Warwick, accompanied
by Lord Broke, and Lady Caroline Neeld, have arrived at
Warwick Castle, from St. Leonard's, where they have
been passing several weeks.
The Earl of Ilchester, with Viscount Stavor-
dale and Lady Caroline Strangwayes, arrived at Paris lsst
week, from a tour in Italy. The Noble Earl shortly leaves
gai Franck fapital for this country.

ALMANACS FOR 1841.

Tiik; BRITISH NEW ITE-4TIiLIZAL.RANA

BY ORION, A M.G.
This little publication contains predictions of
the weather for every day throughout the year 1841 ;
the rise, height, and fall of the barometer and
thermometer, with many wonderful predictions of
storms, floods, &c., on the principle of solar, lunar,
and planetary reflection. In addition to the Alma-
nac is a curious treatise on astro-meteorology, and
on the proportional quantities of matter combined
in the several bodies of the solar system, together
with a list of predictions which have been re-
markably fulfilled. The predictions and fulfilment
are given under separate heads thus:—
PRE DI CTION.—M ARCH, 1839.—" This month is
ushered in with very powerful aspects of the stars, &c. ;
will cause very stormy, cold weather, &c., with very
severe snow storms, and frost. Nights of the sth and
6th remarkable for very hard frosC—Stamford Mer-
cury, Feb. 22, 1839.
FULFILMENT.-" London has been 'visited for the
last three slays with easterly winds and frosts, as bitter
as the depth of winter."
" This afternoon there is a heavy fall of snow, with
an easterly gale."—Sun, Wednesday, March 6, 1839.
EXACT PREDICTION OF THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN

INDIA.
PREDICTION.--" And the position of the ponderous
orb of Stturn will most assuredly cause some very se-
vere shocks of earthquake this month (March, 1839) ;
these phznomena are the most likely about the 13th and
24th days."—Staiqford Mercury, Feb. 22, 1839.
FULFILMENT.—" Letters from India give the details
of a❑ awful earthquake which visited Ava, Isagain,
Amerapoore, and other Indian cities, on the 23d of
March last."—Slaniford Mercury, Oct. 4, 1839.

MACKENZIE'S REPORT OF THE WEA-
THER, FOR THE YEAR 1841.
It is satisfactory to be able to state, that the point of
commencement of the Weather Year, assumed by the
author more than forty years ago, or previous to begin-
ning his Register of the Weather in 1802, and an-
nounced in a publication on the system of the weather
in 1818, at Edinburgh, has at last been acknowledged
as correct by the scientific men of the present day, as
appears from the proceedings of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, at a meeting held at
Birmingham in the autumn of 1839, of which an account
was given in the Athenceum of 31st August last. The
author has further to state, that, in consequence of his
explanations of the first cycle of the weather to the
most eminent men of science in Edinburgh, winter
1818, the following, amorg other allusions to the cycle,
appeared in the Edinburgh Review for June of that
year, viz.—" When the science of meteorology is more
advanced, we shall, rerhaps, by discovering a glimpse
of those vast cycles which result from the va•icd as•
poets of the sun, combined with the feebler influence of
the mcon, be enabled at last to predict, with some de-
gree of probability, the condition of future seasons."
In subsequent years, the vast cycles of the weather
were discovered by the author, and the reader is left to
judge whether the condition of the future seasons is not
now predicted with far greater accuracy than is implied
in the extract. The statement in the extract was at
the time a large admission as to the probable truth of
the new science, in respect of which the learned were,
till then, in despair of any discovery being ever made
in this deoartment of nature.
It will be seen, from the following account of the
weather for November and December, that Mr.
Mackenzie correctly foretold the hurricanes in both
these months. It appears also that January and Fe-
bruary have the same character
WINTER SEASON.—November, 1840.—With the
first of this month commences the weather year, the
winter season, and the winter quarter. In general cha-
racter, this month promises to be very windy, rather
frosty, and about average ruin. December, 1840—
Also windy, rather clear, frosty, snowy, cold. Janu-
ary, 1841—Very windy, rather frosty, snowy. WIN-
TER QUARTER.—Very windy, rather clear, cold, frosty,
snowy ; the quantity of rain, including sraw, a full
average. February—Generally cloudy, cool, frosty,
rather wet. March—Windy, rather clear and rather
frosty, snowy, dry, with a good many very flee days
April—Generally, cloudy, frosty, snowy, and rattle,
wet, yet considerable number of very fine days! Am-
biguous.
Every month of this season promises an over-
average cf hard frosty days ; yet none of them are
likely to equal in severity the January and February
1838. Nevertheless, winter 1841 will prove the nost
wearisome experienced for many years.

LITERATURE.

CA TTER.2IIOLE' S lIISTORICAL ANNUAL
Longman, London, 184 t.
The object which the Editor has proposed to
himself by the publication of this volume—
namely, "to raise a very attractive class of
works, the Annuals, into a highei field of literary
design, without depriving them"—we quote the
words of his advertisement—" of those charms of
novelty and grace which have so long secured to
them the public favour," is one that deserves every
encouragement: Heaven knows, many of the
Annuals are flimsy enough, however gracefully got
up ; and, what is worse, some of them foster a
sickly, sentimental taste in literature, detrimental.to
a healthy judgment. They appeal, for the most part,
to the mere fastidious fancies of the drawing-room,
and in their attempts at the pathetic or impassioned
—to which they are grievously addicted—exhibit
rather conventional feeling, than the genuine, unso-
phisticated feeling of nature. The " Historical An-
nual" however is quite of a different order. It sounds
a higher key-note ; expatiates over an ampler and
worthier literary field ; and we therefore give it a
cordial welcome. The various plates are in happy
accordance with the text they illustrate, and which
is the history of the civil war in England ; and
when we add that the original sketches have been
all furnished by Cattermole, we have, we con-
ceive, said quite enough, to ensure them the favour-
able suffrages of the public ; for this artist has a
high idea of the capabilities of his art, and infuses
more of the true historical spirit into his designs,
because he apprehends it better, than almost any
contemporary painter. There is a singular energy
of expression and character thrown into his sketch,
entitled " Republican Preaching." The scene is
the interior of a cathedral. A fanatical Round-
head, probably one of Cromwell's band of Iron-
sides, is fulminating from the pulpit against the
King's party, the Cavaliers ; and around him are a
party of kindred spirits, some standing, others sit-
ting, but all equally intent upon the preacher, and
all armed to the teeth. How various, yet how
strictly appropriate is the expression of these men's
countenances ! One wears a stern, bold scowl upon
his brow ; another, whose fanaticism is of a gentler
character, though quite as decided, is sitting with
eyes meekly upturned, as though wrapt in spiritual
intercom se with Heaven ; a third is smoking his
pipe and playing with his musket, evidently con-
temptuous of all external religious observances ;
and a fourth, satisfied that he is in the
right path of grace, looks on with an air of sullen
indderence, as though the preacher's suppli
cations to Heaven for mercy were, so far as lie is
concerned, quite superfluous. These were the men,
and this the spirit, that, guided and fostered by
Cromwell, crushed—annihilated—some of the
bravest armies that ever entered on the field of bat-
tle. The English fanatics fought and conquered,
precisely for the same reasons, and under the same
influence, that the earlier Saracens did. They felt
that victory ensured them salvation ; and that the
straightest and shortest road to Paradise lay across
fields strewn with the bodies of the Royalists.
Hence they were terribly in earnest—to a degree
indeed bordering on actual insanity ; and every one
knows that in all the great events of life, earnestness
is the true secret of success. Mrs. Hutchinson, in
her fascinating Memoirs of her Roundhead husband,
has abundantly illustrated this truth. " Storming
of Bristol" deserves notice, if only for the skill
and care with which every part of the picture is
filled up. The figures are numerous, yet there is
no crowding—no confusion. The solitary horseman
in the foreground who is pointing with his sword
to the walls of the beleaguered city, and urging his
troops onwards, contributes greatly to the effect of
the picture. The " Queen at Burlington" is chiefly
remarkable for the mastery over spa?e which it
displays, and which even Martin himself has not
dten surpassed. The eye ranges over a prospect
apparently without end or limit, and its extent is
shown by the various objects in perspective, whose
appearance is dim or distinct, enlarged or dimi-
nished, according as they approach to, or recede
from, the spectator. " Death of the Earl of Nor-
thampton" is a vigorous battle-scene, like one of
Cooper's, and the leading incident is in keeping
with historical truth. The literary contents of the
volume are unobjectionable, in point of manner ;
but we demur to some portion of the matter, mole
especially to the whose Archbishop Ldaituocrl'ssetermiasl
and execution, or character the L
unwarranted predilection.
to entertain a very

Lord Crewe left Mivart s Hotel on Wednesday,
for Teddeeley Park, Staffold.bire, on a visit to Lord rind
Lady Hatherton, who entertain a distinguished party at
their seat during Christmas.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

(Further extracts from the American Papers.)
PROSPECTS or BUSINESS.—The cotton manufactu-
rers are now doing an elegant business. Their fabrics
have risen from 15 to 20 per cent. within a couple of
months, and those establishments which were best ma-
naged were doing well enough before this advance.
There is still a tendency to farther improvement, for
the manufacturers have many of them engd
ahge a-head,
all they can make for weeks to come ; yet the demand
is not slackened, and the spring trade remains in pros-
spect. The raw material is still low, and the difficul-
ties in Europe indicate that no great change for the
better is to be soon expected. The woollen manufac-
turers are getting upon their feet again, and beginning
to make something. The leather trade is in an excel-
lent way, as hides have advanced within a few months
25 per cent. Manufacturing, in all its branches, is
getting on finely. The shipping interest has reaped a
golden harvest during the past year, and is in a good
condition for carrying off the immense products of
1840, which are loading the seaboard. The importa-
tions from Europe have been sold, on landing, to a very
great extent, and at great profits. The China mer-
chants have made their fortunes, and can afford to re-
lire. Our agricultural interests are in a very healthy
state ; for, although prices are rather low, produce is
abundant, and half a dollar buys as many comforts now
as three-quarters did five years ago. On the whole, no
country had ever finer prospects than ours for money-
making, which, after all, is thought much more of than
it deserves. Credit is good, money is plenty, every
movement is turning to good account. If for twelve
months to come we rise as we have for the twelve
months past, we shall stand upon an elevation from
which we shall forget all our troubles.—Journal of
Commerce.
COAST RELIEF.—We understand that the same
praiseworthy exertions will be made this winter as were
last, and the winter of 1838, In relieve vessels in dis-
tress on our coast. The cutter Jackson has been placed
under the command of Lieutenant A. V. Fraser, who,
with Lieutenants Chaddock, Bushwood, and Stull, have
again volunteered their service to cruise constantly be-
tween Capes Cod and Hatteras, during the stormy win-
ter months, to relieve merchant vessels. She will sail
in a week hence. The coast relief is of the utmost im-
portance to our mercantile marine. Vessels have been
relieved by Lieutenant Frazer, when he had the Wash-
ington, that would no doubt have been lost, and per-
haps with those on board, had he not supplied them
with men and provisions. And in one or two instances
he boarded ships at sea, one the packet-ship Rochester,
the crews of which were in a state of mutiny. We hope
that not only one but two or three cutters will be dis-
patched on the same business—and thus form what is
so much wanted, a home squadron.
FROZEN TO DEATIL—A letter published in the Bay
State Democrat, dated Wiscasset, December 3, says—
" Schooner Tiber, Brookings, arrived here last evening,
picked up yesterday, off Seguin, a boat with three men
end two boys in her ; one of the latter was frozen to
death. They belonged to a small schooner bound to
Waldoborough, which was upset in the squall on Mon-
day night. The feet of the captain and the boy are
badly frozen."
ANOTHER.—Mr. Jacob Fowler, a young man about
22 years of age, left the schooner Deposite, lying at
Bartlett's Cove, Newbury, in a small boat, on Saturday
eveni g, about seven o'clock, intending to visit his
friends in Salisbury. In the morning a boat with a man
in it was discovered in the middle of the river, a short
distance above the Essex Merrimack bridge, locked in
she thin ice which bad made during the night. Same
persons immediately put off from the shore, and found
it to be the body of Fowler, entirely lifeless, and frozen
stiff. He probably became so chilled as to lose the
command of his boat, and not being able to make him-
self heard so as to bring assistance from the shore,
perished in the course of the night from the cold.—
Nettiburyport Herald.
A BLOODLESS DUEL.—The Boston Mercantile
Journal gives the particulars of a bloodless duel which
recently came off at Lancaster, Mess. The chal-
lenger was a young gentleman belonging to New York,
t student at the Literary Institution in Lancaster.
The challenged was a resident of the village. As the
party having a right to the choice of weapons, the vil-
lager selected cow-bides, to which the challenger de-
tnurred. Pistols were at length fixed upon, and at the
first fire the pillager fell. The challenger bade Min a
long good night, and with all proper and usual marks
contrition, made tracks for New Yodz. The dead
Irian got up and went to breakfast, having male pre-
vious arrangements with the seconds that the expense
if bullets should be saved in charging the pistols.
ANECDOTE OF JOHN ADAMS.—We find in Whit-
ney's History of the town of Quincy, Mass, the fol.
!owing anecdote of the boy hood of the elder Adams,
which may provoke a smile, as well as illustrate the
economy and simplicity of those early times in New-
England. The public school in Quincy was taught
for many years by a Mrs. Belcher—" It was a custom
with her to carry her corn to mill herself, except when
some one of her scholars lent her a helping hand.
John Adams (one of the number) afterwards President
of the United States, was a favourite among the res,,
and when he carried the corn, she gave him as a reward
three coppers, and charged him at the same time to
keep his money to buy land with. It is unnecessary to
add how well he profited by early instrustion.”
A THIEF In WAITING.-Some few weeks since, a
gentleman named J. Ci arm, was robbed at the North
American Hotel, of his pantaloons, in the pockets of
which was his watch worth $lOO, and a pocket book
containing upwards of $3OO in money. Officer Bow-
yer has been on the tract of the thief till yesterday,
when lie was trapped and part of the stolen property
found on him. The whereabouts of Mr. Crane net
being known to the police, it is hoped that this notice
will attract his attention, and induce him to call on
Mr. Bowyer and identify his property, and thus aid in
effectually securing the thief for State service.
A SINGULAR MESSENGER,—A Correspondent of
the New London Advertiser states that when the ship
General Williams (just returned to that port from a
whaling voyage) was in latitude 44.27 S., longitude
shout 150 E., on the 13th of April, 1839, an albatross
was shot, with a piece of wood attached to its neck by
an iron chain, with the following inscription on it, " S.
Gid. Howland, Baker, (on the reverse) 120 days out.
100 bar." The ship Gideon Howland, Baker, sailed
from New Bedford the 6th of December, 1838, for the
Pacific, and the bird must have been shot a few days
after it was set at liberty by her crew.
FIRES.—The fire yesterday morning, at one o'clock,
was in the five story brick store corner of Moore and
Front-streets. It was occupied by James S. Brown,
and the second story by Gilchrist and Co. Two thou-
sand barrels of flour stored in the building were de-
stroyed. It was partly owned by Suydam, Sage, and
Co. J. S. Brown, and Gilchrist and Co., are fully in-
sured to $20,000 we understand, at several offices in
Wall-street. The building belonged to the estate of
G. Lorillard. Store No. 4, Front-street, occupied by
N. Randolph and Co. and Birdsall and Case, was com-
pletely crushed in by the falling of a wall.
FIRE AT ZANESVILLE, °MO.—The extensive Wool-
len, weaving, and cording establishment of Messrs.
Darsc, Zanesville, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday
last. Some of the machinery, and most of the wool and
goods in the establishment were saved. Loss $lO,OOO.
No insurance.
BETTER TIMES—LAND Ho !—Twelve marriages
took place on Wednesday last—ten were Gentile and
two were Jewish. Success to matrimony. Thanks to
General Harrison—all owing to him.
Seer MURDER.—Two more suicides have taken place
since our last notice—a young woman at Chester,
Penn., who cut her own throat, and Rejoice Newton,
of Hartford, who drowned himself. Among the ancient
Jews only two ever committed suicide—Saul, the King
and Jude slscariot.

LIST of PASSENGERS per GREAT WESTERN.
Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs. Reeves, Miss
Emily Reeves, Dr. Burrough, Mr. Popple, Mr. Hol-
ford, Mr. Child, Mr. Ohlsin, H. P. Page, E. Fabre-
giutte, W. Kenruk, fir. Windsor, R. Davis, Janus
Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Ilurst, Sarah Hurst, Mary A. Hurst,
Miss Maly Britton, Miss Bogard, Miss Hawkes, G. B.
Syms, F. Tryon, John Cryder, Dr. Rand&ph and servant,
Geo. B. Hodges, Mr. Esdale, E. G. King, R. F. Mait-
land, James Dougail, Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Trench, Mr.
Ducane, Mr. Whiteford, Sivens, Brouster, Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson, Lt. E. S. Glinn, P. Billier, James Booth, S.
P. Morris, Mr. Brand, H. Patterson, T. Frazer, Mr.
Kelly, Mr. Swain, Dr. R. W. Bush, Mr. Grindley,
Henri Fonsans, G. B. Morewood, Chas. Cartledge, Col.
Hurst and servant, Capt. Lee (with despatches), Cap:.
M.Donald, Col. Taylor, Mr. Beckwith, Mr. Murray,
George Westenholin, Bayard Clarke, Sarni. Nicholls,
Mr. Heath, Mr. Rigby, and Mr. Schumcha.

LOG OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
Dec. 9.—Wind variable.—At 1. 10 P.M. left the
wharf, light breezes and floe.
10 —:Wind S. W , variable.—Light breezes and cloudy..
11. —Wind N. W..—Moderate and fine, increased to fresh
gales and snow squalls, sea rising fast.
12.—Wind ditto.—Fresh gale, strong squalls, hail and
sleet, north-west breaking sea—moderating.
13 —Wind S. E. to S. S.W.—Moderate breezes and
cloudy, fresh breezes and squally.
1-I.—Wind S. S. W., variable.—Fresh gales and hazy
with raiti, northeast _swell, light winds and thick fog.

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15.—Wind W.—Light breezes and foggy, cross swell,
fresh breezes and dark cloudy weather.
16.—Wind N. W.—S rong breezes and squally, light
showers, south-west swell.
17.—Wind ditto to N.—Fresh breezes, passing slualls
and rain, south. west swell.
18.—Wind N. E. to E.—Fresh breezes and hazy, a
long south-cast swell, light winds and passing squalls with

r,iin.
lg.—Wind ditto.--Light breezes with passing squalls
and rain, easterly swell, moderate I,nd cloudy with rain.
20.—Wind E.N. E. to E.—Storg freezes and cloudy,
moderate gales and cloudy ; down yards and topmasts, in
jib-boom ; passing squalls.
20.—Wind E. S. E. to E.N.E.—Strong breezes and
heading seas, fresh gale, at times light showers.
22. __Wind S.E. to E.—Strong breezes and squally,
with I! ai,, rain, and sleet. At 10.30 A. M. observed
a barque in the south-west, with ensign union down ; bore
up and supplied the Northumberland, of Shields, with pro-