the departure of a large emigrant ship with a full complement of passengers. It was a beautiful morning when I proceeded to witness the departure of the Star of the West, Captain Lowber commander, a fine new ship, then on her first voyage, and registering 1,200 tons. The scene in the dock at half-past eight in the morning was busy and animated in the extreme. All the cargo was on board, consisting principally of iron rails, the exportation of which to America is very largely on the increase. The greater part of the passengers was also on board; but every minute until half-past nine there was a fresh arrival of emigrants and their luggage. In consequence of the regulations, both of the British and American governments, it was to be presumed that the living freight of the Star of the West was in good condition, and duly certified to be unlikely to become chargeable to our transatlantic brethren of New York. It must be confessed, however, that they did not present a very favourable specimen of the genus of man. Destitution and suffering, long-continued, possibly for generations, had done their work upon the greater number of them. It was not alone their personal uncleanliness and their wretched attire, but the haggard, sallow, and prematurely aged expression of their faces, that conveyed the idea of degradation and deterioration.

There was one family of Germans on boarda father and mother, and four grown-up and two younger children-whose appearance was in striking contrast with that of the Irish. The man was from Bavaria, a tall, well-formed strapping "kerl," full fed and ruddy, and looking as if he could do no ordinary duty in felling the primeval forests of the far west, and converting the wilderness into a garden. There were also two or three English families on boardthe men easily recognizable by the smock-frock of the English peasantry, and the women by their superior neatness of attire. With these few exceptions the passengers were all Irish. The whole number of passengers was 385, of whom about 360 were Irish.

soon as she passed through the dock-gates it was our turn to move, but all our passengers were not on board. Until the very last moment, they kept arriving by twos and threes, with their luggage on their backs. Here might be seen a strong fellow carrying a chest, or a barrel, and a whole assemblage of tin cans and cooking utensils; and there a woman with a child in one arm and her goods and chattels in the other. When the planks and gangways were removed, at least fifty of our emigrants had not arrived, and many of them had to toss their luggage on board from the quay, and to clamber on to the ship by the rigging, as she passed through the dock-gates. The men contrived to jump on board with comparative ease; but by the belated women, of whom there were nearly a score, the feat was not accomplished without much screaming and hesitation. One valiant fellow, who had been drinking over-much with his friends on shore, made an attempt to leap aboard as the vessel was clearing the dock-gates, but, miscalculating the distance, he fell into the water. There was a general rush of the people to the side of the ship, and a screaming among the women, but fortunately there was a boat alongside which rescued the man in less than a minute, and placed him on deck dripping wet, and considerably more sober than when he fell into the water.

We had not quite cleared the dock when another incident occurred. The cook had failed to keep his promise to be on board before the ship's departure, and the captain was informed that he had expressed his determination to remain in Liverpool. This was an annoying circumstance to occur at the last moment. The steward, it also appeared, had made a similar determination; he was a coloured man, and had come on board to tender to the captain the wages he had received in advance, and to state that he was too unwell to undertake a voyage across the Atlantic. Hearing some altercation on the quarter-deck, the passengers turned their eyes in that direction, where the steward was As the hour of departure drew nigh, the scene seen tendering the money, and declaring loudly in the dock, on the quay, and on board, became that he would not go back to America. "You more and more animated. The morning sun cannot hang me for it," he said to the captain, shone brightly-the sky was without a cloud-a "and I will not go." The captain, who disforest of masts from all the surrounding docks played much equanimity, insisted, that as the pointed their delicate traceries against the deep steward was on board he would keep him there, blue of the heavens, and the star-spangled ban- and take him out to America, whether he liked ner flapped to the fresh breeze. Another emi- it or not. The steward, who certainly looked grant ship, in the same dock, whose turn to be ill, was of another mind; and springing to the towed out was before ours, began to move slow-side of the vessel, jumped overboard into the ly from her berth. This vessel was the Queen dock before a hand could be raised to prevent of the West. Like our own, she was filled as him. He swam like a fish, and reached in safefull as she could hold with Irish emigrants. It ty another vessel at the distance of about fifty was an interesting scene, as she moved slowly past us, to observe her decks crammed with passengers, her flags streaming to the wind, and to hear the sailors raising their peculiar and joyous chant as they trod in a circle at the windlass. As

yards. This was provoking, but there was no redress, unless the captain chose to delay his voyage until he could arrest the man in Liverpool, and bring the case before the stipendiary magistrate. In the meantime the steward was

out of reach, and the captain had no other resource than to leave his ship in the Mersey and return to Liverpool for another cook and steward, to be picked up at an hour's notice.

and disembarrassed ourselves of what the mate called the whole "fraternity" of orange girls, and other merchants of small wares, who had until that time accompanied us, to ply their trade among the emigrants. What with orange girls, cap merchants, and dealers in Everton-toffy, ribbons, laces, pocket mirrors, gingerbread nuts, sweetmeats, &c., there must have been nearly forty interlopers to be sent back to Liverpool. The steam-tug took charge of them all, as well as of the captain, who had to return in search of a cook and steward-and the Star of the West was left to the crew and passengers, and about half-a-dozen visitors.

(To be continued.)

FIGHT BETWEEN AN EAGLE AND A SALMON.

I have often been struck with the singular atbird or animal, while all the rest of the species they pursue with deadly hostility. About five hundred yards from Beach's hut, stands a lofty pine tree, on which a grey eagle has built its nest annually during the nine years he has lived on the shores of the Raquette. The Indian who dwelt there before him, says that the same pair of birds made their nest on that tree for ten years previous-making in all nineteen years they had occupied the same spot, and built on the same branch.

We were towed towards New Brighton by a steam-tug for the distance of three or four miles, during which the scene in the steerage below was as animated, though scarcely so cheerful, as the scene on deck. The steerage was somewhat dark, but in the uncertain light a picture presented itself full of strange "effects." The floor was strewed with luggage, rendering it a matter of difficulty to walk-bundles, trunks, cases, chests, barrels, loaves of bread, sides of bacon, and tin cooking utensils, seemed to be piled together in hopeless and inextricable confusion, while amidst them all scrambled or crawled a perfect multitude of young children. All the berths were occupied. Some of the pas-tachment hunters sometimes have for some sengers seemed as if they had resolved to go to sleep even at that early period of the voyage. Some were eating their breakfasts in their berths, and some were making use of barrel-heads and trunks for tables and chairs, and regaling themselves with bread and coffee. Here and there a man might be seen shaving himself in the dim and uncertain light; while, at other parts of the ample steerage, families were busily looking after their worldly goods, and establishing a demarcation between their own property and that of their neighbours. In some of the berths women were sitting up conversing; and in others children were singing, hallooing, and shouting, as if the excitement of the scene were to them a joy indeed. There was a constant rushing to and fro, a frequent stumbling over chests and barrels, and a perfect Babel of tongues. All was life, bustle and confusion; but, what seemed most singular, there was nothing like sorrow or regret at leaving England. There was not a wet eye on board-there had been no fond leavetakings, no farewells to England, no pangs of parting. Possibly there was no necessity for any. To ninety-nine out of every hundred of these emigrants the old country had been in all probability an unkind mother, a country of sorrow and distress, associated only with remembrances of poverty and suffering. I must confess that I expected to see something like the expression of a regret that the shores of old England would soon fade from their view forever-something like melancholy at the thought that never more were they to revisit the shores of Europe; but nothing of the kind occurred. All was noise, hurry and animation. They had made up their minds for a long journey; hope was before them, and nothing was behind them but the remembrance of misery. It was possible, also, that the leave-takings had taken place in Ireland, and that whatever sorrow they felt had been shown before their arrival in England. As soon as the steam-tug had drawn us about five miles up the Mersey, we dropped anchor,

One day, however, Beach was near losing his bold eagle. He was lying at anchor, fishing, when he saw his favorite bird high up in heaven, slowly sweeping round and round in a huge circle, evidently awaiting the approach of a fish to the surface. For an hour or more, he thus sailed with motionless wings above the water, when all at once he stopped and hovered a moment, with an excited gesture-then rapid as a flash of lightning, and with a rush of his broad pinions, like the passage of a sudden gust of wind, he came to the still bosom of the lake. He had seen a huge salmon trout swimming near the surface, and, plunging from his high watch tower, drove his talons deep in his victim's back. So rapid and strong was his swoop, that he buried himself out of sight when he struck, but the next moment he emerged into view, and flapping his wings endeavoured to rise with his prey. But this time he had miscalculated his strength-in vain he struggled nobly to lift the salmon from the water. The frightened and bleeding fish made a sudden dive, and took eagle and all out of sight, and was gone a quarter of a minute. Again they rose to the surface, and the strong bird spread his broad dripping pinions and gathering force with his rapid blows raised the salmon half out of the water. The weight however was too great for him, and he sank again to the surface, beating the water into foam about him. The salmon then made another dive, and they both went under, leaving only a few bubbles to tell where they had gone down. This

The building

time they were absent a full half minute, and, in the vaults below I cannot say. Beach said he thought it was all over with his occupies an area of eight acres. It has a clock bird. that indicates the time on sixteen dials placed in as many different offices, and striking both the hours and the quarters."

He soon however re-appeared, with his talons still buried in the flesh of his foe, and again made a desperate effort to rise. All this time, the fish was shooting like an arrow through the lake, carrying his relentless foe on his back. He could not keep the eagle down, nor the bird carry him up and so, now beneath, and now upon the surface, they struggled on, presenting one of the most singular yet exciting spectacles that can be imagined. It was fearful to witness the blows of the eagle, as he lashed the lake, with his wings, into spray, and made the shore echo with the report. At last the bird thinking, as they say west, that he had "waked up the wrong passenger," gave it up, and loosening his clutch, soared heavily and slowly away to his lofty pine tree, where he sat for a long time sullen and sulky, the picture of disappointed ambition.

HEALTH OF CHILDREN.

Rising early is a habit of high importance to fix in children; and in forming it there is far There is a greater facility than in other cases. natural propensity in children generally to early rising, which needs only to be gratified and encouraged. They usually retire to bed some time before their parents, and at daylight, or at least sun rise, are generally awake and anxious to rise. Many of them are actually bred up with difficulty to the habit of taking the morning nap, which, when once formed, generally prevails through life. Let the father deny himself so far as to retire early and become an early riser also. Beach said that he could easily have captured His health, enjoyment and usefulness, he may them, but he thought he would see the fight out. depend upon it, will be perceptibly benefited. When, however, they both staid under half a And this may be connected with another prevenminute or more, he concluded he should never tive of disease-active employment. The mornsee his eagle again. Whether the latter in his ing is a season for activity; the frame, invigorated rage was bent on capturing his prize, and would by repose, is prepared for exertion, and motion retain his hold, though at the hazard of his life, gives pleasure. The pure atmosphere, so much or whether in his terrible swoop he had struck more bracing than at other hours, so much sweethis crooked talons so deep in the back of the sal- er and exhilarating than the air of a confined mon that he could not extricate himself, the chamber, has been prepared to be breathed, and hunter said he could not tell. The latter, how-like all of nature's medicines, it is superior to any ever, was doubtless the truth, and he would have been glad to have let go, long before he did.-Exchange paper.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

An American correspondent of the New York Independent, writing from London, says: "I have had access to the interior of the Bank of England, and seen how dumb iron rods, connected with a shaft turned by steam power, tell how many bank notes are struck of in the room above; how a box of paper will not come out from its place, itself put there by machinery, till a similar box of notes is brought back to be deposited there, and in turn to be removed by a mechanical force; and how light unworthy coins, as if conscious of their sins, will tremble a moment on the balance, which, too, is moved by steam, and then leap off in an opposite direction from the good ones; and how the blind agencies of brute matter are elsewhere furnished with eyes to guard the treasures of the establishment. In some instances three men must move in company with their different keys, and thus keep

mutual watch of each other, or else these treasures cannot be reached. The arrangements throughout are remarkably exact and complete. There are nine hundred employed in and about the bank. One room contained only £30,000,000 worth of property, and what might be deposited

which science can produce. Early rising and early exercise may more properly be called food than medicine, as they are destined for daily use, and to protect us from disease rather than to remove it. Everything except mere sloth invites us-nay requires us to train up our children to use them. The morning is the most favorable season for exercising the frame as well as for making useful impressions on the mind and heart, and whoever tries to conduct the education of his child independently of this practice, will lose some of the most favorable opportunities.

That to other eyes were lovelier,

But not to me so fair,

For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright!
I have twined them with my sister's locks,
That are laid in the dust from sight!

We had a well, a deep old well,

Where the spring was never dry,

And the cool drops down from the mossy stones
Were falling constantly;

And there never was water half so sweet

As that in my little cup,

Drawn up to the curb by the rude old sweep,
Which my father's hand set up:

And that deep old well, oh, that deep old well!
I remember yet the splashing sound
Of the bucket as it fell.

Our homestead had an ample hearth,

Where at night we loved to meet;
There my mother's voice was always kind,
And her voice was always sweet;
And there I've sat on my father's knee,
And watched his thoughtful brow,
With my childish hand in his raven hair-
That hair is silver now!

But that broad hearth's light, oh, that broad hearth's light!
And my father's look, and my mother's smile,
They are in my heart to-night.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

ENGLAND.-Trade continues brisk in the manufacturing districts. Accounts from Sidney announce that the direct trade to San Francisco was rapidly increasing, and promised to become an important branch of commerce.

IRELAND.-Emigration has been carried on to such an extent, that a very general want of sufficient laborers to save the harvest is experienced. In some districts, laborers cannot be procured at any wages. FRANCE.-The continued rains have endangered the harvest, and a considerable rise in the corn market has, in consequence, taken place.

taken up, and after numerous amendments had been offered and rejected, was ordered to be engrossed— yeas 32, nays 19. On the 16th it was taken up and passed by 33 yeas to 19 nays.

In the House of Representatives on the 10th inst. the Select Committee made a report, unanimously signed, acquitting J. R. Giddings of the charge of having abstracted certain papers from the files of the Post Office, and the committee was discharged from the further consideration of the subject. On the 11th inst., the representatives, Wright and Gilbert, from California, were admitted to their seats. On the 12th, the "Fugitive Slave Bill" passed the House by a vote of 109 yeas to 75 nays.

Alexander H. H. Stuart, of Virginia, has been appointed Secretary of the Interior, and John P. Gaines Governor of Oregon.

TEXAS.-We learn that bills have passed the Legislature requiring the territory question to be settled by the popular vote, and requesting the U. S. Government to remove all Indians from Texas. The news of the passage of the Texas Boundary bill had been received at Austin, where it gave much satisfaction.

New York and New England, and in New BrunsThe potato disease prevails very extensively in wick and Nova Scotia. In many places the crops will be entirely worthless.

The Clark's Ferry Bridge, belonging to the State, and connecting the Eastern with the Northern and Juniata divisions of the Pennsylvania Canal, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 10th inst. The bridge was 4,287 feet in length, and was rebuilt three years ago at a cost of $120,000. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.

The British steamer Canada arrived at Halifax on the 16th inst., bringing Liverpool dates to the 7th. Among the articles of news, it is stated that the submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais has already been broken. The wire gave way in consequence of the chafing of a rock, near the French shore. Arrangements are in progress for relaying the wire on an improved principle.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.-Austria has given in her adhesion to the protocol between Great Britain, France, Russia and Denmark, with a view to the settlement of the Danish question. Austria stipulates for the preservation of the rights of the Duchies of Holstein and Launenburg as members of the German Confederation, as well as the rights of the Confederation in relation to the Duchies. The Danish Army were preparing for their Winter quar-escaped with great difficulty. ters in the town and vicinity of Schleswig.

It is reported that Marshal Haynau, the late commander of the Austrians against Hungary, being in England, paid a visit to one of the great London breweries, where, as soon as the workmen discovered who he was, a violent assault was made on him; and though he made a precipitate retreat, his life was evidently greatly endangered. He

ITALY.-Accounts from Rome represent the financial situation as deplorable; the Papal Government has neither money nor credit, and is on the verge of bankruptcy.

During the debate on the 11th inst, on the Bill to abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia, Senator Winthrop read a letter from a Capt. Ranlett, of Boston, in reply to a statement made by Jefferson Davis, that very few free coloured men have been CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 10th inst., imprisoned under the laws of Southern States. Col. Fremont and Major Gwinn took their seats as Capt. Ranlett states that not fewer than twelve Senators for California. The usual formalities of hundred have been so imprisoned, and declares that balloting for their respective classes in the Senate he was, on one occasion wrecked at sea, when himwere gone through with, when it was found that self and his coloured cook and steward met with a Major Gwinn had drawn the long, and Col. Fre- Charleston vessel which had been abandoned. mont the short term. Senator Fremont gave notice They went on board this vessel and conveyed it of his intention to introduce numerous bills for the into Charleston, where his colored men were, in rebenefit of California. He also submitted a resolu-turn for their services, seized and imprisoned; since tion, which was adopted, directing the Post Office committee to inquire and report upon the expediency of establishing numerous post-offices in California.

On the 14th ult., the bill for the suppression of the slave-trade in the District of Columbia was

which time he has heard nothing from them; having been told that he should have them when his vessel was ready to sail, and that it would be dangerous to release them earlier. Having no vessel, of course he could not comply with the conditions.

of Friends in Scotland, and in 1829 he paid a religious visit to Friends in Ireland. Of later years, his engagements in the ministry were mostly confined to his own neighborhood, where his services were often truly acceptable, evineing much fervency of spirit in advanced age, and

Price two dollars per annum, payable in advance, or frequently bearing testimany that all his dependsix copies for ten dollars.

This our dear friend was born at Amwellbury, near Ware, in Hertfordshire, in the year 1764, of parents who were solicitous by example and precept to train up their children in accordance with the principles of Friends.

ance was on Christ, the Rock of Ages.

Our dear friend was earnestly desirous that his whole conduct should be in accordance with

what he was concerned to recommend to others; and he was a remarkable example of uprightness and consistency in the various relations of life.

At a period when he had a large family dependant on him, from a sense of religious duty, he relinquished a profitable part of his business, and also withdrew from a lucrative concern, in which he was a partner. In referring to these We have reason to believe that at an early pe- circumstances in after life, he expressed the satriod of life, the subject of this testimony was isfaction he had derived from the sacrifices he had often sensible of the attracting influence of Di- then made, in obedience to what appeared to him vine love, and anxious above all things to become to be the Divine will, and we believe, that he was the humble follower of a crucified Saviour. In through life favored largely to partake of true this infancy of his religious experience, it was peace of mind. He was not unfrequently enhis practice frequently to withdraw to a wood gaged privately to offer a word of seasonable adadjoining the paternal dwelling, in order to hold vice both to his friends and neighbors, and his more uninterrupted communion with his Heav-mind being clothed with kindness and charity, enly Father and so sensible was he of the benefit of seasons of religious retirement, that he continued the practice through life, expressing his belief of its being both a duty and a privilege.

that which he had to communicate was generally well received, and made a lasting impression on the minds of some.

Our dear friend was engaged faithfully to fulfil his duties as a member of civil society, and while preserved from undue excitement, was ever ready to take an active part in the promotion of objects of benevolence and general usefulness, maintaining, in his association with those not members of our religious Society, his usual integrity and simplicity of character.

About the fourteenth year of his age, he came to live with a relation at Cirencester, which henceforth continued to be his residence. In this change of situation, his daily conduct evinced that he was still abiding under the sense of the religious impressions with which he had early been favored, and we believe, as he advan- In the autumn of 1844, in the 80th year of ced in years, he experienced a growth in grace. his age, he had a severe illness, which appeared About the fortieth year of his age he felt call-likely to terminate his earthly course. Having ed upon to minister to others; publicly testify-been favored to realize submission to the Divine ing of that grace which he had himself experi- will, he was, during this period, preserved in enced, and his communications being acceptable to his friends, he was acknowledged a minister in the year 1810. Subsequently he received certificates to visit nearly all the meetings of Friends in England and Wales.

In the year 1818, he accompanied his valued friend Robert Fowler on a visit to the Meeting

much calmness, frequently giving utterance to the fulness of his heart which seemed constantly dwelling on heavenly things. On one occasion, he said, "I often think of the Master who is with his flock leading them beside the still waters, the streams which make glad the city of God, to lie down in the green pastures and to be his for