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Southland Times, Issue 655, 10 April 1867, Page 2

A Romakoe op the Sea.— A romantio story of seafaring life was brought under the notice of the Liverpool Local Marina Board recently, when the chairman, Mr J. Smith, on behalf of the French Government, presented a binocular glass to Captain G-eorge Robinsbn, of the British ship Luzon, for rescuing a cabin-boy from the wreok of the French ship Pleur De Bois. On October, 1864, as the Luaou was on her voyage from Shanghai to New York, Captain Robinson saw a wreck in mid-ocean, which proved to be the hulk of the Fleur de Bois. On bearing down to the wreck no one was visible on board of her, but on searching her deoks a poor cabin-boy was discovered in an almost exhausted condition. Me was taken on board the Luzon, and landed ulti. mately in renewed health at New: York. The poor " child of the wreok," when able to converse; said that all the crew , but himself were washed overboard, and that he was for fourteen days the sole living being on board the ill-fated ship. In the Albon-hills, near Rome, have been found---in excavating below the beds of peperino, which are formed of the hardened lava, of .ancient volcanoes— remains of houses, swallowed up formerly as Pompeii was. yasos.stone weapons, and hieroglyphical inscriptions fix with certainty th« site, hitherto, contested, of Alba Louga, and throw a new lighi; en the private life of W* Wioieat inhabitants, •