iiirtiscellatteous.

The Lords of the Privy Council met in the Court of Exchequer on Saturday afternoon, to settle the roll of Sheriffs for the ensuing year. There were present, besides the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who pre- sided in his official robes, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, the President of the Board of Trade, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Judges Parke, Erskine, Gurney, Williams, Colt- man, Maule, and Wightman. It has been decided that no new Judge is to be appointed to the Court of Review in the place of Sir John Cross, but that the business of that Court shall in future be heard before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Knight Bruce ; who does not, however, receive any additional salary.

Several motions and other applications have been made during the present term to the Lord Chancellor and the other Equity Judges, re- specting difficult legal questions arising out of the operation of the Income-tax. There appears every probability of the prediction of the Vice-Chancellor being fulfilled, namely, that it will occupy years to decide all the questions relative to the Iacome-tax.—Morning Post.

At a Court of Directors of the East India Company, on Wednesday, Mr. L. Wigram was unanimously appointed the Company's standing council in the room of the late Sergeant Spankie.

Mr. John Parkinson, solicitor to Prince George of Cambridge, has published a letter, contradicting, by the Prince's command, the calum- Mous report's current lately, reflecting on the honour of a noble family.

The Archduke Frederick of Austria has been employing his time in town in viewing objects of interest. On Tuesday he went with his suite to Woolwich, and remained for some time examining the Dock- yard ; on Wednesday, to the British Museum ; on Thursday again there was a long visit to Woolwich. His Imperial Highness has also had a round of entertainments : on Monday he was the guest of the Duke of Cambridge, at Kew ; on Wednesday, of the Duke of Wellington, at Apsley House ; on Thurs- day, of the Count St. Aulaire, at the French Embassy, in Manchester Square. Sir Robert Peel left town on Saturday, for Drayton Manor ; and he was followed, on Wednesday, by Lord Wharncliffe and Sir George Clerk, his guests. The Queen has granted to General Robertson, who lives at Canaan Bank, near Edinburgh, a further pension of 210/. in reward for distin- guished services ; making the General's pension 400/. in all. The papers publish a correspondence between Colonel Thompson and Miss Martineau, touching the resolutions passed lately at a meet- ing in London in approbation of her refusal of a pension. The Colonel transmits the resolutions with some complimentary remarks, and the lady acknowledges both resolutions and compliments. She says-

" I accept, with thankfulness, the expressed sympathy of the parties of whom you are the representative to me; and I need not say, I consider their acknow- ledgment of my sincere desire to promote their interests a high honour. No- thing in the whole transaction pleases me so much as the diversity of opinion, through which all the parties concerned have penetrated, by means of earnest- ness on a moral question, to a point of heartfelt agreement. However we may mutually differ in regard to the great political questions of the time, we all agree that there can be no peace in benefiting by the proceeds of an unjust sys- tem of taxation. In declining so to benefit, I acted, as I have said, for the comfort of my own feelings only, and in privacy. As to the other matter touched upon at the meeting, my writings on social subjects, my chief desire has ever been to stir up the minds of the unprivileged classes to the patient and thoughtful consideration of their own interests. That my aim has been under- stood, and my sympathy in their worldly difficulties appreciated, is and will ever be a high gratification, renewing much of the pleasure of such labours, after sickness has brought them to a close."4

The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha has named Liszt and Rabini mem- bers of the Ducal Saxon Ernestine House Order. Both had given con- certs for the benefit of the poor of the city. Rubini had appeared at the Coburg Theatre in the Pirata, and had given an assurance that that would be his last appearance on the stage.—Algemeine Zeitung.

The Journal des Debate, alluding to a report that the British Parlia- ment would meet early, takes a review of oar affairs-

" If the sufferings which paralyze trade—if the profound distress under which the operatives labour—if the demoralization, which is extending more and more among the poorer classes, could be affected or corrected by legislation, then, no doubt, the duty of Government would be to make an appeal to the Parliament. But is it with acts of Parliament that you will arrest the progress of foreign manufacture—that you will regulate the relations of masters and workmen— that you will prevent the deterioration of religious feelings and of public morals? These evils are of that class over which society exercises more influence than the Government, and the means to remedy them are not so much within the province of the Legislature or executive powers as in that of the enlightened classes of the nation. In the last session, the Legislature performed its part. England has never before seen so many comprehensive measures carried through her Parliament. The mission of the present Ministers was essentially one of order and of organization. They were obliged to construct on ruins and with ruins, for their predecessors left them no other elements. The Whigs, for- getful of their better days, had acted in the decline of their reign like gamesters who placed the remainder of their fortune on the hazard of a die—with this difference, that they were playing with the public fortune. Led on by a species of delusion, they played double or quits every time the chances turned against them, at the same time blaming fortune for the consequences of their own folly. It was said with much truth in England, that what particularly characterized the foreign policy of the late Ministers was an absolute indifference for all ideas Of justice. Commerce required new markets, which they attempted to open with cannon-shot in Central Asia. They found it necessary to divert atten- tion from a Ministerial crisis by military success ; and with this object the East was thrown into confusion, and with it Europe. It was necessary that the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer should fish for a budget; and his colleague, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, disturbed two portions of the globe in order to give him an opportunity to fish in troubled waters : but as to the justice of those wars, that was a question with which they never troubled themselves. Necessity was the Egeria of the Whig Government, and presided at all their inspirations. "But it happened that these Ministers were punished in the quarter in which they sinned. The chances during their reckless gambling turned against them. Their successes fell upon their heads, for in triumphing they were ruined. Their exhausted resources were not sufficient to defray the expenses of their conquests. They descended more and more into the bottomless pit of deficit, carrying with them the national fortune. It was seldom that such a dissipation of resources, such a dilapidation of principles, and such an abuse of adventures, bad signalized the last years of any Government. England still bears, and will for a long time bear, the weight of those culpable follies. Cast your eyes towards the East, and see the fruit of her vaunted success. The countries which she believed she had conquered in perpetuity she now aban- dons, too happy if she can rescue from slavery some unfortunate women and children—the last relics of her murdered army. Further on, upon the un- limited coasts of China, she is chained to a succession of trifling and sterile vic- tories, whilst it would be difficult to determine whether they will not be more ruinous than defeats. Direct your attention to the Levant, and where will you find the repose, or the security, or the integrity which the English policy of 1840 was to produce in this miserable empire, which is crumbling to pieces? These men have spoiled every thing they touched; the only inheritance they have left after them is disturbance, anarchy, and a deficit which would have become irreparable had they remained in office. " A short time since our neighbours appeared to be but little flattered at the comparison between the last quarter's revenue of the United Kingdom and that of France. This comparison, however, gave a faithful description of the differ- ence which exists in the financial resources of the two countries. Two years since, when the Whig Ministers were playing their last stake, we likewise were abandoned to a policy without a compass, which would have carried us far if it had not been arrested by the reaction of sound opinion, and by the firm and sure hand whichi for the last twelve years has: maintained the peace of civi- lized nations. But there is this difference between England and us, that our malady lasted but some months, whilst hers has endured for several years. We have been rapidly cured, whilst England is scarcely convalescent. In less than two years, under a Conservative regimen, we have recovered the strength which we had lost; and the natural movement of the prosperity inherent in the country, and the simple development of the national resources, have filled the breaches which a moment of disorder caused in the treasury, and the public revenue, for some time diverted from its course, has spontaneously resumed its accustomed direction.

"The returns relating to the public revenue in England have, on the con- trary, demonstrated how profound has been the alteration caused in the na- tional resources by the irregular policy pursued by the Whigs during the last five or six years of their being in office. The British revenue had fallen into an abyss, not suddenly, but by degrees, and with a sort of regularity, if such a term can be applied to want of order. The deficit was every year increasing, the void was enlarged by every attempt to fill it up; and that is the reason that the revenue is but slowly recovering. The fable of Peliss is familar to our readers. Medea had persuaded her three daughters to cut her throat, and boil her members in a cauldron, in order that she might return to life in the bloom of youth. A drawing has been lately made in London, which represents Pella' under the figure of John Bull. The patient is extended on a bed, the Peliades, under the figures of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham, are standing round. His veins are opened with a lancet, upon which is written ' Income-tax.' John Ball has fainted, apparently from loss of blood. " Pelias, it is known, never recovered. We believe, however, that John Bull will come round. He is sufficiently strong to bear a bleeding ; but his con- valescence will be tedious, and must suffer the same gradations as his disease. The cure will be the more difficult because the remedy has been so long delayed.

" —Seto medicine paratur Duos mala per longas invaluere mores.'"

France has definitively withdrawn from the promised signature of the new Slave-trade Treaty. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, writing on Friday, gives a full explanation of the circumstances- " A courier arrived here the night before last from London, and brought M. Guizot the news that the protocol for the ratification of the treaty of Decem- ber 20th had been concluded at the Foreign Office, on Monday the 7th instant, by the representatives of the Powers signing the treaty, at the formal demand of the French Ambassador. I am enabled to furnish you, on good authority, with the following circumstances which preceded this diplomatic for- mality.

"About a fortnight past, M. Guizot commissioned M. de St. Aulaire to forward a note to Lord Aberdeen, announcing to the Cabinet of St. James's that the political position of the French Cabinet was such that M. Guizot would not be able to ratify the treaty of December 20th. The wish expressed by the Chamber of Deputies in the vote of February 24th was so precise and formal and clearly expressed, that the French Cabinet would not dare to appear again before the Chamber without having conformed to the wish ex- pressed in the Lefevre amendment. When M. de St. Aulaire gave this note

to Lord Aberdeen, his Lordship replied to the French Ambassador, that the British Government would be compelled to return to M. Guizot a note couched in the same terms as that which he had forwarded, and that M. Guizot

had so far engaged himself to ratify the treaty that it would be impossible for him to withdraw : for (said Lord Aberdeen) if M. Guizot had merely signed such a treaty with England, the affair would be less complicated, but M. Guizot had joined England in requesting the Great Northern Powers to conclude the treaty in question with France and England ; consequently, if the French Cabinet refused to ratify the treaty which it had proposed itself to the Great Northern Powers, they would have the right to turn round and reproach Eng- land for having joined France in a proposition which France herself now refuses to accept, and thus England would be compromised with the Great Northern Powers in consequence of the refusal of France to ratify the treaty. "Lord Aberdeen then explained to M. de St. Aulaire, that the reply of the British Government to M. Guizot's note must necessarily contain a formal disapproval of his conduct, and did not hesitate to say that he should lay this reply before the House of Commons ; for (said Lord Aberdeen) if H. Guizot thought to strengthen his Parliamentary position by refusing to ratify the treaty, the English Cabinet also mast take measures for its own justification to the English Parliament. His Lordship then urged M. de St. Aulaire to withdraw the note, which he would consider as not having been presented to him; and to inform H. Guizot, that the better way to avoid complicating the question would be, to demand, in a simple note, without producing any reasone, that the protocol should be closed, which bad remained open for ratification on the part of France. By simply demanding the closing of the protocol without assigning any motives, M. Guizot would not have to fear any embarrassing reply from the English Cabinet, and the question would thus be cut short without any difficulty. "H. Guizot followed the advice of Lord Aberdeen in withdrawing his first note; and then, a week since, forwarded to the English Cabinet another note, in which be demanded, without assigning any explanation, the closing of the pro- tocol, which actually took place on Monday last. Thus the non-ratification of the treaty of December 20th is now for ever consummated. It now remains to be known whether the treaties of 1831 and 1833 will be mainiained or not. I am able to inform you, that it is the intention of AL Guizot to abrogate them, because the only chance of safety for the French Cabinet was the abo- lition for ever of the right of search. The most devoted adherents of the Cabinet, such as MM. Fulcbiron, Jacqueminot, Jacques Lefevre, and others, have already declared to M. Guizot that they will vote for the abolition of the right of search in the forthcoming session ; so that M. Guizot has no alter- native."

There is a report that M. Thiers is to return to office; not, however, to forward any new warlike project, but to help in carrying an appanage for the Duke of Nemours through the Chambers.

The Commerce states, that a new military plan for the protection of the Tuileries was in progress of preparation at the Etat Major, under the management of General Tiburce Sebastiani, the successor of General Pajol. '1 he plan comprises the indication of the positions which eaoh regiment of the garrison of Paris is to occupy in the streets or public squares in the event of fresh disturbances. The corps specially charged with the defence of the Tuileries, the Hotel de Yale, the Prefecture of Police, and the Ministries, are to be each provided with a certain num- ber of pieces of artillery.

The Journal de Honfieur of Sunday has the following postscript : "As we were going to press, we learnt that the Telemaque [the trea- sure-ship so long sunk in the Seine) is completely raised from her bed ; she is decked with flags, and the guns are being fired in honour of the event."

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the 7th. Lisbon vu all in a turmoil about a violent proclamation that had been circulated against M. Dietz, a German retainer of the King, as the author of all the ills of Portugal : each party tried to fling the authorship on the other. The proclamation charges M. Dietz with advising the Queen to abdicate and desert her children; he having been previously employed, according to this document, in forming a purse abroad for the support of the Royal Family in case of need. It was reported that M. Dietz would very probably leave the country for a time. The Queen had opposed the nomination of some officers by the Ministry, and that was another source of dissatisfaction.

A great flood had visited the low country about Cintra, where a cloud had burst, which washed away walls and bridges, and did great damage at Colares, Cintra, Rio de Moura, Caseais, Oeiras, Chelleiros, and other parts ; bat no lives were reported to have been lost.

Advices from Beyrout to the 19th October confirm previous reports of a general rising in Syria against the Turkish rule. One letter says-

" It is not the Christians alone who have taken up arms on this occasion, but the Druses also. These two sects, formerly at enmity together, have now united in one common cause, and formed a close alliance. The Albanians have succeeded in arousing all the worst passions of the Syrian people; and on the 12th instant they were attacked, as was the Turkish brigade quartered at Tripoli. At Men a place a little above the town, a pitched battle was fought ; and the Druses and Maronites beat off their enemies, with a loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, of five hundred men, including many Arnaouts. The Turks, accompanied by the Albanians, are ferocious-looking fellows, but showed the white feather when brought to the point against the mountaineers; hardy in every sense, and more than a match in the art of war for their more Northern rulers.

"On the 17th instant, a party of regular Turkish troops, on their way to this place from Damascus, about fifty in number, were attacked at a khan called Hussein by the Druses, and beaten ; the Turks throwing down their arms and taking to a precipitate flight. "The whole population along the coast is actuated but by one resolution— that of throwing off the yoke of their new rulers; and every preparation pos- sible for a coming struggle is showing itself. The Turks are also preparing ; but to the Syrians their efforts appear futile. "The English and American families living in the mountain reached Bey- rout with the greatest difficulty, and that after having obtained the favour of the Drage chiefs."

The Malta. Times of the 5th instant says, that a precautionary naval force was to be stationed on the coast of Syria ; the Indus having already taken its departure from Malta.

Letters from Alexandria to the 24th announce that the Viceroy had abolished the tax upon slaves, which is mentioned as a step towards their emancipation. The Nile had risen above the standard, and in- undated the 'village of Balucco.

The mail-steamer Britannia, which left Boston on the 1st, brings in- telligence from New York to the 31st. The citizens were occupied with the elections. New York was to elect a Governor and thirty-fonr re- presentatives in Congress on the 1st. The election in Ohio had gone against the Whigs ; and our correspondent thus alludes to the event-

.. New York. 31at October 1842.

"Six—The Ohio election has been a severe blow to the Whig party; although probably produced lry personal feelings rather than by defection front Whig principles. Still it will have considerable influence upon Clay's prospects for the Presidential office, and Ohio is his stronghold. There is still time, how- ever, to recover the lost ground, and there will be no lack of effort; but I suspect a middle party is silently but gradually taking root, and I should not be surprised to see Calhoun its champion—the Southern man with Northern principles, as he is called. He is a decided opponent of a high tariff, and cir- cumstances will strengthen him greatly in that respect. "The review of the American Newspaper Press in the Foreign Quarterly is attributed here to Dickens, I believe falsely. In the main it is true, and therefore cuts deeply; but justice is scarcely done to the Courier and Inquirer, which is decidedly one of the best papers published in New York; although that does not say much, I confess.

'Exchange on London is at 6 percent; but I think it will decline considerably. So few sales of goods have been made that there is very little to remit. There will consequently be hut a small demand for bills; while, as produce goes for- ward—cotton and flour—there will he a plentiful supply. I should not be surprised to see it near par; which will take off some of the bullion in the Bank coffers. Sovereigns are worth 4 dollars 85 cents. Exchange even at 3 per cent premium is equal to 4 dollars 57 cents only, at par only to 4 dollars 44 cents; so that gold will then be sent and pay better than any other de,cription of merchandise. The exports of the next year from this country will doubtless very considerably exceed the amount of imports, and specie must supply the balance.

"Flour is pretty steady at 4 dollars 25 cents for Western; but at this price there must be a loss on every barrel sent to England.

"Your obedient servant, A NEW YORK MERCHANT." Another private letter, which has been shown to us, comments on our press- " I have been amused with the conflicting remarks of the great London press -upon the Treaty, and I agree with you in commending the Spectator as the honestest of them all. The editor seems to me to be anxious to advocate such measures as will confer the most benefit upon both nations, without stopping to inquire whether he is furthering the interests of one party more than the other by so doing. I honour those editors who have discarded the mere badge of party for the more honourable duty of a patriot. I must confess my total dissent from the course pursued by the Morning Chronicle in the case of the Treaty ; and if Lord Palmerston really be the prompter, he has lost caste in my estimation. I cannot think he will be sustained by the Whigs in Parlia- ment; and certainly, out of doors, be can scarcely expect to arouse any national feeling against the Cabinet on that question. It is singular enough that Mr. Webster should be equally abused by certain papers in this country, for having sold the interests and honour of America to Lord Ashburton."

The Anti-Repudiation doctrine appears to be making some progress. The paper on American State Stocks, which appeared in the Spectator of the 24th September, had bean copied into several journals, some- times with rather indignant disclaimers of parts of its allegations, some- times with frank admission of its general truth, but always admitting that it contained salutary warning and admonition.

The valuable property of Mr. Nicholas Biddle, (so well known as President of the United States Bank,) on the borders of the River Dela- ware, called Andalusia, was advertised for sale by the county Sheriff.

Colonel Edwards, who had been convicted of forgery and swindling, bad been sentenced by Judge Kent to ten years' imprisonment. In a speech which he delivered before receiving sentence, he called himself an injured and persecuted man ; said that he was a victim to brokers,

bankers, and others; and affirmed that he would never come out of prison alive. The " Colonel " was well known in England, where he contrived, it will be remembered, to swindle Earl Spencer.

Intelligence has been received from Canada to the 26th October. Every thing was quiet. Mr. N. A. Morin, of Lower Canada, had been gazetted as Commissioner of Crown Lands. The Government boasted of a majority of sixty out of eighty-four in the House of Assembly, Mr. E. G. Wakefield had issued an address to the electors of the county of Beauharnois, offering himself as a candidate for their repre. sentation in the Assembly. He avowed himself a friend of whatever should conduce to oblivion of the past and prosperity for the future. Sir Charles Bagot's invitation of the French Canadians to a share in the Government he considers an unexceptionable measure, calculated to secure the natural fruits of a policy of justice—goodwill among men, peace, tranquillity, and time to attend to the pressing material wants of the colony. He supports the Union, as relieving each race in Lower Canada from the fear of the other's domination, and enhancing the political importance of the colonists. The dependence on Great Britain he re- gards as advantageous to the province. Of "responsible government" he is the warm advocate : "I should," he says, "as soon expect to be elected for the county by a minority of the constituency, as to see the Government of Canada happily carried on in opposition to the wishes of the majority of the people. I know of no way in which the wishes of the majority of the people can be properly made known except throngh their representatives in Parliament." An opponent to Mr. Wakefield had tardily appeared in the person of a Colonel Scriver.

The papers speak of Mr. Wakefield's appointment to an office of high trust as probable. We believe there are no grounds for this : the Kingston Chronicle says that he refused office, when offered both by Lord Durham and Lord Sydenham.

Seldom has a week occurred in which so many shipwrecks have been announced in all parts of the world ; and some of them are of the most disastrous kind. The Zuid Afrikaan of August 30th describes two at the Cape of Good Hope, which occurred at once- " We have to record the most awful scene which the inhabitants of this town ever witnessed—the stranding in Table Bay, namely, of two ships, the one the Abercrombie Robinson, with troops for Algoa Bay, 522 men, besides women, children, and the crew; and the other the Waterloo, with convicts, bound to Van Dieman's Land, and the awful loss of lives. On Saturday, severe weather set in, and there was every appearance, from the state of the barometer, that severe stress of weather was to he expected. It broke out in the middle of the night, with strong rain and a northerly wind, accompanied by thunder and lightning. At daybreak, the troop-ship had stranded on a sandy beach near the month of Salt River ; whilst the convict-ship was perceived adrift with three cables, till at about one hundred yards from shore, and close to a rocky riff, she remained stationary for upwards of three hours. "Every assistance was rendered to land the women, children, and men, from the troop-ship : boats were sent from town, and about one o'clock every soul was safe on shore.

"Not so, however, with the convict-ship, containing 219 male-convicts, 5 women, 13 children, 33 troops, besides the crew. About eleven o'clock, she struck upon the rocks ; immediately the jib was hoisted to turn her head towards the beach ; but it was too late ; and, after rolling upon the rocks for about ten or fifteen minutes, the main and mizen-masts went over, and we perceived the seamen and soldiers, together with the women and children, clinging fast to the upper side of the ship, whilst the sea was tremendously rolling over it. Some of the men began to throw off their clothes and swim towards shore : the greater pert, however, with the women and children, were seen stretching forwards their hands for assistance ; whilst the noise of the waves and the wind prevented us from hearing the awful cries for help which they sent forth. As the sea washed over the ship and broke in upon the deck, we saw the whole number of convicts creeping out, and holding fast to the foremast. In this state, whilst every possible assistance on the part of the people was rendered to save the persons who were swimming towards shore, and a Malay boat was got, the sea destroyed the ship so rapidly, that at twelve o'clock, of the whole vessel of 440 tons nothing was left but the keel, and of the whole number of persons on board, amounting to upwards of 300, only 89 were saved!

"The rapidity with which the vessel went to pieces, and even the keel was broken up, is a proof that it must have been a very old one (we hear twenty- seven years.) Strange, therefore, that so great a number of human lives are thus risked in such a vessel, for so distant a passage as from England to Van Diemen's Land.

The Manilla ship Sabina, Bias Mathen master, of five hundred to191 burden, bound from Manilla to Cadiz, was wrecked at Cape Recife on the 10th August ; and twenty-one persons out of sixty-two were lost

At Table Bay, on the 9th September, the American bark Fairfield, the ship John Bagshaw, the schooner Ghika, the brig Reform, the brig Henry Hoyle and the cutter Albatross, were blown on shore ; but the crews were all saved.

During a storm at Cadiz, on the 18th October, upwards of twenty sail were lost.

A parallel disaster to that at Table Bay has occurred on the French coast. The Reliance East Indiaman was wrecked near Merlimont, about thirty miles to the west of Boulogne, on Saturday morning. She was bound to London from China, with a cargo of 27,000 chest of tea ; having left Canton on the 7th May. There were on board 122 per- sons : seven seamen only were saved. The ship came on shore, at two o'clock in the morning, during a tremendous gale ; and was driven with such impetus as to be at once firmly imbedded in the sand. It is sup- posed that the light near the port of Boulogne was mistaken for that of Dungeness. Another supposition is, that the haziness of the weather prevented any lights being seen ; and that the gale and current both setting towards the French coast, the vessel made more way than was at all suspected and was on the coast when she was supposed to be many miles from it. The boats were hoisted out : the long-boat was imme• diately swamped, and the others, being overloaded, went down within a short distance of the vessel ; which broke up at four o'clock. Many of her crew had been washed overboard before ; and now there was the final sweeping away. The names of those saved are, Robert Dixon the carpenter, W. O'Neill of Kingston in Ireland, Johan Anderson of Lauzry in Norway, Charles Batts of Dan talc; the remaining three are Malays. Mr. Green, the commander, is said to have been a careful and intelligent officer ; and the three mates, Mr. Walsh, Mr. T. Green, and Mr. Gran, who perished, are also described as steady and experi- onced sailors. The ship was owned by Messrs. Mann and Tomlyn, of

Swan Alley, CornhilL Upwards of 2,000 chests of tea have been col- lected along the strand, but all more or less damaged. A Bordeaux vessel, laden with wine, was wrecked on the night of Saturday, in the Bail D'Authie : four of the crew were drowned. The lugger Armoricain, laden with wine and brandy from Bordeaux, was wrecked at Abbeville on Saturday ; five of its crew being lost. And on Monday, the Little Henry, a Dartmouth vessel, was destroyed near Calais. The ship D'Il Geschwisters, of Emden, bound for the Thames, was wrecked on the Dutch coast. The crew were saved; but five fisher- men, who went to give assistance, were drowned by the capsizing. of their boat. The English coast has also been severely visited. The smack Dili- gence, of Portsmouth, bound to Southampton from Guernsey, laden with potatoes, came on shore on Chisel Beach, near Portland, in a squall of wind. One man was lost. The wreck of the Gannet, Hunnum master, and that of the brig Hamilton 300 tons, Bradbury master, both bound from Shields to London, have been announced. The Gannet got on the Whittakers in a fog, and was totally wrecked. The Petrel, a fish-lugger, making for Yarmouth, ran on the Guufleet sands on Friday ; and the crew were saved with difficulty. The Hamilton was lost on the same nods on Tuesday morning. The captain and eleven of her crew put off in a boat, which was swamped ; and they were all drowned. Four ships were lost at Middlesborough, near Stockton, on Saturday night— three by coming into collision with other vessels during the storm. A schooner and brig came in contact off Aldborough on Sunday, and the schooner sank in five minutes. Her crew were taken into the brig, which reached Yarmouth much damaged.

On Wednesday morning between three and four o'clock, the ship William, Captain Houston, was wrecked at Kilchattan Bay, Isle of Bute. during a heavy storm. In consequence of the courage and col- lectedness of her owner, Mr. T. Hamlin, in directing the exertions of the crew, the lives of all but two were saved. The two who perished, in spite of all remonstrances persisted in leaving the vessel, lowering themselves on what appeared to be dry rocks ; but, by a singular in- stance of poetical justice, they met the fate they so selfishly endea- voured to shun, being carried by the surge under the ship's bottom, where no assistance could reach them. The Greenock Advertiser men- tions that the William was blown from Pladda to Cumbrae, a distance of twenty-one miles, under bare poles, in rather less than two hours! On Wednesday morning, the schooner Arthur and Rachel, of Belfast, Laurie master, from Dublin to Ayr, struck at Cairngarrack, four miles south of Portpatrick, and became a total wreck. The crew were all saved. The shipping at Stromness has suffered severely : the Brom- ley struck on the Breakness and went down, only two out of ten on board escaping.

During last month many vessels were destroyed on the American

coast. The steam-ship Merchant, from New Orleans to Texas, was wrecked in a gale ; eight persons were lost as well as the vessel and

cargo. In this vessel, a passenger named Barker, in the frenzy of despair shot a fellow-passenger and then himself. The brig Cuba, from Texas for New York, foundered at sea with all on board. Two schooners shared a similar fate. The bark Virginia was abandoned off the Florida coast ; the brig Francis Lord, of New York, sank off North Carolina; and the bark Plato went ashore, five of the crew perishing. The Datchess of Buccleuch, bound from Jamaica to Havanna, was driven, on the 14th of August, on the Jardanillos, in the Gulf of Florida. The crew were saved, but a valuable cargo was lost.

The Middlesex, bound from Sydney for London, was driven on shore near Maccio, to the southward of Pernambuco, and soon became almost a total wreck. The crew and passengers were saved, and are now on their passage to London on board the Columbus, which sailed from Pernambuco on the 6th October.