The following extract from a Massachusetts newspaper affords evi- dence
of the growing good-will between Englishmen and Americans.
" The English armed brig Savage, with sixteen pirates on board, has arrived at Salem, where they are to be landed for trial. It is honourable to modern nations, that instead of being asylums of foreign criminals, that community exists which aids each other in bringing felons to the proper tribunals of justice. . These prisoners are charged with piracy and rubbing the brig Mexican t.f Salem ; and will probably be tried at the October term of the Circuit Court of the United States in this city. The Mexican is now in our harbour ready for sea. The same captain and mate who were in her at the thne of the robbery, were going in her, but in consequence of the unexpected arrival of the pirates, their phices were supplied by other officers, and they will remain at home to give evidence at the trial. The robbery committed upon the Mexican was one of the most audacious and cruel acts of piracy on record. She was bound to Rio Janeiro from this port ; and was plundered by a piratical schooner under Brazi- lian colours, on the 20th September 1832, lat. 03.' long. 34. :30. ; and lobbed of 20,000 dollars in specie, the officers and crew so ipped of every thing valuable, fastened below, and the vessel set on fire, with the horrid intention of destroying her with all on hoard. Captain Butman and his men succeeded in getting on deck through the scuttle, which the pirates bad left unsecured, extinguished the flames, and returned home. Our Government ordered a vessel to cruise in pursuit, but she gave up the chase as hopeless. The pira tical vessel was afterwards taken on the African coast by his Britannic Majesty's brig Curlew, and destroyed. The British Government, in traneporting, at their own expense, to the United States, the pirates who rubbed the Mexican. give proof that they view all civilized nations as constituting one family. It is an example worthy of imitation. The twenty years of peace with which the world has been blessed, leis done more towards assuaging national antipathies, as well as towards improving the condition td' the people, than had been effected in the previous century. The insurance-offices will send on board the Savage this morning an abundant supply.of fresh provisions, &e. as a tam of respect to her officers and crew ."— Salem Gazette.
There are now in the state of New York alone thirty-seven railway companies, all incorporated since the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, whose united capitals make nearly thirty millions of dollars—about six millions sterling.
The depredations committed by the mob on the three days of riot at Philadelphia were very extensive. The number of houses destroyed is forty-flair. The quantity of furniture damaged is very great, but to 'bat actual extent is not known. In one of the houses attacked was a poor cripple, who' unable to fly from the fury of the mob, was so severely beaten that he has since died of the wounds be received. On the 91st August, four men who bad commenced another riot, and suc- ceeded in nearly destroying one house, were examined before the Mayor, and bound over to appear at Court, ir) the sum of 1000 dollars each. The town of Santa Martha, on the Spanish Main, has been destroyed by an earthquake.
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