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humbug sort of trade which some' gentlemen so very much
applauded as free trade. There were many men in the House
of Commons who professed to be great advocates for free

—.ity were opposed to it when it interfered
with their own interests, and wanted all trade free except the
trade in gold and silver. Mr. Williams, of Coventry, a very
good man, a thorough good radical, was an advocate for free
trade, but, the moment they talked about letting the ribbons
in free of duty, up he jumped, and declared he could not
stand that, for it would destroy all the Coventry weavers ;
and he was quite right. So it was with other gentlemen
in the House of Commons: some wished to protect coal;
others this article, others that; so that, in point of fact,
the men who were foremost in calling for free trade were
generally its bitter practical opponents. The whole system
was unsound. It was utterly impossible to run a race with a
him half the distance. But then they were
- I " • • •

trade, but in re

to repeal the corn laws. .n his opinion, no laws to
raise the prices of food were justifiable, unless the same law
simultaneously raised wages in the same proportion. But
there they were, having been in operation so many years,
and there were certain effects which had been produced by
them ; and the question they had to ask themselves was
this—what effect would the repeal of the corn laws have upon

adi6ed

society at large? In his opinion it would be attended with
ruinous consequences if unaccompanied with other measures.
Of that he did not the least doubt in his mind ; and he did

then it had been said, why could he not
rote for a repeal of the corn laws, and say nothing about it?
He could not do that, because he would be acting a thoroughly
dishonest part. He knew that the corn laws repealed, with-
out an alteration in the monetary system, an instantaneous
be dui-,
)

destruction of all the farmers it; the kingdom would take
place, followed by a great discharge of labourers, a reduction
of the rental of England, and consequent loss to every interest
bound up with it. They might depend upon it that, if they
had but one week's experience of the effects of an uncondi-
tional repeal of the corn laws, the very men who were now
most anxious for him to vote for it would be the first to
blame him for having done so. They might benefit one-
third of the community, but they would ruin two-thirds. So
long as men viewed the question with tory spectacles, whig
spectacles, radical spectacles, and philosophical (which, by-
the-bye, were the worst of all spectacles for commercial pur-
poses) instead of natural spectacles, so long would they be
unable to arrive at any honest conclusion."

TELEGRAPHS IN ENGLAND
CONTINENT.

AND ON THE

(From a Correspondent of the

Morning Herald.)

It has long been a subject of great complaint among the
merchants in the City, Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, and
Hull, that in a great commercial country like Great Britain

there should not be a regular line of telegraphs at the differ-
ent out-ports, so that the arrival of vessels may be immedi-
ately communicated to the Board of Admiralty and at
Lloyd's. For some time past the Lords of the Admiralty
have had the arand uroiect in contemplation of establishing

semaphores from Portsmouth to Plymouth, Falmouth, and
the Land's End ; as it very often happens that ships cannot
make the British Channel, and are obliged to run up the
Bristol or the St. George's Channel for safety, and their ar-
rival off the coast is not known to the merchants until they
have put into port. A Government survey is now being
made, under the direction of experienced engineers, to carry
the line on to the, Land's End, and to fix the points most
eligible for the ereetiOn of telegraphs, a report of which will
be laid before 'Paillanatitit ivheu it rssembles'in February
nest. At present the defiefenty is felt daily by the Admiralty
Board, as there is bet'orie line, and that-only to Portsmouth.
Th-e stations are 'to bet's follows :--Ist, At the Board of Ad-
miralty, Whitehall; 2d, Chelsea Hospital; 3d, Putney;
4th; Kifigston-upotiThames; sth, Esher ; 6th, Cobham ;
ith. Guildford ; Bth, Godalming ; 9th, HaSlemere ; 10th, Mid-
hurst ; 11th, Beacon-hill; 12th, Compton-down ; 13th, Poris-
down-hill, and 14th, Portsmouth ; the whole ofwhich are under
command of lieutenants of the royal navy. Intelligence and
orders for the sailing of ships of war from Portsmouth can
be thus communicated by the Admiralty, and vice versa, in
three minutes and a half, from one end of the line to the
other, should the weather be clear. As soon as the signal
is Made it is instantly answered by the next one, and so on,
until it has gone the whole line, when another is made, till
• the whole communication is despatched from the chief office
to the officer in command, who communicates it to the ad-
miral on the station. The contemplated line to the Land's
End will puss through Truro, Falmouth, Plymouth, Gosport,
and Portsmouth; thereby embracing the whole of the English
Channel. A despatch, from one end to the other, is ex-
pected to be made in nine or ten minutes, the distance being
rather better than 290 miles. It is also in contemplation to
establish a line from Holyhead, Pembroke, Bristol, and Li-
verpool. The only line at present to Dover and the Downs
is by Watson's telegraph, at London-bridge, but not through
the Admiralty, who are indebted to this for their intelligence
of arrivals of ships of war in the Downs. A line to Hull
and Harwich is much wanted. On the Continent, tele-
graphs have been established for the last eighty years, but
particularly in France, to whom we are indented for the
invention. The French government have lines of com-
munication from every port and large town throughout the
kingdom. From Calais, Dunkerque, Boulgone, Dieppe,
Havre, Caen, Brest, Nantes, Rochefort, La Rochelle,
L'Orient, Bordeaux, Bayonne, in the north and west ; Per-
pignan, Marseilles, Toulon, Antibes, &c., in the Mediterra-
nean ; Montpelier, Aix, Grenoble, Avignon, Lyons, Dijon,
on to Paris, Metz, and all the fortified towns on the borders
of Germany, Lille, Valenciennes, Douai, Cambrai, and the
frontiers of Belgium, so that in case of e'rneutes, or the ad-
vance of any foreign power, the arrival of vessels, &c., the
circumstance is immediately communicated to the Admiralty
at Paris, which is daily made acquainted with whitever is
stirring from one end of the country to the other. In Al-
geira, the French have also established a regular line of tele-
graphs from Algiers to Bona, all along the coast to Constan-
tine, and through the interior, in case of a sudden attack by
the Arabs under Abd-el-Kader. in spain there is a line of
telegraphs from Cadiz, I'uerta Santa Maria, Seville, to Ma-
drid; from Algeciras, opposite Gibraltar, Malaga, Cartha-
gena, Barcelona, in the Mediterranean, Coruitna, Vigo,
Bilboa, &c., in the north-west Biscaya, along the frontless
of France to Catalonia, and the principal towns to the capi-
tal; the same in Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Prussia,
Russia, and Austria, there are lines front one end to the
other, from Trieste and Venice, in the Adriatic, to 'Vienna
and the Baltic. England is the only country where tele-
graphs are scarcely used. Should the plan of the Board of
Admiralty be carried into effect, it will prove highly bene
ficial to the merchants for early intelligence, and to the ship-
ping for assistance.

PROMPT ASSISTANCE.—The brig Anne, of Lynn, Long,
master, from Liverpool, bound to London, ran on the Red
aSnandon.Fricayni.orm Bngy e
laassts,ll3sltoacing strong from the S.S.W.
d thick with rain. tendered
by
the Vigilant
cutter and hovelling tugger Queen, of Whitstable, she was
got off at about eight o clock in the evening, being at the
height of the gale at the time, but not until, by her heavy
striking on the sand, she had nearly six feet water in the
hold, and only by continued exertion at the pumps during
the night the leak was kept from gaining. On the following
morning (Saturday) the brig was run on the soft Ooze. Bank,.
at Whitstable. By the strength of assistance afforded in
this case, a vessel, with a valuable cargo. consisting of lead,
litbarge, hides, and staves, was rescued from wreck on
sand in a gale of wind.

—With sincere DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF CASHEL.
antiouncin the
re-
gret we this evening fulfil the painful duty
,tswithaviewwlttoo
d of
i, Lord Bishopg of
death of the Right Honourable Dr. Sa" e'f-1* lordship, Cashel, Emly, Waterford, and L
has been for sonic time
in declining health,
at Brighton, from
recovery, resided for the last
itieFitzwilliain-square, in this
lie died last night, in the
weihtyen, coenh,
se
arteuturdranyedratoorini i!nlfrihfee
prelate was elevated to
64th year of his age. The deceased
late Whig ministry, and although
political views and connection, he
is m o rhee.al
th
tdbiffeeprip4isgcofrpoaml bench,bhyisthe
"8
il-
h esteemed and respected for his high
was nevertheless re
acquirements" as an eminently learned scholar,
standing and . ,
of heart and mild • •
his kindliness unassuming
as well as for
rtie
The extensive church patronage ►se enjoyed
deportment. .
of the working of the dioceses P
• the welfare , clergy over
was uniformly exercised in maintaining the interests anci pro-
moting
1 he presided. Dr. Sandes was for many years a senior
fellow and bursar in. the University. In 1836 he was conse-
crated e of killaloe from whence he was translated to
i • i 1839.—Dublin'Slatesman of Tuesday.
Castle ii
THE INCOME TAX.—The assessment under the new in-
come tax is now coming into operation, and notices have
crated Lisboa
been sent round to the shopkeepers and others in the city,
whose income is above the fatal £l5O per annum, for which
they have to pay the ominous 7d. in the pound. The follow-
ing notice has been issued by the commissioners :—" Pro-
perty and Income Tax—District of the City of London—
Ward and Vestry of —. Notice is hereby given, that if
any person shall think himself aggrieved by the assessment
for the said ward of —, in respect of the profits arising
from professions, trades, and offices, and of the other profits
chargeable under schedule D of the property and income tax,
for the year ending the 6th April, 1843, he may, upon giving
due notice in writing. to -Mr. —, the surveyor of taxes, re-
siding at ---, of his intention, appeal to the commissioners
for general purposes, acting in and for the said district, at
their meeting, which will be held for the purpose of hearing
and determining such assessment, on Wednesday, the 23d
day of November instant, at the Property and Income Tax.
offices, 36,.Bassinghall-street, at te❑ o'clock in the forenoon
precisely. Dated this 12th day of November, 1842. Signed.
by the clerk of- the commissioners."

43oetrp.

THE EPIPHANY.

" ST. MATTHEW H., 10.
" When they saw the star they rejoiced with gPeat
gladness."

" We lay in gross darkness, we knew not the light,
Our deeds were so evil they shamed e'en the night;
In blood and in cruelty swift were our feet,
To vengeance we ran as the wild courser fleet.

" To demons we offered the service of GOD,
The land was defiled, and polluted the sod ;
The wailing of infants affrighted the air,
Groan answered to groan—the wild shriek told despair.

" In the blood of a brother our bands we imbrued,
No right was respected, each passion was rude ;
Unchaste and unholy no fetter could bind,
Thy tyrant of woman—the scourge of our kind.
" The father that cherished us sank from our blow,
The mother that bare us was left to our woe ;
When in age and in weakness they needed most care,
And Nature's own voice should have aided their prayer.
" All bating and hateful we lived but for self,
Onr pride was our idol, our god was our pelf;
And in crimes that to mention would clothe us with shame,
In our baseness we glorying gave them to fame.

" Presuming on science, in error we strayed,
And deeper the darkness that clouded we made.
Thus blinded by folly, self-righteous and wise,
We turned knowledge to sin, and our glory to lies.

" To the stock or the stone guilty homage we paid,
Found gods in the fountain, the grove, or the glade ;
Nor sunk yet enough into folly and sin,
We worshipped the errors that hell could but win.
" To GOD that we know he beheld us afar,
And lo ! on oar midnight arose a bright star;
To lead us to home, to our FATHER, and peace,
And cause all our wanderings, our sorrows to cease.
Our light is arisen, the SAVIOUR of all—
Ye islands, ye nations attend to His call.
No longer the prodigal destined to roam,—
The Gentle may enter his long banished home.
" See, low at the feet of that holy babe cast,
The mighty, the learned, have found him at last ;
Desire of all nations, their priest and their king,
Him promised of old who salvation should bring.
" His meanness and poverty staggered them not,
The finger of Heaven had pointed the spot,
The joy that they feel is the joy of a world
Beholding the banner of mercy unfurled.

" Break forth into singing, ye far distant isles,
Hell's fetters are broken. exposed are its wiles ;
Joint heirs now with CHRIST, and the children of light,
Our GOD has restored us, and banished our night.

" Bring offerings of righteousness, mercy. and truth,
The ripe fruits of age and the promise of youth;
And warm be the prayer that the spirit of love
On Judah may dawn and her darkness remove.

" That one fold and one Shepherd, one kingdom of peace,
May embrace every nation—each captain release ;
Clothe earth once again, as in Eden she bloomed,
And bloomed out for ever what justice had doomed.

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Belle Assemblee. Edited by Mrs. Cornwall Baron Wil

son. Rogerson, Norfolk-street, Strand.

Mrs. Wilson stands in a good position as a periodical
writer and poetess. The Belle, so especially devoted to Lea
Belles, is fittingly edited by one of their own sex. Its con-
tents are varied, and generally of that cast that must'prove
most interesting to the class of readers for whom its pages
are intended. The plate this month is entitled Edderline,
representing a fair girl in a contemplative attitude. Profes-
sor Wilson contributes some sweetly descriptive lines.
Amongst the contents we find—" A Tale of the Inquisition,"
" Sweetly chimes the Vesper Bell," " Ballad Stanzas,"
" Where are They," "The Coquette," " Romance of His-
tory—Asia Minor," " Tributary Stanzas to the Infant
Sappho," " Life," " A Poet's Musings," " Bessie Gor-
don," " Lines on a Cromlech, called Hell Stone,' near
Portesham, Dorset," " Love," " Venetian Ballad," " The
Swan," " The Outward Bound," " The Demon of the
Castle," " Notes in the North, by a Northern," " The Old
Maid in Love," " Donna Marina," " To the Union Jack,"
" A Tale of the Second Crusade," " Song of the Sea-
Nymphs," " Greece," " Fitz Powys and the Nun ; or,
Diplomacy in High Life," " Flora Lester ; or, Scenes in
the Life of a Belle," " Ernestine," &c.

The Sportsman. Rogerson, London.

The Sportsman contains many amusing articles. There is•
a good paper on the " Prospects of the Hunting Season."
The Rough Rider, Touch.stone, Mango, Major Calder
Campbell Halifax, Rosslyn Cawdor, each contribute their
usual quantum. " The Tariff Calendar" appears well ar-
ranged. The plates are excellent : one represents Blue
Bonnet, the winner of the Great St. Leger, at Doncaster;
the other is called " The Poacher's Guard," a dog watching
two dead hares : the anxious expression of the dog waiting
his master's approach is skilfully conveyed.

The Farmers' Magazine. Rogerson, Norfolk-street, London.
This number this month is enriched by containing a fine
engraved portrait of Earl Spencer—that great encourager of
agriculture. The other illustration represents a Cape sheep.
Amongst the literary matter we find Reports of several
Farmers' Clubs—On the formation of Peat Moss—On Pasture
Lands and Manure—Agricultural Improvements—On Animal
Manures—The Cape Sheep—The Butter Trade—Farming
now, and Farming eighty years ago—lmportant Improvement
in the Dynamometer —Whitefield Example Farm —On
Turnip Cultivation—On Sowing Peas—Llandovery Agricul-
tural Society—The Corn Laws and the Tariff—On the state
the Soil should be in when Seed is deposited in it—Plain and
Practical Suggestions to the small Farmer, for Improving
and Increasing his Manure, on chemical principles, and at
Little expense—Lecture on the Application of Science to
Agriculture—On Feeding Horses and Cattle—Experiments
on the produce of an acre of Wheat and the weight of Straw,
leaving Stubble two inches, eight inches, and twelve inches
high ; and on the best and tail Wheat used for seed—Dis-
cussion on Manures—Seed Wheat—On Draining and Sub-
soiling—Horse-shoeing—Restrictive Clauses in Leases—The
late Discussion at Harleston—Transplantation of Turf—
Agricultural Queries, Intelligence, Fairs, and Report—
Calendar of Horticulture for November—Review of the
Corn Trade during the month of October.

Remarks on our present Position with Afghanistan and
China. By Robert Wise, Esq. Whittaker and Co.,

London.

In our advertising columns this interesting and important
work is announced. We gave, at the time of its publication,
a lengthened notice of its contents, which precludes the ne-
cessity of any further extracts. We may, however, remind
our readers that the profits of the work will be given to the
fund now raising for the families of the brave fellows who
fell at Cabot ; and, consequently, the purchaser of the " Re-
marks" will not only possess himself of much valuable in-
formation, but will also contribute to diminish the sufferings
of the widows and orphans. We will, however, transcribe
arid give publicity to the following observations, which we
have received in a letter addressed to us by the intelligent
author :

" Our leaders and our forces in China and Affghanistan
were, by last accounts overland, assuming their respective
proper positions for the purpose of re-establishing, in its
original and ancient glory, the insulted flag of England ; for
opening up a full and free commercial intercourse with those
nations, through the 'famed of yore' Indus river, in Cen-
tral Asia, and the mighty river Yangtse, in Central China ;
and for the further purpose of hereafter holding such a con-
trol over China, and over the countries bordering on both
sides of the Indus, as our government may deem fit for the
ultimate security of Britain and India.
" Two of the opulent cities at the mouth of the Yangtse
river, China, mentioned at page 15 in my Remarks,' are,
we know, captured—viz., Chapo, from whence the Japan
trade is carried on, and Shanghai, the Liverpool of China ;
and it is reported in Canton by the • Chinamen (who can
receive accounts overland from the Yangtse river and Nan-
kin sooner than the English at Hong Kong can by sea) that
Loo-choo, lie q-choo, and the mouths of the Imperial Ca-
nal (that open into Yangtse) are also in our possession, and
held by our fleet ; as also Nankin—places also mentioned in
page 15 of my ' Remarks.'

AN AMERICAN BACKWOODSMAN.—This was a thin-faced,
spare-figured man of middle age and stature, dressed in a
dusty drabbish-coloured suit, such as I never saw before.
He cleft a path among the people on deck (we were nearly all
on deck,) and, without addressing anybody whomsoever, so-
liloquised as follows :—" This may suit you, this may, but it
don't suit me. This may be all very well with Down Easters
and men of Boston raising, but it wont suit my figure no how ;
and no two ways about that ; and so I tell you. Now ! I'm
from the brown forests of the Mississippi, /am ; and when
the sun shines on me it does shine—a little. It don't glim-
mer where /live, the sun don't. No. I'm a brown forester,
I am. I an't a Johnny Cake. There are no smooth skins
where .I live.- We're rough men there. Rather. If Down
Easters and men of Boston raising like this, I'm
glad of it ;
but I'm none of that raising nor of that breed. No. This
company wants a little fixing, it does. I'm the wrong sort
I am. They won't like the
of
man
for
'em,
little
tt!rnei., upon
piling of it up, too mountainous, this Is," At
This is
himslf ab-
the end of every one of,thesei shortase.ntcehneceeksi
his heel, and walked tne other w
sentence, and
raptly, when he had finished another short
turning back again. It isimpossible for me to say what ter_
rific me?'sing i
was hidden n the words of this brown forester ;
but I know that the other passengers looked on in a sort of
admiring horror, and that presently the boat was put back
to the wharf, and as many of the Pioneers
t_ as
When could
wheesctoaarxteeda
or bullied into going away, were got rid o
again, some of the boldest spirits on boardminaoduerbion.lodstpoecsta4
to the obvious occasion of this improvement"
Much obliged to you, sir;" whereunto the brown forester
(waving his hand, and still walking up and down
as before)
replied, " No, you an't. You're none y
may act for yourselves, you may. I hare pinted othuetytlpielea
way.se;
Down Easters and Johnny Cakes can follow if
I an't a Johnny Cake. lan't. lam from the brown forests
.of the Mississippi, lam ;" and go on, as before. He was
amanimously voted one of the tables for his bed at night-
-there is a great contest for the tables—in consideration of his
public services; and he had the warmest corner by the stove
throughout the rest of the journey. But I never could find
.out, that he did any thing except sit there; nor did I hear
him speak again until, in the midst of the bustle and turmoil
-of getting the luggage ashore in the dark at Pittsburg, I stum-
bled over him as he sat smoking a cigar on the cabin steps,
and heard him muttering to himself, with a short laugh of
defiance, "1 an't a Johnny Cake, I an't. I'm from the
brown forests of the Mississippi, Lam." lam inclined to
argue from this, that .tie had never left off saying so; but I
could not make affidaskit,of that part of the story, if required
to do so by my ,Vtleeri ,eo44ti7..,—Acken $ American
Notes.
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VA PIETIES.

CotiuNDUNl.—•ln what condition should persons be who
travel on the railway ? Wide awake ! because the carriages
run over the sleepers.

Dr. Johnson, when in the fulness of years and knowledge,
said, " I never take up a newspaper without finding some-
thing I should have deemed it a loss not to have seen ; never
without deriving from it instruction and amusement."

MARRIAGE : A HINT TO BACHELORS.—The Poor-Law
Commissioners observe, in the Sanitary Report, that " mar-
riage improves rather than diminishes the probability of life."
—[Mr. Chadwick is undoubtedly a bachelor.]
" I say, Jem," said a ploughboy the other day to his com-
panion, " I know of a new fashion Mackintosh to keep out
the wet." " What's that ?" " N;by, if you eat a red her-
ring for breakfast you'll be dry all day."

A CROWDED HOUSE.—I never played to a full house in
Dublin, says Mathews, but once, in Crow-street, and then
they knocked down the door-keepers and got in for nothing.
—Bunn's " Stage."
A RAKE.—A ca➢tain of a vessel loading coals went into
a counting-house, and requested the loan of a rake. The
merchant, looking towards his clerks, said, " I have a num-
ber of them here ; but none of them would wish to be hauled
over the coals."

STING OF THE BEE.—It may not be generally known that
whitening proves an effectual remedy against the sting of a
bee or wasp. The whitening is to be moistened with cold
water and immediately applied. It may be washed off in a
few minutes, when neither pain nor swelling will ensue.
A RECOGNITION !—Somc time ago two old women from
the country met in the streets of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Thinking that they knew each other, yet not being perfectly
certain, one of them at last broke silence and exclaimed,
" Oh, hinny, ye 'thowt it was me, and aw thowt it was ye,
and it's neither on us.

Montpelier is situated on a hill, at the foot of which runs
the little river Lez. Some pretend that this particular spot
was fixed in honour of two females, whose sanctity induced
them to seclude themselves from the world in a kind of her-
mitage, and that the mountain on which the city was thence
called Mons Puellarum, the hill of the maidens.

A wealthy butcher was playing the game of ecarte a few
evenings since at the mansion of a city alderman, when a
lady, who was betting on the game, leant over the back of
his chair, and innocently asked a friend opposite, " How are
stakes now ?" Mr. --, wholly absorbed in the game,
quickly returned with the reply, " Very cheap ; rump stakes
are now, madame, but a shilling a pound."

THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.—" You be going home,
ba'ant'ee, zur," said Brooks, the other day, to a young per-
son who was about to visit Wales. " Yes, Brooke," was
the reply. " You do go by staim, on the water, don't
ee ?" " Yes." " Well, now, I never seed a staimer, but
do they swem like other sheps?" - " Swim ! no ; they go
along upon wheels." "On wheels, aye ? So I've heard ?
mortal big wheels they must have to touch the bottom of the
sea, zur. I should very much like to see a staimer.—Somer-
set Gazette.
- -

EPITAPH, AND REPLY TO IT.—ln the Vicarage of Croft,
Wakefield, there is a tomb-stone with the following epitaph
inscribed upon it :
" Remember me as you pass by :
As you are now so once was 1;
As I am now so must you be,
Therfore prepare and follow me."
Uniter which the following has been written with chalk :
" To follow you I'm not content,
Unless I knew which way you went."

A PERUVIAN EDITOR.—The editor of the Washinqtonian
temperance paper, published at Canton Ohio, gives the fol-
lowing description of Mr. Pike, a former partner of his, but
now editor of the Circleville Watchman:—" Mr. Pike and
I published a newspaper, in 1837, among the Miami Indians,
in the state of Indiana. It was a great partnership that. We
had two advance paying subscribers, one who liquidated his
subscriptions with white beans, and the other with saw logs.
Godfrey, the chief, took five papers, and could not read a
word. Our paper was called the ' Peru Forester,' and being
printed in the woods that title was appropriate. The town
of Peru had many magnificent names for its streets, such as
Pearl, Broadway, &c., which streets exhibited the animating
and bustling spectacle of stumps, trees, ar d weeds, as high
as a man's head. The stirring events which transpired in
this interesting city imperiously demanded a couple of chro-
niclers, and Pike and I were at hand to discharge that im-
portant function. Pike wrote poetry, and I dipped consi-
derably into state politics, and discussed in a learned man-
ner every question of interest to the few settlers and Indians.
Pike was a queer fish. He had more irons in the fire than
any man I ever knew. Besides being editor and printer, he
kept the Broadway Hotel, was postmaster, justide of the
peace, land agent, pettifogger, canal contractor, merchant,
overseer of the poor, painter, had been a schoolmaster and a
day labourer, was twice a widower, was brought up a Qua-
ker, and the last time I saw him he was a baptist preacher,
had married a third wife, was an auctioneer, and what more
I know not ! "

Music.—Music must have been the gift of God. Man
did not communicate to the extended wire its vibrations ;
man did not give to the surrounding air its undulatory mo-
tion; man did not organize the ear to such exact responsive-
ness, or the brain to such acute sensibility of what the ear
conveys. Man could not have made music, had God not
intended it. The power was his, and the gift was his ; man
has possession, and thinks it his own. It administers to his
pleasures, it buys him applause of men, it feeds his unhal-
lowed passions, drives away thought, and iielps to make him
happy, in forgetfulness of what he is, and is to be. For these
purposes, the worldly parent, if she fs U talent in a child,
takes possession of it, expends upon it no small portion of
another talent committed to bet: keeping, and occupies with
it a fourth, or a sixth, or an eighth part of her children's
years of youth,—perhaps the only years that ever will be
theirs,—and her heart never misgives her, that she has per-
verted the gift, or defrauded the Giver of this talent. The
Christian mother follows her example, though not with the
same motive. The talent is now divested of all unhallowed
purposes and dangerous effects. It is acquired without va-
nity, and used without ostentation. Instead of leading the
young performer into company, to exhibit herself for admira-
tion, it now contributes to make the excitement of mixed
society unnecessary, uy supplying her with innocent amuse-
ment at home. Never let the listener be supposed to say a
word against the use that is made, in such families, of this
delightful talent—the evening recreation of a well-spent day,
the home festival of domestic cheerfulness and affection, or
the solace, perhaps, of some anxious, lonely hour. I be-
lieve, that music stands thus in many families, entirely
divested of every injurious application, and administering to'
one part of the Creator's purpose—the happiness of man.
But I do question if it is made anywhere„ so much as it
might he, subservient to the other—the service and honour
of the Giver ; or even to the first, in the best and highest
sense of the word, happiness.—The Listener; by Caroline
Fry.

LIONS IN AFILICA.—Our journey lay over a wild and
dreary country, inhabited by Balalas only, and but a sprink-
ling of these. On the night of the third day's journey, having
halted at a pool (Khokhole,) we listened on the lonely plain
for the sound of an inhabitant ; but all was silent. We could
discover no lights, and, amid the darkness, were unable to
trace foot-marks to the pool. We let loose our wearied oxen
to drink and graze ' • but, as we were ignorant of the character
of the company with which we might have to pass the night,
we took a firebrand, and examined the edges of the pool, to
see, from the imprints, what animals were in the habit of
drinking there; and with terror discovered many spoors of
lions. We immediately collected the oxen, and brought
them to the waggon, to which we fastened them with the
strongest thongs we had ; having discovered, in their appear-
ance, something rather wild, indicating that, either from
scent or sight, they knew that danger was near. The two
Barolongs had brought a young cow with them ; and though
I recommended their making ber fast also, they very hu-
mourously replied, that she was too wise to leave the waggon
and oxen, even though a lion should be scented. We took
a little supper, which was followed by our evening hymn and
prayer. I had retired only a few minutes to my waggon to
prepare for the night, when the whole of the oxen started to
their feet. A lion had seized the cow, only a few steps from
their tails, and dragged it to the distance of thirty or forty
yards, where we distinctly heard it tearing the animal, and
breaking the bones, while its bellowings were most pitiful.
When these were over, I seized my gun; but, as it was too
dark to see any object at half the distance, I aimed at the
spot whete the devouring jaws of the lion were heard. I fired
again and again, to which he replied with tremendous roars,
at the same making a rush towards the waggon, so as exceed-
ingly to terrify the oxen. The two Barolongs engaged to
take firebrands, advance a few yards, and throw them at him,
so as to afford me a degree of light that I might take aim,
the place being bushy. They had scarcely discharged them
from their hands, when the flame went out, and the enraged
animal rushed towards them with such swiftness that I had
barely time to turn the gun. and fire between the men and
the lion ; and providentially the ball struck the ground im-
mediately under his head, as we found, by examination, the
following morning. From this surprise be returned, grow-
ling dreadfully. The men darted through some thorn bushes
with countenances indicative of the utmost terror. It was
now the opinion of all, that we had better let him alone if be
did not molest us. Having but a scanty supply of wood to
keep up a fire, one man crept among the bushes on one side
of the pool; while I proceeded, for the same purpose, on the
other side. I had not gone far when looking upward to the
edge of the small basin, I discerned, between me and the sky,
four animals, whose attention appeared directed to me by
the noise I made in breaking a dry stick. On closer inspec-
tion, I found that the large, round, hairy headed visitors
wete lions; and retreated, on my hands and feet, towards
the other side of the pool, when, coming to my waggon driver,
to inform him of our danger, I found him looking, with no
little alarm, in an opposite direction, and with good reason,
as no fewer than two lions, with a cub, were eyeing us both,
apparently as uncertain about us as we were distrustful of
them. They appeared, as they always do in the dark, twice
the usual size. We thankfully decamped to the waggon, and
sat down to keep alive our scanty fire, while we listened to
the lion tearing and devotiring his prey. When any of the
other hungry lions dared to approach, he would pursue them
for some paces with a horrible howl, which made our poor
oxen tremble, and produced any thing but agreeable sensa-
tions in ourselves. We had reason for alarm, lest any of
the six lions we saw, fearless of our small fire, might rush in
among us. The two Barolongs were grudging the lion his
fat meal, and would now and then break the silence with a
deep sigh, and expressions of regret that such a vagabond
lion should have such a feast on their cow, which they anti-
cipated would have afforded them many a draught of luscious
milk. Before the day dawned, having deposited nearly the
whole of the carcase in his stomach, he collected the head,
back-bone, parts of the legs, the paunch, which he emptied
of its contents, and the two clubs which had been thrown at
him, and walked off, leaving nothing but some fragments of
bones and one of my balls, which had hit die carcase instead
of himself. When it was light we examined the spot, and
found, from the foot marks, that the lion was a large one,
and had devoured the cow himself. I had some difficulty in
believing this, hut was fully convinced by the Barolongs point-
ing out to me that the footmarks of the other lions had not
come within thirty yards of the spot; two jacizalls only had
approached to lick up any little leavings. The men pursued
the spoor to find the fragments, where the lion had deposited
them, while he retired to a thicket to sleep during the day.
I had often heard how much a large hungry lion could eat ;
but nothing less than a deissonatration would have convinced
me that it was possible for him to have eaten all the flesh of
a good heifer, and many of the bones ; for scarcely a rib was
left, and even some of the marrow-bones were broken as it
with a hammer. Much has been written about African
lioonasb d,obutintt.he half has not been told. The following trait in
their character may not be intrusive, or partaking of the
tmarvellous, with which the tales of some travellers are said
togetheri
who have been experienced Nimrods too. The old lion when
n
ahnaYppweinthtoethischuilpndo_ren as the natives call them,
though they are nearly
come
as big as' himself ; or when numbers
creeps to the object, game, the oldest or ablest
, Wrlilicill,e the others crouch on the grass :
if he be successful
he
generally is, he retires from his
victim, and lies down to
in
the
meantime,
and rest, for perhaps a
is
aqoudarltieer
down
wa
an hour
a respectful ur ; the others draw around,tance. When the chief has
got his rest, he commences at the abdomen and breast; and,
after making havoc with the tit-bits of the carcase,
he will
take a second rest, none of the others Presuming to
move.
Having made a second gorge, he retires, the others watching
his motions, rush on to the remainder, and it is soon de-
voured. At other times, if a young lion seizes the prey, and
an old one happens to come up, the younger retires till the
elder has dined. This was what Africaner called better
manners than those of the Namaquas (who abandon their
aged parents.)— Tait's Magazine; Art. Mo.fat's Missionary
Labours in Africa.

It is impossible for an additional blade of corn to spring
from the earth, for a new product to be created by industry,
or a new fact to be discovered by philosophy, without a con-
sequent benefit resulting through the whole chain of civilised
connexion.—Sir C'. Morgan.

MATRIMONIAL STATISTICS.—The following statistics of
he ages of the 121,525 women married in Paris in the course
of the last 18 years is given by one of the journals as having
been verified by the registers of the Etat Civil. Between 12
and 15 years old there were 811; at 16 years, 1,920; at 17
years, 3,959 ; at 18 years, 5,816 ; at 19 years, 6,957 ; at 20
years, 7,610 ; at 21 years, 8,047 ; at 22 or 23, between 7,000
and 8,000 ; at 24 or 25, upwards of 6,000 ; but at 26, 27, and
28, they scarcely exceeded 5,000. This decreasing progression
goes on, so that up to 31 years there were only 3,651 ; thence
to 41 years, 1,798; at 42 years, 1,015 ; at 48 years, 586; at
56 years, 226; at 60 years, 126; and during the 18 years
there were 578 marriages of women aged 61 years and up-
wards. Another account shows that out of 1,000,000 mar-
ried in Paris, 521,653, being more than one-half, were mar-
ried before the commencement of their 26th year.—Galig-
nani's Messenger.

THE CORK TREE.—This useful production is known in
Spain by the name of " Alcornoque.” Though of a very
different appearance to the oak, it furnishes a wood of the
same grain, and produces acorns not so bitter as ours, and
which, as an article of food, the poorer classes do not always
abandon to the hogs. It grows to the height of our apple
tree, and spreads its branches much in the same manner, but
the trunk is of much greater dimensions, and the foliage of a
much darker hue. Its trunk and branches are covered with
a thick ragged bark, which would seem to indicate disease;
the trunk alone, however, furnishes a bark of sufficient
thickness to be of use in the arts. It is first stripped away
in the month of July, when the tree is fifteen months old,
but then it is of no use but to burn, and is only removed for
the sake of producing a stouter growth. In the course of six
or eight years the inner bark has grown into a cork of mar-
ketable quality, and continues to yield at similar intervals for
more than a century.
AN EASTERN TYRANT.—Having discovered an intrigue
between a baker's daughter and a Hindoo, he ordered both
parties to be baked in the oven, although in his own person
he held out the worst possible example to his subjects. It
is, however, to be doubted if he is altogether in his senses.
His acts of tyranny are so audacious and so numerous, that
I have never ceased to congratulate myself at having passed
so successfully through his kingdom. In espionage he even
appears to surpass the Chinese. From these men I received
an account of the horrid dungeons in Bokhara, known by
the title of " Kuna-Khanu„' Kuna being the name of the
creatures which attach themselves to dogs and sheep
(Anglice, ticks,) and which here thrive on the unhappy
human beings who are cast in among them. The dungeons
also abound in scorpions, fleas, and all kinds of vermin ; and
if human subjects happen to be deficient, goats, or the en-
trails of animals are thrown in to feed them : so that the
smell alone is in the highest degree noxious. One day suf-
fices to kill any criminal who is cast into these horrid dens ;
and a confinement of a few hours leaves marks which are
never effaced in after life. The situation of the dungeon is
below the ark or citadel in which the king resides.—Burnes'
Cabul.

THE PENALTIES (Jr FAME.—After dinner we went down
to the railroad again, • and took our seats in the cars for
Washington. Being rather early, those men and boys who
happened to have nothing particular to do, and were curious
in foreigners, came (according to custom) round the carriage
in which I sat, let down all the windows, thrust in their heads
and shoulders, hooked themselves on conveniently by their
elbows, and fell to comparing notes on the sublect of my
personal appearance, with as much indifference as if I were
a stuffed figure. I never gained so much incompromising
information with reference to my own nose and eyes, the
various impressions wrought by my mouth and chin on dif-
ferent minds, and how my head looks when it is viewed from
behind, as on these occasions. Some gentlemen were only
satisfied by exercising their sense of touch ; and the boys
(who are surprisingly precocious in America) were seldom
satisfied even by that, but would return to the charge over
and over again. Many a budding president has walked into
my room with his cap on his head and his hands in his pockets,
and stared at me for two whole hours ; occasionally refreshing
himself with a tweak at his nose, or a draught from the water-
jug ; or by walking to the windows and inviting other boys
in the street below to come up and do likewise ; crying " Here
he la!" " Come on !" " Bring all your brothers !" with
other hospitable entreaties of that nature.—Dicken's Ameri-
can Notes.

The late Theodore Hook was often, as everybody knows,
much " put to it" for the ways and means," and was in the
general habit of dining out, not unfrequently indeed inviting
himself to take " pot luck" with some friend or other, who
he knew would like his society; but it was necessary some-
times to receive company " at home," when he usually put
in requisition all the plate he could borrow. On one such occa-
sion, when his supplies were from various quarters, he obser-
ved a young baronet inspecting, somewhat closely, the crest
on one of the silver forks, underneath which Hook's quick
eye instantly caught the initials " A.S." (most likely the
produce of some pawnbroker's warehouse) on which he coolly
said " Oh, Sir Charles, that was one of my wife's family
forks before we were married, ' Agnes Smith."' The other
fashionable guests assembled, not knowing anything about
Hook's domestic matters, were conjecturing whether his wife
was a Lincolnshire Smyth, on an Essex Smyth, or a York-
shire Smyth, when a noble Lord suddenly exclaimed, " by
the way, Hook, I have a spoon with T. B.' on it." The
wit, nothing daunted, nor at all abashed' replied, " why the
fact is, my Lord. those were my initials before we were mar-
ried, 'Theodore Brown ;' but having secured such an excel-
lent wife as Miss Agnes Smith, with such a poor bait as I
had to offer in the way of property, I immediately changed it
to Hook, but we prefer keeping all the old family plate in-
tact."

REMUNERATION FOR MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTORS.—Six-
teen or seventeen years ago magazine writing was much
more profitable than it has been for some time past. The
proprietors of the leading periodicals rarely at that time paid
a contributor, possessing more than the average tact and
talent, less than twelve guineas per sheet. The average tate
of remuneration for contributors of the first class was six-
teen guineas per sheet ; while those who possessed an aristo-
cratic title, in addition to their talents, and who consented to
let their names be attached to their contributions, were paid
as high as twenty guineas per sheet, No: was the high rate
of remuneration given for contributions to popular periodicals
sixteen or seventeen years ago, the only inducement which
literary men had to turn their attention to that kind of wri-
ting ; there was then a great probability, provided the writer
possessed versatility and talent, of getting one's name put on
the list of stated contributors. It is now far otherwise in
both respects. Three and four gunieas a sheet only are given
for articles to one or two of our magazines which rank high.
Five guineas in the instances to which l allude are the maxi-
mum amount of remuneration. One or two other periodicals
give ten guineas, where they gave twenty. As regards the
stated, or even frequent insertion of one's articles, that is
now out of the question, unless where private influences are
brought to bear. The secret of all this is explained by the
fact, that sixteen or seventeen years ago there were but few
competitors in the magazine field; now it is overrun with
persons ambitions of distinguishing themselves in that depart-
ment of literature.—Joseph Jenkins.
The influence of kings passes not from the earth with their
death. Though they are nothing, for good or ill, their skulls
—so to speak—remain. What a great lesson does Napoleon
offer to those Frenchmen who every morning wash them-
selves ! Understand me—The French are, above all nations
of the earth, a people of practical wisdom—of practical mo-
rality. They make the glory of their great men a household
thing. Napoleon is in his death-bed, his eagles flee upon
their golden wings to darkness—the trumpet wails in his ear
—the last flutter of his heart rises with the muttering drum
—and "tete d'armee" is his death-sob. Napoleon is dead.
A few minutes—the plaster is poured above the face of
imperial clay, and posterity is insured the vera effigies of
that thunderbolt of a man just as the bolt was spent ! Now
that face in its dreadful calmness, is multiplied in silver—in
bronze—in marble ! in richest metal and in purest stone.
And now, to teach a daily lesson to the common mind, that
awful countenance, with the weight of death upon it, is sold
modelled in—soap ! Nay have we not moral reflections
brought to the very fingers' ends of the people ! As the
mechanic cleanses his palms, and feels his Emperor's nose
wasting away in his fingers, he thinks of Marengo and
Austerlitz! With imperial face the pickpopket makes his
hands clean from last night's work, thinking the while of
the rifled halls and galleries of Italy ; the butcher, new from
his morning's killing, washes his hands with the countenance
of the Emperor, the while he muses on Waterloo, and
whistles the " Downfall of Paris." And the philosopher
peeps into the tub and sees the type and memory of the
warrior's deeds in bubbles floating upon dirty water.—
Panch's Letters to his Son.
TieE TEETOTALLERS.—" What I object to is their violence
that they will not allow people to be sobered their own way,
so that if they will not follow, without deviation, their rules
and regulations, they are denounced as traitors to the cause
of temperance ; nay, I have beard the 'whole body of the
British and Foreign Temperance Society denounced as worse
than drunkards. It is really a sort of paradox, for lam
sure that you, my Lord, and every person in this room, has
the greatest possible dislike to intemperance in any shape ;
and it is, therefore, hard to be denounced„ and I only regret
that we are not in Exeter-hall with teetotallers around us ;
I should then think myself justified in using such arguments
as I thought fit against their extensive system. They are tem-
perate, certainly, but it is a physical temperance ; temperance
does not consist in mere abstinence from wine or from spirits,
but in abstinence also from anything thateconduces to unhinge
the human mind, and to unfit it for the society in which it
moves. This is too much to be seen in teetotalists ; they are
characterised by a sort of moral intoxication, if we may so
call it ; when once their passions are excited they know no
bounds, they irritate, oppose, and denounce, which is all fo•
reign to the precepts and principles of the gospel. Again
there are certain fallacies in their arguments which ought to
be exposed. They object to anything containing alcohol
Then why don't theyobject to sugar? Their common-sense
is at fault as well as their chyrnistry. In order to explain
the mention of wine in Scriptures, they try to make out that
it is unfermented wine, instead of pereeiving the great prin-
ciple of Scripture is, (as might be illustrated by passages in-
numerable,) that it is the abuse, not the use of a thing in
which sin lies. I think teetotallers are in some sort morally
intoxicated upon this point; and judging from their conduct
upon too many occasions, I might also say they were labour-
ing under a species of delirium tremens.—The Bishop of
Norwich.

THE THORN.—According to the Rabbins, there are twen-
ty-two different Hebrew words signifying thorns or prickles
in the Bible. Celesius has given dissertations upon sixteen ;
only one of which, Katz, appears to have the meaning of any
thorny plant in general, whether large or small, woody or
herbaceous. 1. The Paliurus Napeca, in Hebrew Shamir.
is believed by most modern authors to he the real thorn, of
which the painful crown of our Lord was platted; it is sin-
gularly elegant, whether in flower or in fruit; and I cannot
do better than copy Hasselquist 's account of it :—" Nabca
Paliurus Athenai of Alpinus. Nabca of the Arabians. In
all probability, this is the tree which afforded the crown of
thorns, put upon the head of Christ. It grows very common
in the east. This plant is very fit for the purpose ; for it has
many small and sharp spines which are well adapted to give
pain : the crown might be easily made of these soft, round,
and pliant branches ; and what, in my opinion, seems to be
the greater proof is, that the leaves resemble those of ivy, as
they are of a deep glossy green. Perhaps the enemies of Christ
would have a plant somewhat resembling that with which
emperors and generals were crowned, that there might he a
calumny even in the punishment. 2. Next, after the pre-
tensions of the paliurus to the honour of forming the crown
of thorns, stand those of the buckthorn, or Rhamnus Spina
Christi. The monks of Jerusalem show, or lately did show,
and aged buckthorn-shrub near the holy city, from which
they say the crown was originally cut in such a manner, that,
in wearing it, the thorns showed themselves so as to present
something like the appearance of the radiate crown with
which the kings of the East used to adorn themselves. 3.
A third sharp thorn, native to Palestine, is sometimes con-
sidered as the material of the crown of thorns. This is the
Lyciurn horridum, or box. thorn, whose prickles are of the
most stinging sharpness, though the plant itself has a grace.
ful appearance. When Hasselquist travelled, he found the
uncultivated ground in Egypt and Palestine everywhere en-
cumbered with the beautiful but troublesome rest-harrow, or
Ononis spinosa ; and, from this and sonaeother circumstances,
he was inclined to think it the thorn of the original curse.
" Thorns also and thistles shall it [the earth] bring forth
unto thee." Most late writers have adopted this notion of
the Swedish traVeller. Where the rest-harrow appears, the
spade, plough, and harrow have done their work ; and it is
not without excessive toil that the gronnd is reclaimed. Our
vernacular name is sufficiently expressive. With us it adorns
heaths and hedges, and grows in tufts on the headland of the
corn-kith—Ca/kW* iS'eripture Herbal.

IRE- COAST- CANADA/ FO-
DESCRIPTION.
LAND. WISE. 8Z U.STS.I REIGN. ! TOTAL.
91714ept
Barley Qrs. 24 1 24
fait
Oats
Rye Qrs.
Beans
Pease . Qrs.
Relied Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn ... Qrs.!
Rapeseed Q-s.l
Oatmeal .... Loads! 2129 4 50 2183
Flow Sacks 1375 8 1428 1469
Ditto

Into Runcorn, Ireland and I
qrs.: Oatmeal, Ids.; Floc

:?oastwise :—Wheat, 4 qrs.; Oats
a-, 36 sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, 12 qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Beaus, 0
qrs.; Oats, 230 qrs ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn. qrs. ; Oat-
meal, loads; Flour, sacks, 71 brls.—lreland. Wheat,
qrs. ; Barley, qr.; Oats, qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian
Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, his.; Flour, -- sacks 50 brls.—
Coastwise. Wheat, 50 qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Malt, qrs. ;
Oats, qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, 7 qrs. ; Pease, 51 qrs. ;
Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids.; Flour, 54 sacks 655
barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Nov. 12, 1842.
Wheat 48s. Bd. I Barley 275. 11. I Oats.. 17s. 9d. I Rye.. 325. ed.
Beans.. 315. Bd. I Pease.. 335. 2d.
Aggregate avera'e of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 50s. Od. I Barley 2Ss. 6d. Oats.. 18s. Od. ! Rye.. 31s 4d
I Beans.. 320. 2d. Pease.. 335. Bd.

Duty on Foreign Grain, Rzc.this week.
Wheat 205.0 d. I Barley gs. od. I Opts . Bs. Od. 1 Rye.. Ios.
Beans 10s. 6th 1 Pease.. gs. 6th I Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour 123.01 d

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.... ss. Od. I Barley.. 2s. Od. I Oats .. 2s. Od. I Rye.... 2s. Od.
Beans.. Is. Ed I Pease.. Is. Od. I Indian Corn.. Os. Od. I Flour 3s Od

Liverpool Averages, week ending Nov. IS, 1842.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. 1 Pease.
Qr.; 1326 , 557 f •
Prices .. 418. 6d. Os. Od. 17s. Od. t Os. Od. Os. Od.

'btpptii *fittlitgritte.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Is.—Wind East
iltfiiVzn.—Ellen German, from PUerto Cabello—BuilihgtOt,.
ntirgtss. from Naples.
SA/I,lo3.—Tarolinta. Smith, for Boston—Sheridan, De Peyster,
fur New York—Bdlintfht, Brown, and Lord Maidstone, Taylor, for
Nest Orleans—La Cifilhdin, Lacoste, Senegal—Defiance, Kitton,
for Tunis—William & Nancy. Menzies, for Harlingen—Minalto,
Tregarthen, for Syra and Salonica—Veracity, Gething, for Con-
stantinople—Royalist; Cooper, for Leghorn—James Wearne, M or-
ton, for Beirout and Alexandretta—Martha, Williams, for Africa—
and Kate & Jane, Proom, for Lisbon.

Magnificent, from Bombay, at Aden
Competitor, from Sincapore, at Madras
Elvira, Walker, sailed from Sincapore for China 22nd August
Margaret, Morton, hence at Quebec
Eliza, Lowry, hence off Sardina
Amalia, Albrecht; Johanna, Brandhoff ; Carl Christian, Birr,
and Adelaide, Vanselow, hence at Danzig
Gloria, : osewits ; Matadore, Bradenal, and Emilie Trude,
Brandt, hence at Swinnemunde
Band of Providence, from Odessa, off Cork
Gondola, from Port-au-Prince, at Falmouth
Assam, hence for China, was spoken Bth July, in lat. 30 N, lone.
1g W

Dyson, hence for Mica, was spoken 25th Oetober, in lat. 47,
long. 9 _

Courtenay, hence for Mobile, was spoken 7th Nov. in lat. 50'
long. 7

Rapid, from Belfast to --, was spoken loth Nov. in lat. 48,
long. 10
__

IfoutooNx. Nov. 10.—The Reliance, Green, from China to Lon-
don, was driven on shore and totally wrecked, this morning, near
Berck ; the master, crew and passengers (about 100 persons) with
the exception of the carpenter and five lascars, drowned
WHITSTABLE, Nov. 12.—The Ann, Long, from Liverpool to Lon-
don, which was on shore on the Red Sand, has been assisted off,
and into this bay, leaky, with loss of anchor and cable
PORT MAVOCE, Nov. 13.—The Hamilla, Livinston, from Deme
rara to the Clyde, struck on the bar yesterday morning, lost her
masts, filled, and became a total wreck ; crew saved

WEDNESDAY, NOVENIBBR 16.—Wind S.E. fresh.

AttaivED.—Duke of Gordon, Smith, from Demerara.
SAlLED.—Leonora, Harrison, for Demerara—Cairo. Childs, for
Boston—Peruvian, Gwatkin, for Africa—Grace, Smith, for Alex.
andria—Prosperous, Long, for Seville—Yarmouth, Forsyth, for
Valparaiso and Guayaquil—and Mary Caroline, Brewer, for St.
John, N.B.

George Fyfe, Pike, from London at the Cape of Good Hope
Palmyra, Croal, hence at Demerara
Superior, -, from Sierra Leone, at ditto
Yberia, hence at. Havana
Catherine, Abbinett : Duke of Cornewafl, Affieck, and Caledonia,
Cameron, hence at Halifax

Caledonia, (scs:=.mer) Lott, hence at ditto 31st October
Sophia, Dray::, from Lisbon, at ditto
Leila, M'Donough, hence at Miramichi
_ .

Jane Lowden, Cokerlin, hence at ditto
Rockshire, Duggan; Lord Seaton, Talbot; Aberdeen, Duffy;
Lady Wilton, Sinnott Lady Gordon, Schurr ; Acadia, Younger;
Richibucto. Meredith; Indian Chief, Sameton; James Rldder,
Beck, and Benjamin Hart, Douglas, ..ence at Quebec
Adams, hence for Castine, off Sable Island 17th October
South Esk, Wishart, hence at St. J clan, N.B.
Elizabeth, Miller; Carteretta, Gage; Dash, -, and Terra
Nova, Sclater, hence at Newfoundlan e
Sphynx, Connibeer, from Lisbon, at ditto
Rosalie, Alsop, from Hamburg, at ditto
Middlesex, hence at Boston
Lancaster, -; Hector, Anderson, and Wellington, -,
hence at Charleston _

Talbot, Storey; Virginian, Allen; Clifton, Ingersoll; General
Parkhill, Hoyt; Europe, Marshall; Chester, Doyle, and Alfred,
Myers, hence at New York
The ships Philadelphia. London, and Oxford, cleared at New
York 31st October for this port
Alleghany, Ames, hence at Philadelphia
Monticello, Lawton, hence at Providence

Triton, Wilson, hence at Savannah
Effort, from Cienfergos for Palmouth, at ditto, leaky
Helen Stewart, at Siam
Lanercost, Adamson, and Bella Portena, -, hence at Buenos
Ayres
Jane Prowse, Parker, from San Antonia, at ditto, and sailed 37th
for Callao

Derwent, Steele, from Cobija, at ditto, and sailed 3rd August for
this port
Sweet Home, Longmuir, sailed from Lisbon for Rio Grande 4th
Nov.

Creole, Stephenson, sailed from St. Übes for the River Plate
N::vember

I,:ais, Easton, salied from Gibraltar for Cadiz 3rd November
IThautom, Sanders. sailed from Malta for Alexandria 24th Oct.

brit, Warglien, from London, at Trieste Ist Nov.
Mary Ann, Wilson, from Huanchaco, at Callao
Champion, Holt, from Santos, at Valparaiso
Tagus, M'Farlane, from Lisbon, at Monte Video
Protector, Graham, hence at Rio Janeiro
Thomas Leech, Nosworthy, from Monte Video, at ditto
Jason, Dunn, hence at Genoa
Diana, Morrison, hence at Leghorn
Agnes Sophia, Thompson, hence at ditto
Myrtle, Carter, and Pedro Nantet, Selles, hence at Seville
Sophia, Korff, hence at Wismar
George & Maria, Promand, sailed from Malta for this port 29th
October
Freedom, Brough, hence at Ancona
John, Bayles, sailed from Trieste for this port 29th October
Albanian, VVinsor, sailed from Zante for this port 18th October
Harriet. Duthie, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for the
Mauritius 2nd September
Jane & Jessie, sailed from Corfu for this port 27th October
Biene, Sorenson, hence off Frederickshaven
Britannia, Higginson, from Fiume to Antwerp, parted from her
anchors 24th October, in the Bay of Fiume, drove on shore, and
was completely wrecked.
Britannia, (steamer) Hewitt, from Boston, at this port; left
Boston Ist and Halifax 3rd Nov. On the 4th, 745 a.m. in tat. 44
20, long. 61 20, spoke the Great Western (steamer) from Bristol for
New York. On the 6th, in lat. 44, long. 54, spoke the Gilmour
Wm. Russell, Bruce, from Paraiba at this port; sailed 6th Oct.
On the 17th, in lat. 12 N, long. 32 W, spoke the Village Girl, from
Monte Video for this port, out 36 days. On the Bth Nov. in lat. 48,
long, 20 W, spoke the brig Amyntas
Georgiana, Way, from Taragona to Liverpool, struck on a sunken
rock on the Coast of Portugal 27th ultimo, and sunk; crew saved.
STROMNESS, Nov. 10.—The Broniley, Lees, from Liverpool to
Aberdeen, in making this harbour yesterday morning, during a
gale at West, struck on the Point of Breckneess, and went to
pieces ; master and three men drowned ; a small part of cargo
saved.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER^'IEast.
SAlLED.—Jamaica, Whyte, for Jamaica- c,.ny Jones, Wake-
ham, for Constantinople—Dolores, Cove, itie Gibraltar—Shaks-
peare, Henderson, for New Orleans—Priscilla, Taylor, fer Per-
nambuco—Asia, Storr, for Kio Grande—Eliza, Snell, for Savannah
—Sarah Trotmati, Brown, for Barbadoes—and Jackson, Jackson,
for Trinidad.

Dauntless, of Liverpool, was spoken 6th instant, in lat. 49,
long. 9
Tinamara, Wilson, hence at Ceara
Swallow, Beasley, hence at St. Michael, and sailed 7th Oct. for
Fayal

Lady Grace, Gordon, hence at ditto; and sailed 15th Oct. for
Fayal
Eleanor, hence at ditto
Jemima, Andrews, from the Mediterranean, off Fort Talbot, and
sailed for the Mumbles
Celt, hence to Africa, was spoken 23rd Aug. in lat 41, long. 10.
Isabella, hence to Monte Video, was spoken 13th Sept. in lat. 33
S, long. 46 W
Fidelity, hence to -, was spoken in lat. 48, long. 11
Charlotte Ann, hence to Lisbon, was spoken 12th Ihstant, in iat
49, long. 9
Minerva, hence at Charleston
Charles, Gales. hence at Sarbadoes
John, Marshall, and General Wiltshire, hence at Virginia