Goodwin Light Vessel, N.N.E. E.; North Foreland Light-house, N.b.W. W.; Gull Light Vessel, N.W. W.; South Foreland High Light-house, W.b.S. S.; Safety Beacon, S.W.b.N. W. MOBILE LIGHT.-Caution.-The Light on Mobile point was formerly a fixed light, but it now revolves, which I think is the chief reason of ships getting to westward of the entrance, as Pensacola light revolves, and is mistaken for it, at least in with thick hazy weather, which is very often the case about the place. There is a lighthouse on Sand Island, which shews a fixed light, but it is not seen so far to seaward as Mobile Point, and from what I was able to learn from several of the pilots, the current is much influenced by the winds about this place. There are no buoys laid down in the entrance of Mobile harbour, as shewn in the charts, and it should not on any account be attempted without a pilot. It has a bad entrance, and even when there is not a fresh breeze the currents set strongly in various directions.-(Communicated by Capt. Melville of the barque Agnes, from Port Glasgow.) PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR.-Notice.-Masters of Vessels entering Portsmouth Harbour are to observe that from the 27th of May last, the buoys for shewing the fair way channel into the harbour from the buoy of the Spit, are numbered from 1 to 4, on the larboard or west side of this channel, and painted white; and those on the starboard or eastern side of this channel are numbered from 1 to 3 and painted black, so that the direct fairway into the harbour is between the black and white buoys. In a strait line from buoy to buoy there will be no less water found than there is on the bar at low water ordinary spring tides, namely twelve feet and a half. NEW CHARTS. (Published by the Admiralty.) PURSUING the method which we adopted in our last number with reference to the plans of ports and roadsteads resulting from Capt. Fitz Roy's surveys; we have in TIERRA DEL FUEGO the following Pack saddle Bay, Smith Harbour with Bedford Bay, Hewett Bay, North Cove, Fury Harbour, Wick Islands. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast,-Sheet 2. Port Barbara. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast,-Sheet 3. Port Otway, St. Andres Bay, Auna Pink Bay, Port Refuge and Patch Cove, Vallenar Road. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast,-Sheet 4. Port Low, a neat finished little plan, Port San Pedro, Port San Carlos. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast,-Sheet 5. Port of Valdivia, Mocha Island. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast,-Sheet 6. Santa Maria Island, River Leubu, Port of Concepcion, Coliumo Bay, Entrance of the river Maule. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast,-Sheet 7. Horcon and Quintero Bays, Port Papudo, Ligne Road. Valparaiso. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast,-Sheet 8. Maytencillo Cove, Herradura or Pichidanque Bay, Chaneral and Tortoralillo Bays. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast,-Sheet 9. Herradura de Carrisal, Pajonal Cove, Copiapo Harbour. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coas;, Sheet 10. Levata Bay, Port Flamenci, Caldera and Yagles Ports, Cobija Bay, Algodon Bay, Constitution Harbour. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast, Sheet 11, none. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast, Sheet 12. Islay Bay, Atico Road, Ylo Road. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coust, Sheet 13. Lomas Road, Ports San Nicolas and San Juan, Yndependencia Bay. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast, Sheet. 14 Pisco Bay. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast, Sheet 15. Casma Bay, Guarmey Bay, Barranca and Supe Bays, Huacho Bay, Chanca Bay, Santa Bay, Samanco or Guambacho Bay Port. SOUTH AMERICA, West Coast, Sheet 16. Lambayaque Road, Malabrijo Port, Huanchaco Road, Paeasmayo Road, Payta Port At the last named port the surveys of Capt. Fitz Roy on the coast appear to terminate. There are yet some in the Pacific which we must reserve for our next number. The following additions have just been made to our stock of Chinese hydrography. TINGHAE HARBOUR, in Chusan Island.-Surveyed by Lieut. R. Collinson, R.N. 1840. On a scale of about three inches to the mile, and includes the islands to the southward Ta Maou and Tsik ya. Our present number contains Lieut. Collinson's directions for this harbour. SKETCH OF THE FOO-TO-SHAN CHANNEL.-By Lieut. R. Collinson. 1840. On the scale of about two miles to the inch. KINGTANG AND BLACKWALL CHANNELS.-By J. Pascoe, second-master of her Majesty's ship Blenheim. 1840. On the same scale as the above. SKETCH OF THE CHANNEL OF LOWANG.-By B. Drury and B. Woolcombe, mates of her Majesty's ship Alligator. 1840. Also on the scale of about two miles to the inch. The foregoing are all important additions to our knowledge of the Chusan Archipelago. CHINA,-Sheet 5,-East Coast from the Kwesan Islands to Whang Ho Guif 1840. This is a new edition of the Sheet 5, formerly noticed with the very impor tant additions of the mouth of the Yang-tse-kiang by Capt. R. D. Bethune, and the surveys above noticed of the Chusan Archipelago, entirely new features and differing much from the former sheet. STRAIT AND ISLANDS OF MIATAO.-By W. Dillon, second-master of her Majesty's ship Wellesley. 1840. The entrance to the Gulf of Pechili might serve as another title to the chart, including as it does the coast of Shan Tung on the south, and Korea on the north. It is on the scale of about two and a quarter miles to the inch. APPROACH TO THE PEI HO RIVER AND THE SHA-LUI-TIEN BANKS.-By. G. Norsworthy, master of her Majesty's ship Pylades. 1840. On the scale of about two and a half miles to the inch. SKETCH OF HULU-SHAN BAY.-By G. H. Skead, master of her Majesty's ship Modeste. 1840. On the scale of two miles to the inch. CHINA,-Sheet 7,-EAST COAST.-Yellow sea and Gulf of Pechili. 1841. This again is another edition of the former sheet VII. with a number of important additions and alterations, all resulting from the observations of our officers in their late visit to the coast. We look on them as most valuable contributions to Chinese hydrography, and as such highly creditable to their authors. Loss OF THE FAIRY. INTO the world of sorrow it is beneficial to look at times, to consider those whose lot it is to eat the bread of affliction, and drink the water of tears. It is one of those wise dispensations of the Great Author of the Universe, to visit his creatures with calamities; and although there is grief which no human aid can relieve, still he has implanted in our breasts a principle, which quickened by the light of his divine will, rises to the relief of those who are unhappily visited with those calamities in direct proportion to the degree of their severity. Hence this favoured land reflects the grateful beams of charity, although it may teem with vice! Assuredly, if it be painful to contemplate the distress of our fellow creatures, there is something more than a feeling of pleasure in administering to their relief. It is a gratification not to be defined, because it is the performance of a part of the work of our Divine Author. We know that we are the instruments of his will;-in the work of charity, therefore, we are aiding in the performance of that will, and hence it is that the exercise of this principle is sweetness to the spirit, and the heart secretly approves the deed. Such reflections have been entertained by many, and we are induced to record them by having the grateful task to perform of laying before our readers the following statement of the committee of ladies and gentlemen, at Woolwich, signed by themselves, who undertook to work in the cause of the unhappy widows and orphans, left by the loss of her Majesty's late surveying-vessel Fairy. Their labours have indeed been crowned with success, and This officers account of the Yangtse-kiang we hope to publish in our next.-ED. theirs is a full share of that gratification to which we have alluded. Our present number contains a list of the donors, as well as the distribution of the donations. The following is the statement of the committee. "The Committee appointed to distribute the funds collected for the relief of the widows, orphans, &c., of the warrant and petty officers, seamen, and marines, of the late surveying-ship Fairy, having made a final distribution of the same, and closed their accounts, take this opportunity to express on behalf of the parties so deeply interested, their grateful acknowledgments to a generous public, for the very liberal subscription which has been made, and afforded them such timely relief. "In performing their duty in the distribution of the funds, they have endeavoured to meet every case with that attention which they respectively claimed, having provided for the children for a future period, when they become of a proper age to enter into business, as well as those who now so require it, and also guarded (where necessary,) against an improper outlay of the improvident by a weekly allowance, until their respective portions be expended. And in submitting a statement of the funds collected, and the way in which they have been applied, the Committee trust, the same will meet the entire satisfaction of those who have so liberally come forward on this melancholy occasion. "Statement of the receipt and distribution of the funds raised by public subscription, for the relief of the widows, orphans, &c., of the warrant and pettyofficers, seamen, and marines, of the late surveying-vessel Fairy, at Woolwich, between the 22nd of December, 1840, and 10th of June, 1841. Total sum collected Placed in various Savings Banks, under proper Trustees, for weekly payments to certain of the widows, and a payment of a sum to each of their children generally, at a future period, when of a proper age to receive it Cash paid to the several claimants, principally Expenses for printing Circulars, Advertisements, 1710 13 1 450 4 11 50 0 0 £2262 12 4 51 16 4 The undermentioned individuals have been further provided for, by government, viz: "Mrs. Kennedy, (widow of the boatswain,) allowed a pension of £25 a year. Mrs. Johnson, (widow of the captain's clerk,) who being on the half-pay list as a Purser, is allowed a pension of £45 a-year; five of her children are placed on the compassionate fund, with an allowance to each of £10 per annum, and the eldest son appointed as a clerk in Woolwich dockyard, the second son being already in the upper school ENLARGED SERIES.-No. 7.-VOL. FOR 1841. 3 s at Greenwich. Mrs. Gregory, (widow of the clerk's-assistant,) appointed as store matron of Haslar Hospital, and her son admitted into the upper school at Greenwich. Mrs. Davey, (widow of the ship's cook,) appointed as a nurse in the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. The Trinity Board have also kindly placed the names of all the children of the warrant-officers and seamen on a pension of four shillings a month each, until they shall attain the respective ages, girls of fourteen years,-boys of twelve years; and the payment of a sum to each of their children at a future period, when of a proper age to receive it. W. M. BURTON, Lieut.-Col, R.M. and Chairman. The foregoing is a substantial proof that the widows and children of those who fall in the service of their country are not forgotten. Much as these unfortunate persons are indebted to the individuals of the committee, who cheerfully devoted time as well as means in their behalf, their gratitude is no less due to Captain P. Hornby, RN., C.B., the superintendant of Woolwich dockyard, who originated the subscription, and consigned it to the care of the committee. In fact, the sympathizing attention paid to the wants of the sufferers, as well as the judgment with which relief has been administered from the fund committed to their care, reflect the highest credit on all who have partaken in its management. Truly may they look back hereafter on the results of their exertions with satisfaction, and leave others to interpret them in the memorable words, “Go and do thou likewise." BALTIC NAVIGATION. Hull, May 24th, 1841. SIR.-I quite agree with my friend Mexicano, with regard to his excellent remarks on the Navigation of the Baltic. One omission I think he has made in your number for April; if I am in error you must excuse me, for I have not the number by me, having sent it to my brother at Dantzic, and that is that there is now a fine schooner-rigged floating-light painted red, with a white cross, the same as their flag, moored on the Lille Ground at the entrance of the Grounds. It is an excellent mark in the night for running or turning, as you may anchor on either side of her. One pilot boat remains on board, giving the ships with contrary winds equal to two hours. The light is removed on the 21st December, and replaced early in the spring. It is expected that six more buoys will be laid in the Grounds this spring. I was informed by one of the most intelligent pilots, that he was summoned to appear before the Commission,-the king being present. The king |