city to embark for England, and on his way
stopped at the old family mansion where he was born--two or three miles
above West Point--and as he walked through the house (now owned by Mr.
Richard D. Arden), he is said to have "wept like a child." Soon after
the conclusion of the war he was appointed commander-in-chief and
provisional governor of the Upper Provinces, which appointment he held
until June, 1816. He had received the gold medal with two clasps for
Vittoria, San Sebastian, and the Nive.

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The Rev. JOHN TAYLOR JONES, D.D., of the Baptist Mission in Siam, died
in Bangkok, on the 13th of September, 1851, after an illness of about
one week. He was one of the best scholars and most uniformly successful
translators in the missionary service of the American churches. He had
been in Siam nearly twenty years, and, with the exception of the book of
Genesis, had rendered the entire Bible into the Siamese language. He was
well known and much respected by the best classes of the people of that
country, and the king of Siam (who fluently speaks and writes English)
marked his sense of the public bereavement by a letter of condolence to
his widow.

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The English West Indian steam-ship _Amazon_, left Southampton for a
first voyage on Friday the 2d of January, and at a quarter before one
o'clock on Sunday morning was discovered to be on fire; the flames had
soon complete mastery of the vessel, and so swift was its destruction
that many perished in their berths by suffocation, and many of those
who, half naked, made their way to the deck, were burnt in ascending the
ladders, and several passengers are described as having rushed up with
their clothes in flames. In twenty minutes all was over but the last
cruel agony. So rapid was the ravage, that it seems to have been more
like an explosion than the ordinary progress of fire. The alarm and
despair were almost simultaneous. The number of persons destroyed in
this most pitiable and frightful catastrophe was 115, and among them was
the accomplished author, Mr. ELIOT WARBURTON. His career in literature
had been unusually brief. It is only a few years since _The Crescent and
the Cross_ attracted general applause; _Hochelaga, or, The Conquest of
Canada_, followed soon after; and last year gave us his _Memoirs of
Horace Walpole_, and the story of _Darien, or, The Merchant Prince_. Mr.
Warburton had been