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personal advantage by the forfeiture of the Townships on which they are settled. [have the honour to be, Sir, your most obeidient, humble servant, GODERICH.

Si ned ( g governor Young, &c. &c.

Lieutenant

THE CHOLERA.

Behold it cometh on with fearful haste,—

The dark-wing‘d Pestilence. The mighty fall Beneath its poison‘d arrow,—and the tomb Doth gather riches till its treasure vaults O‘erflow. The bitter voice of wailing speaks

From the far regions ofthe peopled east;

And In !-—an echo from our clime berpeaks

Deep agony and fear.

But ye who read

In all earth‘s change, the Counsels of the skies, Bird on your armour. Christian l—if this world lsuot thy place of rest; if thou hast vow‘d

To follow in his footsteps. who o'ercame

Death and the victor-grave, and spann‘d their flood With the strong arch of immortality.

Show thy faith s value in this hour ofneed.

li‘ in the haunts of poverty or pain

Thy bounty with a brightening trace might move,— li't‘nou for heathen lands would‘st light the lamp OfGod‘s salvation.—or in thine own home,

Amid the vineyard of thy hopes, dost spy

One baleful weed to uproot,——one seed to plant

Ci heavenly truth, to bloom when thou art gone,-- Go to thy work with diligence, as one

Whose time is short. Strike to thy secret heart

A ssarching glance. and ifthere linger there Though shrouded cunningly. one evil germ,

3o. strong in extirpation. and invoke

The aid of that Pure Spirit, who doth deigu

To dwell in flesth temples, and prepare

For life or death the humbly trusting soul.

.Mrs. Sigourney.

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After a lapse of nine days from the appear-

ance of the two first cases of cholera in this ci— ry,during which time an unusual state of health has been prevalent throughout the city, a third case appeared yesterday morning. The patient was a lad named George W. Schaifer, l0 years of age, who resided in Carver street. It appears that he called his mother about 2 o’- clock yesterday morning, complaining of sick- ness. Vomiting and purging continued only one hour, and three hours afterwards Dr. Win- slow Lewis was called, but the boy died at half past 11, Am. He declared to Dr. L.that he had not eaten any thing out of the house the day previous. ‘

Cholera in Portland Harbour.—Two cases of cholera occurred on board the brig Harriet, from New York, at quarantine in Portland har- bour—one a white and the other a black man. The former died, but faint hopes were enter- tained of the recovery of the latter. Several of the crew were afliicted with diarhma; but the other case of malignant cholera had ap- peared.

.N‘z W YOR 1:, Aug. 30.

lfthere be any body yet aboard, and wish to come home, they will not hesitate a moment after reading the official Cholera Report ofyes- terday, inserted in to-day‘s Gazette. Our ex- tra Gazette of yesterday was in greater de- mand than any previous day, hundreds having been sent by mails, &c. to the country. The editors congratulate their fellow citizens on the return of health and business.

THE BRITISH AMERICAN. Board of Health, Aug. 29, 1832.—Alderman

Cobra presented the following resolution,

which was adopted :

Resolved, That in future all reports ofdeaths be reported in the usual manner by the City Inspector once in each week, and that the re. ports made by this Board cease.

Total of New Cases 21 deaths 5.—The buri- als for the twenty-four h0urs ending at eight o’clock this morning, reported to the City In- spector, were 38-16 of Cholera.

Total number ofcases at New York. to Au- gust 29th, cases 5792, deaths 2166.

PHILADELPHIA, flag. 28—noon.

Report ofCholera cases in Private practice

for the last 24 hours—cases 5, deaths 0. flugust 30.

New cases 20, deaths 3. Total number from commencement. cases 2199, deaths 74%.

Familiarity with Dentin—Every one is fami- liar with thc fact, that while the soldier often shudders and feels the curdling of his blood, as, he is marching up to encounter a hostile army yet after the battle has begun, and he is sur- rounded with the dying and the dead, his ap- prehensions and fears all fly awa ', and he is enabled to view the scene aroun him with as much composure, not to say indifference, as if, instead of being an appalling reality, it were an unmeaning farce. And there is substantial- l the same effect produced upon most minds by the frequent recurrence of death in any cir- cumstances. As men grow familiar with the monster, or rather with the effects which he produces, they are prone to think little of the awful reality of dying, and not unfrequently become absolutely callous in respect to their own future destiny, under those very dispen- sations which were intended to fasten their thoughts upon it in a course of active and habi. tual preparation. It is easy to see that these remarks apply with all their force to the pesti-

ence which God has commissioned to invade our city.-—-We have already grown familiar with death. to a degree which .altogether ex- ceeds any thing which has before fallen within the experience of most of us—JV'cw York pap.

The Rev. Sydney Smith’s Remedy for the Heartburnings betwem the English and Irish.— In a speech recently delivered at Taunton, by this highly-gifted gentleman, on the subject of Reform, he thus pertinently adverted to the ministerial plan of education for Ireland, which has been so much misrepresented by the facti- ous enemies of the ministers :—“ I will tell you what the remedy is, and where I learnt the re- medy. [did not learn itin my study, and cer- tainly 1 did not learn it in the University where l was bred; but I learnt it on Waterloo Bridge, and the price [paid for it was a penny. There is a man on waterloo Bridge, with a cage con- taining many animals. 1 saw in the cage a cat living among mice; a hawk with sparrows perched on his back, a weazle lying down a- mong rats, anda very grave owl associating with tom-tits. They all lived together in the greatest harmony. There was no inclination to eat on one side, nor dread of being eaten on the other,‘the method by which I have brought all these animals to live together, (said the ex- tinguisher ofantipathics) is not by punishment or forced obedience, but by putting them to- gether when very young, and by breeding them up from the earliest time in the same cage.’ This man should have been the Lord Lieutenant oflreland. The only method of re- conciling Irish Catholics and Protestants is b breeding them up in the same cage—by blen - ing them from earliest infancy, in the same school, and by calling in the force of habit to

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extinguish that deep hatred which nothing else could' extinguish, and by which the safet of the whole British empire is endangered. ho- nour the ministry who have adopted such a scheme of peace."

Continuedfrom No. 6.

Casting my eyes from the few floating pieces oftimber, the miserable remains of bridge, I observed the possé of the ill-fated people that had been collected by the trum- petof the Geni, in serious and warmdebate ‘I relative to the dispersion oftlie Bridge.They were it appeared the contractors and sub- contractors for the stupendous undertaking. I found from the tenor of their discourse that the accident by no means arose from a defect of talent in any one individual, every one had been perfect in his own depart- ment. But what appeared to be no fault individually, amounted to a fault in the whole, for it seemed every one had been left to manage his own part, regardless how it might operate in unison with the work of his neighbour, and as too many cooks oft spoil the soup—so an abundance of ta- lent without one chief to direct the whole was, it should seem the immediate cause of the disaster.

Here methought, might have been heard some of those wise prophets, who can see clearly the nature of an event when it has transpired, long and serious were the dis- cussions as to cause and effect, nor unmixed with mutual contempt ; but wisely finding that recrimination would not restore the bridge, they endeavoured like good politi- cians to adduce good out of evil.

Methought there was one who harrangued the party in nearly the following language. Gentlemen, I should wish to impress on, your minds that, happy for us, we are but subordinate actors in this business, the re- sponsibility does not rest with us, but the pro'octors, they indeed have to contend wit the public odium, and “the worlds dread laugh, which scarce the firm philoso- pher can scorn.” But with respect to us, we have received our hire it is true, small indeed, but still it is something. And what relates to the other Gentlemen though this should not have been the case, they are true patriots, and the labour has been paid for in mere stay tape and buckram, oils, tobacco at two or three shillings per pound, ncgro rum at ten or twelve shillings per gallon, and cotton at three shillings per yard are no great matters. With re- gard to the unlucky bridge even let it go. the first loss is the best, the country will be benefited by its disappearance.

You have only to cast your eyes and

beholdin the one directgon the beautiful t,“

serpentine meandering of the south-east,

ver, and the picteresque and romantic ban , of the other, navigable to the Baltic, bot. of which elegant streams would in a me}: sure, have become useless, had the bri

stood, even for boats of any size, be V .

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