SYDNEY.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 69, 28 March 1843, Page 3

SYDNEY.

The following extract from a private letter, just received in Sydney, being a narrative of a voyage hence to Manilla, and pointing out many islands and dangers not laid down in any chart, will be read with interest, more particularly by those interested in the navigation of the Pacific: — “ Having the vanity to suppose a short account of our passage from Sydney, will be acceptable to one who kindly took so much interest in all of us, I have thought it better to commence before reaching Manilla, as there a pressure of business might probably limit me to a few lines. We are now out forty-three days, and should our present favorable breezes continue, we shall reach Manilla next week. We have had rather a tedious and anxious passage thus far : you must have been aware that it commenced so. Shortly after your leaving us, we passed through between the heads about 9 o’clock ; at ten, we were about ten miles at sea, the wind increasing so as to oblige me to reef, the weather looking very threatening at S.E.; at four p.m., I judged we had an offing of sixty miles, it was then blowing so fresh, I was obliged to heave to, under a close-reefed main-topsail; by midnight, it was blowing a perfect hurricane from S.E., with a tremendous sea, and much thunder and lightning; I think I never before witnessed such a gale; my masts were in great danger; you will recollect they were not short ones. Fortunately, the wind continued sufficiently to the southward to enable us, with the assistance of the current, to keep off shore: had it been more to the eastward, nothing but the interposition of a merciful Providence could have saved us. How much we wished ourselves safely anchored in Sydney Cove ! We expected you would all feel anxious about us, and probably expect us in, for repairs, in a few days. It abated on the morning of the 30th, when we took a fair wind, which carried us into the S.E. trades, giving us the prospect of a quick passage. We have passed through a large portion of the Pacific, not all surveyed. Many of the islands are laid down very incorrectly; some not laid down at all, and many which are represented in my charts as having no dangers near them, I found to be surrounded with dangerous reefs and rocks. With the exception of whalers, few ships visit these seas; and those engaged in the blubber trade, make little note of what they see. On the 15th - May, we made Cherry Island, of the Charlotte Archipelago, a small island not more than one mile and a half in length ; it is a beautiful little spot, covered with trees and verdure to the water’s edge. On rounding the east point, we perceived a small village, on a low patch of ground, almost hid by banana trees. This was the first indication we saw of inhabitants, not for a moment supposing to find any on so small a spot. Shortly after, we saw a canoe, with a single person in it, paddling along shore - : this was the only one we could perceive on the island. I brought the ship within - one mile of the island, hove too, and having well manned a boat’s crew, accompanied by my-passengers, I piffled for the beach, taking a quantity of tobacco and iron, to barter for cocoa-nuts and yams. As we approached, we perceived the beach to be lined with men, women, find children, we judged to the number of two hundred, a large number to subsist on' so small a spot. We saw.no arms, or indications of hostility; all were anxious for us to land, but within two hundred yards of the beach; we found the water quite shoal, with high breakers. The

native# beckoned us to a narrow opening, where the sea was more smooth, but my gents, became alarmed at their uncouth looks, and preferred remaining outside the breakers. We lay on our oars, and the natives swam off to us with yams, cocoa-nuts, &c., which they were glad to exchange with us. They are a fine well made race, resembling much the Moors of Calcutta ; some few were beautifully tattooed, like the New Zealanders. After obtaining about 100 cocoa-nuts, and a few yams, we pulled back to the ship, and made sail, not being able to induce one to visit the ship. 24th. We passed directly over a large island, so says my chart; no land in sight from the mast head : §fune evening crossed the equator in longitude 162 deg. 33 min.E. On the 31st we ran over spots where ought to be two othei islands, according to the charts ; weather beautifully clear; no land in sight. June fcst, over another; so you may judge how little is known of these remote regions. Same day made the Island of Ascension, marked on my chart as a very small one, with no apparent dangers near: on the contrary, we found a large island, quite twenty miles in circumference, and surrounded by dangerous reefs, rocks, and shoals. Had I made it at night, most probably I should have lost the ship on some of them in endeavouring to pass it, as none of my charts had any of the dangers marked down: there are numerous small islands around it; and S.W. fifteen miles, I discovered a group of nine islands, two of them quite large : none of these are laid down on any of the charts. Ten miles farther E. is laid down an island which does not exist. When within two miles of Ascension we discovered two whale ships, close in with - the land, standing out to meet us, both with American colours flying, the first ship we had seen since leaving Sydney. We also saw a small canoe, in which we could see a white face: I hove to for him to come on board; he was a Frenchman ; had been on the island for some years : he represented the whites and other foreigners (about forty in all) as having the principal sway on shore, all being married to the daughters of chiefs; this Frenchman had four wives. They are continually inciting the different tribes to war, for the purpose of pluiider, so jealous are they of each other; they go continually armed, for should one of their number return from an expedition to a ship with any little article of value; any one of the others would not hesitate to waylay and murder him, and then boast of the deed. They are mostly convicts, escaped from Norfolk Island and Sydney. In case of accident to my ship, I should fear these scoundrels much more than the natives, who appear to be a harmless good-natured race. I bargained for supplies with the Frenchman, to be brought on board early in the morning, as I did not feel safe in passing the island at night. For One plug common tobacco we were to have two fowls; for one pound, one hundred cocoa-nuts j one pound; one hundred yams; one pound coarse powder, the same as one pound tobacco. At half-past five, having completed my arrangements, I tacked ship, and stood for one of the whalers, and brought the Captain on board, by promising a package Of newspapers. His ship was the Mount Vernon, Captain Imbert, of Nantucket, out three months; having on board 1300 barrels sperm oil, bound on a cruize to the coast of Japan. He made us acquainted with several dangers in the neighbourhood, not marked down in the charts, and gave us several curiosities from the neighbouring islands, consisting of spears and war-clubs, covered with sharks teeth, and neatly made belts,- made by the women. He spent most of the evening on board, and my passengers all visited his ship, never having been oh board of a whaler before. At daylight I stood in for the island, expecting my supplies; after waiting more than two hours, a Portuguese brought off a few cocoa-nuts and yams, and informed me that the balance could not be got off before one o’clock; I therefore squared away to pass the leeward of Ascension, and at sun-down was clear of all the groups. June 28th, we made the island of Guam, one of the Ladrones, so named by Sir Francis Drake, on account of the thievish propensities of the natives : they were taken possession of by Spain in the reign of Phillip 11., and called the Marienne Islands, in honour of his Queen Anne Marie of Austria. It is a large group; all were once populous, but an epidemic sickness carried off most of the natives, and the Spaniards cruelly removed all the survivors to Guam, the largest, to supply the numbers that had died there. Guam has a very pleasing appearance: we passed close to the south end, and shaped our course westward for St. Bernardino Straits, one of the numerous passages through the Philippines. China Sea, June 25 : You will be rather surprised to hear from us in this region. On the 20th instant we made the entrance of the Straits of St. Bernardino, with the wind directly against us, which prevented us holding our own. At dusk it turned in our favour, but the weather was so thick and squally, we could not run without great danger of being drifted on the numerous shoals with which this passage abounds. After working hard for two days, we were obliged to give it up, and square away to pass round the north-end of Luconia, and down the China Sea. It will lengthen Oiir passage very much. I fear we shall be out at legist 70 days before we reach Manilla, and regret not going through Torres’ Straits : nothing would induce me to try this passage again. 25th: We rounded the North Cape, with light baffling winds and adverse currents. 27th. We passed Cape Bajadore, and are now in the China Sea, beating down against the S. W. Monsoon, with a prospect of reaching our destination in another week. July 6th: We reached Manilla yesterday, making our passage 68 days—rather a long one. We found no American vessels here, but plenty of letters from our friends at home, who, I am happy to say, are all well. Onr ship leaks so badly, that we shall be obliged to heave her down and newly copper her, which will detain us some time, as the weather is very unfavourable at this ' season. Our leak first commenced a day or two after that severe gale we experienced the day we left you. After our repairs are completed, our cargo will be ready.”— The Australian. Preserving Husbands. —We have received the following from a fair correspondent:—Sir— I lately observed in your paper under the head of “ Literature,” a quotation on the subject of “ managing” (or cooking) “ husbands.*’ But the methods there spoken of are far from being good. I believe husbands would generally be a great deal better than they are, were their wives to manage them better, but they spoil them in the cooking. Some use them as if they were bladders; they blow them up. And others keep them almost constantly in hot water ; while others, instead of cooking them properly, almost freeze them by the coolness of their own conjugal temperature j while others again smother them with, hatred, contention, and variance, and some actually put them in pickle, and keep them there all.their lives! Most of these bad managing wives nearly always serve them up with neglect and tongue sauce. Now it is to

be expected that husbands should he tended and good managed in this manner ? Is it not rather a wonder that they are not worse? The plan we wives in Norfolk adopt in managing our husbands, is t ® preserve them. Some husbands, I am aware, are not to be rendered endurable with any treatment; but there are very few that are not quite delicious when well preserved. The manner is as follows—Get a large jar, called the jar of carefulness, (which by the bye all good wives have at hand). Being placed in it, set him near the fire of conjugal love ; let the fire be pretty hot, but especially let it be clear. Above ally let the heat be regular and constant. Cover him over with equal quantities of affection, kindness, submission/ and subjection. Keep plenty of these things by you, and be very attentive to supply the place of any that may waste by evaporation, or any other cause, Garnish with modest, becoming' familiarity, and innocent pleasantly, and if you add kisses, or other confectionaries, accompany them with a sufficient portion of secresy ; and it would not be amiss to add a little prudence' and moderation. Were all the wives in England to pursue this plan, the country would be quite metamorphosed ; at all events there would be no hurt in making the trial.

Caution to Magistrates. —lt is a frequent complaint, that there is in England one law for the rich and another for the poor, and it must be confessed that sometimes a strong contrast might be instituted between the punishment inflicted upon the humble offender and that awarded to an evil-doer moving in higher ranks of Society. A case, however, occurred at the recent Devon Assizes, which shows that rich men must not always calculate upon being able to infringe the law with impunity, and that there are some judges, who, without reference' to the rank or connections of the parties accused, will hold the scale* of justice. John Nott,Esq., a gentleman of fortune and a magistrate of Devonshire, was indicted “ for administer-* ing an unlawful oath, having no judicial cognizance of the matter in question.” It appears that Mr. Nott, having heard some tittle tattle relative to two clergymen in the neighbourhood, went to the Bishop of Exeter, and made a charge against them. The Bishop very properly refused to notice it on hearsay evidence, so Mr. Nott, actuated by what motives we know not, sent for the parties who made the statement, and required them to give their evidence to him, having first administered an oath to them. The jury appeared anxious, if possible, to allow Mr. Nott to escape, and the foreman, addressing the judge, said, “ We find the defendant guilty of inadvertently administering an oath or oaths.” The judge directed them to find a verdict of guilty. They did so, and recommended the prisoner to the consideration of the court. The judge; Mr. Justice Coleridge, however, did not think fit to attend to their recommendation. He sentenced Mr. Nott to imprisonment in the common gaol of the county for one calendar month; and in alluding to that gentleman’s protestations that he was ignorant of the law he had violated, the learned judge remarked: “No man is allowed, as to a question of guilty or not guilty to plead ignorance of a statute, and if that principle is pressed on people in lower stations of life, I cannot apply it to people who, like you, have voluntarily taken upon yourself the administration of the law.” Observing that it would be his duty to sentence him to either fine or imprisonment, his lordship pertinently observed : —“ I have a very great objection to administer the former, as a fine in the case of a poor man leads to ruin—in the case of a rich man it is no punishment at all. Imprisonment everybody must more or less feel; to one who fills your station it most be the greatest punishment.” If the law* was always administered in this spirit, we should hear less of the complaints that justice is often dealt out with partiality.

Discovery of a Curious Piece of Ancient Sculpture in the Cathedral Church of Limerick.—Mr. Bardwell, the architect, who is engaged here setting a monument to the late Mr. D. Barrington, observed a carved stone projecting from one of the piera of the church, the figures of which, however, were almost invisible beneath the thick coating of paint and whitewash successively applied. Mr. Bardwell had this stone cleaned, and the figures are now clear and distinct. The stone appears to have been either a small rood, or the pattern for the large one formerly over the rood loft. The centre figure represents the Saviour on the cross, with the Virgin and St. John on either side. On the left is St. George, who is trampling on the dragon, which he has transfixed with a cross. On the right hand is St. Michael, treading an enormous head of Satan in the dust, while Satan, with outstretched hands, appears quite incapable of opposing the resistless power of the saint. This interesting composition is surrounded by a border of foliage, and is well worthy the attention of the antiquary. —Limerick Chronicle. Wheat Export.—An arrangement made by the Australasian Bank to receive wheat from the growers for consignment to an agent at Sydney, has given general satisfaction. The Bank will make advances on grain shipped to their agent, 1 W. C. Botts, Esq —Col. Observer:,

Banking in Great Britain. —-The circumstances that have been disclosed by several of the private bank failures that have occurred within; the last twelve months are, in many respects, so discreditable to the commercial character of the country, that a strong feeling is produced in the monied circles in favor of the adoption of measures to prevent their recurrence.' The chief cause of the evil complained of has obviously been the ignorance of the public respecting the available capital of private banks, and the changes which take place in the partnerships, by which the property that was originally the ground of confidence has often been entirely withdrawn from the concern without the slightest intimation. A palpable example of this description was lately exhibited in the case of the Renfrewshire Bank at Greenock, when it turned out on examination, that the whole business had for many years been carried on exclusively with the capital belonging to the depositors. The remedy for the evil has often been pointed out, but hitherto all approach to its application has been successfully resisted by the private bankers throughout the country. The check required by the public, in the first place, is the names of all persons forming the company, with a record of every change ; and in the second place, in the case of all banks of issue or deposit, the amount of the available capital upon which they have to rely to entitle them to public confidence. The objection taken to furnish these returns has generally rested on the plea of it being an unwarrantable interference with private property and private affairs ; but the scenes which have been latety exhibited have tended much to shake the confidence of some of the most tenacious sticklers for the objection in the validity of the argument. Amongst this class are some of the most eminent private bankers in town, who have hitherto opposed all attempts to enforce publicity on these establishments, but who are now convinced that something must be done to afford protection to the public ; and the inquiry into the affairs of the Brighton Bank, which has just terminated, is another strong case in point to impress the matter upon the public mind, where parties knowingly in a state of insolvency deliberately went on for a series of years on the capital of depositors —themselves all the while living in a style of comparative opulence, because the slightest attempt at retrenchment would have been fatal to their credit.

This is a subject which we feel assured will not be lost sight of in the arrangement of the currency question, which cannot be deferred beyond next session, and which is rendered less difficult to legislate upon by the magnitude of the evils that have arisen out of the existing system. It cannot be admitted for a moment that banking stands in the same relation to the community as any private mercantile concern, as has formerly been contended, and the security therefore ought to be fixed on a different basis. —Standard o IMPORTANT DISCOVERY, Whereby 1 Acre shall produce 121 Barrels ofPotatoes ! This wonderful produce is ascertained by an experiment made in the drill system, and according to the following process : —The parent stock is to consist of one whole potatoe of a moderate size, but not less than a hen’s egg. The potatoes, with the crown uppermost (for this is indispensable), are to be laid horizontally with the drills at parallel distances, and within such a compass of surface as to allow nearly two square feet to each parent stock. The preparatory course is as follows:—The land to be either subsoiled or trenched, and in drills, to be left exposed to a winter fallow. If the soil be wet, some of the trenches can be left open, so as to admit a sufficient fall for the water during winter. But it is better to follow this rule generally in a small or large degree, as may be required ; with such management a moderate share will suffice, either of stable or yard dung, or of good compost. The latter in the drill system is .preferable after March. Thus the Sand becomes perfectly pulverised before spring, and with a depth of surface considerably increased, will admit of four landings, which are the least that can be used on this occasion. The first landing should be made as the shoot re aches towards the summit of the drill, and jus t before it appears ; the second after its appearance, and when it rises a few inches above the surface ; afterwards the third and fourth at interval's of a fortnight each; and, finally, a fifth in July would render this cultivation perfect.

The drill in which this cultivation was made consisted of thirty-five stalks, and the sample now exhibited is one of them* being of the tolon species; it weighs 201 b. The average or map proportion of each stalk is 181 b., and the produce at the latter rate would be 121 barrels per acre. The ground where this trial was made is too much sheltered and confined, which caused the stalk to be luxurious, and served rather-to lessen the produce; besides, was not sufficiently trenched, and it follows that in an open .field, with proper trenching, &c., the produce would prove still more abundant. This, mode of cultivating the potato, so simple in its. operation, and so beneficial in its effects, has an; additional recommendation, that it is equally accessible to all classes of agriculturists; it can be used on a small or large scale

with equal facility. The poor man, with his solitary acre, and without a plough, by trenching, which ip the most essential part pf the entire process, can derive the full benefit of it, and can thus be rendered quite independent of conacre. The produce of one stalk, after being exhibited in the Agricultural Society’s'yard, were left at this office, they weigh twenty pounds, and were cultivated by Thomas Cox, who resides near Durham. This poor man also exhibited three large turnips.— Roscommon Journal.

A Petersburg Winter. —The highest degrees of cold occur in general only in calm, serene weather; so that with a cold of 30 degrees Petersburg may reckon upon splepdid weather. The sky is clear, the sun shines brilliantly as his rays dart through millions of minute glistening crystals of ice, with which the atmosphere is filled as with diamond dust. From all the houses, and likewise from the churches, which are heated too, whirl thick columns of vapour, which appear as dense as if there was a steam-engine in every house, and reflects all sorts of colours. The snow and ice in the streets and on the Neva are white and pure, as though all were baked of sugar. The whole city is clad in a dress of the colour of innocence, and all the roofs are coated with a like stratum of sparkling crystal dust. Water freezes as it is poured out; and the horsetroughs, the vehicles engaged in carrying water, and the drivers, the washerwomen at the canals, are all encrusted with ice; for every drop is instantly changed to stone, and contributes to form about them the most fantastic icicles and wrappers. In the streets everything displays the most active life, in order to escape the clutches of death; and all scamper in such haste, as if he were literally at their heels. The snow, as you tread on it, crackles and howls the strangest melodies; all «tlier sounds assume unusual tones in this frigid atmosphere; while a slight rustling or buzzing is continually heard in the air, rising, probably, from the collision of all the particles of snow and ice that are floating there. — Russia in 1842.

Marriage of the Deaf and Dumb. —A curious case of opposition to the marriage of a deaf and dumb girl has been decided by the supreme tribunal at Berne. It appears that Anne Luthi, the person in question, an exceedingly pretty young woman of twenty-five, and possessing a fortune of 30,000 francs, had been placed in a deaf and dumb institution near Berne, where she had received an excellent education. On her return home to Rohrbach, her hand was demanded by a M. Brossard, who had been deaf from fourteen years of age, and had been employed for some years as a teacher in the institution. He was thirty-five years of age, bore an excellent character, and ( had saved some money out of his salary. As art. 31 of the civil code of Berne enacts that deaf and dumb persons could not marry without having first obtained permission from the tribunal ; Mdlle. Luthi made application in the usual manner, but was opposed by her relations, and by the commune in which she lived. The grounds of opposition were, that Brossard had taken an undue advantage of his position in the institution to captivate the young girl’s affections —that it was to be feared that the children would labour under the infirmity of the parents —and that these latter could not, in case they were like other children, give them the cares required for a good moral education. The objections relating to the children being proved by the testimony of medical men to be perfectly chimerical, and letters being produced from the female herself, admirably written, breathing the utmost affection for Brossard, the court decided that as from their infirmity being mutual, and their constant habit of interchanging ideas by signs, they were well suited to each other, and there were good grounds for expecting that the female would be happier with Brossard than with any other person, no just grounds for opposition existed, and permission must accordingly be given for the marriage. Connubial Felicity. —A stoilt, hearty vender of small wares, of genuine ‘Jerry Sneek* aspect, made his way into the office, and after peeping cautiously about as if to be sure some object of dread was not present, walked up to the magistrate, ‘ I want to swear my life, your worship.’ Magistrate.—Against whom ? Applicant (looking about carefully)—Against —against my (softly) wife. ’* Magistrate. —What has she been doing ? Applicant.—She’s always abiding me. There was only this morning she smacked my face because I put another lump of sugar in my tea,! when I thought she wasn’t looking. Magistrate. —Well you know you took her for better or worse. '

Applicant.—Yes, but she’s all ‘worse.’ I’m so miserable that I’m sure I shall do something shocking. I think I could manage her if I could keep her from the gin bottle. Magistrate it away from her. Applicant.—She’s got the keys. Magistrate.—Don’t let her have any 1 money. Applicant.—She keeps all the cash. Magistrate.—Part from her. Applicant.—She won’t let me. ‘Then,’ said the magistrate, in a tone. o| perplexity, ‘I ;don’t know what to advise.

There’s only one course—yun off to America, for that is the land of promise for every rogue, ifool, and discontented person here.’ Irish Waiters. —The Irish waiter, except at first-rate hotels, is never well-dressed, and is always too familiar to be considered “ well behaved.” An Irish waiter does many things which an English waiter never thinks of; but h)s grand occupation is finding out the business of his master’s customers. “ Upon my conscience,” we heard one say to another, “it’s I ■that’ll cry hurra when the new poor-law comes in play, for my tongue’s worn to a shred, and my throat turned into a fair highway, striving to keep them beggars away from the quality; and if I don’t treat them with civility, its mmv dered I’d be out and out, as an example to all waiters. Sorra a thing I found out, for a week, with them, for beggars. Instead of laming the " news, its watching them I am.” The Irish waiter is a fellow of local information, well read in politics and having a strong tendency to liberalism, and yet more anxious to discover your opinion than to tell his own. He is both lazy and active, lazy at his work, active in amusements; he will cheat yon in a bargain, but he will not rob you; he is a most invariably good-humoured, and as cunning as a fox ; from the moment he enters his master’s house, he considers you somewhat in the light of his own proporty; he turns over your luggage until he has discovered your name, and ten chances to one but he manages, before you have been half an hour in the house, to find out, in the most ingenious manner, whence you came, whither you are going, and what you are going about. He is free, yet respectful, ■“ familiar, but by no means vulgar.— Mr. and Mrs. Hall's Ireland.

like a Christian in many ways; sure it’s made of clay like a Christian, and has the spark of life in; and while the breath is in it the spark is alive, but when the breath is out of it the spark dies, and then it grows cold like a Christian. And isn’t it a pleasant companion like a Christian ?” “ Faix, and some Christians isn’t pleasant companions at all,” chimed in Mrs. Rooney, sententiously. “ Well, but they ought to be,” said Larry. “ And isn’t a pipe sometimes cracked like a Christian ?—and isn’t it sometimes choked like a Christian ?” * * * * “ The most improvin’est thing in the world (paugh), ' —and a parenthetical whiff of tobacco smoke curled out of the corner of Larry’s mouth—“ is smoken, for the smoke shows you as it were, the life o’ man passing away like a puff, (paugh)—just like that; and the tibbaky turns to ashes like his poor perishable body.” — Mr. Lover, in Bentlexj's Miscellany.

Extraordinary Scientific Expedition.— The expedition of M. de Castelnan to the central regions of South Amei ica, under the sanction of the French Government, being decided upon, it may be interesting and useful to give some idea of this vast undertaking. It embraces nothing less than an exploring journey across this continent at its greatest width, from Rio Janeiro to Lima, a line of no less than 1,000 leagues, one-half of which has never yet been visited by any European. The return is to be made along the Maranon or Amazon river, and the interior of Guiana. This wide tour will excite public curiosity in the highest degree, as it embraces a country of fabulous history, but told with so many circumstances and incidents as almost to create in some minds a doubt as to whether it was fabulous. Our traveller will have to cross the country of the warlike Amazons, in whose existence La Condamine, the great astronomer and traveller, who visited the Maranon in the middle of the last century, believed* He will also have to visit the. empire of the Grand Wapiti, .who plays so great a-part in the thousand Spanish chronicles, and also the mysterious Eldorado, in search of which so many brave men, including Sir W. Raleigh, faced appalling difficulties and dangers. Independently of these imaginary, or at best apochryphal objects, the scientific explorer will have an ample field for the exertion of his talents and observation. The study of the monuments of the imperial race pf the Incas, whose civilization Was the wonder of far remote ages, and -whose history is still a closed book, seems likely to be exposed to us, with the migrations of the people of the earlier ages. To these add the. fixing of the ;m.agnetic equator, the study of the beneficial products of . these regions, particularly that invaluable medicine bark, observations on the various , races of men, on the brute animals and plants, and the atmospheric phenomena of .wild regions. These subjects must all the attention and researches of Mi de; Gastelnan, who'ls qualified- for his great task by having passed five years in the least known parts pf North Am er ip&,/ the men °f cthe deserts,> and by his. numerous works on natural .history. This great enterprise was planned under the auspices of the date Duke of Orleans,.apdis now adopted and patronised by , the ;Pnke $e Nemours, anxious to accomplish the w ews and wishes of his august brother. — }Galignmi’s . Messenger. A second number.of the Port Phillip Magazine has been published, this periodical is highly * spoken of, but we have not seen either num-; bers.