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     , aggressive" designs of . . 
     
     the seaboard of the North ‘Atlantic, which she has 
     
    
   
   
    
     While the White Sea and the coasts of that dis-_ 
     
     trict of Lapland which beloiigrs to'Russia are en-l 
     
    
   
   
    
     ciimbered with ice before mid-antninn. that portion 
     
     "of Norway which is within the Polar (‘lircle is. by 
     
    
   
   
    
     acnrious caprice of nature, free from ice dnrino 
     
    
   
   
    
     D 
     
    
   
   
    
     the whole of the year. The iminoiisrs depth of the; 
     
    
   
   
    
     long fiords wliicli cleave the coast of this wild re- 
     
     gion is, doubtless, one caiisc ot the plienoxnrnon. 
     
     Th" lllll!lt‘t1"t‘ ot the Hull Streain, the waters of 
     
    
   
   
    
     ivliinli do not ‘.Vll‘Jlly lose tlieit' tropical ivarintlil 
     
    
   
   
    
     t 
     
    
   
   
    
     after coinniiinicating to the western side of the‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Britisli isles a tcinpci’atiir.2 so perccptibly lii§.'lif'i'lmin. north, and longtitiide I-2”.’ deg. 5 min. cast, tin harbor 
     
     than that of the eastern, IS undoubtedly another.l 
     
     Be the cause wli.tt it iiiziy, it happens that while} 
     
    
   
   
    
     Archangel is loelted up for ciglit mouths oftho year; 
     
     in tliick-rilihed ice. and the ports of the Sea ofl 
     
     Olrhotsk are for tlte saiiie period iii;icecs.'sl:|o. l.llt‘i 
     
     town of l{:tlnlllCI'li35»l. Slllll2llt‘Ll Wlllill the t’olar: 
     
    
   
   
    
     , aousliim, which had been placed at the disposal of Captain 
     
     tVaiisittiirt by her owners for the purpose of towing, Etc. 
     
    
   
   
    
     |IAl'57..—i-it-i‘i’.~a o°.t‘zi+:'r'i‘i~;, JANUARY 
     
    
   
   
    
     PIIIATIJS IN cum/t. 
     
     Her MaJesty’s sloop Bittei-n and the inei-clnint steamer 
     
    
   
   
    
     left Shanghai on the 12th of Sept. to destroy it. well-organized 
     
     body of pirates, who for month.~x infested the coast ot‘(,‘liinn, 
     
     stopping all native trade, attackiiig and occiismiially cap- 
     
     turing vessels under the l*]ngli.~ili flag. On the trim they 
     
     boiirded 0. stispicioiis-looking Ningpo junk without ohtnininur 
     
     any Illlil-l'lDtl[lt)ll, but. proceeding with all speed, and arriving 
     
     at the piratical stronghold of Shcipoo, in latitude :2!) dog. 10 
     
    
   
   
    
     G 
     
    
   
   
    
     was found to be perfectly sheltered, and so SiI'iillpjl_Y for-titled 
     
     by nature as not to be equalled in any part of the world, 
     
     liaving tnrce ciitiics for ships, all of ivhicli are very iizirroiv, 
     
     with hills on either side rising froin the \v:;tcr’s eilgc to s-unc 
     
     lieight, wlticli, if fortified, would render Sheipoo inaccessi-, 
     
     bit: to any tlect which n1i;_rht be sent against it. A fleet of. 
     
    
   
   
    
     19. 
     
    
   
   
    
     AMERICAN SPIRAL Biu.i.i:-rs IN E'NGLANn.——Englllll 
     
     papers" state that the interior spiral bullet of J. W. Coch- 
     
     ran. of this city, described by us in the last volume of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     v SCI!-:N'I‘lFIt7 Aiiitiumn. has been highly approved in Eng- 
     
    
   
   
    
     land, where the inventor now is, for the purpose of imm. 
     
     ducing it there. This bullet, having three spiral grooves 
     
     in its interior chamber, and a very minute piissauié at the 
     
     point, receives a whirling motion round its long axis when 
     
     discliarged from a smooth bored fire-arm, and has, there- 
     
     fore, the some direct flight as a ball (lisclmmjcd from a 
     
     rifle. Numerous plans have heretofore been tried to give 
     
     bullets such a motion from smooth bored tirearms,ibut 
     
     they all failed, because they (the bullets) were fortncd 
     
     with projecting spirals, and were. tln.-refore, constructed 
     
     upon wrong principles. The projections met with sin-,h it 
     
     resistzince in passing lliroiigli the air, that their extent of 
     
    
   
   
    
     (,‘ir::l('=_. has an open lt:l)'l>tIlll‘ all the Will‘ rountl, «LJ,,1li‘-VL‘|ll,)-[\Vt) large piratieal vessels \\‘t:i‘t: ohsei-veil inooi-<:tllT‘||I20 W118 greatly’ retllltfctl. Cochran’s lnilletson: _s;||iii)lh 
     
    
   
   
    
     the inliabitauts, iiisteiul of yioldiiifz. to the lazy i.i—: 
     
     lliii-ticos of an Art-tic winter, etiiploy the long: .‘ll:.f'tl 
     
     in iidiiii: (llltl i.i lIllllllll‘Z. The liarhoiirs of this- 
     
     l't!:.;l'>ll .'l."t‘, as we liave .\'tti'l. oiioiiiion.-:. (‘o:iip:ii‘e:ll 
     
     witii thcin the :iii;.;li~.3.r luv of .\‘;~lmstopvil it.i;tilf-‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     . i 
     
     is of p.~.lti'y creek: 
     
    
   
   
    
     lhaul fotit-teeii 'llCitV_Y guns on one one side) and the decks’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ :i lt)ll‘_,' 'h;ii'i'ici' re:-fof lsliiiitlst 
     
     protects the ll(l\'lf.{i‘tilt)ll to the south. :i':d LL \'oy:im~' 
     
    
   
   
    
     head and stem, fully prepared for an tittack, their tlags und_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     b:inn'.ir~ ll_vin;_r at the niiist-licads, guns pointed (out: vessel’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     crowded with men. At liiill-past 10 o’clock they opened al 
     
     heavy riking tire upon the two ships as they entered the, 
     
     n:=rtli—r:istei'n pix.-‘-siigc, iv?-iicli is not lllll feet in width. Ow-1 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing to the steamer thivin-_; the sloop of ivar at full speed, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ _ _ _ _ 1-‘-in strong tido i-unni.ig_: in, they flew tlirough the shower of 
     
     ——-we ate ahaid to .‘tIl_\' ot how lew tl'i._v:s—-um-it:,.0,,,,,i 31,01, ,,.g,;c1,,,-we rm-,i;,tt|.mn_ The Bitter-n |mving,giniiiiig to be nitroduced into this city, soiue furious at- 
     
    
   
   
    
     traiisport :1 tloet froin tl1(‘S'.‘ \'.i~:t. li:irho'ii°s totlmli,C,.,, C3,: on‘ by the steziirior 
     
    
   
   
    
     ) 
     
    
   
   
    
     anchored with springs on liort 
     
    
   
   
    
     outside and of cortical form, so that they offer less rt-gist- 
     
     ance to the air than a coinnion rifle bullet. it is slatted 
     
     that he has received orders from the British Governini-nt 
     
     tor nianufacturing a great number of his shot for cannons. 
     
    
   
   
    
     lIow Mttciiinnnv lncamsirs BEN!-‘.1-‘ICIAI. L,umnit. 
     
     About five years ago, when soiviiig tnacliiiies were he- 
     
    
   
   
    
     taclts were uiadc upon them by ignorant and mock phil- 
     
    
   
   
    
     5l“”‘~‘ "'- ‘-19 l'”“*l’ --5-3” l*- ll l‘ ‘‘'‘’’'‘J‘ “"1 l “Ht-=1lJlb, -Wl 0l"."Ul ‘M [310-'l<l'=|‘l"' “P9” ill“ l"'-‘NC-ll “U-t,1).nilll‘0[)lslS, who pretended to be anxiously concerned for 
     
    
   
   
    
     li.iis.~'i:i, while (levotiiig siicli Cllt)l’i:l’)‘tl:~‘. t::.pt.-its.‘ to' 
     
     the lt)l‘tll{‘.tlt)ll of an ai'se:i:il and fortri-ss in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     south, should h:ive siiliniittcd so long: to he coop;-tl, 
     
    
   
   
    
     tip \vit;liin the niirrow and sh tllow \t';itt-,i‘s oftlie 
     
     Baltic, and to siiti'er a blotzkiide in which ice rc- 
     
     lieves the etforts of rt liostile tloet. tlf late years 
     
     Russia has awoke to the fitll iiriportziiico of this 
     
     oversiglit: all that the most dexterous intrigues, the 
     
     most. cautious cncroaclimcuts,———ull that threats and 
     
     blaaulislimciits could effect, has been tried on the 
     
     United Kingdoms of Sweden and t\'orway to lil~ 
     
     diice them to code only so much apparently wort.li- 
     
     less territory as would bring Russia within reach 
     
     ofthis precioits strip of coast. I A fishing station on 
     
     the Bay of Varaiiger was all her inodcst desire. 
     
     The Bay of Varanger is forty miles long by six 
     
     miles wide, and protected by the Island of Skogeso, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ; .where a few batteries could defy in numerous enc- 
     
    
   
   
    
     my, It has two outlets, is only fifty miles from the 
     
    
   
   
    
     . present, R'us_sian boundary, there is .in dcpthfroiii 
     
    
   
   
    
     five to fifteen fathoms, it abounds in fish, and 
     
     rI.fi‘t)|'dS'0lI its southern side a secure anchorage for 
     
     any number of vessels. It is easy to imagine how 
     
     soon the more fishing station which’ Russia so ino- 
     
     ddstly demands, wotild'groiv into a naval station, 
     
     the naval station into afortiticd harbour, tho forti- 
     
    
   
   
    
     -fied harbour into a fortress of. the first class, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     the tortress of the first class, into a military and 
     
     naval arsenal, calculated to overawe Norway, and 
     
     to menace the shores of'_‘Wes_tern Europe. We 
     
     have great. pleasure in announcing that all these 
     
     schemes of gra.spiug.ambition have, so far as lll!- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' man fOl’eslgllt’c£l.n etfect it, been completely frustra- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ted audjan i,m'passable.barrier irnposcd betiveeli tlié 
     
     ’ ‘ iissia and her lodgmebt on 
     
     so ardentlytdesired. B the treaty which has been 
     
     entered ‘into’ between ti (3 Western Powers and the 
     
     United Kingdpm ot"Sytreden ahd Norway, the latter‘ 
     
     undertaké, on‘i'the' one hand, that they will not 
     
     cede any portion of their territory to ltiissia,t9_.nd 
     
     the ~Westeru‘ Powers promise. "on the other,‘ that 
     
     they will _'guaraiitc"e'.the'Scandinavian"lti'ri msi 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ their present boundaries, and neither permit nssia“ 
     
    
   
   
    
     to encroach upon them to t.he«North, ,nor to seize, 
     
     as it is ‘very . probable she might wish to do, . 
     
     large and important island of , Gothland. V '1‘h_1is, it 
     
     ma be hoped, we itiayc'sitccecdcd_ in.drax_ying a 
     
     tin‘. ‘beyond which 'R.l.X_'$iKLl1 ambition $l,13.1rl' "Oi 
     
     penetrate, and limiting at last tnat gradiial:a.nd 
     
     constant encroachment which has been for thc,_last 
     
     hundred years obliterating province afterprovance 
     
     from the map of Europe, and transferring them 
     
     from the domain of civilization and progress to that 
     
     of a brutal t‘yi:_a,nn "and rctrogradc _b11l‘bi1.$7fl‘- 
     
     We know not whet to: this proposal may be‘ ibi- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     3' 
     
     Q 
     
    
   
   
    
     . lowed up by any more extensive~ foriu ot alliance, 
     
    
   
   
    
     whether it will.~be deemed advisable by the Wes- 
     
     tem and the Scandinavian States to -unite in arms 
     
     againsttlio common enemy, and seek to terminate 
     
     the war by one grozit. and concentrated otfort on the‘ 
     
     fortifications of Ur-onstitdt-aiitl St. [’Cit‘.l'sl)lll‘g,—-Ol 
     
     this we know nothing: but, at any 1'-‘NC. "W011. has 
     
     been gained by inducinit those States to assutnc a 
     
     firm and sclf-respecting '.llili',l(l‘0' towards 11119513» 
     
     and by placing what we 2 my tatrl _ 
     
     surmoiintablc obstacle l‘,(‘.’.\‘.'t.‘.'."ll that F1f:":§"‘?55‘V° 
     
     Government and the objo,-t ofits fondest dcsire,—— 
     
     an access to the,\tlantic U.:v._- Lll tiovenclosed bytes’, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and within ;\ fmv days’ sail of the Sliorcs of l‘‘l‘a.ttlCc, : of the stomach and bowels. 
     
    
   
   
    
     England, and Germany. 
     
    
   
   
    
     y hope is an in- tcumplaints, and will readily (‘heck tho worst stages of the evil, in 
     
    
   
   
    
     with a he:iutit'ul il(:Clll'LlC_t' of tire. The pirate.-. kept up theirs 
     
     de:.-perate attack with great spirit, doiiig consideralile da—; 
     
     ni:i-go to the hull and riggiiig, besides wounding several men,’ 
     
     Saint: dan;_,rei'oiisly. Shortly altertwelvc, the pirates ceased, 
     
     tiring, and retreated. The boats were iiiiiiit-ilizitcly sent to 
     
     board the deserted vessels, and found only one able to tloat. l 
     
     She had been preserved from the Bitter-n’s destructive lire, 
     
     by filling a large merchant junk with cotton bales, and sink-, 
     
     ing her to it. required depth with ashes. so that the shots on-‘ 
     
     ly entered the bales, without injuring the floating batteryl 
     
     behind. She had 2.3 guns mounted on deck, three of them: 
     
     measuring upwards of 1'.’ feet in length, and '20 smaller guns 
     
     dismounted below. All the other vessels were so riddled 
     
     and damaged as to he in a sinking state. They weresct. on 
     
     fire, and burnt to the water’s edge. All were heavily armed, 
     
     with English-made guns, varying in calibre fi-oiii (ilb. to 3'2- 
     
     lb. Some of the pirates had belonged to the fleet which at- 
     
     tacked the Bittern at Fuchau, in Leautunw, in August last, 
     
     and had arrived here about 14 ‘days ago. l‘lie English and 
     
     American niisaiouurios’ Ningpo boat was recaptured‘, and- 
     
     had still on board property belonging to them. The pirates 
     
     having in great force taken possession of a joss-house, a few 
     
     miles over the hills, Ca tain_Vansittart, at the urgent en- 
     
     treaty of the mandarins, anded the marines and slptlll-§l‘mS 
     
     men, under-..tlli_e orders of Lieutenant Brooker and Assistant- 
     
     surgeon Néwlqn, accompanied by Mr. Interpreter Sinclair,‘ 
     
     tliojos-house being well.situa.ted for a defence on the sum- 
     
     mit of a hill commanding all approaches, and sari-oupded by 
     
     trees and thick brushwood, hmong which 8. niiinbei'_o_t'tlie 
     
     pirates had taken up their position, well armed and deter- 
     
     mined to defend themselves to the last. They s‘ucceed_ed in 
     
     killingcovei-al of the Chinese soldiery, who had‘,t'ollow‘ledltl’ie‘ 
     
    

    
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     Bitter-n’s men, commanded by a‘ white-button mandarin,‘ , V t 
     
     _ irtites, ‘however, found a difference when they cliai-' ed, ‘ho, 
     
     Englishmen. for they were iiivaiiably shot down _orfi>,a.lon- 
     
    
   
   
    
     etted. ' After skirmishing through the brushwond tlie_ core 
     
     of the temple were forced, and the pirates discovered pon-, 
     
     ceiiled‘in most singular places. Two coffins had been emp- 
     
     tied of t.heir_p_roper occupants, and filled with the living, 
     
     armed with short. swords; others were found beliind, over,’ 
     
     and under the idols, and ii number under, n'stack_ of.,str‘aw: 
     
     among them were in few women, who were allowed to"esctEic. 
     
     Only four or five trifling injuries were received by the ' ‘II!’-, 
     
     .t‘ern’s ,ci-e'w,' although many sutfered from the power-_fcl rays 
     
     of the"sun';,_'ii. ,_marine died ' ml its effects a few days'a'lter- 
     
     wards. Such acomplctc destruction of n pirtiticpl h9fd8_ll d 
     
     never, previously been heard. of in China, all thcir_vcss§3s 
     
     were destroyed and burnt; some hundreds, nccviyr-dirig‘ to _ the 
     
     evidence of it p‘risonb'r. were killed‘ by tbe'sbbt_,and shell 
     
     during the e 'ag'e.ui,ent, while those‘ who‘ escaped’ asliore, 
     
     and who wool .in cohort. time have manned » nothcr set, 
     
     were followed and destroyed oi-‘captured. The 'nl_y vestig_e' 
     
     of a piratical tleet remaining when the ships leflwshcipoo, 
     
     were in few pieces of charconlwliich the natives were col-, 
     
     looting for firewood. ' he followicg.wei".e the. principal ‘ca-‘ 
     
     sualties:——Mr. iirncr, mastervof the ittcrn,, a woun in 
     
     the right side from ii round shot; died four days afterwards. 
     
     Thomas Stevens, a marine, died of the otfectp ‘of the sun. 
     
     William Hanuey, marine, loss of right leg b ‘ti. round shot. 
     
     Thomas Ellis ordinary seaman, loss of the le log by a. round 
     
     shot. James Brownlic, boy, loss oftlie left leg. Several other 
     
     men were wounded by splinters, &.c.,--none severe y. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Favor! of all (Inscriptions and their onro.—-Many remedies have 
     
     been prescrilied for the reliefof autlkring humanity for the cure of 
     
     these distressing and often times fatal diseases. Few seem to be 
     
     worthy of much comment, in a word. few possess any intrinsic value, 
     
     Holloway’: Pills. however, will be found invaluable for those 
     
    
   
   
    
     trntli, by it perseverance with this it-mcrly according to tho prescrib- 
     
     ad directions, they will restore the swtlbicr to liealtli, after every 
     
    
   
   
    
     other mnnns have failcd. Those Pills are also famous in all diseases 
     
    
   
   
    
     -benefitedi. 
     
    
   
   
    
     poor steanistresses. They pictured the sad fate which 
     
     awaited those persons; told lioiv the iiard-earned bread 
     
     was to be taken out of their months by such capitalists as 
     
     could purchase and use such machines, thereby dispens- 
     
     ing with the labotir of ncedlewoincn, and thus bring them 
     
     to want for lack of employment. Have such predictions 
     
     been fulfilled? \Vc who have for years carefully watch- 
     
     ed tlic effects of l:1_bo.‘-sai'iii;.; in-acliinery dflevtery hind 
     
     upon society, knew that such iilcas, when uttered, were 
     
     no better then the emanations of an itliot’s dream, trusted 
     
     to a few years’ _eXp8flelICe to prove the‘ benefits of such 
     
     machines toevery class in the comintiiiity. ,' Tlionsands 
     
     of such machines arenow in operation in our countrv, and 
     
     if we are rightly informed, more than a thougiind of them 
     
     are inpperation in New York City alone; but instead of 
     
     tlieseliaving thrown any ,inrlustriou's"'feiriiili: out of im- 
     
     ployment, they have, rather incieasedlt c,iii'a'ntity of worst 
     
     for t|ie_m to do. We were told a _few'd,a'ys,‘s'ince, by one 
     
     engaged somcwhat eiitcnsively, in ‘providing. needle-work, 
     
     that twenty stitches are now ma'dé’\—jnsori‘re"' arments, for 
     
     tine‘ that ‘was rhaile"five years ago-'—iti__"sl'iofl,, that sewing 
     
     niaciliines had greatly 'inc'reased"‘fli3. dé_miiiiH for sewed 
     
     work. Thus coat linings, which used foiiieiinade plain, 
     
     aré, now mostly ‘elaborately worked,_ and finely stitched, 
     
     and it is tliqsa.tne with almost every kind ofisewed work, 
     
     The amount of such work, bestated,‘ had increased even 
     
     in a greater ratio than.t|ie machines to execute it. A 
     
     higher taste is now being gratified, and hundreds of wo- 
     
     menwho used to ply the needle car|y'and’llIte with their 
     
     fip'gIer's,.' t'or'_a‘i'tierc pittance,‘ are, ncwl betterfbemunerated 
     
     ‘fey: illt‘§II‘.ll1b6l' in '.‘i_i_ttétn.d_i‘ng sewing, maclliitlies, while, at 
     
     the same ti _ _c,_, their hours_of toil_have bé_e' measurably 
     
     rédiiced. , _.t is our opinion, t.hat,t,l;ie_ very,“ ss—needle- 
     
     women-,—.respecting whom. somuch was at one time said 
     
     aboutbeing injured by. sewing-machines, will be the most 
     
     In many,zif not .in almost ovary instance, 
     
     this has been felt to bathe casqclrcady. ;_'~Sewing ma- 
     
    
   
   
    
     - - ‘¢hines,'theret'ore, which are but in recent ihvdntion, afford 
     
    
   
   
    
     ttbbndunt exatiiples “ how machinery lacrekteii beneficial 
     
     labor.” T _ 1'  
     
    

    
     «Wait» to WEAR [min RUBDEIII.-'--WOWIBVC noticed 
     
     that ntaviypersons in our city wept lntliaritliber overshoes 
     
     inacold dry weather, to’lte_ep tlilei'r"ft=,e_t"w'arlh' This is an 
     
     injurious _and‘evi_l practice. _I,tidia“rub,  ' oes are very 
     
     con"i_for.ta,b,|,e and_va uable foripcoiieringlt ye,‘ pm during wet, 
     
     sloppy weather, but they should never bmworn on any 
     
     other occasion ; their sole use shoiild.be toltoep out water. 
     
     -They should therefore be put off whenever the wearer 
     
     enten a house,'imd be worn as little as possible, because 
     
     they are iiintight, and both retain and restrain the per- 
     
     spiration of the feet. The air cannot bt!",e‘itcluded from 
     
     them, or from”any' other portion ‘of the”bbdy, for any 
     
     length of time, without sensibly ulfectiiig the health. It 
     
     is our opinion, that no habit tends more to good health 
     
     than clean feet and clean dry stockings,,so as to allow 
     
     the free perspiration of the nether cxtreniities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Russun Si-IA VVoims.—'I‘lie British tloct has found a 
     
     terrible enemy tn the Sea of Azof, in the form of large 
     
     and destructive sea worms peculiar to those waters. 
     
     T hose attack the uncoppgreil parts under the water line 
     
     of the hips, and bore through them with the rapidity of 
     
     an old carpenter handling an anger. Vessels navigtiling 
     
     these sons have to be sheathed to the water line, or else 
     
    
   
   
    
     their days are soon numbered.