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W'M'M AH W9U% THURSD.IY MOR.YI.VG, OCTOBUt 59,11fZ,. A.to Jersey Elrtinn. —On til'’ 1 :tth ;n]( j n.i th. annualclcetian of .Wj. forVem h7w. ofU,e Bleiiffs and coronets, was, n ;^I';”S C ro:urna /T the members elected could jttkm iTr 8 ’ TOdoubl ,hat ‘! ,e next l.eoisiaiure’ g ° ”***"* 1,1 Burlington and a .1 a.adlescx counti<s3, which gave vofr l.t. I'YVif a ffainst the Jackson parly last V w 1 , at l the recent emotion returned, it is 1 et, A Ja S\ 3 ° n *neniters, save one. Somerset re urns and 2. Hunterdon was divided on the r uni question; there has been a close run be t.veen the Jaekson caucus and the anti-canal ticket, as they are called. In Monmouth, the in- J.igenc© is, that the Jackson ticket has succeed ed as it did last year. ~. ™ or,; g ' siint <">•• wo hav ß no t i with sufficient accuracy to give any parti '“ V“ . S°'"C of them were nearly bal.Zd lit year—and these from the turn of the times, it is part v° Pr ° bab iUVe B°ne 8 ° ne m * aVor Jackson Accounts this morning from Essex state that all tue members elected arc anti-Jackson—Re prn s rom >crgen, that three anti- Jacksons are elected in that county. Middlesex, it is stated, has returned the Jackson tickcrt in full Trenton Gazette. A general turn out was made near Morristown. IV J on Monday last, in c of the visit ot an enormous bear. Bruin was taken by the am of dogs ami guns. Ho weighed Jtk) lbs and was thought to be about 14 years old. ‘ From the Albany Argus. American Board of Foreign Missions —The annual meeting cf the Board of Commissioners f*r foreign missions was held during last week in the sessions room of the Ist Presbyterian Church in this city, commencing on Wednesday. We condense the follow ing statements from a report ot some length in the Christian Register of Sa turday : The expenditure o! the Board during the year ond.ng Aug. 3J, 1829, was $.4,870 90; amount of debt Sept. I, 1828. $22,17:> 71-total $114,712 V, ./.Tkifc? receipts doting the year amounting to 84: leaving a balance for which the *foard is now in debt, of $7,78 1 5d he first day and a part of the second were oc cupied in reading the reports of the pru-lential committee, embracing an account of the respect- , ive missions under tho charge of tho Board. , P’\. W ednesday evening, an impressive and able discourse was dulivsied by the Rev Dr Al exander; of Princeton, in the second Prosbvterian Church. Arrangements having been made bv the Board t* co ntneuce anew mission to China, Mr. Bridu-e ----mnn Joft. this city to embark at York on Sa turday. as the first American missionary to China Mr. Oliphanl of New York has offered, with a great liberalise, to carry out the missionary, and to boar hb expanses for one year. Th a Rev Da vid Abeel, of the Reformed Dutch Church, i3 the companion and coadjutor of Mr Bridgemaa, be vujr employed by the Seaman s Friend Society to reside at Canton as a preacher to the many sea men visiting that.port, and to the residents there Long and animated discussions took place on the subject of tho American Indians, and parlicu iarly nr reference to the removal of the Chero kres. They were conducted by the Rev Drs Nutt, Miller, Beecher, Wisner, Alexander. sprin and Beman, and Messrs //opkins, Evarts and KeGil Ihe truest ion, we believe, was, whether or not the Bnrd shoold make an expression oY this subject at this time ; an I the result avas that it as ‘inaminousty agreeS that they should ex press “ inthmr report, a temperate, frank, and dignified opinion ” t f \ ‘7? °L <iored the next annual meeting be held m B oston on the first Wednesday in Oc t% !wr next, *ad that the Rev. Dr Woods n-eac’i the annual .-ermon, and thfei the Rev. Dr. Thus Do Witt be his alternate. From ♦he N Y. Courior and Enquirer. Cainjfnrative Shipping Trade of England and this United States. —The shipping trade of the United .States is rapidly increasing. A few years will place i: not far behind tnat of England. By the reports made last year to the Brii4a Parlia ment. we learn that the amount of British ship ping for the year 1828, which entered inward’. 1 from ail parts of the world, was 3.]05,<819 tons the amount which cleared outwards. 3,057,960 tons. The quantity of foreign tonnage which en ters rtr clears in the British ports is small in com pirignn with that belonging to thecrapire. Since ‘lßl4, British tonnage has increased a little over one half The greatest increase took place du ring the last year. It is well known that a short time ago, the English Government relaxed their navigation laws. Whether this change may have been one of he causes of the increase during the last two or three years, we do not pretend to de termine. The fact of increase is certain 1 On turning to the Treasury tables for the last year, we find that the quantity of American ton nsge which entered the ports of the United States for Jast .year, was I*—the whole amount, in cluding foreign shipping, was J,018,fi04 In 1814 the whole amount of Biitish shipping which cn. teredthe ports of that nation, was 1,846,570 tons! By this it appears that our shipping trade is ra pidly approaching tho magnitude and importance of that of tho first naval power in tho world. The commercial marine in every nation i§ tho only solid basis of moral power. Many of Hie nations of Europo may outnumber us in tonnage and ves sels belonging to their national maiino forco, but we possess what is proferable to mere ships and jrens— the prime material of a navy—sailors, ex perience, and an increasing shipping trade, which the nursery for naval power. Nobth Adams, Oct 14. Accidental Suicia',:- —It is a fact related in natural histecy thjt but onr creature, man excepted, ever performed i.s own destruc tion, and tins is the’Scorpion, wio, when ta ken, ami escape is found ’impossible, seals his fate, by stinging itself through the head. ,B*it we have an exception to inis rulo to record : a Bear, last week, in this vicinity, •committed suicide, by shotting himself with nvo nmskrrt balls; tut) precise motives foi tliis rash act we Have not been ab£ to learn, bui wo htvo reasons however for beuevmg sh it disappointed affection, disgust with the woifd, nr compunctions of conscience for dees Is done in the body, surh as robbing from orchards, and chasing unoffending slicKp, must have induced the commission of this self-immolation; his ‘deeds were evil, as he sought darkness for the perpe tration of them, and he was found weltering ing in his blood, with ail the horrors of hi* crimes depicted in his expressive countenance. P S. Since tiie above, we have learnt • ■the particulars of this singular affair; it ap pears Mr. Brum was examining tlie prem ises tfa m ighborir.g farmer by moonlight, and paying respectful attention to a bundle ci fr*,h gathered eocn-gialks, when hr soink his unwieldy snot against a core which was attached to the locks of two fa td tiffer, and strange to relate, they ‘shew f e l •’ uh-d he was wounded even unto death; 9 i he retried 3 few reds, utlcrcd a fatal be nediction on the heads of his relentless per secutors, and sunk down to stand up no more. The industrious he use wife never Jets pass uh opportunity to turn every thing to good account ; this unfortunate personage was stewed into a jelly, at least, as nearly so ;<s hot water and a most tuolifying fire coiil l produce the effect and three pails* ful of Bear s Oil, of the kind ud quality often imported from London, as an impor tant appendage to a fashionable ladies toi let, e-xco rioted from his corpulent -sides ; not satisfied with this gain; ihe poor fellow had to pass through another fiery ordeal, and fourteen pails of sfojfp* was produced, the ‘ marrow and fatness* of bruin’s own industry . —Bcrksh ire Anierican . The South Sea Expedition. —The brig i Anawan % the fl *g vessel of this expedition, | dropped down to-the lower bay yesterday, and will proceed to sea this morning* Thus, after three years pet severance and industry, Mr. Reynolds finds himself upon the ocean,'in -search of the undiscovered islands of the South. In addition to the commercial importance of this expedition, it is highly interesting in a national point r f view Whatever lands may be discov eied by Mr. Reynolds and his enterprising associates, will become the property of the United States. The stores of science will fee increased hv the products of far distun* islands, as y**t unknown to civilized man, and curiosity may, perchance, he gratified with something new. We visited the Anaxoan on Thursday, She is a fine vessel, and a very fast sailer. She is furnished with an excellent library, and all the instruments necessary for such an expedition. She lias a stout and hardy crew, an experienced captain, and first rate officers. After the commercial objects of ♦he expedition sh ill hav** been accomplish 'd, Mr. Reynolds intends to sail round the iry circle, and push through tho fiist open-t iiig that he finds. Success to him. Mr. R. is accompanied by Dr. Eights,-of \ lbnnv, a gentleman of talents ar.d sciecti-i ic accomplishments.— N. York Courier. .1 xiesf of house robbers broken up in IN. } nrk. Through the activity of the ps r s-dis having lo c t property, and particub,rlv ;he vigilance of our police officer v 4VIr. l\ The gang of daring house robbers tin t lw;ve commuted such depredations r in nrir city, have been discovered in Charlto/i fftreti’ and six of the villains are now in Bride well. Among the articles dir.cov*>red is the filate stolen fc.m the bruy.e of Mr Si las E. Burrows, NVIS LcR w place. A trunk, With Ihe initial/. M. B. in brass nans on the top, w*rfoum , i eaily this mor ning in a lot between Broadway and Bow ery Hill, near 13th street. It had been broken open and the consents taken out. N tw York Post. Extract cfa lb Up r to a gentleman in Canton, Ohio, dated RITZ *> Tavern, Sept. 29, 1829. Ab uflo*\ r o’clock this afternoon 1 wit tiFssed a scLnie shocking in the extreme I raven in/ the road from Canton to New London* ;abom 32 miles east of the former p a#!e, 1 came to where a tree had just ftiltii across the road* and in its fall had crushed u* death a man and woman, who it ding eastward in a horse wagon. e tree had fallen diagonally across the broke it down* ami the horse was [ s * nding quietly in the shafts unhurt, and >no par icle of the gears loosened. Thu persons killed appeared to he a min and his wife, travelling on ajournev ; the man apparently about 50 years of'age, of the [Woman no judge in ent could be formed, as her head was crushed literally to atoms, and Vo vestage of her countenance could be discerned. Several persons iveie on the spot w:\en I came up. I assised in get ting tho tree off the bodies, and on exami nation, f mnd a pocket book, from which it appeared that the man’s name was John i Herr, and that he liv€?d in Perry township, Wrtyne county, Ohio. ’ Ohio Repository . Boa Consrictor. —Among the sights to ho seon, at tho present tiitio, in this city, there is one, in the department of natural History, which attracts many visiters. It is a serpent of tho Boa genus, an enormous kind of snake, about the nal ure, size, and powers of which, many marvellous stories have been told both in ancient and modern times. The Boa Constrictor now offered for exhibition at tho Masonic Hall, id an individual of a species which exceeds all othets of tho serpent kind in strength as well as in size. Although but about five years of age, it already measures rome se venteen or eighteen feet in length. These ani mals are said to continue growing until fifty or sixty years old, and of the length and size to w hich tqey sometimes attain, history relates accounts that almost dagger credibility. The kinds most celebrated for their prodigious sizes and power, arc natives of the burning legions in Africa. The story, related from Livy, by Valerias Maximus, of the immense serpent which disputed with Re gulus I he passage of the river Bagdara, in Africa, and which was at last only overcome, after having destroyed many soldier*, by the battering rams employed in demolishing fortresses, is considered by naturalists as not altogether a fable. It is thought that the account, stripped of tho exag gerations with which a luxuriant fancy would be i apt to accompany the relation of such an event, is a true description of an enormous .Boa Con strictor, the size and strength of >• hich was pro bably not much misstated, if tho accounts given of similar animals by travellers in our own times arc to be believed. The true boa are witlKuit poisonous fangs They destroy their prey by means of muscular strength alone. They require food but once in about three months, and, in their native country, wli?n this period arrives, they glide into some deep thicket, whence they dait upon the unlucky animal that chances to pass the place of their am buscade, and winding their coils around it, they not only extinguish ffa lift) but crush its bones and compress it into a s?TN>©l esß m a 3 - Iu this state, they manage to swallow u entire, and when they have completed their monstrous mpal, they ; retire again to the covert, whero they rem.? 1 * 1 ftr some time in an almost torpid state. Boforo tn<s period of hunger again arrives, they shed their skins, while which process is going on they lie in a torpid state, and as soon as it is finished, again awake,, and seek out some new covert whore there is a likelihood of prey. The bo® exhibited in this city devours, at one of its meais, a large sized rabbit; but, in their native state, and arriv ed at full strength, the/ &co ablo to sQflsuino tho largest kind of animate, which they destroy bv their pressure only. An account which we liav been perusing, states that “ the elephant, the rhi noceros, the hippopotamus, and the lion, are th. only kinds that can resist them with success. Th • stag, the leopard, and even the buffalo, entangled onco within the c<’ils of the boae, must faJI eas’ victims to its voracity. The bose are, among pents, what the elephant and lion arc among qua ( driipeds; like the elephant they surpass the scr pent race by their size ; and like the lion, excel them in thoi<- address, their courage, and their force. Confident in their powers, they attack their prey openly; opp >se their strength to the resistance of their enemy with ardent intrepidity, and, when they conquer, it is bv their manifest bo dily vigor over that of their opponent.” Old and New Style . —The inconveni ence occasioned by the use of two Styles is so great that we should suppose the “Em peror of all the Ilussias,* from motives of humanity, if uothiug else, would at least fall in with the Gregorian system, and thus put ad end to the perpetual jairings which ex ist iti the computation of time. The now style, as is well known, was introduced by Pope Gregory the Xlllth, in 1582, and consisted simply iu making tho civil year coincide with the solar . To effect this, he struck out 10 days, (from the year above mentioned,) which had beeu gained since A. D. 322 in consequence of the Julian year being longer by about 11 minutes than the solar. This boing done, the vernal equinox was restored to the 21st of March —the same day on which it fell in 325. The object >of rhe Pope in making this change was principally to accommodate certain moveable feasts; things which we care *g little about as the Emperor of all the Russia*. But when a good measure is proposed,'it is foolish to reject iv because it comes from an unpopular source) —nd accordingly, the Gregorian year, or New’ Style, was adopted in Great Biitain by an AcPof Parliament in 1751. Most other Protestant countries have since concurred m the system; but wherever the Greek church predominates the Julian )ear is still the civil year. As the difference between (lio Gregorian and Julian year amounts to one day in 130 years, it follows that since the introduction of the New Style (347 years) there has been a gain of nearly two days and consequently in changing the Old style into the New, we now have to •add 12 dt.ys. We were never more sensible of the in conveniences arising from this difference of computation than in examining a day or two since th© dates of the principal events which have occurred during the present war in Europe. In many cases it is impossible to ascertain which style is made use of; and therefore tho day of tho part’cnlar event recorded. If u congress of nations is call ed for on any subject, it is, to intercede with Russia for the adoption of the real year, instead of the Julian year. The mo ment Russia would take this step Greece would ltd low tho example; and thus the whole Ciiri tian world would accord in a system, which, to uso the language of Fur* guson, “ought to be received in all places where truth is regarded.”—Jour of Com. The Declaration of War by Russia was issued on the 26ih of April 1828. In that document the Emperor declares that he will not lay dowiLhis arms till hs has ob tained the results which it sets forth, viz: all the expenses and losses occasioned by the war defrayed by Turkey; past treaties ! acknowledged and enforced; inviolable li- J betty to the commerce of the Black Sea, and the free navigation of the Bosphoius; and fu ally, tiie fulfilment ol the convention of July 6th for the pacification of Greece. Piosent prospects indicate that he will be able lo enf orce these conditions. Tle I principal events of the war, so far as we n.vo been able to collect them; are bin fly as follows? May 7, 1828.—Campaign commenced. June B. Passage of the Danube, and j capture of Siatounowa, with 12 pieces of cannon. Jitnc 9. Engagement between the Rus sian aiid Turkish liotillas near R*allow; the former consisting of 17 vessels of differ ent sizes, and the Utter of 32. Os this number, 26 were taken, sunk, burnt, or stranded. Same day, a Turkish flotilla, with arms, ammunition, &c was captured* off Anipa, on the Asiatic coast; 1200 per sons and 6 standards were taken. June 11.- Surrender of Isaktsclm to the Ru'duns, together with 87 pieces of can non, 17 stands of colors and a large quanti ty of ammunition. June 15.—1 u attempting to carry Brai lw by storm, the Russians lost 640 men killed, including m-ijor generals Wolf and Timotli, and 1340 wounded. June 20. LLailow surrenders to the Russians, on condition of the garrison be ing permitted to retire to Silistna: 273 can non, 612,000 lbs. of powder, and an im mense quantity of bulls vvero taken. June 23.—Surrender of Anapa (Asiatic Ttu key) with 85 pieces of cannon, and a large quantity of ammunition. The garri son ronsisted of 3000 meu. July 2.—Previous to this date, the Rus sians hid taken seven fortresses, viz: Brai low, Matscitin, Toultschu, Hirsova, Kus tendjt, Keuzgon, and Minagalia—besides Anapa on tho coast of Asia. Toultscha was garrisoned by nearly 2000 men, and had 91 camion on the ramparts. July 15.—The fortress of Kars (Asia Turkey,) taken by storm. The ganisoo, it is said, amounted to 11,000 men 2,000 of whom wero killed, and 1,500 made pri s< tiers, including a pacha of two tails; 151 pieces of cannon were taken July 21.—Silistria invested by the Rus* i sians. Aug. 7.—ln the night following this day, the Russian flotilla before Varna made an aHndt upon that of the Turks, and cap tured l\ fifteen vessels. Aug. 20. —The grand vizier left Con-* <Un'inoplrt for the army. Jiug. 22. —The fortiess of Ardaghane (Asia Turkey) surrenders to tiie Russians. Aug . 25. — News arrived at Odessa of the capture of Achaschil and Topsachalo (Asia Turkey) together with 34 standards, and several thousand prisoners, Sept. 26.-—The nf Widdcn aviug .crossed the Danube near K defat, ud being on the advance, \v is attacked by general Geisipar, .and after an obstinate ingagomeiit was compelled to retreat.— His loss is represented to hive been very severe Same day a rnamfesto was issued frrm St. Petersburg, urd- ring anew levy of four men in every fiye hundred of the population. Oct 7-'—- Varna cart led by assault. Gar rison, including the armed inhabitants, sup> posed to ha ye amounted originally to $2-, 000 men. When captured; was reduced to 6,009 This? \\as one .f the i >si impor tant fortresses ofthe Turks, and its capture secured to the Rujsh'ns a permanent footing on the western coast us the BUck Sea.— The Emperor, in a leti'er to Count Die bitsch of November 20, speaks of it as *that fortress which had never soon H conqiu ror.’ From this date the active operations ts the campaign m y bo considered as ended. Oct. 15. Blockade of the Dardanelles officially announced by Admiral Haydem. March 5, 1829- - battle was fought near the rivi*r N itonebi, (As. Turk,) in which the Turks lost 1,000 men, killed and wounded, and the Russians about 200. M arch 20.—About this date Sizt-holi was captured by the Russians, and imme diately fm tlfied for a permanent position April 11.-—Three detachments of Turk ish troops cross the Danube into little Wallachia, but are driven back, after suffer ing considerable loss. May 17. —Silisuia again invested, after an engagement about two miles distant, in which the Turks lost 400 or 500 men, and the Russians about 150. On the same day a battle was fought near Paravadi, the Turks being led on by the Grand Vizier in person. Turkish loss in killed, 2,000, Russians, killed 501, wounded 627. June 11 —Great battle near the village of Kulawtscha, not far from Schumla, in which the Grand Vizier commauded, in this engagement and the subsequent flight, the Turks lost 5 900 men killed, a great number of prisoners, 43 pieces of cannon, 6 standards, all the ammunition wagons, baggage, fcc. and suffered a complete dis persion. June 30. — Surrender of Silistria to the Russians. The garrison, consisting of 8,- 000 men, and the armed inhabitants, con sisting of 10,000 wore made prisoners of war, and among them, two three tailed Pachas; 250 pieces of cannon, and 100 stands of colors were taken. June 27. Erzerum captured by the Russians. Among the prisoners were the Seraskier and four Pachas; 150 cannon were taken, 29 of them at II issen Lael. July 19. Clioris and Berburst, (As. Tin key,) occupied by the Russians July 15.—Two divisions of the Russian army left Shumla to undeitake the passage •fthe Balkan. July 17-18*19. —The principal obstacles overcome, and 10 cannon, 14 standards, with nearly 400 prisoners taken from the Turks, who also had many killed. 1 July 22.—1n descending the Balkan, the Russians encountered a Turkish division of 6,000 or 7,000 men unJer the Seraskier Abduhl Rahman and defeated them, taking two batteiies of four guns each, and four other pieces of cannon, 4000 prisoners and i seven standards. July 23. Capture of Mesembria, with 20 standards, 15 cannon, and 2,000 prison ers. Same day, Achioli was captured, containing 14 pieces of cannon, two pow der magazines, July 24. — Capture of Bourgas, contain ing ten pieces of cannon, and abundance of military stores. July 25—Capture of Aidos, with the whole Turkish camp, 600 tents, 500 bar rels powder, four stundatds, four cannon, a great quantity of small arms, and 220 prisoners. July 21.—1n the night succeeding this day the Russians took possession of Jam bouli, iu which they found an immense quantity of ammunition and provisions.— About the same time a Russian corps lan ded at Iniada, on the Black Sea, 80 miles fin*) Constantinople, Devclopement of Genius. —lt was, as has been stated, the accident of the roof of his father’s cottage coming down while he was a child that first turned Ferguson’s atten tion to mechanical contrivance Such are the chances which often developo genius, and probably even give it, in part, its direc tion and peculiar character. The late emi nent engineer, John Rennie, used to truce his first notions in regard to the powers es machinery, to his having been obliged, when a boy; in consequence of the bieak* ing down of a bridge, to go one winter, every morning to schoel by a circuitous road, which carried him past a place where a thrashing-machine was generally at work Perhaps, had it not been for this casualty, he might have adopted another profession ihan the one in which he so much distin pu'shed himself. It was the appearance of : the celebrated comet of 1744, which first ; attracted the imagination of Lalande, then n boy of twelve years of age, to astronomy. The great Linnaeus was probably made a botanist by the circumstance ol his father having a few rather uncommon plants in his garden. Harrison is said to have been ori ginally inspired with the idea of devoting himself to the constructing of marine time pieces, by his residence in view of the sea. It was a voyage in tho Mediterranean which first gave to Vernet his enthusiasm for marine painting. Other grer* painters have probably been indebted to a still aligher circumstance for their first intro duction to tho art. Claude Ilorraine de rived his taste for design from frequenting the workshop of Ids brother, who was a wood engraver, The elder Caravaggio, Polidoro Caldara, was born of poor pa rents, at the town in the north of Italy, from which betakes his common designa tion; and having, when a young man, wan dered us far as Rouie, in search of work, was at last engaged to carry mortar for the fresco paiuters, who wero then employed in decoratin'* the Vatican, „hi, s hl cup'H 1011 giving bin. the opp OIIU „ su v.etr me op. ration* „f of "b- HHimo.l him K it h Ihc ambition o rb'e?’ ®. , *‘ himself ,i p;in,t3r Thu Dec °tfon the hisioiy ~f Michael Angelo^’’""“"“iitof is not Tory difr'erent. H, j, h i ravil ?? i notes, was a :iat, Ve of the sam." 3 !” 6 de> Poiulnr.,, Ho. igh he nourished a half a cento,) Ute r , and he . ,or e lha„ have had his ).,ve of the art fi, st “ r^ ed by being, -vh- ■ a boy, employed (.vt®? 1 I her, ho was a mason, to mix p | rt ‘' 3 fa ‘ some fresco painters at Milan F ° r Italian painter, Cavedone, owed k- Qo,hep duction to his profession to the ac ‘V^O - befit received, after be h C, ? er,t °f turned out ot doors by his father ‘52““ service of a gentleman who baim h ® possess a good collection ofpict B re, etle i <, . t 0 ho began by copying in ink with a iT”' 11 James Jessie, the celebrated modelu";! maker o. pas e gems, commenceand stone-mason in Glasgow, and prompted to aspire to something bev ihis liumhii? occupation by having on, f chance on a hofjjiy to see the nair? 000 the* academy for instruction in the r ,a established in that city by ‘'!? l ns * and Andrew Foniis, ihe printers. ii Ubert obtained admission to the academy , V Pil* he wrought at bis original* maintain himself, until he had aro..i?4 knowledge of drawing. Tassie eventually, tho most distinguished -■: * his line m Europe ; and carried the art itself which he practised, pj j * gree of perfection that before his tin* not been approached. A descriptive r, logue of his pastes, which at the time o fhil to 1799, amouuted to twenty t hn. sand, has been published in two quarto v * lumes, ami among them are imitations, or rather fat similies , of all ,| IA more celebrated gems, ancient and modern known to be in existence.— LibrarunfP * tertaining Knowledge. * J A subscription was opened in the city of Now York on Thursday, the Bth inst. fir the formation of anew Bank in that city to be entitled “The National Bank, n ia putsu mce of an act of the Legislature pas sed at the last session. The Commission ers sat on that and the two succeeding days receiving the deposits aud signatures of ihe subscribers, and on casting up the list, the total amount was found not to exceed’one third of the sum required by the act tocou, st.'ute the capital, which was to be one million. Such has been the effect of the new Bank law of that State. The article we copied yesterday, headed ‘ Demurara, Sept 2 ’ appears to be an old story, ground over. It is stated to have been frequently published in different parts of the countiy, in various stages of perfec • ion. The * horrible pickling’ of the crews, is affirmed, on good authority, to boa bran new embellishment, hy one of the Major Longbow family.— N. Y. Gazette. From the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald, of Oct. 8. Lake Disaster. —The schr. Like Ser pent, captain Wright left here about four weeks ago for Put in Bay Islands. It has been ascertained that she arrived there, Hod having taken in a cargo of stone for the harbour at this place, departed on her return. Her long absence began to ex cite suspicion of her being lost ; this was strengthened by the repoit of some passen* gers, who landed here from un board iho steain boat llemy Clay, who stated that they saw a dead body floating between tho Islands and Sandus Bay ; but that captain Norton made some groundless excuse fef not taking it up. AH doubts upon the sub ject was dissipated on Thursday last by finding the bodies cf the captain and his brother, who were Ezra and Kobt. Wiighf, on the Like shore, in Lorain county. It is supposed the Serpent being loaded with stone, sprung aleak, and sunk. It is oe lieved that four persons beside* the Wriphta were on board, two of whom were Mr, VanAlstine, fiom Huron county, ami Alon zo Atwell of the town of Dover in this county. The following paragraph is front a tat® number of the London Morning Chroni* cle ; “ we have just seen a short letter brought by the latest arrival from the East, and writ-* ten by a gentleman accompanying the em bassy. “ It speaks in very decided terms uftha hoplessness of any successful resistance to the victorious Rus&ians ; alludes to the dis covery of a plot or intrigue at Coosunti* nopleuo deliver that city into their hands; and communicates a piece of intellig eDca of much more interest—namely, that tha ambassadors of England and have ftomo to the determination to addretf themselves directly to the commander i9 chief of the invading army, to request at Insist a temporary suspension ol his advance in consideration of the devastation and cat’ rage which must inevitably result Iron* it# The letter adds that this remonsiraiK 9 will probably be seconded by all, or at if 3 ** the ;)reat majority, of the represent ttu 6l of thp European Powers at the Poite- Washington Cm', Oct. £O. Th, Chevalier Tacon, MrnjUer from Spain to the United States, is at present 0 * 1 a visit to the Seat of Government. Adn.i-al Coffin, of the British Navy, has. we pernive, arrived at Boston and t* P ro bab’y on his way to this city. We letrn that a person ot genteel rior, wild has been for some tints ‘ Brown's Hotel, was yesterday ar r este a charge ol stealing the trunk advertise Irave been taken Jrom Mr. Robins 00 days ago, k\ tho same Hotel. f ■* ,e r , r of Mr. R. uas found of the trn I the accused, in the room oi the j at the timeimd tho key oi his roo® I pocket. II? wns committed to J 3, I want of bail*