ST. HELENA, Oct. 12.-The ...
S`r,H ELE.NA,Octrf I 2.--The American s-hip, COlunibus, from China, lade ili slks, &*.X, wa!L lost on or about th'e IOth Or 1'2th of May, onl tile Severn Shoatl: the whole of the oropcrty lost, but no lives The 1Prudent, put back to Portsmnouth, pased great quantda o wreck between Portlandl and thec isle of % ight, and saw two vesseta botom u pwards, neatrly off Danuosdeo, aprentlyabot 120 tons each. Ti:e Claremont, fronm dInvrna arrived in Stangat eCroek, suf- ferd svetly n te gle f te 2d ist. lst bulwarks and every- thing off deck on the 27th was driven on the lorase Sand, and re. utaied ourhous srikng ard sh israter strai8ed, but doe,s not About one o'clock yesterday mornin, a fire broke out il the Premises of 1r. te'cartho, a largeI Its Gravel-lanc, So Ctharll, inmmeiatel f in Thompson, tbe e ha ith, Mlfr. Brtfitor t e h patim d of eefer, anci the dwclling-hotse of' M5r. Wood,o rc.tet F ro r th natuire of the goods in Mr. M1'Carthy' theaerv n hebid jngs being Principa sry of wood, theo diehburt wi grnieratuy aind thtrcateiied at one timiie tie destruction oulte rnyoin housed. The firemen and their enginces were gs usua so on the iotbuses their efourts were complctely par d o eb nb tbelyt pof water. No less than eigh th o the vrhovaseqisialn oIceenugines were on the giound bef i atoni wte couldbre ob-h tained ; antd indeed t he premisesR of,r. of ther andcouldb vobe 'On were *eedlued to a hIea? of ruins before a nproper A?hl ofhwatuer could be hatd. IM r. Wtood house waws preerved fto?n tot de.ptruc- tioli by a very strong party twall, althouigh it is considerably i sr.3 Mr. Brsithv:zite's watehouse buff.-red greatly, but miost of hi s-tock in tradle was preserved by, its speedy removal. The fire was unt goL tinder before four -o'clock. 11' arc gld to conclude with sayinn that no seriouR accidents occurred. IAdvertiseine. ,- I-THt a ~AR 1aVI C5l . ANtD ru: BiO0GRAPHY. CAL DiCTIONARY OF' 41U5iCiAxs.-Tfhe publishers and presCatt proprietors of thelVecr Bitign4phical Dictiorlart, of MusLiciaw, having discovered thiat eertain articles, in that work were--quite unknown to them-talketi f'rom thie Horynonlcon, oioothly jourral of wusic,-.. thiey think it their duty publicly- to acknowledge the fact, in addition to caneetibtig the articles in question, which they have done. And thie la6te proprietor and originator of the Dictionary, who was equally utieonsbcieus of the piracy, has further to expre-ss his regret, thlat ini consequience of' mistindeEstanding, anti irritation in the course af the negotiatioa oni the sub.ject., the proprietors of the fiarncmivovt were led to appeal to the law in def'ence of their copyrighit. TIhe ir-cipleuit law proceedin)gs are however stopped, antl all parties are coateat te. hiave the hiatter thius placed in a tair light bef orc the public.