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ation which belong to human beings, may be sati
eferred to external agents continuing tl

it influence through

many generations : for it is with those nations which have

mode of life unvaried from time hometno-
, -therefore, the hereditary predisposition

pal, and in who

s been sustained by the unceasing action of similar

—with those nations it is that the greatest deviations are
found from the standard human form.

We cannot, indeed, affirm it to be an impossibility that the
Almighty Creator should have seen fit to bring originally
into being duplicates, triplicates, or other multiples of pairs,
formed so alike that there should be specific difference be-
tween them. Yet it appears antecedently improbable, and
it is unnecssary ; for, grant an extension of time not at all
prodigious, with all the requisite provisions for sustenance,
and a sufficient increase of posterity will ensue from a single
pair. _ _

All the probabilities of the case (and they amount to a
high degree of moral evidence) seem to warrant our adoption
f Be Larrey's theory that the Arabs are the primitive race.
Let us then take some brunette hue for the normal complex-
ion of the human race; and let all the existing colours be re-
presented by radii from a centre, diverging in all directions.
The differences would increase with the distance, and the ex-
tremities of the lines, in opposite parts of the periphery,
would present contrasts of colour, and every other deviation
produced by the range of causes.

But the gradation supposed, and proved by examples, pre-
sents us with shades of brown only. We have no instance of.

_ acquiring the proper negro
negro family losing its peculiarity and be-
coming of a proper, healthy, North European white, there
are no intermarriages with fair persons, long continued in
the favourable direction.

a white fami

or communit

colour, nor of

This, I believe, must be admitted ; and another fact, of
great importance, must be added to it. The recent explor-
ings of the Egyptian tombs and temples have brought to light
pictures of native Egyptians, and of men and women of other
nations, comprising negroes, who are distinguished by their
characteristic form of face and their completely black colour.
Some of these highly interesting representations are proved
to be of the age of Joseph, and earlier, and some in which
negro figures occur are of the eighth century after the flood.
Assuming, then, that the complexion of Noah's family, as
what I have ventured to suppose, as the normal brown, there
was not time for a negro race to be produced by the opera-
tion of all_thecauses of change with which we are acquainted.

On the other hand, some of the Egyptian figures, particularly
those consigned to constant labour under the sun, and (which
is very remarkable) persons performing religious ceremonies,
are of a brown so deep, as to be almost blac
It is unreasonable to expect, that

more perfect acquaint-

ante with the physiology of the niucuous membrane, and
particularly in the negro subject, remains yet to be acquired ?
I look, with a feeling almost of impatience, to the publica-
tion of Dr. Pritchard's third volume of " Researches into
the Physical History of Mankind ;" in which one cannot
doubt that this subject will be discussed.
But, to any right mind I appeal, whether, in relation to a
subject so complicated, this, one difficulty, even should it
never be scientifically disposed of, is of sufficient weight to
overbalance all the evidences, both bhysical and moral, (so
ably treated on in Dr. Pritchard's Book 11. chap.ii), phy-
sical, philogical, and historical, which flow together in proof
of the unity of the human race, by derivation from one an-
cestry.

BLit, if the progress of investigation should bring out such
kinds and degrees of evidence as shall rightfully turn the
scale in favour of the hypothesis that there are several races
of mankind, each having originated in a different pair of first
ancestors, what would be the consequence to our highest in-
terests, as rational, accountable, and immortal beings?
Would our faith, the fountain 'of Motives fOr love and obedi-
ence to God, virtuous self-government, and universal justice
and kindness ;—would this faith, the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, sustain any detri-
ment, after, by due meditations and prayer, we had sur-
mounted the first shock ? Let us survey those consequences.

If the two first inhabitants of Eden were the progenitors,
not of all human beings, but only of the race whence sprung
the Hebrew family, still they were formed by the immediate
power of God ; and all their circumstances, stated or im-
plied in the Scriptures, would remain the same as to moral
and practical purpose.
Adam would be " a figure of him that was to come," the
Saviour of mankind, just as Melchizedek. or Moses, or
Aaron, or David : the spiritual lesson would be the same.

4"bippfog Eatelligentr.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19,

A R RIVED .—Leonard Dobbin, ----, from Bombay—Susan,
—, from Monte Video—Selima, Coates, from Leghorn—Martha,
, and Zuleika, , from Smyrna—Princess Victoria,
—, from Trieste—Marmora, Barnes, from Terceira—Hannah,
Grosz, from Pillau—and Crescent, —, from Marseilles.

Corsair, Farrant; Malviva, Stocking, and Phoenix, Port, hence
at Leghorn
Firefly, Stone, hence at Constantinople
Eliza Saunders, Bulley, hence at ditto
York, and Henrietta, from New York, at Trieste
Oriental, (steamer) Soy, hence, &c. at Gibraltar 17th Jan.
Huntsville, Hughes, sailed from Marseilles for this port loth Jan.
Archibald Campbell, from Calcutta for New South Wales, at the
Mauritius, leaky

Mary Ann, Gillies, from Gibraltar, at Padstow for this port, with
loss of sails, &c.

Ardent, Hartgrave, from Quebec to Neath, was wrecked 18th
Nov. on West Point, Prince Edward's Island ; crew saved
Chieftain, Porter, from Cork for this port, at Scilly, with loss of
jibboom, sails, bulwarks, &c.

- William & Charles, from Yarmouth for this port, at Ports-
mouth, with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, boat, &c. and cargo
shifted

Rapid, of this port, was spoken Bth Jan. in lat. 50, long. 18
CARDIFF, Jan. 14, —The Mauney, Steele, of Liverpool, was run
foul of by the Bute, of Cardiff, which carried away her knight-
heads and did other damage, and it is expected must go into the
Bute Dock Basin, to repair

WATERFORD, Jan. 17.—The Indus, from Calcutta to Liverpool,
put in here last night, with cutwater, fore-chain plates, &c. carried