l'.\.lltl to take his place. The ol- .t had already become the com- ‘3 of a vessel. On a certain .~::sion ll wasvso arranged that Mr. £~-~ and young: i"i~—— were going: as

:-.,;.«rs in his vessel on a short

‘,l“. itat‘.

o of the incidents of the vor- A't :zre tilluded to in a letter writ- .- 5y Mr. l{— to Mrs. ll—, the

. v .‘ "\Lll li‘OlllC‘!‘ of his children.

¢ s. . Ilt at S22: the rccasion allule to in the

'u ruling letter, it might. be well

- od that the whole ship’ crew “ saw

v: works nftlre. Lord and his won-

.» ;-< in the deep, For rt his word ‘ -. stormy winds arose, which lifted ,- the w avcs thereof. They were

"H'I'INi no to the lie-avert, they went

i u again to the depths: their sonh

'l' ted away because of tronllo.—-—

‘.t‘l Ly reeled to and fro, and stagger- " hke a drunken man, and were at

.s.: .v wit’s end.” ' ‘he tempest swept

mt"? them with tremendous fury, and

-' v lit-alters were at hand. Destruc-

"--n seemed stalking; through the i '; inn thousand hideous forms.

‘ lint they cried unto the I... rd in

:m. L:- trouble, and he brought than

n: of their distress. He made the

storm to tease, and the waves there-

were still. Then they were glad rurause they were at rest, and soon

.t-i‘t: they brought unto the haven

Moore they would be." As soon as

‘'e storm had subsided, and all again

was cairn, Mr. R. seize-d upon the

-".tlie.~‘t’ opportunity to have a private !:.t'ltlt’W wzth his two sons who were

-at.= board—He begged thorn to con-

.~ or what a deliverance had been

2 :‘t hsafed to them.

‘\\"hat,” said he. “would have '71 your probable doom, had God i. :it to have permitted the vessel have been lost. and you to have.

,-_n.i e down to the bottom of the sea?

.‘frd be seen fit to have summoned w to his bar amid the wild how- wps v-i’ the storm, and the angry

:~i.:;_';.‘:= (if the deep?"

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‘~y,r.

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Il---——- replied: “.‘uy mind was "wt: this very subject. I was led .‘l-iSt.‘ sclf-eﬁnmiinition, and when on: seemed no pessibility ofcscape, i'.-‘t that I could say ‘ Lord here l, lgivc tnyselfnp into thy hands, ‘3‘ hope in thy promises.’ And im- '-.t~hately the words of the prophet wire to my mind, ‘I-‘ear not, for! "no tcdecmcd time, [have called 9" -t by thy name; thou art mine- “Ctti: thou passcst through the wa- zs. I will be. with thee, and through m.- overs, they shall not overtlow .. K ‘7’ 'i l is was indeed remarkable. But ‘9 tins like a cordial to a christian fa- .':e|"s heart. It was the last con- :ttion that 3112i: ever had

I.',‘~}\ .. .t’. In a fetv weeks [l—--— went another vessel to

Am the first intelligence the

:Tl‘ 1- mt in

l l; . Ill :ni'P.

-_...-.:ez.ts received in relation to hint,1

-.t'...~', that strangers had closed his dy- in, i}(,-s, and that he was buried in a twig: land. It seems that in. a >2 . 't time after his arrival, he was s i. with one of the fevers incident 2 -:i c climate, and l vcd only a few Lays. 'l'ho bereaved parents, how- .--\= Ind cvrry reason to believe ll: .‘tdod had fulfilled his promise in r.- :e-tonce to this child, and that he ‘ -‘, l-ting “ regenerated and graft-

...l m1; thelmdy of ('ltrist .” ’

'i‘o be continued.

this son on the subject of reli-i

the. \Vcst-

'l' ll F. iii 0 ll .‘s' l N G N l". \‘t' S.

SA'l‘l’ltDAY. AUGUST to, ISM.

The Colonial and Au'icricttu mails ar- rived here on \t'qdncsdoy evening last. The papers from the States continue to give melancholy accounts oftho destruc- tion of human life and property, occa- sionel by the recent floods of the great Mississippi and other rivers in contigtlit)‘ with it a lunch distress has ensued, and it was thought that sickness would follow. on account of the weather being exress- iver warm—The incendiary was still at work inbeiladdplii-a, causitu.r much an- noyance to the citizens. Extracts on these and other topics will he found in to-day’s paper.

The Colonial papers are. not very in- teresting as to political or foreign news.

839:“ the close. of the service on Sun- day morning last, at St. Paul’s Church, the sum of £11 lFs. was collected on behalfofthe Ladies" '3 of Charlottetown.

mm~“.. -.

enevolent Society

(lg-Flier Majesty ’s St'httt'tltm‘ Fair Ro- sotnond sailed from Halifax on Friday week, for the coast ol Newfoundland, tor the protection ot‘the Fisheries.

0 if?“ bile the English brigs James Miner, and Bridget Archibald were lying at anchor off llio Grande, on the 15th May,during a gale, l'oth vessels dragged their anchors ashore, and were lost.

93.”. Mocready, the greatest trage- dian ol the age,is at Montreal.

{EPA lady in Philadelphia attempted to commit suicide a few weeks since.— On being asked the cause for commitng the rash act, she replied that she was ve- ry lonesome. .

{CFTne value of the cargo saved hunt the wreck of the Saladin is £19,651 ls. Id sterling.

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@Baron Rothschild, the great bank- er, it is said, is about to he created a Peer of France.

Sctncnv or Samaritan—A great scarcity of Ste-amen exists in this port at present, and wages have. conse- quently advanced ~£5 ($5.20] per month, or £10 [540] for the run to England are demanded. Unemployed sailors in Nova Scotia, or at St. An- drew's, Eastport, lloston, Sic. could not, perhaps, do better than come on immediately to St. John, where se- veral new vessels are titling out at present, and they would he sure of empluytncnt.—St. Jm’m. Colour.

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EL’?Therc have been fearful storms gaccompanicd by thunder and light- ;ning, in many parts of the United !States. In several instances,houses lbave been set on fire, and persons 'killed by the lightning.

‘ Ecr'l‘hedast Boston Courier gives

amounts of no less than live murders, to say nothing ofa variety of other outrages.

i t i

“mum or icxuusn Mitt :3.

Sir llcnrv llardinge is empowered to make an'addition of one Captain to each regiment ofthc lndian army. :tn increase to the fittiliery is also contemplated. lllSl‘iKt'cliClllL'y reach- t'tl Alexandria, in the Geyser from Marseilles on the. 9:“! of June; and after having had one. public and seve- ral private audiences with the l’ashri, left on the 95th for lairo, w here he would arrive on the t26th.

"l‘ho London committee announce. that thev have received £330) in, some (\ldtt‘ln one penny l0 l0 gttincas' in aid ofthe national testimonial to: Mr. Rowland Hill.

hlr. \Villiatn Iloss 'l‘uehct, a bro- tlicrol'lmrd Audiey, is in custody, charged with shooting Thomas Smith the proprietor ofu snoo'ing gallery, in the hack. ‘l'lie reason assigned by the prisonrer wristhat he was very unhappy, and wished to be hung.

Them-w charter for the. Bank of England will be in full (peratiou in tlie‘course ofa few weeks from the preScnt time.

The Wesleyan Education Fund, now in process of c illection, aniouuts '3 t0 £ll,.‘336 6s. 7d. I

Canaan. T0}! 'l‘ntjatn closes his exhibition in London on the Juth inst. after which he proceeds to several of the most importantprovincial towns, lrclantl, Scotland, and France.

A person advertising in the Times for a situation says—‘ Any kind of employment willingly accepted, from teaching mathematics to drawing a truck. '

A naval station isto’be established at the (fore of (lot-1:.

it is calculated the O’Connell tri- bute this year will reach £510,000.

The Pope has conferred his knight- hood ufthe order of (Thrust (the highest decoraaion in his gilt) on the llonble. Edward l’etre and Sir l‘iil- liam Lawson.

A letter from Constantiimple says, “ The 'l‘urkisli govcrnmcnt has given an order to forbid the building of the Protestant! church at Jerusalem. The l‘orte had Ineroly tolerated the construction ot‘that l‘.tlllice but it had never granted a firman authonising the establishment of a Protestant church in the Holy City.”

Imprisonment for debt has been abolished in New South Wales.

A coal Vein at Beaufort iron works Abergavenny recently ignited, and is now on tire to the extent of three miles? Many fatal accidents have already bce'n the consequence.

A few weeks ago the singers and. musicians at St. Michael’s Church,at 'l‘onge, Middleton, near Manchester, turned out for an adronce ofwagcs.

At the present time. passengers are actually being conveyed from Newcas- tle to London, by Steamboat, at the rate ol'two shillings per head.

A large seizure oftobacco has been made on board the liesistance troop ship, which brought home military invalids from Halifax.

SCOTLANIL—W'e have to reporta continuance of the most favourable weather which the farmer could do- sire at this season. There haVe been a few warm showers since our last highly seasonable for the young tur-

nips,-and yet not so much as to in-

th‘l'l'llpl the hay harvest, a c

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blo portion of whiclt has beeﬂmdeu“ this week. beam" ’l‘na l‘llGHl./lNDS,Jttly 8 ol every kind have greatlv lltl u» of late, in consequence oftlie TM] .tblo turn ofthe weather. “‘ ’rlll‘. RlLV. 1)ll. \Ii.(l[.[ genes has arrived by the t l)i.".()lltl llrom whence the ('11ng . r are tllt' '2~ltli ot Junr,] announcitm safe arrival at llpckhara oft. doctor, and that he had been received by the llockarccs. tion, however, is made as to whet! » ho had found the r bjects of 1,5,. pile.“ my, and therefote the neat north-“'1: are looked forward to with «i l m xioly. b l\ i‘tHT plE,—'rhp IS‘QH. ford .‘dercury:‘tatcsdhat a day or “M olllt‘t! it goosntvcrry tile “'35 SC,” I the i‘ost-uliice. For the sake ot liimt- who ate it. we hope Sin James had lit; finger in it. the Home Secretarv lmm. ptst How, not the t'leuncbt 01' “duds. L’

'—l he crop; illi‘l.

P-‘~lutt-l3i. "W of 'l‘rr. in g the ‘50 l't‘t'. hintltv N" lllt‘li-

icttt an.

lll‘tlllgn

l'rom Anzcrican papers.

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Fnou ’niLAt)i-:LP:1i.\.-'l‘lierc has been no fresh outbreak at l’ltilu(!gl‘,m,‘ but the people are sud-ring lrom inon. dlarisni. 'l‘be Gathteof the h'niiult,

stays—

Tlte city wr .4 kept in a constant stain of alarm, this morning, troni lo't-lotl. until daybreak, in consequence it .!... tructive fires. the work ot lllPClttli:itit»s.i7, the northern part ol Philadelphia. 'l‘uu large stone barns on “t‘lttl street.\vitli:il. the bay - nd grain, barracks and sho togeth’n' with their contents, rvrre tl1~ tiroly tldt-‘lt'u_"-’.'.tl. The other lilo, whitii occurred towatds dayliglil,wns the limo-

int: ct a new building at the earlier it: llighr and (loates streets. Spring, thu-

deo. 'l'hodestruction of property t} the burning ol the horns isgruat. 'l'lie mm- crs are uninsured, and their leases very heavy.

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(IllliAT illS'KlilISS.

'l'nt: Floor) 13 Tm: )lississtrri.—'l'lw aerounts from St Louis are to the L‘L‘rt tilt The steamer l'lelle Air was rt‘li- ously damaged on the '32d by running a. gainst a stone mill at Chester. Her S'dl" hoard guard and cook house were shipped ad, the. connectingr steam pipe broken Several persons were injured. hut m seriously. She, first ran against a lr‘twe building and upset it, and then struts agiinst the stone mill.

The accounts of the ﬂood are mostt’h- astrous. Kaskaskia,tilicstct‘, S'c. an“ ruined. the farms are I?) feet tn-der water. The otiice ofthellepublicah at the tonnwr place has been titulertnincd. and his press atul materials lost in the \t‘ater- 'l":r business ot Missouri and tflitmis is sadly deranged: Farmers. nit-brinirs. gin-drama all have sutl'ered ; and bricklaycxs,“0"‘1' yards, and the necessaries of lite- Kiln-"l the rivers have been destroyed. Millions of dollars are lost by the tiowl. '

The Republican gives the lttlIOWIM picture of the distress occasioned by the _ ﬂood. The editor went on a tour “Till the Mayor in search of La Butc pile)“ nard the only point of land out at water in 1785. He thus Speaks of what lw saw in the town:

At Don Fecour,tliere are encampt’lled” in open catups,tbrec hundred and twat-ll: two persons. Several of these faint-tr: left their homes with from font“ to ""i” children,and with less than fifty poundsol ﬂour and a small quantity ot meat-5"“f‘ of them have been six and eight d3,“ '1” their encampment. They have fel‘ela“y lost the mast, some all their clotl'ﬂ. ill.“ w hcu the ﬂood subsides they will not'w' in a better condition. We sawd'cﬂwflif a sight. which would liavc drawn pit} trout abeart ol stone: a large l.lmll,l. young children (six in number) “I”