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HOUSES, LAND, &c REAL ESTATE I K)R SALE close to the beach fronting on . Kaahnmann and Merchant streets, in the follow eg lots fronting on Merchant street : N 1, 40 ft 3 in front, 87 ft 10 in back. No 3, 40ft 3 in front, 101 ft 8 in back. No 3, 40 ft 3 in front, 108 ft 6 in back., No 4, 40 ft 3 in front, 41 ft back. No 5, 44 ft 1 1 in front on Merchant st. do 41 ft front on Kaahumanu St. Fronting on Kaahumanu street. No c, 41 ft front. 85 feet 2 in back. Sold. No 7, 41 ft front, 85 ft 2 in bark. -- ripply to STJRKEY.JJiNION&CO. Honolulu, Sept 26,tf-20 VALUABLE bouse and lot for sale. The l''? new and commodious house recently erected iv tae subscribers, situated on Btntania st, aa- . f w-fc n a - a joining me resioence 01 ur. nooae. si a nouse is uu;lt in a roost inorougn manner 01 ine very pest materials. It contains fourteen rooms with a cel lar underneath 36x28 ft. Adjourning th : same is a hitkin? house, cook house, anexcel'ent well of water, etc. Said house is well adapted for a hotel or genteei boarding house. For further particulars enquire of tf-19 R. A. S. WOOD. E DEN HOUSE. For sale, or to be let with or without the adjacent premises, apply to -mm Tiiiirrv ALA. 1AO Foreign Office. TO LET. The house on the corner of King and Richard Sts-, formerly occupied by Messrs. Aldrich & Russ. Said house is situated in a pleasant part of the city, has a yard, well, and out buildings, also, has superior accommodations, for a familv. furnished or unfurnished. apply to ' ' - R. COADY. Jan. 10, 1851-tf-35 The New York Herald, of Aug. Hth, says ; "Messrs. Gregory are the first company to bring a consignment of gold dust by the Nicaragua route. The passage was made in 29 days, and when the route is completed, it is expected that it will only re quire about 22 days from San Francisco to New York. . , Packages of every description insured, forw arded nd delivered, as addressed, by the Agents as follows; Messrs. Thompson & Hitchcock. . .N. "iork. Messrs. Kinsley & Co. ... 11 and 13 State st. Boston. Messrs. Burns, Couves & Co ) ew Orleans. "Harnden's southern Express ) Messrs. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. . . .Hongkong, China. ' Messrs. Mitchell & Co. . . .Honolulu, Oahu. Our Express messengers, (having safes and state rooms for securitT,) on the river steamers, leave San Francisco daily at 4 o'clock, for the following Branch Offices, -via Benicia and Sacramento : Marysville, Downieville. Rough and Ready, Nevada City Mormon Island, Georgetown, Grass Valley, Coloma, Auburn, fd Haagtown, Weberrille, Mines on the Amer icaaVYuba, and Feather rivers, and their forks and tributaries. , , T . Also, by Stocton to Angels, Carson s, J amestown, and the Mines on the Mokelumne, Calaveras, Stanis laus, Tuolumne, Mercedes and Manposa nver. A weekly Express U also dispatched to Humbolt Bar Trinidad, to Portland, and other cities in Ore eonV to Honolulu, Hongkong, and also, to Canton, TheVew York correspondent of the Alto CaHfor- vt 111 "Gregory's faithful and reliable Express is waiting for me so I will conclude, hoping you willreceive this, as Gregory delivers every thing entrusted to his whethlr itbe bag of gold dust worth five y?A-A Annd dollars, or a letter from agdld digger to his amiable and interesting wife in the At- N. B. This is the only Express through from the States, which runs beyond ban r ran Cisco. Drafts at sight on the above offices. Deposites received for safe keeping. The highest price paid for clean gold dust JOSEPH W. GREGORY, Proprietor, Fire proof Banking house and Remittance office, corner Merchant and Montgomery tf-28 - Sts. San Francisco. Liverpool U-erirriters Associatio. Underwriter's Rooms, Liverpool, 25th Oct.) muie :- -.IT. 1. all .hnm it OUT CORCem, 1 that th Committee for managing the affairs I the Association, have appointed Messrs. Janion & Co.. to act as their agent at the Sandwich lihnds. subject to the anne.d. instructions which are to be eahibited on all occasions w here the agent y be required to act, so that" ho misunderstand ing may arise with the parties assured or their rep resentatives., as to the eatent of authority vested in the A rent. - ' . . "No power from this Association can divest the eswred. their agents, or assignees, or the ol vessels of that right over property which law oas ..... .l :. ,mA .that the assured or tbeir representatives will teadily avail themselvesoi the assistance of an agent, who is appomicu 3 the underwriters to act in tbeir behalf, and whose cooperation will facilitate the settlement of loss or Average with the underwriters. By order of the Committee, ' ISHf THOMAS COURT. Sec'y. TKlSSOLtTIOX OF PARTNERSHIP. The -J co-partnership heretofore existing between R. tadj & Chas. W. Cahoon, & Cosj is this day dis solved. All nettA business will be closed by tne undersigned who will continue the Ship Chandlery fcasiness at lie old stand. . - " R. COADY Honolulu Jan. L?t 1V2tdv46 H0TLS,&c COMMERCIAL HOTEL. fl V HENRY MACFARLANE begs IIU 1 to acquaint his friends, and Gentlemen 1 arriving in Honolulu. th hu uil will be found to possess every requisite accom modation ; Wines, Spirits, Ale and Porter, of su perior quality. Superior Billiard Tables and Bowl ing Alleys. Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths. WIIfKS, SPIRITS, ETC, PS BOTTLE. Champagne, - - $2 50 Whiskey . - - $2 60 Fort ----- 2 00 Brandy, Kartell's 00 best 5 2 60 00 Gin. Schiedam. best 2 SO Sherry,- - - - 2 Madeira, ... 2 Hock, . . . - 1 50 Sauterne-5"- 1 00 Claret,".: - - - l 00 Cider, - - - - 1 00 Ale,- ...... 76 Porter, - - - 75 Cordials & Liquers 200 Old Tom, - - - 2 60 BATHS. Hot Baths, ' $l 00 Cold and Shower Baths, ....... 50 Honolulu, September 21st, 1850. 19-ly. HOTEL DE FRANCE. VIC TOR CHANCEREL would respectfully inform his fiiends and the public that he has taken the above well known stand, where he will be happy at all times to wait upon those who may favor him with their patronage. The bar will always be supplied with the best 1 liquors and dears. The table will be furnished from the very best the market affords. Board by the day or week. Pic-nic and private parties sup plied at short notice. Good sleeping rooms at tached to the premises. Sept 14 ly-18 CANTON IIOTEI. THE UNDERSIGNED having ta ken the premises known as the Canton Hotel, late ly occupied by Mr. Samuel Thompson, bees to no tify the residents of Honolulu and transient visitors generally, that their bar will be constantly supplied with the choicest ol Wine,L.Kiiors,ee,and the table with the best viands the market anords, having se cured the services of a first rate cook and steward. thev hope bv assiduity and strict atiit.o to busi ness, to merit a share of the public patronage. N. B. A well fitted Billiard Room, Bowling AI leys and sleeping apaitments attached to the pre mi ses. JOHN BARTLETT & CO. Honolulu, July 20,-10-Gni MAINE HOTEL. BROWN &. FRIEL, would respectful notify their friends and the public generally, that they have taken the above named establish ment, where they will be happy to receive the calls of those who may favor them with their patronage. The rooms are airy, and fitted up in elegant style. The bar will always be supplied with the choicest of wines, liquors and cigars. Two good bowling alleys are connected with the hous2. Strangers visiting this port, and gentlemen resi dent in Honolulu are respectfully invited to call and examine for themselves. 12-ly. NEW HOTEL. LIBERTY HALL. The above House has recently been opened as a first class Hotel. No expense has been spared in fitting it with every modern conve nience for comfort and elegance. The liar will always be supplied with the best of Wines, Liquors and Cigars; and the proprietor hopes by strict at tention to the wants of his customers, to merit a share of the public patronage. JAMtS DA MJ Honolulu, Sept. 7, 1850. 17 ly. Merchant's Hichange Hotel. THE UNDERSIGNED having re-tas.cn this well known HOTEL, would respectfully in form the citizens of Honolulu and the public gener ally, that he has made such improvements, and re organized it in such a manner as will enable him to give entire satisfaction to those who may favor him with, their patronage, and suit the convenience of all. UULIts. Breakfast, - - 8 to 9 o'clock. Dinner, - - 2 to 4 Supper, - -6 1-2 to 8 iy N. B. Lodging on the premises. J. B. FLANDREAU, Honolulu. Oahu, Feb. 25-ly-42 Proprietor. HOUSE CARPENTEIUMJ AND UL IXJJlu The undersigned having taken the premises on King and Alakea streets, adjoining m. ond s, for the purpose of carrying on the House Carpenter ing business in all its branches, hopes by strict atten tion to business, to merit a share of the public pat ronage. N. B. Jobbing done on tne snoncst notice ana on the most reasonable terms. 3m-37 JOHN W.BECKV1TH. COOPERAGE. C. H. Marshal, having taken tne stand on the earner of Fort and Hotel streets, nearly opposite his old stand, would respectfully in form the public that he is now prepared to execute any orders in the cooperage line, at the shortest notice and on the most reasonable terms. Tubs, shower baths, and work of every description made to order. " Feb 15. 18at.-4Q-iy RF. SNOW UJrriSKo tun sau. 01 . ARRIVED by ship ESTHER MAY, from Boston, the following articles : Cases Flour, in tins, bbls liaxaii riour. half bbls Crushed Suear. boxes Raisins, half bbls dried Apples, boxes Pine Apple Cheese, cases Goshen Cheese, hhds Stilton Cheese, hhds Goshen Butter, cases pure Port Wine, Ox Carts, Glazed Sashes asst'd sizes, bbls Tar, bbls Pitch, do bright Varnish, do hydraulic Cement, bundles Iron Hoop, boxes Iron Rivets, casks Lanterns, hard pine boards, planed, tongued and grooved, spruce Joist, do plank do floor boards, Pine. Pickets, spruce ncxeis, rme ouuigics. Cedar do, Nests Russet leather Trunks, ALSO, an invoice of superior Mirrors and Fur piture, tf-3 THE UNDERSIGNED being about to leave the Islands, respectfully solicits any person having letters or packages addressed to him will be pleased to deliver the same during nis aosence 10 uia avw ney, R. C. Willie, Esq., or to Dugald Mactavish, Esq., Agent for the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company. The remainder of the Tyrian's cargo will be on sale by Mr. Mactavish at the Compsny's stores. Honolulu, Jan. 31, 1851. 12t-38 JNO ROBSON. TrVrTACIIINE SHOP, opposite the residence of 1TJL tV, Ttrituih ConsuL The above estaDUsnment formerly carried on by Mr. D. M. Weston, is still in he Deration , where ail sunos 01 orass casuaga m-j had, and tne repairs 01 various swua v 1 attended to by the undersigned. E. S. FOSTER, 4t-48 ' Engineer. FW. THOMPSON ANNOUNCES TO HIS friends and the public generally, that he has re-established himself as an Auctioneer, and. would assure theni that it is his intention to conduct the Auction business in such manner as to ensurefor him t he good will and approbation of alL Auction Room on the 2nd floor, of the stone store occupied yb Messrs. Makee, Anthon & Co.; Merchant St. Dec 8 1851-6m-31 Translating nnd Interpreting 11 TTDWARD HUNT, INTERPRETER FOR lius LTi Police Court of Honolulu, and the Superior Court of the kingdom, offers his services to the pub lie and others, to translate documents and interpret between foreigners and natives of this kingdom, in SSersofbusine.( Mr. Hunt hopes that by dilicence and attention to business he 1 will merit the confidence and pateonage of the pubbc. : Office hours, after Police Court is closed. XEKU ANOA BUILDING. No 3. on the 2nd story. All matter, committed to him will be sidered strictly eondentiaU. . . Hoaclulu Feb. 25, to4 m I XVtAt . .. iA 111 . '-- 15 . ' . llll 1,7 . vi olgnc0tan. THE MISSIONARIES. J W ritten for the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Editor :I have read an extract from A Lady's Voyage Round the World," in which she gives an account of the mode of living adopted by the Missionaries in China, Persia, andlndia, which, whether designedly or not. does make an imorps- eion upon the mind of the reader the antipodes of ..1 . . 1 w .11 . uie irutn. 1 win not refer you to the statements of the Missionaries themselves, but to other gentle men, high-minded and honorable, who have been there. In remarking upon this tissue or misrepresentation, would at the outset say that I would not require more labor, mental and bodily, of a man born in a cold clime, and transferred to a hot one, than I would of that same man in the cold clime in which he was born, and where he had lived to manhood's age. Nor would I require of him more work, or more of the spirit of self-denial, than of a minister or missionary in a christian land, and sustained by the comforts of civilized life. The writer remarks that she had supposed that the Missionaries had 44 forsook all personal 13 dclgesce : all conveniences and comforts of life; lived with the people under one roof; ate out oh one aisn, ana so jorm. 9 t . m " Mrs. P- by supposing that the Missionaries, or any other class of persons, in going to India or China should do so, shows at once her lack of erood judgment or common sense in the case. She would make a most miserable physician, or nurse, thus to prescribe to persons in the torrid and frigid, or temporate zones, the same mode of dietetics. What she means by" personal indulgence, I know not. I know that the Missionaries dress plainly, and to suit the climate where the ther mometer ranges from 7Qjto 110 the year round. l ne ciotning is sucn as uiey generally wear in their native land in a hot summer season. In a great many cases, their clothing :.s made at home, anLent out to them. ' The Hindoo men in their ordinary dress, wear little clothing. The great mass of laboring men and women wear an under garment made of muslin, some yard-and-a-half wide, and four or five yards long, w hich is wrapped round and round the waist, in some cases hanging down below the knees, but, ordinarily tucked up. The females wear, in addition, a thin dress, to sup port the chest, with tight sleeves, and reaching only to the elbow. About a hand s breath ot the waist is naked. The great mass of the laborers, mechanics and shop-keepers, at their work in their shops, and at home in their houses, have no cloth ing on the upper part of their person. They shave off all the hair of Ihe head, and wear skull-caps, and over them the pure.au or turban. In Bengal multitudes of men and women, after their daily ab lutions, anoint their bodies with cocoa-nut oil, they are oiled froUhead to foot. Would Madame Pfeiffer recommend that all Europeans and Americans should imitate the Hin doos in the style of their dress. She is surprised they do not do so. In the Mysore district, multi tudes of the temales have no clothing except the garment described above. When they appear in company they dress themselves in neat and cleaij garments. And some tew can anord to wear casn raere shawls, and garments more costly than the millions among whom they dwell. I remark again that Luropean gentlemen in India, 01 all classes, dress very much in the same way they did when at home, always seeking comfort in their dress. This is emphatically true concerning the Mission aries when the Missionaries visit the officers of Government, or are engaged in official duty, they dress in black. As to the palankeen beares, it is their caste xcork to carry the palkee, and tbey do nothing else. And it is no more disgraceful for a palkee-walla to carry a palkee, than it is for a man in a store to carry a package of goods from the 6tore home to the purchaser. It is no more disgraceful than threshing with the flail, nor as hard work. These palankeen bearers sometimes do sleep un der the same roof with the Missionary, but they generally go home to their families and return the next day, 11 needed, as all good husbands should do. The nurse, if there be one in the house, sleeps under the same roof with her employer, and on her own bed. - Madame P. also learned from books tliaf the Missionaries and their families eat out of one dish, Hindoo-like, without forks or spoons. But when she went into the country, she made the wonderful discovery that Europeans and Americans used knives and forks, and spoons, and plates, and cups and saucers, when they could get them, just as they did at home. Aye, more, thi-y had their meals on a table, and not on the floor ; that each child had its own plate or cup, and in all respects lived asnhey did at home. Did Madame Pfeiffer eat rice and curry al. OI" the same dish with a Hindoo, or by herself, with out the use of a spoon, when she was in India ? Rice and curry is very good, hut Missionaries prefer a spoon in eating it, to their fingers. Madame P. found that the Missionaries lived "quite in the manner of opulent gentlemen, have handsome houses, fitted up with every convenience and luxury." Well, this may be so or not, just as vou institute the comparison. As to the luxuries of India, the two greatest, and which can seldom be obtained, are cool water and cool air. As to the eatables, the Missionaries, it is true, have their share. They get plantains for 2 or 3 cents a doz en ; oranges, 2 or 4 for a cent; mangoes, i of a cent a-piece ; dates, 2 or 3 cents a pound ; and so with all the different kinds of fruits in the country. It would be cheaper if thev could live teithout eat- in, but the doctors in India think that system of 7 . . . . . . . 1 - . 31 regimen is not adapted to tne climate, ana uence they adopt another course. . They have " every convenience, says Madame P. Not always for they can't always afford to get them." An American Missionary's salary is about $600, one-third that of a Lieut, in the In dian Service. Many of them live in one-6tory houses, the floors raised about 3 or 4 feet above the grotfnd, and filled up with stones and clay, and beaten down solid, and covered with a hard plaster, to keep the mongoose and wbiu ants from coming up through the noor ; over una is piacea a unmese matting, which costs some 25 cents a yard. Car pets are soon destroyed by the ants, and are too warm for use. In towns, the roofs are covered with half-circle clay tiles, burnt with rice.chaff; in the country, the house are covered .with straw, or bamboo leaves. The eaves of these houses are low, to keep out the heat. Where they hare two storied houses, the Missionaaes live up stairs, and have the lower put of the house for a school-room, or godown f ware-room.) - ' But this is not -ell: some- of the Missionaries hive fine, delightful beds, aye, magnificent, if you choose, treep on. Not the downy feathers, torn by rnthlesV Jands from a host of birds-root the nwe, yielding chaffnor the bounding, welling corn husk beds, of American laudation no, no, but the srnod. solid, substantial and enduring eoir bed, made of the fibres of thecocoa-nut rind,' and many degrees, it is true,' softer than the soitcst pine hnanLAnd then the pillow, the nice cylindrical : IT . Ann nl.cttK anAanlits sn rnnl. and so pleasant, so inviting to sleep, that I wonder it is not adootea nere especially m suuuucr. Then the bedstead that is made to suit the taste of the sleeper on it I knew a Missionary, in India, who had a bedstiad of this description :-It was a high, four-posted one, 7feetT long and 6 wide, so as to allow the sleepers, wnen uiey gw w warm in one spot, to move to another ; a good eoir mattrass , it stood on stone pedestals, filled with water, to keep off the onla ; it had a gauze curtain all around, to keep off the mosquitoes ; a muslin top, to keep the lizards from falling on them, while they slept; a mosquito brush, with which to kill all the intruders that might be inside. Now, to escape from the tormenters outside, and get with in the curtains, having slain all within, and to lie down quietly and peacefully, and to fall asleep un der the soothing serenading of some ten thousand mosquitoes, conscious that they will not come be yond their prescribed limits, is a luxury which none but an Asiatic Missionary can enjoy. But Madame P. says "their wives presid at the tea-table." And where should they preside, if not there ? The usual plan is, to give the whole charge of domestic afuirs into the hands of the lady of the family. She manages and controls all, as is best. The husband sits at one end of the table and the wife at the other. I really don't know where Madame P. would put her. True, the Hindoo woman eats by herself, after her hus band is done his meal: would Madame P. prefer that course ? The missionaries have not yet adopt ed it. As to "their children feasting on sweetmeats," I can only say that if it be done in any case, the poor children will, in all probability, have to work off the effects of the indulgence by a dose of medi cine. But, "their position is one incomoarablv pleasanter and freer from care than that of most of the people," says Madame P Missionaries gener ally spend a part of every day in street-preaching. This is done in the evening. The day is devoted to study ; preparing books and general business. It is truly a pleasant work when the heart is in it, and the health remains ; and I do think that it is as pleasant a work as a man ued engage in. As to care, I am glad to find the testimony of Madame P. is so strong in their favor. Thu Saviour told His Disciples to "Be careful (or anxious) for nothing." PhiL 5 : 6. True, they work pretty Steadily and hitherto the avorag mieaion&ry - lite in India has been about eight years, hardly that. 1 ney generally are aole to preach in the native language in a year or more alter their arrival ; they visit schools; make books, and circulate them; preach regularly on the Sabbath, and daily in the streets ; and in the dry seasons, travel hundreds of miles, generally by night, and preach in every vil lage where they go giving away portions of the word of God and tracts to those only who can read, and who desire them. As they expect no support from the heathen, they rely on the good faith of their brethren at home p support them. 1 hey try to be free from "care on that point ; and find that they have not trusted the Church at home in vain, Madame P. don't approve of an English Mission ary taking a wife with him as he can get a black wo man much cheaper, for a wife. True, she will not be able to read or write, and she may not be con verted. She will not know anything of Christian ity. But then he will have a fine chance to teach her. She is right as to the frst-cosl of this plan. And it is probable that the Hindoo wife might out live the English lady. And if. the missionary should choose a nice, black, little wife, and be bles ed with a family of white and black children, I presume it would be because he could find none other equally as suitable and as agree able, and in all respects equally adapted to the missionary work. But the tastes of people differ materially on this point and it is best to let peo ple take their own plans about getting married. I know personally two missionaries, one a Scotch man, the other an American, wno, to uo good among the natives in the West Indies, married wives who were one-half African and the result was, that they lost the standing they had formerly held among the European portion of the commu nity, and did not gain by it the. confidence of the black or colored population. The English Govern ment, in India, frown down all such mixed mar riages. An tngnsn oincer or civilian win some times take a halt-cast wile, but he always does it with the knowledge ol the fact that, if he dies, his widow is looked upon in the eye of the law, as a concubine, and is not entitled to the pension that is always allowed to the European widow. But still we" say, "Every one to his liking;" but for myself, I prefer a white wile to a blacK one. -1 do not know what Madame IVs taste has been in this matter. When the missionary travt Is on his preaching tours in India, Madame P. thinks he "does not travel in a humble and simple manner but surrounded by luxurious accommodations with palankeens carried by men ; pick-horses or camels, with tents, beds, cooking utensils, dinner services, &.c. And who pays lor all this? Often, poor, well-meaning souls in England or America, who drprive themselves almost of the necessaries of life, tliat the good seed may be sown in thedeadist- ant regions of the earth." I fear the missionary must plead guilty to these grave charges. An honcut confession is good for the soul. But shall we condemn hiin ? Let us hear him first. What say you, Mr. missionary, to this charge? Why, sir: I answer that when I went on my missionary tours ot trom one to five hundred miles in India, I found the Hindoos had no roads in many places where a cart could go- and in many places, no horse could travel. On one of these tours'! bought a poney for $15, and after travelling five hundred miles, sold him for $13. I could not find a stage or rail road-car, nor wagon. that would carry me from village to village and besides, there was no road lor me to travel on ex cept an ox path. In going over the rocks, the poney would sometimes fall, but as my feet were onlv twenty inches from the ground, I seldom got hurt. - As there were 110 transportation! . As there were 110 transportation!. u"8 :".XlfiU . fe . v,.u- ' e unira ;.i. in the enterprise. He built for Trotter a fo 7 Zv iSn M&Wck houseT about fifty feet by seventy, ?aJfi! . r?L I. raLC, niiddlr of an acre of hfnd, finished it in t lines exce asses, and led to hire bullocks and drivers at a fixed price, who accompanied me, on my tour. On several of these oxen I put -books and tracts. When I came to a village, I found no hotel there. All I found was an empty shell of a bouse, in many cases like a horse-shi-d in this country, open at one side. In other cases, there was an empty room, without chair, or table or bedstead. 1 found it then a most wise thing that, according to the custom of the country, I had brought with me a matrass to lie down upon, a chair and table. As I founj no hotel, neither did 1 find any one to furnish me with provisions. It was a happy circumstance that I had the forethought to bring with me my own cooking utensils: for not a Hindoo would lend me bis. . No, not even a cup to drink out o& But that was not alL I had a man to cook for me, for the Hindoo would not do thaU Provisions could be got in some places.but not always. Hence I generally car ried some with roe, so as.not to be left entirely to live on rice and curry.' As there was no hotel, so I found no ma n to. take charge of my horse. I there fore brought my horse-keeper with me. And if I had not, I should have had a poor account of the horse himself, to say nothing of saddle and bridle, in the morning. -The truth is, a missionary in yisiting village after village, among the Hindoos, where no road but piths ate to be found, roust adopt the mode of travel which is in use in the country. Jt would be much more convenient to find good hotels all through the country where the traveller could stop to rest. But it is not so, hence he must travel as others do. "V Madame P. is no better pleased with the preach ing of the Asiatic missionaries than she is with their mode or living. Her plan is, first, - by a modest and exemplary coarse of life to gain their affection ? " and then, secondly, communicate to them (the heathen! some simple and intelligible doctrine." Now it so happens that the plan of 1 Christ is different from Madame r.is. tit eom- minds His ministers to preach at once faith in Him, and repentance towards God ; and that men should turn from idols to serve the living God. With the Saviour, the dutv of oreachino- comes first, not second. Nor were they to preach such doctrines as were simple and intelligible to the Hindoos. On the contrary, they were to preach the whole counsel of God, and make the people understand it. But, the thing which surprised her most, was the fact that the missionaries did not " go out into the world to preach the Gospel, taking nothing with them but a staff." She overlooked the fact that some of the apostles took their teires with them, and did not go among the heathens for them. And there is another fact she overlooked , it is the declaration of our Lord in Luke 22 : 35, 36, and is in the following language : "And He said unto them when I sent you without purse and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said He unto them, But now he that hath a purse let him take it ; and he that hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one." And this is just what the missionaries do. They take with them all they need for their temporal sup port and comfort, asking nothing fiom the heathen but an attentive ear to the truths they preach. They never carry weapons to defend themselves from the attacks or assaults of the natives ; but they sometimes carry a weapon to keep off wild beasts. Madame P. confesses that the missionaries " everywhere received her in the most friendly and hospitable manner." What a pity it is that she had not the honesty to confess, that their mode of living, travelling, die, arises from the necessity of the case, and not from a desire of display. What 13 suitable in one clime, is not in another. A small and warm house is such as a man of sense would want in a cold climate ; but where the ther mometer is 80 deg. in mid-winter, he w ill need some kind of a d wel ing where he may, if possible, be kept cool. But I must take my leave of Madame P. And when she travels in the East again, I sincerely hope she may rind out still som-thing new and in teresting : and may be able to inform the world whether the missionaries' wives are good mothers, for that has escaped her notice , though she is careful to tell us that the missionaries are " worthy men and good fathers of families." AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM. THE MERINO SHEEP SPECULATION OF '15-'17. The merino sheep speculation was one of the most extraordinary bubbles that was ever known in America. It had its origin in the year 1815, soon after the treaty of Ghent, and at a time when thousands of our people were actually under the influence of a manufacturing mania. In the summer of that year, a gentleman of Bos ton imported some half dozen sheep, from one of i the southern provinces of Spain, wLose fleeces were ot the finest texture, as it was said, tfhd such undoubtedly was the fact, though the sheep were so thoroughly and completely imbedded tn tar, and every other oltensive article, that it would have been very difficult to prove it. But the very offen sive appearance of the sheep seemed to imbue them with a mysterious value, that rendered them doubly attractive. It was said that the introduction of these sheep into the United States would enabltJ our manufactories, then in their infancy, to produce broad-cloths, and other woolen fabrics, of a texture that would compete, with England and Europe. Mr. Clay was consulted in reference to the sheep, and he at once decided that they were exactly the aninmals that were wanted. The first merino sheep sold, if I recollect right, for fifty dollars the head. They cost a dollar n Andalusia. 1 he speculation was too profitable to stop here ; an 1 before a long period had elapsed, a small fleet sailed ou a sheep speculation to the Mediterranean. By the end of the year 1816, there were probab ly one thousand merino sheep in the Union ; and they had advanced to twelve hundred dollars the head. Before the autumn of that rear had oassedawav, they sold for fifteen hundred dollars the head ; a lus'.y and good looking buck was worth two thou sand. In New England, in the year 1817, the specula tion, in consequence of the surplus importation, began t decline ; but it steadily and rapidly ad vanced throughout the Western country. Ken tucky in consequence of the influence of Mr. Clay's opinion, was especially benefitted. . In the month ot August, 1S17, 1 saw a menno buck and ewe sold for eight thousand dollars ; and even that seemed a very small price for the am nials. They were purchased by a Mr. Samuel Long, a house-builder and contracter, who fancied he had. by the transaction, secured an immense fortune. This Mr. Long was actually rabid with the mer ino fever; and in. proof of it, it is only, necessary to relate a single anecdote. 1 here resided in Lex ington and not more than a mile distant from Clay's villa of Ashland a wealthy gentleman, named Samuel Trotter, who. was" in fact, the money-king of Kentucky, and who to a very great extent controlled the .branch ot the liana ot the United States. He had two sheep, a buck and a ewe, and Long was very anxious to possess them. Long had often bantered Trotter for the sheep, without success ; but one day, the latter said to the former, " If you will build me such a house on a certain lot of land, as I shall describe, you shull have the merinos." " Draw your plans," said Long, " and let me see them." . The tiling was done, and Long eagerly engaged lie built for Trotter a lour story on the the most aDorovcd modern style, and enclosed it with a cost ly fence, and handed it over to Trotter, for the two merino sheep. The establishment must have cost fifteen thousand dollars. . Months before th 3 establishment was completed, the price of merinos declined gradually ; and six months had not passed away, oeiore uiey would not command twenty dollars. Mr. Long held on to them tlli they had reached the par value of any other sheep, when he killed i a . them, made barbecue, called ni inenus 10 tne fisst- and whilst the "rrobblet went its criddv jonnd," like the ruined Venetian, he thanked God that he was not worth a ducat, tie was ruined, and soon after died of a broken heart. SEVEN DAYS LATER! 7 By the arrival this morning, (April 10th) ofthe brig Noble, Capt. Robertson, from San Francisco, we have received New York papers of the 20th of 1 February, and California dates to the 27th March inclusive. . We are indebted to u. is. root at uo. for our files, for which they will receive our thanka. Also, to Cant. Robertson, for late N. Y. papers, from which we make extracts, - LATEST FROM EUROPE. The British mail steamship Canada arrived at New York from Liverpool on the 18th eoruary with dates to the 31st January. Ejglawd. The commercial news is favorable. The alarm in England with regard to the French invasion was becoming greater, and an alliance with the United States was thought to be the only safeguard. " Summonses have been issued for a Pnvy Coun cil, to be held at Buckingham Palace, at which the roval speech was to be arranged. : . . m.. . T 1 T. K The London 1 lmes amioujiccB umi jmuujju- ii , - . ton retires from the Board of Control, and will be succeeded by Mr. Fox Maule, who will take the responsibility of Framing a new bill for India. The principle of the new Reform bill will be ' neither disfranchisement nor enfranchisement, as . regards localities, but rnly a general enlargement of existing constituencies. The notorious borougha are to be enlarged by copious annexations. No new metropolitan boroughs, ho more representa tives for Manchester- and Liverpool, none for the large towns unrepresented, and no obliteration of . names which have brought disgrace on the bill The Prometheus affair appears to have been set tled by a disavowal on the part of the English government of the privilege exercised by the com- -mander of II. B. M's brig Express, exercising a . police over our vessels. Ia the last dispatch of Lord Granville" to Abbott Lawrence, the following amende is made : "The undersigned has now to state to Mr. Ab bott Lawrence, for the information of his Govern ment, that her Majesty's Government fully approve of the Vice Admiral's conduct in this matter, and " that they entirely disavow the act of violence com mitted by the commander of the Express, and also -the requisition from her Majesty's Consul, under which the comminder acted, fo far as he acted by any authority derived from the British Crown. Under these circumstances her Majesty's Govern1 ment have no hesitation in offering an ample apol ogy for that which they consider to have been an infraction of treaty engagements ; and her Majes ty's Government do so without loss of time, and immediately upon the receipt of the official intel gence above alluded to." . France. The Republic remains tranquil. M. Per signy the French Minister of the interior, has address ed a circular to the prefects, to release immediately from prison, and restore to their families, all poor mis led insurgents. Military judicial authorities will re ceive similar orders. It is believed that the President of France will not modify the decree respecting the Orleans property, but that he will grant the family some indemnity. The President gave a grand dinner on Thursday, Jan. 29th, to a distinguished party of English ; forty five sat down. He expressed great regret at the pre valence of the belief in England as to his warlike in tentions. "He had lived there long enough to acquire respect for its people and institutions, and he still had intended to make war, "it'is simply absurd." . a great many friends there." As to the rumor that he Goinq to Califorma. "All the world" seems bent on a trip to the gold region. If there were steamship accomodation on the Panama and Nic aragua lines for taking fifty thousand passengers through in the course of the next two months, we believe it would all be eagerly taken up; An im mense army will this yearcross the Plains and the Sierra ; and though miny will perish or stop on the way, we cannot estimate the emigrants during 1852 to California at less than one hundred thousand ; and should means of transportation be provided, and the news from the Pacific continue cheering, it may even exceed that number. N Y. Tribune.- The P. M. S. Company have contracted for the construction of a new steamer the same size ofthe Golden Gate. The steamer S. S. Lewis, of Boston, has been purchased by Geo. A. Osgood, of New York, for the California trade. The last arrival from Europe brought a treaty with Persia, in which the United States is placed on a footing with the most favored nations, SUMMARY FROM OUR LATE FILES. The marriage of Jenny Lind took place in Bos ton on the 5th kist, and is thus announced in the Boston papers: . Married, in this city, at the residence of Mr. S. G. Ward, by Rev. Charles Mason, assisted bv Rev. Dr. Wainwright, of New York the Swedish Con-i suL Hon. Edward Everett, Mr. and Mrs, T Ward, Mr. N. J. Bowditch, her legal adviser, and other friends being present Otto Goldschmidt, of Hamburgh, to Mdile. Jenny Lind, of Stockholm,' Sweden, tV Jenny Lind was married by the Protestant Episcopal rite. She is thirty ne years old and; her husband twenty-four. He is a gentleman and a man of genius -of Hebrew origin, we believe, We well remember his performances on the piano forte, too good for the popular appreciation, and never deviating from the severity of art to draw out the public plaudits by tricks of clap-trap, which he bad dexterity enough to do if he had chosen. On those occasions Jenny, who was not on the stage at the moment, used often to stand forward in her private box and clap her hands vigorously in sight of the audience, who by no means seemed to share her admiration for the pianist. However, she understood l)is merits a great deal better than they did. . The Forent case has been derided in New York, granting a divorce to Mrs. F,with $3,000 alimony. Mr?. K, has nuiHe her appearance on the Mage of Brougham' Lyreum. . The Fosest Cae. The bill of cons present ed ly plaintiff was $863,82; but charges of $40 for counsel fee at Nw Orleans, anil for printing; and copying, were oljcifd to and disallowed, iuiinuniingto$439,S9, rn that th; amount of tax, ed costs entered in the decree is $424,45. . The United States sloop-of-war Dale, Capt. Pearson, recent! v bombarded Johanba, one of Comoro Island!, in the Mozambique Channel. Johanna i. much frequented hy our South Pacific whalers, for supplies. Capt. Pearson demand ed indemnity for outrages committed nt various times uiwmi our whalers, wbirh lwiiz refuwd, led to the Immhanlinent, ami resulted in the Kirig.'s-Coming to term.-'. fjy The new fhip Qtien ofthe Eaf, 1,250 torw, built at Neweinth, h Iteen &oUI at iiiie thing over $70,000, and with the new hip Em pire, takn up to load the gnvernn-nt Dry Dork for San Frauciru', on private terms. PANAMA RAILROAD, We learn with much aratification from person who have just inspected iri bat the Panama Rail Road, under the energetic fup-rinteidnce of President Stevens himself, i progressing with astonishing rapidity, and that in lea than a month, it will be m lull operation irom nary Bay to the Babia Soldou, ibe station a little be low Gorgona. We learn further that ibe principal forre now employed on the woik, i cmpwrt of native negro,' who are so much better fed and paid in their prenent occupation than ever thy were be fore, in snv other, that tbey are quite well mi- iafied. and work with such harty good will as to prove tbem clearly aa gooYI laborers as can he found anv where much Letter, in abort, than any that have ever been imorted. -Star. Qcick Woaa- A gentleman of this city receiv ed by the last mail an answer to a letter sent to Boston, in J 1 6 days, less than four months. Dates from New York of the 20th of February were re ceived here on the 10th of ApriL 49 days. rr? The number of passengers arrived at Saa . Francisco between Feb. 26th, and March 10th, was,' by sea, 124. Departed, 609, - ti l V 4.; ii v Ii .7 A i 1 ! Ii - :h 1 if. : r ',1 f r i tl Ii