A French ship, called Le Silence, lately arrived at Havre
from Rio de Janeiro, bringing a cargo of 10,000 parrots ! Le Silence must have made some little noise both in the old and new worlds.
This is a cargo that can only be rivalled by that which has just left the port of London for Van Diemen's Land. We would match the four hundred ladies sent out by the Guardian Society against any ten thousand parrots that ever flew: a jury of the crews should decide. We wish Hobart Town joy of the "Family Library" our Society for the Refuge of the Destitute have just published for them on the ocean. One Helen ruined Troy, but our Colonies are made of sterner stuff—successive ship-loads of ladies are cast upon their shore, and immediately consumed : the women come down like rain, but the gentlemen colonists suck them up like sand.
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