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steam !—our rooms are warmed with it, our food is cooked
by it, our clothes are washed through its agency. We hatch
chickens by steam—we travel by steam on land and water,
annihilating time and distance by means of its power—we
make a pin and we move a complete ark by its means—in
fact, by steam we do every thing now-a-days ; and yet
we are only, as Newton justly says, " like children
picking up a few painted shells on the shore of time."
Gigantic as is its power, we are only just arrived at the
morning of its day. Darwin, if we remember rightly, wrote
a kind of prophecy upon its progress. In it he speaks of
carriages " running without horses," and " ships flying in
the teeth of the wind without sails," and other matters, all
of which he would have seen come to pass had his existence
been spun out till the present day. Sheridan Knowles says,
in one of his terse and aphoristic sentences,
"A dwarf may have a giant for a friend,
And so be master of a giant's strength."
Steam is the giant that the hand of a child can control—and
yet how mighty are its powers of mischief!
In the pamphlet before us we find " Craigs Patent Rotatory
Engine" brought before the notice of the public, and in its
favour the following startling assertions are made :-
Ist. Simplicity of construction is obviously secured to a
degree never before attained. It seems to be impossible that
any piece of powerful machinery can be made in a more
simple manner. The axis alone (to which the arm is affixed)
being in motion, there is no vis inertice (as in the piston-
engine) to be overcome, and but a very trifling loss from
friction; and thus " the useful effect" is obtained direct
and at once. Its action being rotatory and not reciprocating,
saves the necessity of all the complicated and expensive
mechanical means, which in the piston-engine are needful to
produce a rotatory motion from a reciprocating one; so that
the mechanical action of the engine in its gross amount, with
a very slight deduction, is directly available, but little being
expended in working the engine itself, and, consequently,
there is scarcely any loss of power.
The saving, by comparison with other engines, in " wear
and tear," is no unimportant feature of the invention. The
only part of the engine which can be liable to "wear and
tear', is the axle, and this has been found, in an engine
which has been in daily work for more than three years and
a half, as perfect and free from injury as on the day it was
fixed. Stoppages for repairs, therefore, with moderate care
and attention, need never occur.
2dly. Economy, both as respects the consumption of fuel
and the expense of foundations and buildings required for
land engines.
As the engine consumes much less steam than others,
the saving is equivalent to the saving from friction and
the other causes of toss of power already alluded to, to
which may be added, as gain, the electric fluid in expand-
ing and increasing the mechanical force of the steam after
its transmission from the boiler. The quantity of steam
actually used, or in other words, the quantity of coals
required to generate sufficient steam for the continuous ac-
tion of the engine, has been found in every instance to be
equivalent to a saving of 1 by comparison with the best high
pressure piston engines; and in some cases were great care
and attention have been given to the management of the fur-
nace, the saving has been nearly one-half. When coal is
dear, this a most important consideration, and one which
cannot fail to have weight and influence with the public. It
can be shown that the amount of saving effected in various
ways by the rotatory engine described, compared with a pis-
ton engine of equal power, would, in three years, be equiva-
lent to the first cost of engine boilers and erections.
From the compactness of the engine, it occupies but little
space; so that a very small building will be sufficient to con-
tain it. Slight foundations, only being needful, as the weight
of the machinery is trifling, a considerable portion of the
expense hitherto entailed in erecting engines may be avoided,
and engine-power rendered cheaper.
3dly. In first cost. Little need be said under this bead.
It will he sufficent generally to state, that taking in consider-
ation the cost of engines, boilers, foundations, and erections
—the saving is so great in comparison with engines on the
old' principle, as to command for this invention the most de-
cided preference over them all.
4thly. In its easy applicability to any work where steam
power is required.

For portability, this invention of Mr. Craig's appears pre-
ferable to others, and its extreme simplicity will prevent its
getting out of order. We shall conclude this notice with a
brief description of the engine, drawings of which may be
seen in our publishing office : _
Craig's Patent Rotatory Engine consists of a fiat feather-
edged arm revolving vertically, and which is worked in the
following manner :—The arm is bored hollow nearly to its
extremities, having a small aperture, or nozzle, at each end,
at its opposite edges. The axis on which it is fixed, and with
which it revolves, is also hollow on one side to the centre.
Through this hollow axis the steam is admitted direct from
the boiler, it passes into the arm, and, having no other means
of escape, issues from the apertures or nozzles at the end, of
the arm into the case within which the arm works, causing
the arm with the axis, by the pressure of the steam, to rotate
in an opposite direction. The steam, after it issues from the
nozzles, is collected in the case, from which it blows off gra-
dually, by means of an ejection-pipe, into the chimney or
elsewhere. Connected with the axis with which the arm re-
volves, is a small pulley or drum ; over this pulley (in the
smaller power engines) is passed a belt or band communicat-
ing with a larger drum above, the diameter of which is in-
creased so as to reduce the speed acbording to the degree re-
quired for any particular work, and which will be in the ratio
of their diameters. The great velocity and force of rotation
of the pulley co,nmuiucatesa very swift and powerful motion
to the drum, with which it is connected : from this drum the
power is taken off and applied, and the " useful effect" of
the engine at once commences. It has no cylinder, beam,
crank, fly-wheel, parallel-motion apparatus, condenser, air-
pump, or other intricate mechanism, liable to derangement
or accident. It has but one moving part, and that so simple
in construction as to insure almost perfect freedom from wear
and tear. The axis alone produces any friction, and that so
trifling as scarcely to be computable. The axis works in a
stuffing-box of hemp, which is lubricated bp the steam, no
oil being required for the purpose.

The Asiatic Journal for September, 18-11. Allen and Co,

London

This very excellent and cleverly conducted periodical—
which we too seldom see by-the-way—appears to progress
with a steady pace. To those who have any connexion with
the East it must afford much interesting information ; to
those who are not, there is a variety of valuable matter, and
a great deal of pleasant reading. " Slight Circumstances"
is well written, and shows much research. The whole of this
article is worth remembering. The poem entitled " Plea-
sures of Taste" is very clever. " The Bench, the Bar, and
the Press of Bombey" is a good paper. The " Memoirs of
a Griffin" and the " Diary of an Assistant Surgeon" are
continued with unabated excellence. " Asiatic Intelligence"
conveys to the reader all that is going forward at present in
the East. Considerable labour is exhibited in compiling
this periodical, which we recommend to such of our readers
as are unacquainted with it.

The Churchman, October, 1841. W. E. Painter, Strand,

London

We are, as a general rule, extremely averse to the practice
of discussing questions of lay politics publications profess-
edly of a religious character ; and
must
confess
periodicals,
that w
e
sshould be sorry to see those valuable Protestant
amongst which The Churchman occupies a
by deservedly high
position, following the examples set themtariffs,
the
organs of
dissent,. by embarking in the field of political controversy,
and dragging their readers to the consideration of
laws, and other subjects, for which the columns of corn
a
news-
paper are infinitely more fitted. There must be limits, hlow
-
ever, to every rule ; and we would most assuredly not bind
down the advocates of the national church to abstain from
the discussion of those political, and even party questions,
whose decisions affect the interests of that church, and the
vitality of the religion of which it is the great fountain. There
are subjects in connection with the government of this coun-
try, with respect to which it well becomes its clergy, both
personally and through that portion of the press which is in
their hands, to ma cise their influence upon the community,
and upon the government as well; and we are glad to per-
ceive that the publication before us has taken up a position
which promises, if judiciously used, to be of signal utility to
the cause of religion and good orders
We have been favoured with a proof sheet of the first of a
series of articles, which will appear in the future numbers of

" And the Church, in so acting, has not had merely po-
litical or even moral ends in view. True, she was
averse to democratical theories, and to demoralizing sys-
tems known by the appellations of Socialism and Char-
tism. True, she mourned over the Vandalism of the
political levellers who stalked abroad at noon-day under
the protection of a Whig-Radical Administration. True,
she had no confidence in the political measures of men who
had no permanent system to act upon, and no political power
or majority to carry it into operation. But the Church
looked beyond all this. The Church saw that, unless some
mighty effort should be made to overthrow the late Cabinet,
her Christian, wise, and salutary influence over the people
would be weakened ; the very principle of her existence as a
National Church, would be questioned and attacked ; the
Christian education of the rising generation would be en-
dangered ; the Universities of the land would have forced on
them, contrary to the statutes which founded them, many-
headed Schism ; and Papacy, Political Dissent, and Infidelity,
would wage an impious and demoralizing warfare with the
old Protestant institutions and laws of the country. And
what did she resolve on doing ? The Church rose in all her
dignity and strength ; the Church called on her members to
come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against
the mighty—and what was the consequence? The return of
a very large, very enlightened, and very decisive majority in
the House of Commons for Christian Conservatism and the
Church of England.
"And let it not be said that this is an ' after thought.'
No—it is no after thought at all. The Church of England,
during the period of the French Revolution, presented in this
country the only rampart against the attacks of Jacobinism,
Whiggism, and Revolution. The Church of England, during
the period of the long continential war against all thrones
and all altars, supplied the navy with sailors, and the army
with soldiers to defend the soil, the liberties, the constitution,
and the religion of this highly favoured land. The Church
of England, in latter times, withstood, in moments of great
danger and difficulty, the vulgar cry for reform and revolution.
And now the Church of England, after years of anxious
trouble and fervent prayer, is once more enabled to return
to the national assembly of the people a Christian, a Protes-
tant, and a Conservative majority—not to coax the Roman-
ists—not to flatter the Dissenters—not to fawn to infidels and
latitudinarians ; but to support the Church, to rally round
her, to call for Church extension, Church protection, Church
influence, and the triumph of those principles which secured
this country from moral as well as physical devastation when
the terror of 1793, and the armaments of later years in a
neighbouring country, were directed against British Churches,
British Altars, and British Christians.
I r," As, then, the large majority in the present House of
Commons is a Protestant as well as a Conservative majority,
and as that Christian Protestant majority has been returned
by the Church of England, we begin by requiring that the
Church of England shall receive toe positive, avowed, and
prompt alliance of the new Cabinet."

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated,
G. Virtue, London.

Parts VII and VIII of this work have appeared, and fully
bear out the high character of the former numbers, not only
in the beauty of the illustrations, (from drawings by the
celebrated W. H. Bartlett,) but in the literary department,
by that deservedly popular writer, N. P. Willis, Esq., author
of " Pencillings by the way," &c. &c. There are four fine
engravings on steel in each part, executed by first-rate artists,
all admirable specimens of the art, and forming admirable
pictures, combining the bold and graphic with extreme
delicacy and minuteness of execution. Each, indeed, may
be pronounced a gem, which, some few years ago, could it
have been produced at all, would have been considered cheap
at the price of the whole number. We have " Dublin Bay,
from Kingstown Quarries ;" the " Approach to Cashel,"
'With its castle-topped rock, reminding one of St. Michaels'
Mount, Cornwall ; the " Head of Glenmalure," Wicklow,
a wild and interesting mountain scene ; the " Entrance of
Temple M`Durmot," Clonmacnoise ; " Clondalkin ;" "Holy
Cross Abbey," on the. Suir ; " Dunkerry Cave," Antrim ;
and " Leenane," Connemara. We can scarcely decide which
of these are the more highly finished. They must be seen to
be appreciated. We need scarcely add that the accompany..
ing letter-press is of corresponding interest—full of pleasing
description, topographical and historical, and enlivened by
anecdotes and traditions, by a masterly hand, who wants
nothing that is interesting in detail, yet never incurs the
besetting sin of the day of tiring by becoming diffuse. The
price of the work is extremely moderate, and independently of
all former acquisition will be found to be an elegant and even
novel addition to treasures of the library or the drawing-

DESTRUCTION OF THE
SEA. SHIP INDIA BY FIRE,
AT

" Itto JANEIRO, JULY 25.—1 t is my lot to describe to you
one of the most melancholy events in the annals of ship dis-
asters which has occurred for years, tempered with the mer-
ciful interposition of Providence in saving multitudes of hu-
man beings from certain destruction.
" On Monday, the 19th inst., our ship the India was in
14 degrees south latitude ; after breakfast one of the passen-
gers came to the cabin and reported that a strange sail was
in view. Not having seen one for the previous 14 days, we
were all on deck instantly ; but it was too far distant to no-
tice our signals, and as she was sailing iu the same line with
us, we kept in view of one another all the forenoon, and came
rather nearer after lunch, at 12 o'clock."
The writer states that he returned to the cabin, and then
proceeds with his narrative :
" I had not sat above half an hour, when I was sur-
prised by a cry for water, and, horrid to relate, mixed with
oaths, by the second mate, who was running from the stair
leading to the store-room in the direction of the saloon.
I immediately sprung towards the door of the stair
which leads to the store-room, where the cause was but
too apparent from the smoke and light. Not a moment was
to be lost; the men were immediately called aft, with all
the pails, pitchers, and everything they could lay hold of.
This was done with the utmost alacrity ; the supply of water
was, however, far from sufficient. We had a pump behind
the binnncle, but its bore was very trifling ; some flung
buckets over the ship's sides, but in the burry these were
drawn up scarcely half full. All this time, although some of
the hands were breaking up the vessel to get at the seat of
the fire, it was rapidly gaining ascendancy. It being evident
that we could not save the ship, our whole energies were
directed to the preservation of our lives. .

" When I came forward all was one scene of confusion and
despair, the women wringing their hands in the most heart-
rending manner, and this, mingled with the screaming of
children, presented a scene it would be vain to attempt to de-
cribe. During this interval guns of distress were fired to
attract the attention of the vessel in the distance. But in the
meantime we sent away the jolly boat, with five seamen,' to
overtake or attract her attention to our situation ; as it was
apparent that unless she came to our assistance every soul
on board must perish. They next commenced clear-
ing the long-boat of pigs, goats, &c., which were tossed over-
board. The boat was strong and heavy, and it was with
difficulty got over the side. After it was over, it was im-
mediately filled with children and as many of the females
as it could hold, with four men to row them towards the
vessel, and the gig was lowered and lay off about fifty
yards to prevent its being swamped."
The writer goes on to state that it was by this time evident
that the strange sail was aware of their situation, and several
of the crew and passengers who could swim were now floating
towards the vessel. Nothing but despair was depicted on
every countenance, and every one was anxiously in search of
some means of deliverance. So great was the rush when the
boats of the strange vessel reached them, that one of the
boats was upset, and five or six men drowned.
" The total number on board the India was 214, of whom
eighteen perished, viz., sixteen steerage, one cabin passenger,
and the boatswain.
" The fire originated thus : the second mate and one of the
boys were drawing off some gin, and as the candle was too
short for a lanthorn, they took it out, and when placing it, it
fell between two barrels, where some of the spirits had been
spilled, and in a moment the whole was in a blaze, tbe store-
room being full of canvass and other combustibles."

Mr. Thomas Dibdin, the well-known author of " The Ca-
binet," died at his house, Myddelton- ilace , Pentonville, on
the IGth instant, aged 70.
YARMOUTH, SEPT. 20.—Last night four vessels got on
the sands, and it is feared they will be all lost; one is the
Sir Robert Peel, of Whitby, from Dantsic, laden with wheat,
II feet water in the hold; another is the brig Utela, on her
bead-ends, within sight of the jetty, and two others, at
present names unknown. The captain and crew of the Utela
left her in their own boat. About six o'clock this morning
the life-boat went to take the crews from the other vessels,
when they observed a boy on board the Utela running about
the deck, and on coming alongside told the boy to leave the
ship, as she was fast sinking, but he refused, saying he did
nut care; he would not leave the ship, as the captain told
him to keep on board to mind it ; but it has been since
ascertained that he was left on board by accident. The men
pf the life-boat, however, got on board the brig and were
obliged to use force to piit the boy on board their boat. They
thatm l hands were saved.ade for the other vessels, and we are happy to state
al

Lord c. HAMILTON asked if the noble lord (Palmerston)
had not been under the necessity of making extensive alter-
ations in the reports of Dr. Bowrincr ?
Lord PALMERSTON said he had been obliged to strike out
the word " Sovereign" wherever it occurred as applied to
Mehemet Ali. He was also obliged to erase passages which
the hon. gentleman's prestige in favour of Mehemet Ali in-
duced him to write, but which had nothing whatever to do
with the object of his mission. The statistic portion of his
reports was, however, extremely valuable. •
Mr. MILNES bore testimony to the excellence of these re-
ports, upon which an hon. member, whose name we could
not learn, said that the whole business was a most scanda-
lous job.
The motion then dropped.
Mr. WAKLEY condemned the estimates generally as reck-
less, but he thought the members generally were more to
blame for this than either the last or the present government.
The hon. gentleman then contended for the propriety of
giving a fair trial to the government of Sir R. Peel, which
was distinguished for ability, which represented a large por-
tion of the wealth of the country, and which was so power-
ful that they could not offer them an effectual opposition.
If upon trial it should be found that they did not bring for-
ward good measures, then would be the time to oppose them,
and perhaps on a future appeal to the country the result
might be different. For his own part,. he was quite willing
to give time to the right hon. baronet.
Mr. FIELDEN said that the people were starving, and could
not wait until February.

Mr. WILLIAMS objected to several items in the votes

Mr. EWART taunted Mr. Wakley with a probable inten-
tion of supporting the government of Sir R. Peel, and was
cheered by the opposition benches when he did so.

Mr. NVAKLEYsaid that nothing could be more fair than
the demand made by Sir R. Peel for time to consider of his
measures, and he would lend himself to no factious opposi-
tion to his government.
Mr. WILLIAMS expressed his astonishment at the altered
doctrine now laid down by his honourable friend the member
for Finsbury, a doctrine totally at variance with that he for-
merly professed under very similar circumstances.
Upon the vote for the expenses of the Caledonian Canal,
Mr. WILLIAMS contended that it was useless and extrava-
gant to keep up the canal at the public expence.
Sir R. PEEL thought there was much justice in the obser-
vations of the hon. member for Coventry, and withdrew the
vote in order to give time for investigation.
Col. SIBTHORP calle'd attention to the appointment (made
by the late government) of Mr. Vizard, as solicitor to the
Home Department. The appointment was a new one, and
in his opinion unnecessary, and he wished to know if it was
the intention of the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Graham) to
continue it.

Sir J. GRAHAM said Mr. Vizard was his private friend and
his solicitor also, but still he had felt it to be his duty to tell
him that it was his intention, in conjunction with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, to investigate the legal business of
the public service, and that, after the sth of October, he
must consider his appointment as suspended until that inves-
tigation took place, and that he must also consider that, in
the event of any change in those departments, his appoint-
ment must not be allowed to stand in the way. (Cheers.)
Sir T. WILDE was of opinion that the appointment was
indispensable, and that the whole of the salary was more
than saved by the diminution of fees to the Attorney and
Solicitor General.

Sir R. PEEL, speaking from experience of the duties of
the Home Department, thought that the appointment might
not be indispensable. He did not, however, mean to give a
positive opinion, but he thought with two under secretaries,
one political, and the other professional, the assistance of a
solicitor might be dispensed with.
Upon the vote for a sum for secret services, Mr. WIL-
LIAMS said he should divide the house upon it. lie was
willing to vote the sum for foreign secret service, but as the
money for home secret service could be only to pay spies, and
as spies were not wanting in England or Ireland, he would
vote against it. _

On the division, the vote was carried by a majority of
144 to 7.
On the vote for Maynooth, Mr. PLUMPTRE said he must
oppose this vote on principle.
Sir R. INGLis entreated that he would not oppose the
vote, as half the money had been already voted, and ex-
penses had been incurred upon the faith of the other half
being paid.

llr.M. J. O'CONNELL said that if the principle were to
be laid down by the house, that no persons of one religion
were to contribute to the support of another, no persons could
hail the establishment of such a principle more cordially than
the eatholics of Ireland.

Mr. PAKINGTON hoped that, under the circumstances, the
hon. member for East Kent would withdraw Ms opposition.
Sir R. PEEL said he did not ground his support of this vote
on the fact that half the money had been granted, because he
had supported it for the last thirty years, both in and out of
office; and he should reserve to himself the right of making
whatever proposition he thought proper next session.
Mr. PLUMPTRE said that, under these circumstances, he
should press his motion to a division.
Mr. CocuaANE said he should vote against the grant as a
point of conscience.
Air. HOPE said that the hon. member was inconsistent, for
he had not offered any opposition to the vote for the General
Assembly of the church of Scotland, which was passed in
the early part of the evening.
Mr. COCHRANE said if there had been a division on that
vote he should certainly have voted against it. (Cheers from
the opposition benches.)

On i division, the vote was carried by a majority of 99 to
23.

The remaining estimates having been voted, the house re-
sumed, the report was brought up, and was ordered to be re-
ceived on Wednesday.

The Sag Harbour Corrector of August 11 gives an account
of an atrocious murder and piracy sent them by the Ameri-
crn Counsul at the Island of St. Helena, to put persons
visiting on their guard. After detailing vorious interviews
which were had with the natives both on shore and on board
the vessel, during which they seemed desirious of holding
the most friendly intercourse and carrying on the usual trade,
the writer goes on to say—
" In about a quarter of an hour we lett the house of one of
the natives, and in walking amongst the others saw more
natives ; all of a sudden we heard a kind of bowl or scream,
which appeared to proceed from the ship. Mr. Snowden,
the second mate, said it imported something he did not like
to hear, and said, ' let us go to the boat and return.' At the
same instant he saw several natives arming themselves with
spears, and Robinson asked one old man in the Malay langu-
age what they were going to do ; his answer was, Ido not
know ;' and immediately a number of natives came running
from the bush at the back of the houses, and attacked us
with spears. One struck Mr. Snowden, through the body ;
he fell, and the native then pierced him through with another,
and pinned him to the ground. James Robinson was struck
immediately afterwards by another native in the same way.
Mr. Clark was struck through the side with a spear, close to
the boat. Wm. Burt was wounded in two places. These two
and the rest succeeded in getting into the boat and pushing off
towards the vessel, although numbers of spears struck the
oars, boat, &c. Upon nearing the vessel, great was our con-
sternation to find her in the possession of the natives, who
were standing all round the rails, in the boats, and every one
armed with ship's cutlasses, cutting spades, lances, harpoons,
&c., and in such numbers that we had not the slightest chance
to get on board, being totally unarmed ourselves; therefore
we had no other alternative than either to be killed there, or
or endeavour to proceed to sea and risk being picked up by
some vessel. As soon as the natives saw us retiring from
the ship, they immediately pulled off in canoes from the
village we had been attacked at, as also from another
village, both of them being between us and the entrance
of the harbour, but through the good management of James
Clark, who took the steering oar, they could not come
up with us sufficiently to throw their spears to injure us, al-
though they pursued us till dark. We continued at the oars
all night ; in the morning Chowry Island hove iii sight, about
seven miles off; we continued pulling against wind, tide, and
a heavy sea, and when it came near, about midway, saw some
natives fishing, and endeavoured to buy some cocoanuts from
them for handkerchiefs, tobacco, razors, knives, &c., and
one rupee, which we had about us. We succeeded in induc-
ing the natives to let us have about twenty-seven cocoanuts,
and we then put to sea without bread, water, sail, or any-
thing to subsist upon besides the twenty-seven cocoanuts,
amongst ten men, in an open boat, 1000 miles from Ceylon,
and 700 from any other place we could pull towards, having
no compass. We agreed to live upon two cocoanuts per day
if possible, but our thirst became so great we were obliged to
use more ; we cut of the legs of our trousers to make a sail,
and tore up the boards from the bottom of the boat, and tied
them with handkerdhiefs together and made a sail, the mast
being one of oars ; in this way we were picked up at sea by
her majesty's ship Cruiser, who took us on board on Dec.
the 29th, at half-past eight in the morning, and immediately
gave us sago, &c. In the afternoon the captain inquired the
particulars of us, and although he had General Sir Hugh
Gough, for the China expedition, on 'board, proceeding to
China, he altered his course, and on the 31st of September,
at five in the evening, we re-entered the place, where the Pilot
was till lying, but not one of our crew was to be found, and
there was every appearance of their having been all massa-
cred. The vessel was found to be plundered of every article
of clothing, bedding, sails, rope, blocks, lances, harpoons,
muskets, guns, (large,) cutlasses, all the spirits, wine, ale,
porter, bread, and every piece of iron cut out from her bul-
warks, davit-heads, the copper stripped off her bottom, and,
in fact, such destruction committed in the short space of one
week, as no person can accurately describe, and in a day or
two more she would not have been worth removing. We
visited the villages, but the natives had fled upon our coming
in ; found a great quanity of rope, canvass, sails cut in pieces,
lances, &c., iron hoop bands from masts, &c., but no clothing
or article of dress.

" Twenty-one of the officers and crew are missing, two we
saw killed, and ten only escaped.
" There cannot be any doubt of every one missing being
massacred,—the decks stained with blood in many places,
also old sails, canvass, &c. In one part of the deck, the
shape of a man having been apparently smashed to pieces can
be distinctly traced, and in several places the print of a man's
bloody hand can be seen.

" W. BLACKWELL,
" Surgeon, whaling bark Pilot, of London."

June
Duncan, Watkins, from Sincapore, at Batavia 23rd May
Bencoolen, Stamp, from Calcutta, at St. Helena 28th July
London, Tait, from the Cape of Good Hope, at Port Adelaide
27th March
Haidee, -, from New South Wales, at Valparaiso
James Dunn, -, and Queen, ' hence at Naples
Rosanna, Peat; Patriot, Murray, and Radford, Coke, hence at
St. Petersburgh
Winscales, Connolly, from from Montreal, at Quebec, and sailed
for this port 25th August
Mary & Anne, Rackham, sailed from Arica for Iquique 2nd April
Jenne Elise, Blanchet, sailed from Bourdeaux for this port 15th
September
Consbrook, Pollock. from Quebec, at Belfast
Margaret, Downey, from Halifax, at Cork
George & Harry, Mitchell, from Gibraltar, at ditto
Pomona, Hutchins, from Quebec, at Dublin
Francis, Neville, from Texas, at Waterford
Nicholson, Elbee, from Quebec, at Tralee
Clydesdale, Campbell, from Antigua, off Brighton
Agnes, Cameron, from New York, off ditto
Rover, Stamp, from Odessa, at Falmouth
Java, Pickering, from China, off the Wight. On the sth Sept.
in lat. 35 0, long. 35 0, spoke the Assam, M'Alpine, from Bengal to
this port
Lowther, Hunt, from Palermo ; Freedom. Cox, from Smyrna,
and Geziena, Postema, from Groningen, at Holyhead
Empress, , and Gregory Bogsloff, Tula', hence for St.
Petersburg, and William Henry, Crawford, hence for Dordt, in the
Orkneys
Thomas Sparks, Sparks, hence for China, was spoken 9th July,
in lat. 17 6 5, long. 34 40 W
Vicar of Bray, Seymour, hence for Rio de Janeiro, was spoken
6th August, in lat. 12 4.1 N. long. 25 30 W
The John, of this port, from Bristol, was spoken 25th August, in
let. 49, long. 37

We had a large supply of Wheat and Oats at market this day.
The former sold freely at last day's rates, while the latter met a
decline of 6d per barrel. Bern and Barley without alteration in
value. Oatmeal is extremely ,dull of sale. There is a slight im-
provement in the demand for bakers' old Flour ; new sells freely at
our quotations; inferiors and thirds in good demand.

Hugh Mackay and Archinald Frazer Mackay, Liverpool, mer.
chants, Oct, 9, Nov. 2, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool.
Solicitors, Messrs. Lowndes, Robinson, and Bateson, Liverpool ;
and Messrs. Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London.
William Hitchcock, Regent-street, London, linendrapers.
Richard Potter, John Potter, and James Potter, Manchester,
cotton-spinners.
Richard Kay, Halton, Yorkshire, grocer.
Robert Neech,, sen., Kukley, Suffolk, farmer,
James Moss Sperling, Halstead, Essex, scrivener.
Joseph Butler, Walsall, Staffordshire, saddlers' ironmonger.
William Drinkwater, Salford, Lancashire, woollen cord manu-
facturer.