HASZ.1\l{l)'S.i, GAZETTE. JANUARY 24.

(From the New York Tribune.)

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On Tuesday evening Dr_. Kin lectured as a- boveln the large chapel of the uivcrsity. He said the subject had been suggested by ii. para-

-— h ins morning pa or, which mentioned bill the inhabitants o these islands, who, seventy years ago. had slain Capt. Cook, eaten his heart, and ofered his body as a sacrifice to their idols, asked admission into the Union. s the causes leading to this request were mainly due‘ to American commerce and mission- arise, the subject had a peculiar interest for an audience in the letreplis of America. The lecture: referred to what he considered a sig- intcresting coincidence, namely, of the islands at the time of the lotion. Cook sailed from Ply- mouth in July, 1776, and alluded to the fact of shi calling at the same time to suppress the filgg in the North American colonies. Dr. K. then gave a ra id visw_of the geography, popu- lation, natura formation. an products of the Sandwich islands, which are distant from the “American coast 2.800-miles. The inhabitants are a line race physically : the chiefs _show ui-er blood, and are general y six feet high. ‘heir King and nobles are hereditary. The taboo- tranelaud " prohibition,” but more peculiarly meaning "consecration"-—was a owerful en- gine in the hands of the King. who was also the chief riest; any breach of it being punished with oath. Everything could be placed under !oboo—llelds, fishing-grounds, &c. : also persons; they dared not . be seen abroad while it lasted; also food. Women and men could not out at the same table. The Kings soon became alive to the usefulness of an understanding with foreigners; and thus Owyhee was ceded to the British crown. Honolulu has been described as the most romantic of the group. increase of the Pacific commercial intercourse with the Islands has increased, and their popu- lation has fallen oil‘ under the vices of what is called civilisation. The Presbyterian Mission was the tint ; the caused several youths to he sent to the United States to be educated. King 'Riorio abolished idolatry; his first step was to violate taboo b eating ‘publicly with his women: and in a few clays all e ido s were reduced to ashes. This act of Riorio, Dr. King regarded as one of high self-sacrifice and lofty moral cour- age; it opened the way to the Gospel. The American missionaries have been most success- ful: their chief opposition has been from white settlers who wished to live in debauchery ; but Riorio had logic and common sense enough to protect the missionaries. They have reduced the in to s system and published the Bible in it. Sailors, when they land, give the missionaries trouble, by their wish for bauchery. A converted native woman asked what rt of America the sailors came from, and inhey were not idolatcrs. The lecturer regretted that the sailor, who is to other na- tions a t of the pie he was born among, is so mac ne lects ; he hoped that their physi- cal, moral on religious wants won be better cared for. Perhaps the missionaries were too puritanical in their opposition to amusements : ut there was an excuse in the fact that the

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games o the natives were all so closely connect- ed with their old idolatr as to be dan rous. In 1849 the French ti-ie to get admission for Roman Catholic ecclesiastics and French brandy at a reduced duty. They have succeeded so far to obtain a portion of the funds for a school, whenever they shall have it nufiicicnt number of pupils. It is estimated that there are 224,000 acres of land on ble of producing sugar; the islanders are la crious cultivators. Cleanli- ness is one of their peculiar virtues. The chiefs have large houses and furnish them nimptuously; they lay tables that would not ' ndon, and wear well fitting Euro- Their politeness is scruplous; though twenty years ago one of their ladics might be seen seated, cross-legged, eatingn large fish raw. Their salutation was by rub- bing noses ; they shake hands,but think it cold. They expressed grief by breaking their teeth. The prices of food are c esp. Whalers run in- to Honolulu, dis se of their cargoes there to other vessels, an go back to the fishing grounds. American infiuence predominates at lonolulu; the greatest number of otlieers of State are Americans. The attractiveness of these islands to other powers, (the lecturer said) and their fccbleucss. make them turn naturally to the United States, and the question soon will be, what is to be done with the Sandwich Islands’! They lie in our path to Asia: they are. to a great extent. Americanized. England, France ‘and Russia have claims to them, and whilel write a morning per announces the arrival in our City of the ip omatic agent of Russia to the udwich Islands, to watch over Russian interests. The independence of the overn- nienthss been only nominal; every capricious demand of a foreign owcr has been conceded under its guns. It is believed that the Sove- Rig:-, fearing for his independence, has nssi n- . ed ' authority to the United States, and t iat the sealed transfer is in the archives at Wash- .in ton, to be used when circumstances demand. Thls is s most favorable aspect of atlliirs for us, if we an only learn that most difiicult of virtues --to wait. Our language is s reading; that noble in age, instinct with t a spirit of un- tions; sn stain with the mark of an impe- rial Republic. [Applause.] Should we coun- tenance the addition of this islotulfroup to our continents! Republic! Previous a ditions have -been generally of contiguous territory. There is I new thing under the sun—un emigration fifths Est. f California and Oregon alone could settle the qusstioncf this half-way house between Asia and America, it is settled. There has been su infusion of foreign blood, sndnn increase of territory, unforscen b the framers of our Federal Lonstitution. ex. Hamilton speaks of it as for the thirteen States, and such as might spring up amidst or near slum. But when Jcfierson added Louisiana, sdmlted was no warrant in the Con- gestion: when Texas and other distant States five been annexed, it is late to invoke the Con- tstica ltgninst sddiu the Sandwich Islands. gs usstiou must be etsi-mined on more pro-

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Commander M-Clurc and his men fouu-l shelter from many perils in a harbour w‘iii-.‘i they called by a good Arctic name. the Bay 0'." Mercy. close iy the ssage in Birrow‘s Strut ,5; the existence of w ioh solved the problem of the north-west passage. lherc, in regions never before visited by civilised man, they wi.-re frozen in. They arrived there on the twenty- fourth of September. eighteen hundred mid

fty-one. Happily the land about them was remarkably well supplied with game. It s.-.:.n~ ed to form the retired meeting-place and 13...]. ing-iplround ol'in-an animals.

V on summer s oiild have come to’ set, then: at liberty. the ice was stil About the middle of June “ flocks of wild fowl," s-ivs Captain M‘Clurc, “ consisting ofswuns, gcc.~io, and all descriptions of ducks, began to arrive ; but, finding no water, inv.-rely took a flight Pollnd the northwest extreme of the land, and returned to the southward, from which it would pppcar that the season is late ; indeed,the land is_as much covered witi: snow as in the depth of winter." So wrote the im-bound captain while the cold summer passed by them, and the crew were employed daily on the hills gitlici-ing sorrel : which they all relished much, and am: with vinegar, as a rotection agaiiist scurv .

In the autumn 0 that your Captain .\l'(.‘i.:ro, having arranged to send lmuio tho wcckl ’ by cat in the succeeding spring, prepared or ii prolonged detention. “ Although,” he writes. “we had already been twelve months upon two-tliirds allowance. it was necessary to make preparations for meeting eighteen months iuoro —a very severe deprivation and constitutional test, but one." says uictly the true Arctic ssamau, “ which the service we were employed upon called for ; the vessel being as sound as the day she entered the ice. It would tlicrcfoi'c be discrcditablc to desert her in ciglitccn inimi- red and lifty-three, when a favoiir-able scasuii would run her through the straits, and admit of reaching England in safety." No llivuuralilc season came. On the anniversary of the ship‘s entering the Bay of Mercy-—vvliicli she did with the barometer at thirty-three and not a particle oficc upon the wutcr—thcrc stood the thermom- eter at tvvo,nnd the whole place was frozen up, with every indication ofa very severe winter. The winter proved indeed to be the severest ever encountered by our sailors in the frozen regions. In January the average height of the thermometer was seventy-six degrees below freczin point: uvera ing ninety-four on the whole our-and-twcntylionrs. Ncvcrtliclcse the crew worked manfully, travelled about on search parties, hunted for game, and remained on the whole, in remarkably good health. “I can attribute our excellent salutary state,” Captain M‘Clui-c wrote, “ to the causes previ- ously alluded to in this narrative, (namely the

_ courage and chccrfulncss of the men, the cures

of the surgeon, the cxccllont quality of the stores on board, and a good ventilation of the ship) in conjunction with a bountiful supply of game which n merciful Providence has sided us with, and has so materially nddcd to our other- wise scanty rations." in other desputchcs the commander is to be found providing manfully or the chance of his own destruction, and warning other ship who may be sent out to look for him by what signs they are to conclude that he and his companions are lost. and in what direction they are not to impcril other crews in looking for him. 'nfading be the laurcls ofour northern na- vigators tlius won by exercise of all the tiricst qualities of manhood! Let us be g'nd, too. that we have one unspottcd place upon this

lobe of cure: a Pole that, as it fetches truth out ofa ncedlc, so surely gets all that is right- hcadcd and right—licartcd from the sailor whom the needle guidcs.—Household Words.

Tut: Assrnuiv EMriiu:.—A letter was read from Colonel Rawlinson, at the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society, dc- tailing his progress in the work ofcollcctiiig and interpreting the Assyrian inscriptions. He considers it now to be pretty well estab- lished that the Assyrian empire was founded about I250 B. C. The Assyrian empire must now be considered comparatively ino- dern, and any real antiquity must he sought for in the ante-Assyrian period. The names of three more Assyrian kings have been discovered, which must he interposed be- tween Tlglath Pilcscr and the original founder ofCaleb, but the list cannot yet be regarded as complete, and he fears that the obscurity in which the genealogy is involved cannot be cleared up until a complete tablet of dynasties or more bricks are iscovered. ‘rent the tablets and syllnbarin he has made out a list of some 300 or 400 monograins with thcir explana- tions; but he feels quite bewildci-d at the immensity of the work, as the number of idcographs and compound signs passes all belief. In one tablet he has found a regu- lar catalogue of all the gods of Asyria and Bnbylonia, and of the temples and cities in which they were worshipped. This list, although only a fragment, contains nearly 500 names. Mr Hormugd Rassnm was to work with I00 men at Kilcli Shergat during the whole of November. Colonel Rowlin- son mentions the discovery of a third obe- lisk at Nineveh. The historical part oftliis obelisk is very interesting, us it commei_no- rules the exploits of a naval expedition in the Mediterranean, which set out from Aradus in thirty-four Phenicinn vessels, and advanced as far as the Grecian Archi- pcliigo.

NAPIlR'l DYING Gsur-.—-Dr Edward J Scott, of Southern, was one of the medical sucmlanls of the Isle Sir Charles James Napier. and was with him constantly for some weeks, and up to his death. Dr. Scott iss Frccmnson, and at a late meeting of his lodge, took oceseioii to stale that, an hour or so before his death, the bend of Sir Chsilen laid in his, and that shortly before mar event, Sir Charles took him by the grip of s M. M., and ihiis died ; giving a finial proof of his sp rscintjon of fieeinssonry, dying as s be ding s brother i'nsscn's head in this frslcrnsl uisinsr.

-‘Wood is the thin , sller sll," as the inn with the wooden cg said when the mad dog bit it:

An elegy in a paper, upon an old lad who had been thrice married, and le 1 thiitccn children, begins--“ Adieu, sweet mid!" . . "- v. ..

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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

The Europa has arrived at N. York, with .1 week's Inn» uutelllgt-lice: but our l‘3n:_.'- Iisli files lr ‘‘ not yet come to hand. Th" Telegraplil" liishcs a. bi-iefepilomc of the news, from ‘which we learn that Lord Pal- lnt.'l‘wIUl|, as had been anticipated, has c-iiisciitcd to return to the Home oflice. The announcement of the fact caiusi-d a fall in the Fri-iicli funds, the l'l0lll('. lmril being, it is well known, nn can-nest advocate for an energetic interference in the Eastern quarrel. Purlinuicnt is to meet mi the {list iii.-I. At the latest accounts, llio combiuml fleets had not entered the Black Sea, and lmpen were ciitcrtnined of poac.c—liopes raised, we firmly believe, only to he disap- pllllllell. The report is couliriiied of the alliance of Russia and Persia, and a Persian in-my commanded by a llussinn General, w:i.-i preparing to attack lingdnd. On the Danube lif)lllC skirmishes were occurring, but no important action had taken place. The Russians were, however, concciitrntin tlii-ir l'm-oi-s in the vicinity of Knlufnt, und we shall doubtless sun“ hour nfllicir nttnclt upon the 'l‘urkisli (‘uinp. Sweden and l)t;ll|'l]fll'k, uliirim.-il at the uggrcssiv alti- tude of Russia. have entered into an alli- ance offensive and (lo-l'cn.~=ive.

CHINA.

Advices from Shanghac to the 4th of November has been received, and from Hong Kong to the 8th. The linpcrinlist were boniliurdiug the former town, but the insurgents were in good s irits, having plenty of powder, rice, Ste. Jr. Reynolds, nu Englislimnn. was on tiered I5 the lmperizilisls when he was aldllllg the rebels and they were talking of executing him. it is stated that the Britisli Consul refused to intei-fere. Tlic Sloop-of-war, Sui-aiogn is the only American ship of war at Shun- glinc' The stock ofrlce at Perkin is ex- linusted. The news of the capture of Shanghae by the Small sword society, had prmluccd a rent sensation, and many of the foreign residents were of opinion that Canton would soon rise and expel the Mandarins. Some of the lower order of the people of Canton liud behaved very rudely to Americans and British, making treats, &c° To secure the lives and property oftho foreigners in case of an outbreak, the British sloop-of-war Lily, had moved down near the foreign resi- dence, so as to linve them under their guns. The U S. sloop-of.war Supply remains at her former anchorage. Incnsc ofany serious difficulty it was understood that the force ofthe two nations would act in concert, although nothing was appro- licnded uller thcse precautions. The U. S. Consul has received instructions from Mr. Maxi-sliiill to advise all Americans that they should treat both parties on is perfect equality, if they wish to recover for any losses occasioned by the war.

EXTRAORDINARY xsws FROM AUSTRALIA.

The following extraordinary intelligence is con- tained iii a lcner received by Jose h Abraliain, l".sq., ofllrisml, from a relative in chart Town ‘or really sinrilinu intelligence it beats everything that has yet reached us from that guided lsiid. lfllic account he mic, well may the writer say "Gun-lnrsn.nnlv knows where all this will ond:"——

" Hoasur Town, Sin‘. 8, 1853-—Knowing how deeply inlcrcsling any news respecting Au- stralia must be to you. l write to inform you of: great‘ discovery that has again been made on the Gcelunu sidc, about 50 miles from the Iuivu. They have hcen digging very deep, and hole come on a lll)lt-, of gold about I00 feet from the surface, apparently incxliaustible. All I can tell you rcspectiiig it is that the people’s minds are parity turned, from the immense discovery. Every Inh l'ull of earili they raise from these holes cmilainn pounds weight of gold. The more they dig, the more inexhaustible it appears at Gcelnng. A tumult has broken out among the diggers. The Government has sent up all the niilitsry to quell ii.-. distiirlizances, and the marines of her Msjcsty’s ship Electra are mounting guard II the Treasury, and the sailors of Ilie above steamer of war mount sonny at the banks. The military from Van Dienien’s are about to he ilespslclied to Mel- lrourno In aid the military already there. Good- ucss only knows how all this will cnd.— Hobart Town, Si-pl. 5.—By the etciiuier from ‘eclong this day, I Iind that ii good quarry has been dis- covered near Geclong, I00 lo 130 feet fiom the surface of llie_ enrih, putting all our diggings in the shade. l8.000 size. have been taken out in three days by zifcvv persons. and one person has gut out a lump weighing l00lb in one solid piece. This is no exaggeration, sad the greatest excite- ment prcvziils.”

Mtssicxinv son Loot-noo.—0n Sunday, Octo- ber 9th,Rcv. G. H. Morcton was admitted to the ofiice of a Deacon. in Shanghne. He was about to proceed as a Missionary to the Islands of’ Looclioo, which is, nt the present time, the only channel of access to the secluded Empire of Japan. An edition of the Four Gospels and Acts was to be printed in _tlio Loochooan-Ja- ncsc lnngun . It was stained, in a sermon

y the Bishop of Shangeae, that during the first half of the resent century the Word of (led had been rcn cred accessible to above six hun- dred millions of the human rsce,and the Bible, in whole or in rt, published in one hundred and fort -eight pngpapes, of which one hun- dred an twent -cig t ind never beforea pear- cd in print.nn((sbovc twent had never fore been reduced to a written orm—throu h the labors and funds of the British and creign Bible Society. .

BERMUDA. - _ Our dates from the Bermudas are to the 7th

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Several American vessels of large Ionsge, with valuable cargoes on bosrrl, have sriived at these islands in dvsuess within the last ten days, having siifibred severely fmni the terrible gsles which have been prcvs lien is these latitudes during the great pen of in r;snd most of them have found refuge in the ins harbor of St. George, where they are discharging their. csi-goes, preps- ratory to being refined.

' c maps are ll0\l' in excellent health. There ‘may be isolated asses ‘ of s febrile iisisrs; but tlicselslsiids are "at present quitefrss from any. Epidemic.

Thswintev in Havana would" brsgsy see. The holidays were liclsg eslctsrstsd with all the

enthusiasm of the Cubsol.

There was no news iif importance as Hsvsnn. 'l'lie we-.illicr was charming, end Illfi llclllll ill lhfl island it-inarkslily um-d.

'l‘lie Dsmersrs Colonist of Nov. 95. elves as s niiniir ‘HI! (‘apt. “lint, who was fiirsiierly in Hi-inch (inane. ls Iikclv to be appointed Guvemtlt nflliui llulouv. The di-Iiuguisliod um-Bel lleftln mniicd i-, we need hsrdly ssy, ilie Governor of Heriiiu :i.

Pirc.iis!v's lsi.iNn.—'l‘hc many friends of the Rev. G. N. Hoililis in England will be glad to learn that he has ssfelv returned to his fiock on Pitcairn's island. flour Admiral Moresb , coinmander in chief of the Naval station in t e Pacific, who brought Mr. Hobbs away from the Island, with a view to his ordination, in the autumn of 1852, landed him in health and spirits at Pitcsirn's island on t s 15th of May last. The joy of the inhabitants on seeing their tried friend once more, was axceediugl great;

ut they were suflering at that time from the double calamity of influenza and a scarcity of food. The Admiral most op rtunely assisted them with provisions from t c Portland. and line since sent them out from Valparsso u only soxne supplies to make up for the failure of their crops, but ii strong. well built whale- boat. which he expects will prove of great value to them.

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UNITED STATES.

Disrnrr-rivn I-‘mi: ix Nsw Yosx—lisrsson Ho- 'rsi.is .\siiss.—'l‘he immense pile of buildings fronting on Broadway, known as the Metro- politan Hall. and including the new ands len- did Lafarge Hotel, was totally destroy by fire this morning. Several adjoining buildings on Broadway and Mercer street were a greatly damaged. The hotel lnid a large fron- tagc on Broadway. and was built in the costliest of marble. and extended hack to Mercer street, including under its roof the Metropolitan (foriiiorly Triplcr) Hall. The fire commenced in the Hall at one o'clock. and in about two hours the whole edifice was in ruins. The loss must be very great. as next to the St. Nicholas the Lufai-gowns the most costly hotel in the city. It was unoccupied, as not being entirely finished. The weather was intensely cold, and the fireman worked at much disadvantage