Captain A. U. Love, of the barquentine Malay, which recently came from San Francisco to this porr, writing from Sydney to a gentleman in this city, speaks of the death of the male of that vessel by drown ing. We quote from his letter as follows : —" About a fortnight after we left here we found the mate drowned in the water along side the wharf. Tho night previous he went to the house of the pastor of the Seamen's Bethcil, woke him up, and after signing the pledge asked him to pray for him. It is supposed that in two hours afterwards he had coiled his ropes up for good, ltcquiescat in pace." In another part of the letter tho writer says :—" One fine morning (by the way we have a trifle better weather here than I had in Auckland) the old Chinaman—our cook—fell down the main hatch clean to the bottom of the hold. Anyone but a Mongolian would have ' smiled and died in his shipmate's arms,' but John didn't die worth a cent. I lugged him ail to the infirmary for repairs, and after being hove down and overhauled, it was found that one of his ribs had gone into his lung. About live days afterwards John landed alongside in a cab, and in answer to my very natural enquiry, ' What for ?' replied, ' Suppose me stop hospital two day more, me dead ! no ketchee ; nothing to eat; little rice all same no cookem; little tea-all the same dish water. Very good doctor for sheep."

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Uarl Derby and tlie Liberals. LONDON.
October 15.
