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THE COLUMN STAKES.

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COWES, ISLE OF WIGH i
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COWES, APllltr ite?
LAUNCH OF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON Z
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CONSTANCE or 225 TONS.—The beautiful sew 4;
Yacht Constance, built for the Marquis Conybgb ,1
launched from Mr. Joseph White's yard this dor., Pd.,
is to be schooner-rigged, and, to all appearance, i 5• Or'
to be one of the fastest and moat splendid yachts 3
Royal Yacht squadron. Lord Conyngbam, Cu v ilo
llamlyn Williams, and several other members ,,,
Royal Yacht Squadron, were present. 1
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FOUND DROWNED.--OR Saturday evening, fol
ported that the body cf a man had been seen pi;
water-mark, near Egypt House. It was not land,, 'FA
four rm. on Sunday morning, when it proved to be 0I:
of Mr. Edward Drover, of this town. The deceasers
thirty-four years of age. An inque t has been bei":,
w • the body, but no evidence adduced of how the do
came by his death.

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L ATAL COLLISON AT SEA.—PLYMOUTH, TIT°
APIZIL 16.- Mr. Christopher Brown, master of i'lle
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George Wilkinson, of 391 tons register, belonging '" : 0
James Brown, of Liverpool, reports that on Saturd4 :
13th instant, she left Weymouth in ballast, bounty 11.
Quebec. Yesterday morning, at 3 o'clock, when the J Po
stone bore north-north-east, distance 20 miles, wind
west, blowing strong, thick hazy weather, the Georg'
kinson was en the starboard tack under three single' ji,ill
topsails, foresails, wizen, and topmast staysail. Saw 4 ItY .
at say half a mile off, a large ship on the larboard 04
standing to the westward or north-west, toward 1
George Wilkinson, under double-reefed topsails, ln,f bkpg
and foresail. She continued her course, and althougn j
repeatedly but without effect, there
.being apparent • v
look-out forward, struck the
_George Wilkinson °
larboard side, abaft the fore-rigging, carried a'", lii r3O
fore topmast and topgallantmast, fore and main ` tli
yards, rigging gear, &c., and having hooked 01,
anchor, Captain Brown was obliged to slip 'the OP
attached, and thus lose in addition 30 fathoms Ti, tje
When clear, one fine young man, named Ran' lv,
missing ;he was twenty-five years of age, and bele°. 1'„0
Weymouth, where he was shipped. He is supposed l' 0110
fallen between the two ships in attempting to 1)1 ililifi
what is much more probable, to have been swept 0" ~i'
falling wreck of spars, sails, and rigging, from the topl 0
forecastle, where he was on duty, earnestly but l'ai° •,,r
deavouring to alarm the crew of the approaching 8..4.hiP" C 1
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stranger proved to be the Harbinger, belonging to n'i."4 ril,
man, of London, €OO and 800 tons burden. Captains .101
son, which left Havre on Friday, with 256 German an 00004
passengers, bound to New York ;in the collision 5 di
jibboora and fore topgallant mast, and had her eta'
side grazed by the channel bolts of the other vessel' :0.00.
bbHaringer came in b
ao four o'clock yesterda il: ip-,01
and rought up in thut e Sound. The George II ", v
which had lost more canvas, followed in about an bell" . A
up Catwater, and moored at the tier. r
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We are informed that the Rev. Mr. Irvine,' fA
Mr. Lewis Bloom, a the United States, have recent' av,
rived in this country with an unique exhibition, ilinstj lrotO
the African and American slave trade, in a series of iAI
moving panoramic views of a superior character R 3 , 5
of art. The panorama will be opened to the public At ' li
Victoria Hall, Leicester-Bquart, on Monday neat', APT ' 3
at three r at. ir:r
-Two powerful fellows, named William 13'5 '1,5
and Thomas tweed, were yesterday charged at -ii,r.f.' cO
street, with assaulting the police. It appeared that P-
(Ito
had, in conjunction with several others, created a distill 0,
in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, and when ordhe: 4; fsoi,
move on had struck the policeman a violent blow in t,7-i th ,of
had drawn a knife and attempted to stab him, and lls-,.,0 al 'oe
his fingers into the policeman's eye, for the Porrr,, iii ir
gouging him. He was sentenced to one month's iMtis., '
ment ; and Tweed, who had endeavoured to prevent ""
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prehension, was fined 20a.
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STARTING IN THE WORLD.—Many an
rilfor, to
parent labours hard and lives sparingly all his lhe, io. it)
purpose of leaving enough to give his children a starbt 1
world, as it is called. Setting a young man all°' to .dye
money left him by his relatives is like tying bladdel!,„. to
the arms of one who cannot swim ; ten chances to L'lii •,,10
will lose his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach rrej las
swim, and he will never need the bladders. Givelet` yip
a sound education, and you have done enough for eiii;i. a:
~p•
to it that his morals are pure, his mind cultivated, ", 0 50
whole nature made subservient to laws which govern . v
and you have given what will be of more value than
~' of
wealth of the Indies.—Eliza Cook's Journal. I , 0
Captain Labalmondiere, recently appointed Ole
Superintendent of Police, has just arrived from India,
he has been on duty with the 83d regiment. too
The fate of a man of genius and feeling is 111:,et ''',i9l
of a tuft of flowers; as an ornament, he may in°"" . l'
the head of all, or go to decay in the wilderness.--
Cook's Journal.
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DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Dirt, Oal 0
BATHURST, K.C.8.--.This distinguished General ,to , 'do
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who formerly filled the office of ililitary Secretes:6B.
Duke of Wellington, died on Saturday last, oge,c`N-or of
was the eldest son of a late Bishop (Bathurst) 01 rArs
The deceased was connected with the service for 0
and received a medal and cross for the Peninsular 11.2,',tae
medal for Egypt. He took part in all the leadinghe,"l I,thj,
ments of the Peninsular campaigns. The deceaSed,"„;
office of Governor of the garrison of Berwick, '
I•dbt
per annum. The vacancy will not be filled up. 0.4
PORT OF LIVERPOOL. —The Gazette of jot. e
contains a Treasury Order, dated Friday last, wbich ate I tto
Runcorn no longer a port after the sth inst., and tb4,l
loi
the same date the limits of the port of LVerpool
,06
commence at the termination of the port of Chester, pi
a place called the Red Stones, in Iloy Lake, on t,",,-0
Wirrel, and so along the coast of Cheshire into r wet I
Mersey, and all over the rivers Mersey, Irwell, and "
. -re -
and thence returning along the coast of LancaJil a 1? lie
meets the termination of the port of Fleetwood, at -
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called the Hundred-end Water."

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BATH&
On the 14th inst., at Duly ich, the wife of .E. Ra)'
of a daughter. GO be.
On the ihth inst., at the Parsonage, St. Georges, ies
wet', the wife of the Rev. Samuel Smith, of a bon. ci,on
On the Vtli inst., in Gracechurch•Areet, Mrs'
NVllet ham. of a (laughter,

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DIED. ris.
On the 27th February, at Jullundar, Catherine 1-At, ,
fe of Litl:l9r hines Roger Western, Bengal Enginec-r",:ci,°
, On the 12th inst., aged 57, George W. Griditbo '""
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gwyn, county of Ciatligan.
On the 12 ft: inst., in Barley-street, Cavendish-To per
Madame 1.,: arie Louise Dulcken, aged 38, . °ill° -
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Majesty.
On the 12th inst , at Grecatields ,Presteign the 14"
Evans, M.A. .

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