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STEAM NAVIGATION ON CANALS.—On Wednesday after,
noon one of Messrs, Robins, Mills and Co.'s fly boats, la"e:
with goods, and propelled by steam, arrived in the Duke:"
basin, Knott Mill, from London The' engine is placed it
the cabin at the stein of the vessel,. and the paddles ro
immediately behind the rudder. By this arrangenii•nt.o,
mote surge ia created than by tha cointhon Met hod of towlen.t
by hOrso power, and tbo -jciirney-from-4,opdon t •
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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1838.

{1:1* The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 o'clock.

.JAmmcA.—The New York Courier and Enquirer
of the 25th ult., which we have received by the Great
es-tern, has the following important intelligence
from Jamaica, which is quite confirmatory of the anti •
cipations expressed in the last advices received direct
from the West Indies :
" JAMAIcA.—We have received files of Jamaica pa-
pers by the ship John W. Cater, Captain Mead, to
the 6th June. Their contents are not unimportant.
It will be recollected that in August next, by an act of
the British Parliament, all house servants in the Bri-
tiPli Colonies were to be emancipated, but the servi-
tude of field labourers was to be continues some years
longer.. We learned by our last advices from Eng-
land,that an attempt to carry a bill through the House
of Commons, providing for the emancipation of the
*hole. at once, had failed ; yet, notwithstanding, it
now appears, a general abolition of negro servitude
is about to take place. The spirit of resistance in the
Planters seems to have been entirely subdued by the
untiring fanaticism of their countrymen in England.
We shall now see what will become of these colonies,
once so highly valued by Great Britain, that the cap-
or a West Indian island from an enemy set the

streets of London in a blaze of illumination, and was

.rewarded by the highest honours to the officer • who
made it. We venture to predict that gradually they
. will- dwindle into perfect insignificance,—that they
will cease to produce more than is necessary to keep
alive a miserable population of lazy negroes, and that
the contrast in their future state will be as great as
that of St. Domingo at the present hour, compared
with what it was under the reign of Louis XVI."
The,Jamaica despatch introduces the following
Peccfrom the. Governor, with some remarks, which
II
we annex ---
(From the Jamaica Despatch of June 6.)
.11iiiiifters, in their places, have opposed the measure of
abolition. And yet his INcellency is commanded to wrest
it from the hands of the colonist legislature, under threat that
cultivation must cease. Is this not a violation of the com-
pact?.
However, the legislature of Jamaica is prepared to grant
satire and unqualified emancipation. But the Governor has
no right to claim, in behalf of the government, an account
of any pacific measures that have been adopted; because the
apprentices have rested in sober hope' relying upon the gene-
rosity of the planters; for if they had been the Devils incar-
nate, represented by the lying Loco Foci)* and spies of this
country, and the Sturges and Sligos of Great Britain, they,
the. apprentices, would have been runninz riot in licentious-
ness, revolt, and carnage. Notwithstanding the parliamen-
tary interference—the firebrand speeches of Lord Brougham
—Ow constant agitation of the abolition party, striving to
excite the. vrqrst passions of human nature—still the forbear-
. since of the. planters prevails, and peaee and tranquillity
yelps triumphant.

SPEECH OP THE GOVERNOR.
Gentlemen of the Council.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly.
I have called you together at an unusual season, to take
into your consideration the state of the Island under the laws
of apprenticeship for the labouring population. I need not
refer you to the agitation on this subject throughout the Bri-
tish Empire, or to the discussions upon it in Parliament,
%here. the honourable efforts of the ministry were barely
Tfound sufficient to preserve the original duration of the law,
1:,:.111 obligation of national faith. I shall lay before you
a al4ll4Patches on this subject.
fere agitation and parliamentary inter-
"sVe not, lam afraid, yet terminated.
thece
wrr
„ tsPonding excitement has been long going on among
rt!rentices themselves, but still they have rested in sober
tate,„l,4let hopes, relying on your generosity that you will
elais7 to them that boon which has been granted to their
r.,!ulher colonies.
"Gentlemen of the Council,
Speaker and J
immyGenteen of the Assembly,
roefiluill posture of affairs it duty to declare my senti-
sop 151,41111 distinctly to recommend to you the early and
co444lMlition of apprenticeship for all classes. I do so in
meats! that the apprentices will be found worthy of free-
- ;411, and that it will operate as a double blessing, by securing
also the future interests of the planters.
I am commanded, however, to inform vou, that her Ma-
Jetny's,ministers will not entertain any question; but should
your view's' be opposed to the policy I recommend, I would
entreat you to consider well how impracticable it will become
to carry on coercive labour—always difficult, it would in fu-
ture he in peril of constant comparison with other colonies
made free, and with those estates iu this island made free by
individual proprietors.
As Governor under these circumstances—and I never
shrink from any of my responsibilities, I pronounce it physi-
cally impossible to maintain the apprenticeship with any hope
.of successful agriculture.
Gentlemen of the Council,
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly,
Jamaica is in Your hands; she requires repose by the re-
moval of a law which has equally tormented the labourer and
disappointed the planter—a law by which man still constrains
man in unnatural servitude. This is her first exigency —for
her future welfare she appeals to your wisdom to legislate in
the spirit of the times, with liberality and benevolence to-
wards all classes.

LATEST NEWS FROM THE UNITED STATES.—By
the Great Western steamer, which left New York on
the 25th ultimo, and accomplished the passage to
Bristol in the unprecedently short space of twelve days
and twenty hours, we have received files of American
papers to the above date. Their contents are ex•.
tremely important. In the Courier and Enquirer of
June 25th we find the following relating to the affairs
or Canada :

CANA DA .—We have ranch pleasure in transferring to our
pleßns, itc44 to ntional intsiligen,let, a pletg,e f t ova q4O

President to Congress, accompanied by a report from the
Secretary of War, on the subject of the troubles on the Ca-
nadian frontier. They are couched in language which is un-

exceptionable in every respect. We also anrcx an extract
from the Jefferson County Whig, published at Sackets Har-
bour, announcing the satisfactory arrangements making
there to prevent further infractions of our neutrality by the
predatory bands prowling about the Lakes and the St.
Lawrence.

There is one course in connexio❑ with this subject which
we think ought to be strictly followed by our public authori-
ties, and that is to withdraw all countenance from any citizen
who may be found to have aided and abetted the disturbers
of the public peace on the frontier. If we mistake not, how-
ever, very different has been the .policy pursued. Mr,
Dorscheimer of Buffalo who has been recently appointed
Post Master at that place, was, if we are not misinformed,
one of McKenzie's bail, and at his house the first incendiary
meeting held there took place. The former Collector of the
Port of Buffalo who had distinguished himself by his exer-
tions to preserve our neutrality, has been removed, and the
person appointed in his stead was prominent at promoting
the collection of men at Navy Island. Many individuals
besides have received commissions in the militia in that part
of the country who were notoriously engaged in Van Rens-
selaer's proceedings. The impolicy, not to say injustice,
of thus giving the public patronage or honours, if they may
so called, to individuals who have encouraaed a breach of the
public faith, is self-evident, yet we much fear a little popu-
larity will weigh more i❑ the estimation of our loco-foco
rulers, than the serious consequences which may attend a con-
tinuance of the disturbed slate of our frontier.

When the United States have faithfully performed their
duty as a neutral power, whatever may be the future fate of
Canada, is to us a matter of comparative indifference. The
policy of the mother country towards her colonies appears to
us however, marked by the fatuity which has so often distin-
guished that department of her government What can be
more absurd than to despatch an individual with some half
dozen councellors from England, to regulate the concerns of
a distant and distracted country, with which they can have.
no intimate acquaintance? When we consider the various
elements of which society is composed, and how essentially
they every where differ, one would suppose a long practical
experience and close observation, on the spot, were necessary
to come to a correct conclusion on the intricate questions
involved in the proposed enquiry. This however does not
appear to ,be the opinion of the present administration of
England, and still less of my Lord DUrham, who sets out
with a declaration that he will know nothing of things that
have passed before his arrival, or of parties even, loyal or
disaffected, English or French. Well, we wish his lordship
—rabid Loco Foco as he is—a good riddance of the difficult
task entrusted to him.
(From the National Intelligeneer.)
IMPORTANT OFFICIAL PAPERS.

The following Message from the President of the United
States was communicated to the House of Representatives
on Wednesday last :
To the House of Representatives of the United States :
I transmit, in compliance with a resolution of the House
of Representatives of the 11th instant, reports from the Se-
cretaries of State, Treasury, and War, with the documents
referred to by them respectfully, It will be seen that the
outrages committed on the steamboat Sir Hobert Peel, under
the British flag within the waters of the United States, and
on the steamboat Telegraph, under the American flag, at
Brockville, in Upper Canada, have not been followed by any
demand, by either government on the other, for redress.
These acts have been, so far, treated on each side as crimi-
nal offences committed within the jurisdiction of tribunals
competent to inquire into the facts, and to punish the persons
concerned in them. Investigations have been made, some of
the individuals inculpated have been arrested, and prosecu-
tions are in progress, the result of which cannot be doubtful.
The excited state of the public feeling on the borders of
Canada, on both sides of the line, has occasioned the most
painful anxiety to this Government. Every effort has been,
and will be made to prevent the success of the design ap-
parently formed, and in the course of execution, by Cana-
dians who have found a refuge within our territory, aided by.
a few reckless persons of our own country, to involve the
nation in a war with a neighbouring and friendly power.
Such design cannot succeed while the two Governments
appreciate and confidently rely upon the good faith of each
other in the performance of their respective duties. With a
fixed determination to use all the means in my power to put a
speedy and satisfactory termination to these border troubles,
I have the most confident assurances of the cordial co-opera-

tion of the British authorities, at home and in North Aineri-
can possessions, in the accomplishment of a purpose so sin-
cerely and earnestly desired by the Governments and People
both of the United States and Great Britain.
M. VAN BUREN.

Washington, June 20, 1838.
A number of documents accompanied this Message, the
contents of which may be generally inferred from the mess-
age itself. The following report from the Secretary at War,
however, is of sufficient consequence to be separated from the
rest for publication

Department of War, June 19, 1838.

Sir,—ln relation to so lunch of the resolution of the House
of Representatives of the I lth instant, as has, by your direc-
tion, been referred to this Department, I have the honour to
state that, on the receipt of intelligence of the destruction of
the British steamer Sir Robert. Peel, orders were immediate-
ly issued to the commanding officer at Fort Niagara, to detach
a portio of his force to Sackett's Harbor; and, shortly after,
the disposable remits at New York and Fort Monroe were
ordered, part to strengthen that post, part to Plattshurg, and
part to Swanton, on the Vermont frontier; at the same time,
measures were taken to employ a steamer, to he manned with
a competent military force, fur police purposes, on each of the
lakes Erie and Ontario.
The Department, having subsequently received informa-
tion, communicated by the Governor of the State of New
York, that the disturbers of public order had taken refuge ou
a portion of the Thousand Islands, situated within the juris-
diction of the United States, where they were collecting arms
and munitions of war, and engaged in fitting out hostile ex-
peditions against Canada, Major-Gen. Macomb was despat-
ched to Sackett's Harbor, to take the command of the forces
on the northern frontier, with instructions to take prompt
and vigorous measures to maintain our treaty stipulations,
and to execute the laws of the United States, and especially
to lose no time in directing operations against the lawless
men who, for the avowed purpose of committing depredations
upon the territory of a friendly Power, have stationed them-
selves on the islands in the river St. Lawrence. The General
has been since advised to station a guard of regulars at each
of the ferries on the river, and at each port of entry on the
lakes, in order to protect the persons and property of the sub-
jects of her Britannic Majesty from any further outrage; and
there is reason to believe, from the character and well-earned
reputation of that officer, that he will carry these instructions
into effect to the extent the limited force under his command
will permit, with promptness and energy.
With regard to " the concentration and movements of
foreign troops on the northern and northeastern frontiers of
the United States," the Department is not informed that the
regular troops of her Britannic Majesty have, A yet, been
stationed along the frontier, as is believed to be the inten-
tion; that service appearing still to be performed by the
volunteers and militia of Upper and Lower Canada—a force
estimated, by competent judges, at about twenty-five thou-
sand men. - flie, regulars now in the Canadas are ten regi-
ments of the line, of six hundred and fifty men each, to be
carried up to fifteen regiments; two battalions of guards,
eight hundred and fifty men each; two regiments of cavalry,
each of three hundred men.
In New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the regular force
consists of five regiments of the line, of six hundred and fifty
men each. • It is presumed that the usual proportion of artil-
lery will be attached to the regular forces in these colonies,
and in the Canadas, making an aggregate regular force of
between fifteen and sixteen thousand men.

Very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
J. It. POINSE'TT.

To the President of the United States

P.S. The accompanying extracts of letters received from
his excellency the Governor of New York, contain such in-
formation as has been received by this Department on the
subject of the recent disturbances on the northern frontier.

Sacketts Harbour, June 20.
Our village has been recently visited by a number of dis-
tinguished individuals—Generals Macomb., Brady, and other
military officers. Yesterday there arrived in the steamboat
Telegraph about 200 regular troops, under the command of
Captains Guynn and Al`Call, and others are soon expected
to follow. The immediate causes of these military move-
ments are to suppress and capture the banditti headed by
William Johnson—protect the commerce of the Lake, and
River St. Lawrence—and to restore confidence and safe's

to all the peaceable and quiet inhabitants residingiethe
dividing line between the two governments.
An expedition or flotilla consisting of steam and other
boats with an armed force, will be shortly fitted out for this
enterprise. This is as it should be, and it is believed that
the efforts will prove salutary for the future; but it is too
late to prevent the evils that are past—and true policy re-
quires that a military force should be kept on this frontier
sufficient to awe lawless desperadoes and enforce the laws,
protect the lives and property of our citizens, and prevent
all violations of neutrality. Situated as we are on this fron-
tier, a natural catch-all for the desperate and lawless of both
countries—attracted there by the opportunities for plunder
and the facilities for eluding detection, by dodging the offi-
cers of justice among the islands and across the lines—
having no moral or religious restraint, and associating with
none but kindred spirits, whose only pride and ambition is
to riot in degradation and serf-abandonment, they ate so per;.
fectly destitute of every principle fitting them for good so-
ciety, that nothing can restrain them but die glitter of bayo-
nets—and we hope that wholesome restraints will not again
be removed from this section.
Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.
Buffalo, June 21, 1838.

Dear Sir.—The cars from the Falls are just in, bringing
the intelligence that a party of the corps of Lancers
stationed at the Short Hills, in Canada, about 15 or 20 miles
from the Falls, and about 18 or 20 in number, were attacked last
night by a body of insurgents, several of the Lancers were
killed and wounded, and others taken prisoners. The num-
ber of the assailants I have not learned. The Lancers, in
small detachments, are scattered all about this part of the
province, and 1 should not be surprised to learn that a sys,,
tematic plan to cut them all oil had been formed.
Notwithstanding the great number of regular troops in the
Upper Province, to what there was some months ago, the
spirit of dissatislaction is far from being suppressed ; and
when you come to add to this feelings of revenge and des-
peration, I am fearful that outbreaks will often occur.
Yours, &c., C.
(From the Courier and Enquirer of June 20.)
IMPORTANT FROTH THE FRONTIER.
The Albany Evening Journal states, on the authority of
Mr. J. W. Turner, a deputy marshal at Oswego, who arrived
at Albany on Monday, express from Lewistown, that the
Patriots of Upper Canada have ayam etude a rally on their
own soil—having formed a camp in " Long Swamp," (an
extensive marsh lying between Grand Island and Chippewa
Creek) where they are now fortifying themselves. The
nucleus of this force was formed by refugees who crossed
over from the United States in parties of 20 or 30 at a time,
sn as to evade British vigilance, but volunteers are said to be
flocking in to them from all qearters. he number en-
trenched when they were discovered is supposed to be from
200 to 400. The alarm was instant;y given, and an express
sent off to Toronto for a regular force to extirpate them. This
news, says the Jourria/, is very vague—we believe it conies
by way of Toronto—but we think it may be substantially re-
lied upon. This evening's Western mail will either refute
or confirm it.
ANOTHER 11E1,ot-tr.—Extract from a letter from P. C. 11.
Brother, Esq. to a gentleman in this city, dated Queension,
14th June, 1838 :
" To-day the report is, that the patriots are kicking up an-
other muss with us. It is said that they crossed last night
below Lewiston, and are now in the forest between this and
StsCatharine."

Correspondence of the Argus.
Watertown, June 13, 1539,
Dear Sir,—We have nothing of importance in relation to
the affairs of the frontier, save the fact just communicated to
me, that this morning while the steamer Oneida was passing
Welk' Island, Johnson, with four men, apPealOil ig ins
Igo„ boat, cutptrueteCl in such a io4Poel' as to equal the ;peed

of the best steam-boats. He and his men gave three cheers.
It was attempted to he returned on board the steam-boat, but
was suppressed. Johnson then raised from his boat the flag
of the Sir Robert Peel, and a second time gave three cheers,
which was also attempted to be returned by some on board
the steam-boat, but was in like manner suppressed.
Johnson then made off in his boat towards the Island. This
occurred near the spot where the Peel was burnt.
Johnson's retreat being upon Canadian Islands, and the
speed of his boat surpassing every thing on the lake or river,
when seen, all efforts as yet to take him have failed. He
states that he will not be taken alive; and that his fastness,
if not impregnable, will defy any force that can fur some
time at least be brought against it.
M'Leod and Frey have been heard from on their way to
Lewiston and the upper country.
Our militia, it cannot be expected, would be willing to go
upon Canadian g mond, and attempt the arrest of these des-
perate men ; but we are hourly In the expectation of the ar-
tival of some regular troops. Colonel Cummings has arrived
here, and is awaiting the arrival of the troops; and signifies
his readiness to aid the civil officers in their efforts to at rest
these men at all hazards.
It was very gratifying intelligence to learn, that Judge
Cushman had concluded to hold our circuit, as we have now
rising of twenty prisoners in jail, awaiting their trial, besides
many on bail, and hourly expecting the arrest of more of the
individuals concerned in the binning of the Peel.
We learn from another correspondent, that an effort was
made on Friday evening week, to arrest M`Leod He was
known to have passed up the lake in disguise, stopping at
Sackett's Harbor, Oswego and Rochester. From the latter
place he proceeded by stage to Lockport. He was pursued
to Lockport by three officers of the government; but the
refugees at Lewistou had contrived to advise him by express
of his danger, and he eluded their vigilance. The express
was arrested, and admitted the fact.
(From the Courier and Inquirer of June 21st.)
BILL JOHNSTON, THE BUCCANEER.—The following letter,
descriptive of an interview with the pirate of the lakes, the
notorious Bill Johnston, should have been received some
days since, but will be read with none the less interest on
that account. There are certainly many points of romance
in his story, and he is by far the most interesting" of the
vagabond marauders who have been so long agitating the
frontier. Bill Johnston seems to be actuated by a motive—
the desire of revenge; which places him above the Van
Rensselaers and the Sutherlands., who were induced to their
mad and absurd course by petty vanity and love of notoriety.
General Van Rensselaer, with his encampment on Navy
Island, and in his sash and epaulets, making war, with two
or three hundred vagabonds, on Great Britain, was a very
ridiculous personage; but there is a touch of poetry about
Bill Johnston, the Buccaneer, mined to the teeth, flying from
island to island, a price set on his head, and determined to
sell Isis life at a desperate price. Aud then his daughter—
but we will not anticipate the interest of the letter:—
STEAM BOAT OSWEGO.
PATTISON'S LANDING, near French Creek,
11th June, 18.38.
We have just arrived here from Oswego, and made fast to
wood, at a spot nearly opposite to the woodiug place where
the Sir Robert Peel was attacked and burned by a band of
pirates, under the command of a desperado by the name of
Bill Johnston, of French Creek. While we Were making
our vessel fast, a light long-boat of a &irk. blue or lead color,
shot out from behind an island on the opposite shore, a little
aetern of us. The boat was in sight but a few moments, hay-
ing put in a little bay out of our view. In a short time four
of the crew were partially seen through the bushes, walking
in Indian file, each having a large pistol in his right hand.
They came up nearly opposite to us, and then retreated back
to their boat. A boat put off from our wharf for them with
two acquaintances of Johnston's, who supposed the craft to
be one of his. When they neared them upon the opposite
shore, the long boat dashed out and was along side of them.
"I't proved to be Johnston, with four expert Canadians as oars-
men, in a twelve oared cutter, about forty feet long, with
about eight feet of the after part decked, on which sat John-
ston upon a red carpet bag steering the boat with an oar.
After lying to a few minutes they pulled for the wreck of the
Sir Robert Peel, which lay about eighty rods a-head upon
the opposite shore. While passing us on their way to the
wreck, within 15 rods of us, and upon one of our passengers
waving a white hankerchief, Johnston very majestically
raised up and drew from the carpet bag under him the co-
lours of the Sir Robert Peel, which he held up to the breeze,
and again returned to the bag.
They boarded the wreck of the Sir Robert and remained
some 10 or 15 minutes, put off, passed again by us, within short
pistol shot, and made for the main land, near French Creek.
There were about fifty persons on board of our steamer, and
nut the least movement was made to molest them. We had
no arms on board.
The two gentlemen who went out in the small boat are of
respectability, and from having been long and intimately ac-
quainted with Johnston, apprehended no difficulty or injury
from him or his crew. Johnston observed to them that his
family and himself had been injured by the British govern-
ment's having confiscated his property to a large amount du-
ring the last war. He had now fully avenged himself against
them, as well for his own losses as for the destruction of the
Caroline; that he well knew great efforts were making to ar-
rest him, and particularly by our Government. But it would
not be easy to take him, and one thing we might rest assured
of, that he would never be taken alive; that he was a fair mark
to shoot at, but he was not the man to dangle in the air; he
had two other boats well manned and armed, within signal
view; that he sat upon the colors of the Sir Robert, and
meant to sit upon them till they rotted.
Their boat was stowed with muskets and small arms.
He said further that the steam-boats need have no fears of
him and his party, as he had no disposition to molest them.
On being_* that one of the steam-boats was to wood at the
wharf of his son, at French Creek, he seemed quite affected,
and replied, " I am glad to hear it, or of anything else that
can benefit my family." He is a robust athletic inan' per-
fectly feaess, about 60 years of age, quite grey headed, and
is altogether a hardy-looking veteran. Ile is represented as
a very warns friend, but has ever been a terror to his enemies.
He has a daughter about nineteen years of age, very hand-
some, and said to possess equal courage with -himself.- She
often goes into a boat alone, armed, and seeks her father
with supplies of provisions. I saw her this morning at
French Creek, an hour before seeing the old man. She is
certainly a very noble-looking girl, aud, I should judge, fully
equal to the description given of her.
It is very much to be regretted that the frontier difficulties
should have the effect to deter many from visiting these
waters, as there can he no more desirable tour than through
Lake Ontario. For fine steamers and gentlemanly masters,
these waters cannot be excelled, and the most timid need
have no fears of any further troubles on board these steamers.
Travellers that I have itieritittiVay the interest of travelling
upon these waters has been highly increased by the intro-
duction of fine regiments of soldiers at the garrisons along the
lakes.
(From the New York Courier and Enquirer, Jane '_22.,)"
LOSS OF THE STEAMER _PULASKI.
It is again our- painful duty to anneunCe the total loss of
another steam-packet, with a most Melancholy _loss of life.-
The steamboat Pulaski, hum Savannah for:, Valtimore,
touched at Charleston on Wednesday, and left that port at
an early hour on the following morning, From -that time
nothing had been heard of her when our paper of this
morning (21st) went to press; and great solicitude was en-
tertained for her fate. The worst fears have been realised'
Captain Allan, of the steamboat New York, which arrived
here yesterday morning from Charleeton, states that he left
that port Sunday evening, and that on Monday morning, at
about eleven o'clock, he fell in with boards and planks.
which were evidently the fragmentsof some wreck.
At 2 o'clock, when about six miles from Cape Lookout
Shoal, he saw the remains of the steam-packet Pulaski thrown
upon the beach, split in two from the keel, and broken into
four pieces—the bow lying nearly a mile fronsthe stern. For
ten miles the shores was strewn with fragments of timber.
Captain Allen remainel for two hours cruising about the
spot, in the hope of falling in with some survivors still cling-
ing to the wreck • but no vestige of life was discovered.
It is Captain Allen's opinion, from theposition of the boat,
which had evidently struck on Lookout Shoal and been thu.
dashed to pieces—that no being on board could have escapeds
The weather had been extremely rough from the time the
Pulaski left Charleston—and on Friday there had been a
north-east gale, with heavy fog and rain. It was during that
night probably that the Pulaski struck—and there is too
much reason to believe that every one of her crew and pas-
sengers perished.
(From the United States Gazette, of June 23.)
NEWS FROM THE WRECK OF THE POLASKI.
It will be seen by the following extracts, taken from the
Exchange Books, that the loss of life by that unfortunate oc-
currence is not so great as was supposed from the previous
accounts. Fifty-nine of the persons on board have been
rescued, and strong hopes are entertained that still more
have been saved by means Yet unknown.
FROM 'IHE PULASKI.
From the Exchange Books.
Extract of a letter to Mr. Coffee, dated Norfolk, Friday,
3, P. NI.
The cars being late to-day, I was detained in Portsmouth
until 3 P.M. I received the enclosed list of passengers saved,
which no doubt has been received in your city ere this
reaches you.
It was mentioned that a gentleman, President of one of
the Charleston Banks, was drowned in attempting to reach
the shoie.
I write in a great hurry, as the coach is about leaving.
Yours, H. H. DERTZEE.
[The list of passengers same as in Wilmington Advertiser.]
I have conversed with Mr. Leuthshenburg, one of the
survivors of the Pulaski—he states that two more yawls
(making four) had reached the shore in safety, and that we
may add 13 more persons to the list of saved, making 39
saved, the last-mentioned 13 not named.
It is stated in the Baltimore American, on the authority
of Major Heath, one of the passengers, that one of the
Lamar's saved is a lad of twelve or fourteen years of age, and
that he has since gone stark mad from anxiety and suffering,
with no hope of recovery.
Among the incidents of this appalling disaster, the affect-
ing one is mentioned that the Rev. Dr. Woart and wife,
after a mostfervent prayer, clasped their child in a mutual
embrace, and in a few minutes the three sunk together re-
signedly into the waves of death.
No baggage of any kind was saved. All the passengers
had money, which was in their trunks, and it is estimated
that at least 150,000 dollars in hank notes and specie have
been lost, and upwards of 10,000 dollars in watches and
evvelerv.

WHIG CONSISTENCY.—The Manchester Guardian
of Saturday last, whilst remarking upon the proposed
repeal of the Beer Act, gives utterance to the follow-
ing extraordinary language :—" We were not at all
prepared for the tone which was manifested in an ac-
cidental discussion in the House of Lords, on Thurs-
day evening, on the, subject of beer shops. So far as
We can judge by the reports, both sides of the house
are equally anxious for the repeal of the law by virtue
of which they were established. We have long thought
that the working of the act had turned out very diffe-
rently from what its authors expected; and as having,
at the time of its passing, ourselves been amongst the
advocates of the measure, we confess that we have
been greatly disappointed at the results which have
followed it; and that the experience thus acquired has
convinced us, that much more is essential to safe legis-
lation than that a measure should be in accordance
with general principles, and intended to counteract a
palpable and admitted evil. When we hear persons
glibly assuring us of the desirableness of further
great political changes, our minds often involuntarily
recur to the experience afforded by the beer act; and,
seeing how totally the wisest of our legislators were
misled as to the working of that measure, we are in-
duced to hold very cheap the assurances of those who,

"Most ignorant of what they're most assured,"

pretend to predict the exact operation of changes,
compared with which the results produced by the beer
act might almost be considered unnoticeable trifles."—
We have designated this language as extraordinary ;
and so it undoubtedly must be considered when we re-
flect upon the quarter from which it bar emanated,
I!le AtelOedor Guardian 114.; Wen long known as

the advocate of Lord Brougham's and Mr. Wyse's
systems of national education—systems whose virtual
tendency is to banish Christianity from the land, and
and to supersede it by a mongrel species of philosophy,
based upon no other principles than a total ignorance
of human nature, and an entire disregard of psycholo-
gical facts. In advocating these systems the Guardian
seeks to effect a greater organic change in the' con-
stitution of society than if it were a flaming partisan
of the ballot, universal suffrage, or any other of the
ultra-radical nostrums of the day. It is a truth at-
tested by the experience of ages, that no system of
education can operate beneficially upon public morals,
which is not based upon the truths of the sacred scrip-
tures : and whenever those truths are not inculcated
in connect ion with secular instruction, the most lamen-
table consequences must necessarily ensue. Even with
all the restraints upon the corrupt propensities of the
human heart which are connected with a religious edu-
cation, we stillfind that vice will prosper and crime
prevail : what then would be the inevitable result of
a system which imposed no restraint upon the sponta•
neously evil issues of the heart, but which would allow
mankind to riot uncontrolled in every species of wick-
edness ? The fruits of such a system must evidently
be such as no philanthropic mind could contemplate
with any degree of satisfaction. Science, however
perfect--philosophy, however refined—the cultivation
of the arts, to whatever degree it may be carried—can
never influence the consciences—can never control the
actions of mankind A much higher principle is re-
quisite, in order to exercise a beneficial effect upon
public morals, than the mere advancement of our fel-
low-creatures in physical knowledge. Religion is the
only sure foundation of national virtue and of its corol-
lary, national happiness. We are, therefore, justified
in saving that the Guardian is guilty of inconsistency
in declaiming against any further organic changes in
our national institutions, whilst it continues to advocate
so radical a change in our system of national educa-
tion.

But there are other topics upon which we find the
Guardian guilty of like inconsistency. the
system of "free trade," for which the Guardian so
stoutly contends, is one which involves a far greater
organic change than even the ballot or universal suf-
frage could possibly effect : and yet the Guardian
ventures to speak dispargingly of "organic changes."
The Guardian deems it worth its while to mention the
unfavourable operation of the Beer Act as a caution
against the indulgence of sanguine hopes from politi-
cal changes of a sweeping character; and yet it views
as a trifle the introduction of a sweeping revolution
into our mercantile and fiscal arrangements—a revo-
lution which perils every interest in the country, and
which, as far as it has been carried into effect, has been
fraught with the most disastrous consequences.

CORRESPONDEiVCE.

POPERY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.4RD.

Szn,—Nothing in my opinion is more absurd and con-
•temptible than for men, whether individually or collectively,
to pretend to be really what they are not; this
.is especially
true in matters of religion, where hypocrisy, above everything
else is hateful and pernicious. That these remarks are espe-
cially applicable to the Church of Rome, I am confident :
her pretensions to infallibility, are pretty well known ; but
with what propriety she makes these pretensions this etter
will show.

Admitting, for the sake of argument, (and on no other
grounds will I do so,) that the Catholic clergy, when met in
a general council, are infallible, what, I ask, does it sig-
nify?—and if each and every one of them, when taken
separately be fallible, which the church does not deny, what,
1 ask, does her infallibility signify, if her ministry, utterly
regardless of her decisions, preach any doctrine they please-?
Any church that has the smallest pretensions to purity of
doctrine, would not allow any of her ministers to preach doc-
trines contrary to her established creed; how much less
should a church that pretends to be infallible do so. That
the Church of Rome permits her ministers, and that without
the slightest opposition, to preach doctrines notoriously and
completely at variance with those which she plainly and un-
equivocally teaches, the following instance will, I think,
sufficiently prove.
The Rev. Mr. Parker, of St. Patrick's Chapel, in his in-
troductory lecture on the doctrine and discipline of the Ca-
tholic Church, is reported by the Liverpool Mercury to have
stated, that " It is charged against us, that we condem❑ to
eternal perdition, without exception, every one who differs
from us in religious belief. 1 should, indeed, blush for my-
self and for you,tuy dear friends, if 1 could fancy that such
an uncharitable and unchristianlike impression could find a
place in your minds. No, my dear friends, we believe and
trust, that many may and will be saved out of every creed,
whether Catholic or Protestant, Quaker, Methodist, &c., who
is so from education and thorough conviction of its truth,
and who thinks himself in the right way, and who would im-
mediately embrace the most perfect, if he had the opportu-

tunity afforded for embracing the same."
Now, it that Rev. Gentleman sincerely believes, that
" many out of every creed may and will be saved," he be-
lieves that which the church does not ; to prove this, I shall
refer.you-t0.." River's _Roman Manual,",apook which has
been lately,xesised bye Catholic clergyman of this town; in 1
,page 32. The following question is asked:—" Are none
saved but who. are in the church ?" " None but who are ac-
Matte it, or desire to seek to be therein,"'&e. (I cannot
give the whole. ofthp answer on account of its length.) In
page 33 and 34,.y0n will find the following illiberal and un-
charitable assertions. "It 'is only the'Catholic church that
has God's true worship; into which, whosoever enters not, -and.
from zwhich, whosoever departs is without all hone of life and
eternal. salvation." And again—" Whosoever will be saved
before all things, it is necessary that he hold the Catholic
faithi" (that is according to their interpretation, the faith
which is. professed. by Roman Catholics, )" which faith, unless
every one, keep whole and inviolable, he shall without doubt
perish everlastingly." So long, therefore, as the Book
from which these quotations are taken, is sanctioned by
Romish authority, no person w ho is able to read, and capable
of understanding what he reads, can deny, that it is a doctrine
of the Catholic church, " That out of it there is no salvation."
But besides the opinion of the church as now quoted, I have
to add that of the celebrated Thomas Maguire, the great
champion of the Catholic religion, whose opinion, as the
organ of the church, is far more influential and valuable than
the Rev. Mr. Parker's. lie, (Mr. Maguire,) when attempt-
ing to prove the infallibility of his church, said, " I have here
more than seventy pages, from the fathers, upon the subject,
and I would read them to you, if the time permitted. In one
of them the church is compared to the ark of Noah, out of
which no one shall be saved."—See Pope and Maguire's Re-
ligious Controversy, page 45; and also, in page 104, he tells
us that Henry the Fourth, of France, proposed, through the
medium of Sully, "a variety of questions to the Protestant
ministers. Am' ligst others he proposed the following :
'Whether it waslawful for him to become a Catholic?"rheir
reply was, "chat it was lawful, seeing salvation was attainable
in the Catholic church.' Fhey added it istrue, Our religion
is the more perfect, but still the Church of Rome is sufficient
for all the securities of future happiness' l'his answer ob-
tained, the monarch now consulted the Catholic prelates and
theologians respecting the security of salvation in the Pro-
testant church. But lie could not find one single individual
amongst them that would allow such benefit to exist in this
society." If Mr. Maguire believed that there was salvation
in the Protestant church, he of course would never have
brought forward the opinion of Catholic prelates and theo-
logians in opposition to his own, for then he would have
proved at once that there was no "unity" in the Catholic

church.
They (the Catholics) boastingly assert that their religion
is incapable of change, and that "what the church believes
an'l teaches now is the very same as was taught by the Apos-
tles and all ensuing ages ;" hence, therefore, the illiberaland
uncharitable doctrine above-mentioned will continue to be
taught to the end of the world. I should like every person
who is not perfectly satisfied of the truth of what'. I have
written, to get the second and third numbers of River's
Manual, and read for themselves. They can be had at Geo.
Leigh's, top of Great Nelson-street.
Having, I think, clearly and satisfactorily shown that it is
a doctrine of the Catholic church, " That out of it there is no
salvation," I shall now proceed to prove that Mr. Parker, for
not believing this doctrine, which the church believes, is
guilty of perjury.
The Creed of Pope Pius the Fourth is considered the
standard of Roman orthodoxy, and to which every Catholic
clergyman is required to swear. The following quotation is
from that creed:—" I do also, without any doubt, receive
and profess all other things which have been delivered,
defined, and declared, by the sacred canons and general
councils, and especially by the holy council of Trent, and all
things contrary thereto, and all heresies whatsoever con-
demned, rejected, and anathematized by the church; I do
likewise condemn, reject, and anathematize." Now, the
holy Council of Trent have decreed, (and no doubt this is
one sign of its spotless purity,) "If any one shall deny that,
in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there are con-
tamed really and substantially the body and blood, together
with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, or say
that he is in it only as a sign and figure, or by his influence,
he is accursed ; that is, he is denounced soul and body to eter-
nal destruction.

Here, then, we see that Mr. Parker has sworn to believe,
without any doubt, alt that has been declared by the Council
of Trent, that that Council have declared that every one
who denies the doctrine of transubstantiation is accursed;
but Mr. Parker believes, at least he has told us so, that
"many Protestants, Quakers, Methodists, &c., (and these
all deny the doctrine of transubstantiation, " may and will
be saved."