Two hundred and seventy persons were massacred, about the begin-
ning of March, by a native African chief, into whose territory, at Colesberg in Southern Africa, they had been inveigled, with a view to settle there.
William Lyon Mackenzie has established a newspaper in New York, called Mackenzie's Gazette. It contains a good deal of random writing about the recent disturbances in Upper Canada, but nothing very new or striking.
Captain Marryat has created quite a sensation in the United States, in consequence of a toast reported to have been given by him a few days since at Toronto—" Captain Drew and his brave associates who cut out the steam-boat Caroline." Nearly all the presses of the Union have been loud in their denunciations of this conduct ; and the people of Lewistown, on the frontier, have rendered themselves ridiculous by 'flaking a bonfire of all the Captain's novels they could find. If it be true that the Captain proposed the toast in question, I can only say that it was in bad taste, and exhibited bad feeling. Considering the friendship he had met with here, and the present state of the Caroline question between the two Governments, he ought to have known better. —Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.
The United States Bank, through Mr. Biddle, have subscribed 20,000 dollars for the relief of the sufferers by the fire in Charleston. The following extract from the correspondence of the Chronicle ex- hibits fiddle's activity and importance- " The United States Rank, as chartered by Pennsylvania, is increasing in power and influence. During the Last few days Chesnut Street, (in Philadel- phia,) in front of the noble marble edifice, and Library Street, in the rear, have been quite alive with dray-loads of specie for Mr. Biddle. The first arrival was from New York per steam-boat. It consisted of 1,900,COO dollars, said to be from Prime, Ward, and King, and part of the large suin lately exported by the Bank of England. On Friday I counted thirty-two dray-loads from the West, amounting, as I have since been informed, to 960,000 dollars. Thus, Mr. Biddle has now more than 7,000,000 dollars in his vaults, with 10,000,000 dollars of property in England, for which he could draw to-morrow, if necessary. A (deputation of merchants from the New York Board of Trade have waited upon hint to express a desire that he would open a bank in New York with from 10,000,000/. to 15,000,000/. capital. Ile received them fit- vourably, and the business is at this moment under discussion by the Board of Directors."
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