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We contented ourselves yesterday with a simple eentra- diction of a paragraph contained in an - cvening paper, re- spectinig the arrival of the Columbws from Canada. We had.then.noidea that-auy gobe.rtouclie of the- daily press was.eindweed with. ailiceient credulity to believe the ae- count, and tharefore passed it by witbout pointing out its absurdity. As however, we fliil this paper has several followers among the mnorning journals, we think it becomning in us, as the imparti recordlers of eo- tednporarv rumours, to insert a text wlich Baron Alun- chauseni would not have rejectcd from his Canada or Eng- lish travels. "ARRIVAl, OF TIE3 COlU,MBUS. "EXTttACT OF A PRllVATE LETTFn. " Deal, Wednesday afternoon- Oct. 27, MU24. The post just going, only leaves mc tine to inMom you that the Anmerican ship Cotumbut is this moment arrived in the Downs, and safely anchored near the Raminliey gunrd-ship, which, thlough a first-rate, appears alongside this Leviathan of ihe New WYorld no larger than a cock-boat. When the Coht&ntbzs first hove in sight, her hull resembledl altoating iland, aid lher maste chlrch steeples. She is to be towed up to Deptford by steam-boats, and, to avoid the dangerous and circuitous passaige round the North Forcland, it is proposed to tale her lhrouigh the ncew cat from Sandwich to Whit- stable." This Yankee Delos, or American floating island, must have appeared an alarming sight to the people of Deal, and as the post calne away too early for the ministerial paper's receiving a faithful account of it, we should like to see the despateh transmnitted from that port to the Secre- tary of the Admiralty on that occasion. As one of our first rates appeared beside it no larger than a cock-boat, anm its masts scetned as large as steeples, our colemporary ought to have pointed ont to the Government, the serious dan- ger of allowing such a republican Nlewfoundland to be moored alongsi(de of our monarchical little island. The story of the Norwegian Kraken, which " lay floating many a rood," with anteunce as long as the masts of ships, was scarcelya match for thisship with mastslike church steeples. Sancho Panza, in travellitng through thle air on the steed Clavileno, elias Wooden or Deal Peg, " saw the earth no bigger than a grain of mustard-seed, and the men that walked upon it as little as hazel-nuts. So you may guess," says the Squire, " how high we must have soared by this time." The Clavilno or Deal correspondent ot our cotem- porary must be equally capable of carrying his rider be- yend commnon sense, or every day experience. SHIPPING INTRLLGENCB.-HOAX.