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loetors, inferior judges and Tehseeldars, belonging to the un- ecovenanted class, and chiefly natives. provinces, Madras and Bombay, the offices of magistrate and eolleetor are united in one person, who ts of the same rank and pay as the jo lee

the former is the more important personage; bat in Bengal, | seldiering as the Swiss, will be driven by want and despair ‘to cross the frontier, and come to swell the ranks of the Con- We do not observe that there is any idea of revolutionary propagaudism in the great movement to resist |

the magistrate and the colleetor are separate officers—the former being nearer to a pelice-magistrate, and the latter to

& more revenue-receiver—while the judge is an officer of ‘aggression; for Conservatives and Radicals unite in the com-

hieher grate, Our Todiaa territories are divided into about

100 distriets or prefectures. These districts vary much in, é . ’ es . ’ ‘ * ' and the maintenance of the honour of Switzerland, Goliath,

size, but on the average comprise

£o00 square miles and 700,00 souls cach, with £120,000 of land revenue. Hach

district has a muvistrate and eelleetor, who has ueder him a

depaty and an assistant, both belonging to the covenanted

serviee; and also two or three uncovenanted deputy-magis- | trates and collectors, whom he may employ in almost any |

duties. [In Madrasand Bombay, as the districts are generally

larger, there is a larger staff. The judicial districts are not | necessarily conterminous with those of the magistrate and | don News of the World, Jan. 11.

evileetor, and there is, on the average, two judges to three revenue-distriets, The covenanted service numbers rather more than 800 individuals; there are about 200 military officers employed in eivil duties; and the uncovenanted ser- viee wambers about 1,850 (drawing salaries of from £100 to £800, and even £1,200.) This gives a total of about 2,900 persons, of whom more than a half are natives, employed in the vivil administration of the country. Lasily comes the class of inferior and ministerial servants, whose number must be immense. Kach distriet-magistrate’s office has about forty of these employees attached to it, and so has cach judge's office ; then in eaeh district there are, on the average, ten or twelve revenue-divisions, each with an establishment of twenty or thirty persons,—and also from ten to thirty police divisions, each having from a dozen to fifty policemen, vesides smaller posts. In all, about 100,000 inferior ver- vants; which, joined to the Civil Service, gives (conjectu- rally) from 120,000 to 150,000 persons engaged in the civil administration of our Indian empire.

The host of young men whom the British Isles anaually vend forth to recruit these vast Indian establishments, used to owe their appointments to the favour of the Court of Directors ; but reeently this patronage has been abolished, and a system of competitive public examinations instituted in its stead. The examination system is still in its infancy —~great defects characterise it, and we shall not over- sanguinely predicate its success. It will suffice to exclude incapables,—it will prevent the admission of that class which at present go by the name of “ the Company’s bad bargains ;” and by so doing it will insure a respectable mediocrity. But the probability is, that it will exelude not a few young men, who, in after life, would have proved anong the best upholders of our [ndiat empire. Different temperaments, like different kinds of trees, have different times for development. Many first-class natures are slow of growth. And if we do not take earo, Our examination system will draft into the Indian serviee far too many fast-sprouting larches and poplars, while almost wholly exeluding the slow-growing elms and oaks which furnish the best pillars of the State. One unequivo- cally good alteration has recently been made in the military service of India, by the abolition of the system of promotion ty seniority in the upper commands in the army. Thus the Executive is no longer necessitated to appoint to active and eritival commands officers of infirm health or little eapacity, merely because length of days has placed them first on the list. Jt was a reform nrueh needed, and whieh cannot fail to have the happiest effects on the efficiency of the Indian army.

(To be continued.)

Gleanings from late Papers. GOLIATH IN SWITZERLAND.

Tt is possible that the efforts whieh it is understood England and France are making to arrange the differences between Prussia and Switzerland, may be successful ; but it is also eertain that the Swiss are engaged in great prepara- tions fur war, and that an earnest and determined spirit per- vades the whole population, Twenty-four thousand men are to guard the passages of the Bhine, from the lake of Con- stance to Basle; and, when the cite and the reserve will be in marching order, tho army will consist of 150,000 men. The canton of Vaud, which has offered nine battalions of regular troops, gives now sixteen, well-equipped, armed, and already in good discipline. The King of Prussia has a ynighty army at his disposal; but the hearts of the Swiss are in their cause, and one man in earnest is worth halfa dozen who fight only because they are ordered todo so. The central committee of the Swiss Society of Carbancers has ad- dressed an appeal to various rifle clubs in the country, recom- mending all citizens who do not form part of the Federal army, to come forward as voluntcers, and to place their per- eons and property at the disposal of the country. ‘The most satisfactory aecounts have been received from Northern Switzerlaud as to the feelings of the frontier populations. Tho reeeption given to the Federal troops proves that the greatest confidence is there felt in the cause. The Federal Volonel Delarageaz is busily occupied with the fortifications of Basle. He is assisted by Captain de Valliere, ex-officer of the Anglo-Swiss Legion, who took part in the French expe- dition agaiast the Kabyles in 1852. The burgesses of Bieune have voted an unlimited credit for assisting the families of euch of the citizens as aro obliged to enter the army. At Berthoud a society has been formed for supplying uniforms and clothing to such of the citizens as cannot afford the ex- yense, and also for assisting their families. Switzerland is uta pigmy in comparison with her opponeut ; but she draws the sword for the sake of her freedom, which is imperilled, and the scabbard is thrown away; she has heroically won that freedom, and will not succumb to the menaces of her foe. Small she may be, but a great spirit is enshrined in that little body; and the sacred and patriotic dutics commit- ted to her care will be faithfully pertormed. We rejoice to gee the holy fire which the threats of Prussia has rekindled awong a brave people ; for it shows that the despots are not to have their way in Europe; that might will not be permit- ted to ride roughshod over right; and that the dreams o absolyte fanaticism whieh encompassed the Government of the whole earth, are never to be realized. Prussia may carry her threats into execution, and invade Switzerland ; but she will find it more diffivult to get out of Switzerland than to get jnto it. The euthusiasm of the Swiss isimmense, At Basle, far instance, the whole popylation lend their hands towards tie coustraction of entrenchments round the town. A single builder has sent one bundred of his workmen to labour at the trenches at his own expense. What has Prussia to offer in opposition to the spirit which this displays ?

Moreover, the ill-will of the South Germans against the Prussian expedition, is no less a certaiuty, In a letter from Berne, it is stated that the trade between Switzerland and Wartemberg. Baden and Bavaria, already suffers uuspeak- able losses, and several thousands of Séuth German work- inen employed in the Zurich and st. Gallen manufactures, will be thrown out of employment and driven to despair,

Between the Prussian and the Baden popglation feelings of

the greatest rancour have existed ever since the Prussian ocgupation of the Grand Duchy, consequent ou the democratic snoyement of 1849. The imsolence and arrogance. of the Prussian soldiery of that time——indisposed agaist the Prus- gians pot ovly the vanquished republican party, but every class of modgrate, inoffeusive, and neutral citizens, so that even vow the Prussians are never mentioved in Baden with- gut on expression of the must uncunquerable aversion. Te

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same feeling is rife throughout Southern Germany,

In the north-western, difference of relig’on, of dialect, and of manners, always -eontr.dutes to foster strong antipathies between high and low ‘Germans. There is little doubt but-many thousands from

in north-western Lndia, indeed, | Badea and Wurtemberg, who are as poor and as fond of | , a . \ - ness to abide by any decision which the Government may

federates.

mon cause, to secure the complete independence of Neufchatel,

who could sit idly over his wine whilst giants were engaged ia conflict, rushes to the battle when there is only Switzerland to cope with! Equally grand in retirement avd in action! But the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; and cireumstances may occur to convince his Prussian Majesty after all, that his cherry orchard, and a cup of wine there, are pleasanter things than the Swiss mountains and the reception which his forees will surely meet with.—-Lor-

CLUINA.

Continuance or Hostrtirres—Amentcan F[rans sent To rue Governor. —A French correspondent states that the French frigate Virginie was at Macao at the date of the last news. The French Admiral was to return to Canton at the end of November, and he had sent orders to the other French ships belonging to the station to join his flag immediately, The Sibylle, which had been sent on a mission to Singapore, was alone to return to France. Private telegraphic despatches bring accounts from Canton down to the 24th Nov., being about nine days later than those received by the last dircet mail from China. These advices state that hostilities con- tinued ; that the Americans had also engaged in the struggle, and that trade remained consequently at a stand-still. Thus much is known for certain. Humour adds, in explanation of the engagement of the Americans in the strife, that the price offered by the Chinese governor for the heads of the English, led to some heads of Americans being sent in, in mistake for thos: of our countrymen,

Tue Reventon 1x Cutva—Evacuation ov Suanemat By rue Imprriatists. — The insurgent army fought a battle on the Gth of November, against the Imperialists, and for the first time, the latter completely evacuated the town of Shanghai, and retired totheir ships. The chief of the rebels, in order to excite the numerous enemies of the reigning Govern- ment, represents himself as the last direct descendant of the Mings. ‘The Ming dynasty was overthrown by tha Mantchou Tartars, and the first Emperor of that nation commenced his reign in 1644, The reigning Emperor is his descendant, and it is for that reason that his enemies regard his family as a foreign race imposed on China. As soon as the rebel chief Tien-Te was again installed in Shanghai he published the following curious proclamation :—‘ See,, too, my first aide-de-camp, having in my name the chief command of mili- tary affairs, and having been yesterday named chief magistrate of Shanghai in place of the magistrate who has fled, because he dared not meet our eyes, publishes this proclamation for the purpose of announeing the definite overthrow of the Tartars and the restoration of the glorious dynasty of the Ming, who gave the country seventeen immortal reigns. By acting as we do we obey the orders come from Heaven—we likewise obey the desire of the people assembled round us to extermi- vate the Mantchou Tartars, and to drive them for ever from the earth. When we carefully study the emperors of the great dynasty of the Ming, we seo that their exterior and their clothing were handsome and imposing, in so much as to be able to transmit their features and their remembrance to 100 generations, while these hideous Tartars, as little elegant ag they are ignorant of the principles of justice, aré the cause that we now resemble animals, which proves that they them- selves are not men. ‘Those obstinate Tartars have sent on our nation a sca of misfortune which still lasts. We have raised the standard and the sword of jastice to exterminate them ; in a few days, having taken the supreme orders, we shall tell tho people in what manner they ought to dress themselves {In the fheantime, let us take care of our victorious treops, on order that they may joyfully and happily a¢complish their great labour, At present Shanghai is a declining town. Its produce is insufficient. Our duty is, consequently, not only to provide for the troops, but to seo that the people have all that is neeessary for them, Formerly, when a ship arrived in the port, it brought plenty of rice; why not now? I, therefore, aide-de-camp of the General-in-ehief, and for a short time chief magistrate of Shanghai, fear that rice will become as searee as pearls, and firewood as scarce as cinnamon, and that we shall not have provisions for a single day. For that reason I publish this proelamation, which shall be seat- tered like the leaves of the trees, to engage the nobility and the people to bring as much provisions as possible to Shanghai, and to wvite merchants from all countries to come and trade here, which on the one hand will be good for the government of the Ming, and on the other will justly allay the anxieties of the people. Make no opposition! You understand. Special communication. Shanghai, Ist year of the restored dynasty of the Ming, 10th moon, 7th day.”

A Fieur vor ss [von ar Cocnrx.—The principal idol worshipped by the Konganies of Cochin, and which is held in the highest yeneration, and inseparably associated with the feelings and sympathies of the people, has been enshrined in their pagoda at Cochin for upwards of three centuries. In 1792, certain acts of tyranny on tho part of the despotic sovereign of the day induced a section of the above easte to leave their native country, taking with them the revered idol to Allepey, in the territory of the Rajah of Travancore. In 1811 the Konganies resolved to return to Cochin with the idol, under the favorable auspices of a new administration ; but the Travancore State, finding that the idol was a very important acquisition, both on the ground of a superstitious feeling, and the valuable offerings which it attracted from its wumeaous votaries, strenuously resisted the right of the Konganies to remove it te their own country. The Konganies thereupon sought the interposition of the Iritish Government, and numerous were the appeals made, through a long series of years, to the Residents of the day, and to the Madras Government, but without suceess. ‘Those authorities perem- torily declined all interference. The Travancore State, ‘en- couraged by success, carried out a system of gradual encroach- ment upon the liberties and privileges of the Kongany com- munity of Cochin in the management of the affairs of the idol. The performance of the usual rites and ceremonies, and the administration of the funds, had been previously vested in the hands of managers, elected by the general body of the people of Cochin; but the Travancore Government attempted ia

1853 to appoint managers on its own behalf. The idol was ‘at the same time removed from the spot where it had been placed by its owners, and removed to a pagoda belonging to the Travancore State ; the coffers were forced and their con- tents taken possession of by the Travancore authorities; and the visits of the community of Cochin to the shrine at Allepey were interdicted. These illegal and arbitrary proceedings alarmed the Konganies, and induced them to bring back the ‘idol to Cochin without the knowledge of the Travancore Government. ‘This act on their part was characterized by the Travancore State as a theft ; and an appeal was made to the Madras Government, and finally to the Court of Directors, for the restoration of the idol to ‘Travancore. A despatch was recently sent out to the Madras Government by the hon. Court in support of the pretensions of the Travaneore Rajah, and the Madras Government have directed the immediate

restitution of the idol to the said State, under a proviso that

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of Cochin will reeeive consideration after ‘such restitution

. . . 1 ° shall have been made. The Kongnay community of Cochin immediately memorialized the Madras Government, praying

for a full inquiry into the case, and intimating their willing-

arrive at after such investigation. When the image was ille- gally detained by the Travancore State, the British Govern- ment peremptorily refused any protection to the JKonganies |in the recovery of their idol, but the same Government now ' most inconsistently step in to compel the Konganies to give ‘up the idol to Travancore without any inquiry whatever. ' A fall and impartial investigation is all the Konganies have ‘applied for, but this has been refused them. ‘The original order has been upheld by the Madras Government, and upon ‘the strength of it the Cochin State has sent an armed police |foree to break into the pagoda of the Konganies at Cochin, ‘and to give up the idol to Travancore. A serious riot took ‘place a few days ago, fortunately without loss of life. The IXonganies have sent an appeal, as a last resource, to the hon. the Court of Directors, praying for an inquiry.

Cua, Irs Porunation anv Ternrrory.—The Chinese Empire extends over an area of upwards of five millions of square miles, comprehending more than a fourth of the surface of Asia, and exceeding the whole of that of Kurope by nearly two millions of square miles, Its population, according to the census published by the Court of Pekin, amounted in 1818 to 361,703,116 ; according to a more moderate estimate, it may be reckoned at 250,000,000. Taking the former esti- mate, it nearly doubles the population of Europe ; taking the latter, it equals that and the whole population of the Russian empire to boot. Confining our comparison to the rest of Asia, we find that while the Asiatic subjects of the Czar do not exceed one-fortieth of the whole population of Asia, the subjects of the Emperor of China constitute one half. Com- paring the Russian, Chinese, and Indian (British) populations in Asia, Russia, which occupies an area about equal to that of China, possesses two inhabitants to every square mile, China forty-six, and India (while ber Majesty had only 100,000,- 000 subjects there, and a territory far inferior to that of Russia or China in extent,) ninety two. The position which China holds, as first amongst the political bodies of Asia, she has held for no less a period than two thousand years ; while that of Russia has not yet endured for two hundred. But equally with that of Russia the value of different portions of her territory varies. The provinces to the north of the great wall, and the west or western extremity of China, are inferior to the rich and fertile and densely-populated lowlands of China Proper, from which they have occasioually been sepa- rated when a change of dynasty has taken place. The effect of those temporary separations has been rather to consolidate the body of the Empire. Considering that the territories lying beyond the above-mentioned boundaries are chiefly inhabited by wandering tribes, still sunk in unrelieved bar- barista, it would almost appear as if the best thing that could happen to China would be their final separation. But they are not regarded ia this light in the Celestial Empire. They serve a purpose dear to that exclusive nation. They serve as a monster belt to impede foreigners from entering into immediate intercourse with the natives, and as a barrier against the more western empires and nations. They are re- garded as an impenctrable barrier against neighbouring nations, just as the great wall on the northern frontier is and has been for two thousand years maintained as a barrier against them.

TERRIBLE SUFFERING AT SEA.

CAPTAIN AND CREW OF TIE BRITISH BRIG PRINCESS LOUISA, SUBSIST ON AN OUNCE OF BISCUIT PER DAY—TERRIBLE SUFFER- INGS FROM COLD, THIRST AND HUNGER—A FOUR MONTHS VOYAGE ACROSS THB ATLANTIO,

The British brig Prineess Louisa, after a perilous voyage of 126 days from Cadiz, succeeded in reaching New York, her port of destination, on the morning of the 29th.

The Herald gives substantially the following account of her voyage.

Upon proceeding on board the vessel it was evident to even a casual observer that the brig had encountered the most severe weather. The rigging and sails, such as remained, were tattered and torn in the most woe-begone manner, Top- callant yards were used for fore and main yards, while such spare spars as were on board were constructed into the most doubtful kind of jury masts. ;

Nothing of note occurred on the voyage until the 17th of December, when off the coast of Barnegat, and when within a few miles of the lighthouse on that beach, a violent gale from the northwest sprang up, and almost completely dis- mantled the vessel. ‘Two topsails and the mainyard went by the board, rendering the navigation of the brig no easy task. Three of the men were frost-bitten, and the remainder were

cold which accompanied the gale. They were then out over seventy days, and, becoming short of provisions, the men

encouraged by the eaptain and mate, and after the gale had abated the vessel was got into trim, and another effort was made to reach New York.

some flour, and assisted them so far as he was able.

most fearful difficulties, and such of them as were not totally disabled by the cold, cheerfully obeyed the orders of the eaptain, and worked manfully to bring the vessel into port. Kor more than a month the forecastle was converted into a hospital. ‘Thither the frost-bitten seamen would hurry, and endeavour to restore their frozen limbs to life again, They were totally unacquainted with the luxury of a fire, and with benumbed hands and frozen feet, were obliged to seek repose in apparel which they bad not changed for weeks.

Captain Ryder was determined to reach New York, if his vessel remained afloat long enough for that purpose, and av- cordingly he stimulated the men to work. orn sails were repaired, jury masts were construeted, and every contrivance that ingenuity could devise, was put into requisition for the purpose of once more reaching the coast, and delivering the brig into the hands of the consiguees in New York.

On the 17th ult., while off Vire Island inlet, the great

show storm which visited the Atlantic coast so severely, arose, and, in the gale of wind which accompanied it from the

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where the rival elaims of the Travaneore Rajah and the community | northeast, the Princess Loui a was again driven to sea in a

-wrecked condition. In this storm they jost the foreyard, |muin-trysail boom, main-trysail, two topsails and foresail. | The wain-trysail mast was also unshipped and everything was left a complete wreck. The decks were covered with ice to the depth of eight or ten inches, while the sails and rigging wore entirely cuveloped in ice. The erew endeavoured to bear up against (he misfortune, but four of them were compelled to retire to their berths with frozen feet and hands, while the | others were in such a weak state for want. of provisions and water, that they could scarcely work the vessel. In fact, at one period, during the continuance of the storm the mate and _two sailors were all the men that the captain could call upen ‘to assist in navigating the vessel. The rigging was so sli pery that it was with the greatest difficulty that any of the men could get aloft. The snow together with the intense cold froze their hands so badly that, bending or taking in sail was a work of the greatest hardship to those poor fellows. llowever, it was a matter of life or death with them, so what work could be performed was done cheerfully.

The day after the great snow storm the crew had the joy of hailing the ship Patrick Henry, Captain Gifford, who, upon request, hove to and lowered a boat containing provi- sions, &c., for the relief of the famished seamen, Captain Gifford very humanely supplied then with a barrel of water, two barrels of beef, a small quantity of tea and sugar, a barrel of coal and a gallon of lamp oil. Thus replenished in stores, light and feul—things that they had almost been stranyers to for nearly two months—the crew were to work ably in making a final effort at ing port. The sick and disabled were cheered and nourished, and many of them, hardly able to keep their feet, crept out of the forecastle and helped the captain to erect jurymasts, and bend the last remnants of a tattered suit of sails. The hope of a speedy voyage to port was held out to them, and every in- ducement was offered them to assist in working the vessel.

On the 27th ult., the land was again descried, and upon a nearer approach to shore, those on board were overjoyed to find out that they had come within sight of the Highlands of Nevisink, and once more the prospect of reaching New York in safety was good. Some hours afterwards, and when about. twenty miles southeast of Sandy Hook, the steam-tug Ceres came alongside, and was immediately to tow the Princess Louisa to that city. The remai of the voyage was a short aad comparatively pleasantone. The little vessel reached her dock in safety after having encountered one of the most tempestuous passages that was ever experienced on the Atlantic Ocean.

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SWITZERLAND AND NEUFCHATEL.

Megrine or Tux Feperat Assemery.—The Federal Assembly of Switzerland met at Berne on Wednesday. A message from the Federal Council was laid before them, proposing to stop all proceedings against the Neufchatel prisoners, and to liberate them on the sule condition that they should absent themselves from the Swiss territory till all the arrangements on the Neuf- chatel question are officially confirmed. The message further recommended the dismissal of the military levies to their homes, and the discontinuance of all warlike preparations. The envoys from Russia and Austria have transmitted Notes to the Swiss Executive similar in purport to those from France and England.

Revotvtion 1n Prrv.—The advices received from Pera by the steamer from Aspinwall, go far to show that another of those South American revolutions which are got up ip New York, is in a fair way of sucecss, It will be remem. bered that about two years since Gen. Castilla got up a re- volution in Peru, and enlisting the services of @ small body of Americans, who had gone there from California, to pros- pect for gold, drove President Echenique out of the country. Kehenique eeeing the power that a few Americans ~ave to Castilla, came at once on here, as the headquarters of all fillibustering, and very soon arranged the programme of hie counter-revolution. Our New York fillibuster sachems fitted him out at once ; but some little delay oceurred subsequently, as Kchenique could net pay up as agr ed for the hardware. He set himself to work, however, and some three montha

since planked the dust and got the documents. The result

is, that his New York combination is being most successfully

carried out, and the rich prize of the Chincha islands, con- stituting the real strength of Peru, is about to fall into hig

hands. ‘hero is another point in the news from Peru which is of much interest. She has accepted the tripartite treaty

proposed by Chili, in conjunction with Kcuador, against filli-

busterisia in general, and Walker in particular. By this

treaty the three States bind themselves not to recognize any government. established by foreign adventurers, and to assist cach other against any such power. If Walker should gain his point in Nicaragua, he may have to contend with these

three South American States. This would just suit him, for

an expedition against the Chincha Islands would pay well; and this is the great secret of the active movement of the hardly capable of managing the vessel, so intense was the | Mineteenth ceatury.-~N. Y, Herald,

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Surpwreck.—The following painful intelligence has been

were compelled to live on an ounce of biscuit per day. It} communicated by a friend at Grand Manan. A ship called was also discovered that the water had all given out, so aj the “ Lord Ashburton,” of a thousand tons, from Plymouth

barrel of wine was obliged to be used asa substitute. ‘“ We) bound to St. John, consigned to Cudlip & Snider, was feeeelnadt used it,” said the mate, “just to keep the life in us, for we} on the Northern Head of this Island, on Monday morning

were all nearly dead with fatigue and exhaustion, from|in a violent snow storm. In less than half an hour sho was thirst and hunger.” After many days of weary labor they|dashed to atoms. There was never seen a more complete succeeded in reaching the coast again, but again they encoun-/| wreck. She had a crew of twenty-nine men, eight of whom tered a northwester, and a second time the vessel was dis-| were found alive, but dreadfully frozen, with the exception of mantled. In this gale they lost two trysails, two top staysails/ one, a native of P. E. Island, named John McInnis. The and one maintopsail. The storm was accompanied with | next day, sixteen bodies were picked from among the rem

intense cold, and as the sea washed over the brig the water | nants of the wreck, horribly mangled. None of the siiooms froze upon her decks and rigging, and converted her into a| were saved. I was among the first at the scene of this dis- miniature iceberg. Such being the state of things on board, | aster. It was a dismal place--high towering cliffs—the sea the men found it almost impossible to work the ship, and | breaking in with fury in mountain waves against their base

were under the necessity of breaking the ice from the sails! The survivors were observed to have gained a cliff from which and rigging with their marling spikes. However, they were| it was a perilous undertaking to rescuc them.—Visitor,

A Bewericent Discovery.—The iron horse, with its tire.

jess strength, its pulses of vapor and its flame, i On the 7th ult., and while in this straightened condition, | glorious ede I the aa eapacity ta ane sade the Boston packet ship Edward Everett was spoken, and the! and the metallic nerves through which intelligeace ements captain was requested to heave to. He did so and supplied | over a continent, prove by every flash of thought which traverses them, that man possesses i i The brig bad now been out of provisions, water, fuel and | godlike, the power to annihilate stich sent “toad light for the space of over forty days. At night all was total | and important as have been the results of making steam and darkness on board. The galley gave forth no heat—neither | lightning the common carrier and messenger of did the lamps show any light, In the day-time the scene was | the discovery by which weak or impure blood can be vitali dismal, too. The vessel was a most melancholy looking wreck, | or restored to new vigor and purity, by means of internal and below and aloft. The larder was empty, and nothing was} external remedies, is of infinitely greater value. The , left the poor fellows but a little flour and wine. With a! sources of vegetable chemistry as developed and plied by mixture of these compounds they managed to exist under the | Thomas Holloway have proved equal to this mighty task.

the world,

His famous Temedies impart to the stream of life a disin- fecting principle which frees the system from all impure and posionous elements. The powers of chemistry are almost beyond calculation, and as he has brought them to bear upon all the varities of disease, in those invaluabe vegetable com- pounds known as Hoxtoway’s Piuis anp OwvrMent, they have compassed their highest and holiest object.

Under the influence of the Ointment the skin, however disfigured by eruptions or exereseences, becomes a tabula rasa, pure, spotless, and transparent; and this erasure of blemishes is pot accomplished by driving back disease into the vital recesses of the system but by neutralizing the morbid waterial which feeds it.

The Pills act upon the internal fluids and the organs which secrete them on the same sanitary principle. They destroy the acrid particles snbjected to their chemical action, as infallibly as an alkali neutralizes an acid ; and at the same time impart a mild and constant electric action to the secretive and excretive machinery.

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