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ts projected payment in a depreciated currency--and, had it not been for the intervention of Lord Clarendon, and of the Hon. Mr. Scarlett, British Minister at Rio de Janeiro, of whose zealous exertions in my favour I cannot speak too warmly--this further injustice would have been perpetrated without the knowledge or sanction of His present Imperial Majesty.It may be asked, why--with the clear documentary evidence in my possession--and now adduced--I have for so many years endured an amount of

line, seein' hestarted so arly on the sea he can't tell when he wasn't there himself.How was that matter, Bill? asked one of his messmates. They say youhave kept the captain's reckoning, man and boy, these fifteen years. That have I, and never a truer heart floated than the man you seeyonder leaning over the rail on the quarterdeck, where he belongs,answered Bill Marline. How did you first fall in with him, Bill?--Tell us that, said one ofthe crew. Well, do ye see, messmates, it must have been

liday.The dear lady who delights in piffle, and to whom pifflage is the very breath of life, had also her niche in our affairs. She hailed from Egg Harbor and was an antique guinea hen of uncertain age. When you are thinking of the white porch of your home, she will tell you she didn't sleep a wink last night! that the eggs on this steamer are not what they ought to be, that the cook doesn't know how to boil them, and that as her husband is troubled with insomnia her son is quite likely to run