The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

THE TOWER OF LONDON.-It appears not to be generally
known that all fees to the warders have been abolished, and
that one shilling paid by each visitor obtains a view of the
crown jewels, armouries, &c. The warders now get com-
pensation in full for the loss of the fees formerly exacted by
them.

A man, named Stone, exclaimed in a bar-room, " I'll bet
I have the hardest name in the company." " Done," said
one of the company, " What is your name ?" " Stone,"
cried the first. " Hand me the money," said the other,
" my name is Harder,"

The Independent of Brussels contains the following amus-
ing anecdote :—One of the clerks in the Belgian War-office
having been desired to make a fair copy of a petition for a
pension from the widow of a general, on the ground of her
husband's long services, when he came to the words " devore
par un cancer," the disease of which the general died, wrote
devore par un canar," the letters ce appearing to him like
an a. On the report being laid before the minister, he sent
for the clerk, and pointing out the word canar, inquired
what it meant. The clerk made many apologies for his
error for having forgotten a letter, and taking his pen added
the letter d, thus making it " devore par un canard" (de-
voured by a duck), and withdrew, convinced that he had
repaired his error, leaving the minister convulsed with
laughter.

The London Record, in giving some Parisian religious in-
telligence, records the following :—One of the recent works
that has distinguished the operations of the French and Fo-
reign Bible Society has been the publication of the Gospel of
St. Mark in raised characters for the use of the blind.
Amongst the instances in which this work has been blessed
to the comfort and edification of the blind, is mentioned the
case of a poor blind girl, who, dissatisfied with the little pro-
gress she made in reading, owing to the callous state of the
fingers arising from the laborious occupations, attempted to
peel the skin from the ends of them with the view of render-
ing them more sensible, but being disappointed in the result
of this painful experiment, her despair at being obliged to
relinquish the reading of the precious volume was at its
utmost, when she suddenly discovered that by applying her
lips to the raised character the sensibility she sought for was
obtained. She has since in this manner attained to reeding
it with ease, and has committed almost the whole of the
Gospel of St. Mark to memory.

DISSENTING STATISTICS IN CHESHIRE.—This county
has a population of 395,300 ; has 487 parishes, townships,
&c.; covers 1,052 squares ; has 73,390 inhabited houses ;
and has 37 congregational meeting-houses. Of these 37,
there are two at Macclesfield, and three at Stockport. Some
of the meeting-houses in this county are very small, but we
will still adhere to the average of 400 per meeting-house,
and we find that only 14,800 can be accommodated out of a
population of 395,300. Deficiency, upwards of 380,000.
In fact, the real deficiency is much greater, for, instead of
14,800 persons attending these 37 meeting-houses, not more
than 10,000 at the utmost are ever present in them. " The
Cheshire Union," in support of itinerant preaching, raises
about £2OOO per annum, or £6 per meeting-house. It em-
ploys four agents to teach and preach over 1,052 square
miles, and to 395,300 souls! Dissenterism dates as far back
as 1670, in Cheshire, at a place called Tintwistle, but though
170 years have since passed away, there are only 10,000 con-
gregationalists out of 395,300 souls. There are some vacan-
cies of pastors in the congregational places of worship, and
three or four places, being unable to support their ministers,
are connected with other " causes." Dissent is far from
prosperous in Cheshire.

TAKING THE VEIL.—On Monday morning a spectacle of
unfrequent occurrence in this country took place at the
convent of " The Sisters of Mercy," which is situated near
Hickman's Folly, Bermondsey. The ceremony was for the
initiation of two young ladies, one of whom was to receive
the white veil and the other the religious or black habit of
the community. Before eleven o'clock, the hour appointed
for the ceremony, the chapel attached to the convent was
filled by a numerous congregation, the major part of whom
consisted of ladies elegantly attired. As soon as the clock
struck eleven the convent bell began to toll, which was the
announcement of the entry of the procession into the chapel.
The Very Rev. Dr. Griffiths, V. A. L. D., the Bishop who
officiated, advanced to the altar, dressed in his pontifical,
robes ; in his train were the Rev. Messrs. Fisk, Browman,
P. Butler, Harrabin, J. Coyle, Foley, Hearness, H. Lea, and
an Armenian monk, named Lazarian, together with a number
of other of the clergy, arrayed in robes of white muslin, with
gold bands, &c., the choristers, bearers of incense, and others,
forming the procession. At a given signal, the choir struck
np the hymn to the Virgin, " 0 Gloriosa." The sisters of

the convent then entered in in the usual costume
of nuns, each holding a lighted taper in her hand. The two
noviciates, Miss Baxter and Miss Kellett, who are both
young ladies of considerable fortunes, followed in order, led
by the superioress, assisted by two of the sisters (one of
whom was Miss Agnew, neiee cf Rir Andrew Agnew, Bart.,
acid ate other Lady Babara Eyre, daughter of the Earl of

Newburgh. The religious names the latter ladies bear are
sisters Mary and Clara). The noviciates, Miss Baxter and
Miss Kellett, were both elegantly dressed in white embroi-
dered muslin, wearing chaplets of white roses as the head
dress. Each held lighted wax tapers in their right hands.
After they approached the altar, an exhortation was deli-
vered by the bishop from the 19th chapter of St. Matthew,
29th verse : " And every one that bath forsaken houses, or
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold,
and shall inherit everlasting life." After the exhortation
the bishop severally questioned them as to their own free will
of taking the holy habit of religion, to which having assented,
the noviciates returned to put off their secular dress, and
shortly returned in the habits of the nuns. On returning,
the hymn " Veni CREATOR" was sung by the choir, during
which the two noviciates lay extended flat on their faces be-
fore the steps of the altar, where they remained until the
conclusion of the ceremony, when, after being assisted to
rise, they each kissed the other sisters, and the procession
left the chapel in the same order in which they entered, and
returned to the convent. During the delivery of a very af-
fecting discourse by the bishop on their retirement from the
world, the noviciates showed no signs of agitation, nor did
their countenances betray any symtoms of reluctance. but,
on the contrary, appeared to be lighted up by an expression
of enthusiastic feeling.
A WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—Saturday after-
noon, Beaver-court. off Meclenburgh-street, was the scene
of a most lamentable and tragic occurrence, when a woman
named Mary Connell fell a victim to the ungovernable pas-
sion of her husband, Michael Connell. The parties occu-
pied part of a cabin, consisting of only a ground floor, being
No. 1 in the court. The man's occupation was that of clearer
out of night soil, and a collector of manure, by which he
made out a comfortable livelihood ; but it appeared they had

lived unhappily together, and had frequent and violent alter-
cations. Between four and five o'clock on the above-men-
tioned afternoon some relatives of the Connells, who lived
adjoining, and other persons in the neighbourhood, heard
the noise of quarrelling (how originating we have not heard)
going on in the house. An aunt of Mrs. Connell attempted
to enter the place, but found the door fastened from the in-
side. A brother of Connell's forced it open, and with some
others got in, when they found the parties having a hold of
each other and engaged fighting—the wife was a remarkably
robust, stout woman, the husband of extremely diminutive
stature. The persons who entered disentangled them, and
forced him out into the street, where they endeavoured to
pacify him, but without effect, his passion seemed to be ex-
cited so as to be beyond all control. He swore that he would
kick her livers out while he had a sole on his shoes, and
rushing trom those about him, he got into the house by a
back door. He was followed by some persons, and it is said
that, immediately on entering the apartment, he raised a
smoothing iron which happened to be near him, and flung it
at the head of his unfortunate wife, but whether it struck her
or not could not be positively ascertained. The woman sunk
on the side of a bed apparently as if in a state of exhaustion.
Interference with him was attempted by a woman named
Halpin, his wife's aunt, but, snatching up a poker, he swore
that if she did not instantly leave the place he would give

her the same usage. The woman, alarmed for her own
safety, hurried away ; hut a son of hers, a boy of 13 or 14
years old, remained on the threshhold, and if his account of
what he then witnessed be correct, it would appear that Con-
nell drew out from the deceased, and swearing that he would
be hung for her, he struck her a severe blow with his clenched
fist about the head, by which she was knocked partly against
one of the bed-posts, after which, seizing her by the neck,
he pulled her down towards him, and, as she bent forward,
he dealt her a tremendous kick in the throat or stomach.
She fell, and never spoke afterwards. Death seemed to have
taken place almost instantaneously. The wretched man
made no effort whatever to fly, and in a few minutes after the
perpetration of the horrid act he was taken into custody by
the police, and lodged in Sackville-place station-house.
Many minutes had not elapsed till Inspector Dundon, of C
division, was on the spot, and he immediately procured a
medical gentleman, who examined the deceased, but was
unable to discover any external mark or trace of violence
whatever on her person, excepting her dress being very much
torn. Portions of the husband's clothes were also torn.—
Freeman's Journal.

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to a division. In this complaint the English merchants are
joined by several respectable parties in the
feel that the disadvantage of the
the injury of the better sort of people in New creditor 3 reacts to
Brunswick,
as it tends to destroy credit altogetEhne
one of these has been published in a New Brunswick
and has been read with great interest by the merchants paper,
here
who correspond with that colony. This letter exhibits a
most melancholy condition of the state even of internal cre-
dit for the want of a bankrupt law. The merchants and
their country customers are described as being afraid to trust
each other; every man, when dealing with his customers,
appears, it is said, to be " treading on a charged mine ;" and
indeed credit has sunk to such a state that the heavy dealers
will not sell an article except fur ready money, which is very
scarce on account of a pressure by the banks. The effect of
the present state of the law in foreign countries is described
as still more serious. Both foreigners and the inhabitants of
the mother country have, it is said, lost confidence in the
colony to such a degree, that if a man comes to England with
a letter of credit to purchase goods, he is refused on the plea
that the credit of the place is gone. This want of confidence,
it is observed by the writer, is not at all to be blamed, but is
the natural consequence of the absence of all law by which a
creditor's interests can be protected. Again, it is said, that
the want of a bankrupt law operates as a preventive against
persons of capital settling in the colony ; since, wherever
they place their money, they may find their claim to it barred
by a judgment obtained by some other creditor, without a
Possibility of redress.

THIRD

EDITION,

Standard-office, Three o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Tits DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.)

The weekly average of Wheat, received here this morn-
ing, shows a slight advance upon the last return, and the
duty on that Grain continues at 13s per quarter ; the only
change in the import rates for the ensuing week being an in-
crease on foreign Rye to lOs 6d, and on colonial Rye to is 6d
per quarter.

Notwithstanding the windhas at length come from a fa-
vourable point, and a great number of vessels have arrived,
few corn-laden ships have made their appearance ; within the
past three days, therefore, we have not more than 2670 qrs.
Wheat and 530 qrs. Beans to notice from European ports,
with 4,800 barrels American and 800 sacks East India Flour ;
whilst, exclusive of some cargoes of Oats, coastwise and
from Ireland, the supplies of British Grain and Flour are
in general light, and of Oatmeal only moderate.
The trade, subsequent to the passing of the Corn Act,
having scarcely had time to recover its usual tone, has been
extremely inactive throughout since our report of Tuesday
last ; and the millers and dealers at our Corn Exchange to-
day being generally disposed to remain on the reserve, we
have to report a very limited sale for all kinds of Wheat,
without any material change in the value of the finest de-
scriptions, but at rkther lower rates for secondary and infe-
rior qualities. A cargo of Sicilian Wheat afloat, and a par-
cel of Egyptian in granary here, have been taken by specu-
lators, at former prices. Free Flour moves off merely in
retail at our late currency, but for that article in bond we
have no inquiries to-day.
The same want of animation pervades all branches of the
trade, and we repeat our last quotations, which, however,
may be considered almost nominal.

_
ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 3d to the sth May, 1842, inclusive

IRE- COAST- 'CANADAI PO-OTA
DESCRIPTION. LA:go. WISE. & ILSTS. REIGN. TL

Wheat Qrs. 1353 630
2 I 2670 4663
Barley . Qrs. 144 146
Malt Qrs. 457
Oats
Rye Qrs.
Beans
Pease . Qrs.
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .... Loads' 2111
Flour. Sacks! 50
Ditto . Brls

800 I 850
2 4802

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat, qrs. ; Oats.
455 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 501 Ids; Flour, 139 sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ; Malt,
qrs. ; Oats, qrs ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oat-
meal, loads; Flour, sacks, 14 brls.--Ireland. Wheat, 447
qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, 115 qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids. ;
Flour, 100 brls.--Coastwise. Wheat, 44 qrs. ; Barley, 120
qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Beans, 6 qrs. ; Rye,
qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids. ;
Flour, 203 sacks 45 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending April 2y, 1842.
Wheat 61s. Od. 1 Barley 275. 7d. 1 Oats.. Iys. Id. I Rye.. 31s. 7d
Beans.. 31s. 6d. 1 Pease.. 324. id.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 595. 3d. I Barley 265. gd. I Oats.. 18s. gd. Rye.. 325. 10d
Beans.. 30s. sd. Pease.. 30s. 10d.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheat 135.0 d. I Barley 10s. Od. Oats .. . Bs. Od. Rye.. 108. 6d
Beans los. 6a. I Pease.. 10s. 6d. I I Ind. Corn Os. od. Flour7s.

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe

Wheat.
Beans.

- Od. Barley.. 2s. 6d.lOats .. 2s. Od. I Rye.... Is. 6d
2s 6d I Pease.. 28. 6d. I Indian Corn.. Os. I Flour.. Os. 7id
Liverpool Averages, week ending May 3, 1842.
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. Pease.
Qrs 634 41 1046 i5O
Prices sos. Od. 325. Id. lgs. gd. 365. ad. os. Od.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THIS DAY

We have had another very flat day in Cotton ; the sales do
not exceed 3000 bales, notwithstanding the market is but
barely supplied, and current prices are obtained. The weekly
sales amount to 18,530 bales. Speculators have taken of
these 1200, and exporters 1000 bales.

We make no alteration in our quotations ; the change is in

favour of buyers.
The import this week amounts to 85,000 bales, and is ex-
pected to be very heavy throughout the month, so that there
will be a considerable augmentation of stock, which now ex-
ceeds that of last year at this period 150,000 bales.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

FRIDAY, MAY 6.—Wind N.W.,

blowing fresh,

ARRlVEn.—Corinna, Wilmot, from Calcutta—William Rushton,
from Arica—Curlew, Renney, from St. Domingo—Glengarry, Hill,
from Savannah—Shannon. Harrison ; Britannia, Atcheson ; Ben
Nevis, ; Hogarth, Redman ; and Ellen Bryson, Dickson,
from Mobile—Mountaineer, Stickney ; Parthenon, Woodbury ; and
Milo, Thompson, from New Orleans—Elizabeth, from Charleston—
L'Assante, Arnel, from Messina—Wilson, Stoup, from Alexandria—
Agenoria, Dunn, from Genoa—Jane May, May, from Syria—and
Victory, -, from Lisbon.

Kestrel, Wise, from Lima at this port, with about 300,000 dollars,
sailed 15th January, in company with the Chimborazo, for the
Chinean Islands, and the Vitula, tor Valparaiso and this port. Left
tie Doro, Dyson, and Globe, at Lima, and the Cuba and Minstrel
Boy were at the Chinean Islands.

Several of the iron works in the neighbourhood of Wolver-
hampton have ceased work.
A. destructive fire umurred at Colchester vu Saturday, by
which property to the amount of £lO,OOO was destroyed.
A subscription of £5OO was on Tuesday last forwarded
anonymously to the Church Missionary Society.
Seven ships, with sixteen hundred troops, have sailed for
India since Sunday.
The new Botanic Gardens at Glasgow were opened for the
first time on Saturday.

The army of Poland and Lithuania is. it is reported, almost
immediately to be placed on a peace footing.

No fewer than 170 religious meetings are announced to be
held in London during the present month.

Out of 2,787 houses in Pontypool and the parish of Tre-
vethin, nearly one-half are at present unoccupied, the late
residents having emigrated.

The Forth steamer left Southampton on Monday, with 22
passengers. The Clyde was expected on Wednesday with
the West India mails.

It is expected that the Right Hon. J. C. Herries and Mr.
Fitzroy Kelly will become candidates for Ipswich on the con-
servative interest.

There were no less than 400 sail of vessels waiting, on
Wednesday, in the channel for a favourable wind to come up
the Thames to the London docks.

On Monday some of the scenery at the London Opera-
house fell upon two of the sceneshifters, who lie without any
hopes of recovery.
READING AND FALMOUTH ELECTION PETITIONS.—
These inquiries have terminated, and in each case the sitting
members have been declared duly elected.
It appears from • parliamentary return that orders have
been issued to 101 poor law unions prohibiting out-door re-
lief, and that to 4bb such orders have not been issued.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Tuesday morning the Ander-
ston Grain Mills, in Washington-street, Glasgow, were re-
duced to a heap of ruins by fire.
POISONING.—A verdict of wilful murder has been returned
against a servant named Sarah Goss, for poisoning her mis-
tress, a lady seventy-one years of age, living at Kettering,
Northamptonshire. _

A correspondent in Wednesday's Times, states that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer has agreed to take fire per cent.
on the gross receipts from railway passengers, in lieu of the
present mileage duty.

SHIPWRECK.—During the night of Thursday last, the
brig Leon, of Rouen, laden with wine and brandy, was
totally wrecked off Bere Island, and all the crew perished.—
Cork Constitution.

The subscriptions raised for the purpose of erecting and
endowing an episcopal college in Scotland, amount, at pre-
sent, to £17,000, including £l,OOO from the Society for Pro-
moting Christian knowledge.
C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., has contributed £5OO, and
H. H. Williamson, Esq., £3OO, towards the ervltion of a
church, parsonage house, and school, at Brown Edge, Nor-
ton-in-the-Moors, Staffordshire.

It appears from the report of the council of King's Col-
lege that the total receipts of the past year amounted to
£21,569, and that the number of students who matriculated
was 813.

A letter from Florence says that the mine of quicksilver,
discovered last year in the environs of Peravezza, near Pisa,
is in full work, and yielded last month more than 6,0001b5. ;
produce that is daily increasing.

The Courrier Francais states that, according to the rate at
which the emancipation of the slaves in the French West
India Islands is proceeding, it will require a century to set
them free.

We understand that arrangements are being made by the
principal booksellers and stationers in Edinburgh to shut
their places of business on Saturdays at five o'clock, for the
purpose of allowing themselves and those in their employ-
ment to have a larger portion of time than heretofore for
rational amusement and recreation.—Glasgow paper, 23d
April, 1842.

Frogmore Lodge, the residence of the late Prineess Au-
gusta, has recently been extensively improved, and is to be
appropriated for the future to the use of the Duchess of
Kent. It is understood that it is intended as the nursery of
the infant family of her Majesty and Prince Albert, where
they will generally reside, under the same roof as the Duchess
of Kent.

The eminent preacher, South, who dearly loved a pun,
once exclaimed from the pulpit, " marriage was formerly a
merry age, but matrimony is now become a matter of
money." If this was true in Charles the Second's days,
how much truer is it now, when habits of business have
superseded everything in the shape of natural emotion ! In
affairs of the heart we now split upon settlements, where for-
merly we split upon sentiment.
- • ••

An old lady, aged sixty, was walking down Camberwell-
road, London, on Tuesday, and in her anxiety to avoid a boy
with an iron hoop slipped off the kirbstone, and fell with such
violence to the ground that there is scarcely any hope of her
recovery.—[The trundling of iron boops in many of the
crowded thoroughfares of Liverpool is a great nuisance, and
ought to be suppressed.]
At Windsor, on Tuesday, a foreigner ascended 400 feet on
the inclined plane of a tightened single cord, the extreme
point rising from 30 to upwards of 60 feet in height. When
reaching the top he addressed the multitude assembled to
witness him, and as there was no ladder sufficiently long to
enable him to descend by that means from his immense
height, he was compelled to let himself down by clinging to
one of the poles to which the rope was affixed, and safely
alighted on the ground.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of the Wesleyan Missionary Society was held on Monday, in
the great room, Exeter-hall. Colonel Conolly, M.P., pre-
sided. The Rev. Jabez Bunting read the report for the past
year, from which it appeared that the receipts amounted to
£101,688 2s. 4d.—(loud cheers)—and the expenditure to
£98,754 7s. 9d., leaving a surplus of £2933 14s. 7d. The
nett increase of the year, as compared with the preceding, is
£11,505 13s. Bd. The present number of principal or central
mission stations, called circuits, occupied by the society in
the several parts of the world, is 261 ; the number of mis-
sionaries employed, exclusive of catechists, 368; the number
of full and accredited church members, exclusive of those
under the care of the society's missionaries in Ireland, 87,258 ;
and the number of scholars in the mission schools is nearly
6 0,000. The report was adopted.

o;meg Ituvarnyti..oli the mot or PetagOtik 14 A
tOtVrt called Lie CarMati; which is War tho Moto;
Ayrian government, and which is' occasionally aubjected to
prcsdatory incurzions from the Aborigines, who carry off
cattle, horses, and sometimes prisoners. In the year 1836
they made a bold attempt to take possession of the town,
though it is generally protected by a large party of soldiers.
Such was the vigour of the attack that every individual in
the town capable of bearing arms was called out by the com-
mandant. Notwithstanding the powerful attempts made to
repulse them, the Indians succeeded in gaining considerable
advantage. They sacked the town, and took a number of
prisoners, whom they carried away with them to their own
territory, where they encamped. Amongst the prisoners was
an Englishman, who had been ordered by the commanding
officer to bear arms with the rest. The Indians, who were of
the Pampa tribe, immediately held a council, and, according
to their custom, led out the prisoners to put them to death.'
The executioner performed his office with the singular weapon
which they use to catch wild horses. This weapon consisted
of three balls, attached at different distances to a rope of
green hide. With this they entangled the legs of the horses,
and captured them with great ease. Each of the prisoners, on
this occasion, was in succession placed opposite to an Indian,
who, holding by one ball, rapidly swung the others round his
head, till, at length, a blow was struck which put an end to
the existence of the unfortunate individual who was doomed.
Five of the Spaniards were in this manner despatched, and the
Englishman was next led forward. He was placed opposite to
the Indian who wielded the fatal balls, and expected instant
death. His appearance, however, attracted the attention of
the chief, who, observing the fairness of his complexion,
stepped up to him, and, in broken Spanish, asked him whe-
ther he were a Christian. Fortunately, the Englishman was
aware that Christian was the term by which the Indians dis-
tinguish the Spaniards. He replied, "No ; lam an English-
man." " And how came you to fight against us ?" asked the
Indian. " I was compelled by the commandant," was the
reply. The chief ordered him to be instantly released, pro-
fessing the greatest esteem for the tribe to which the English-
man belonged and its chief. The Englishman was not less
surprised than overjoyed at his escape, as the reader may
readily believe. The chief ordered a horse to be provided
for him, and sent a guide with him to put him fairly on his
road to La Carman. The above was related to the writer by
the gentleman who experienced this rather singular proof of
kindness from the chief of the Pampas. That preference is
thus accounted for. Some years previously to the occurrence
alluded to, the English sloop-of-war Beagle was on a survey
of three years in the ltiver Plate and round the coast of
Patagonia. During that time the captain of the Beagle made
an excursion a considerable distance up the Rio Colorado in
his boats. He established a very friendly intercourse with
the inhabitants, and made various presents to their chief.
On his departure, be erected a flag-staff, and hoisted a union
jack thereupon. It is to this polite conduct, on the part of
the captain of the Beagle, that the gentleman alluded to
attributes his fortunate escape. It is also worthy of remark,
that a crew of Germans, who were cast away on the Patago-
dian coast about twelve months previously to the occurrence
above alluded to, were treated with extreme kindness by the
natives.

'l)lppulg iiltelitgentr.

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TUESDAY, MAY 3.—Wind N.W., changeable

ARRIVED.—David and Robert, from Bilboa—Telemaco, from
Palermo—lndependence, Holdridge, from New York ; sailed lath
April—Vascongado, , from Tarragona—Philomene, Chris-
tenes, from Antwerp—Jane E. Hudson, Kelly, and Rumbold,
Green, from Limerick—Elizabeth, Hewitt, from Tralee—and Expe-
dition, from London.
SAlLED.—Woodstock, Nicholson, for St. Thomas—William Ro-
berts, Morris, Havana—Russell, Winter, for Rotterdam and Cron-
stadt—Belle, Leader, for Marseilles.

Mediterranean, hence for Africa, was spoken 31st March, in lat
43, long 13
Water Witch, hence at Naples
James Duncan, Ritchie, hence at Leghorn
Portlandshire, Allen, and Magnet, Hocket, sailed from Marseilles
for this port 2d April
Speedy Packet, hence at Cadiz
British Queen, hence off Oporto, 26th April, f2r Genoa
Maypo, Huntress, hence for Lima, and Conqueror, were spoken
14th March, in lat 3 S, long 20 W
Valparaiso, Dixon, hence for Valparaiso, was spoken 7th Jan. on
the Equator
George, Hanley, hence at Mobile
Wolfville, Isaacs, hence at New Orleans
Caledonia Brander, Malony, hence at ditto
Diana, Eldridge, and Ward, Wessels, hence off ditto
John Cocks, Cross, hence at Corunna
Echo, Renters, hence at Copenhagen
Try, Howes, hence at Helvoet
Minerva, Buir, hence at Ostend