A charge was then made to recapture; but finding so
many wounded, and two killed, they retreated to the
other boats, and embarked; not, however, without the
gunner's mate, who was left in the boat, having received
two wounds igniting the magazine, and jumping
overboard, when he was picked up in Captain Lyster's gig.
This left the Teazer quiet, as also the enemy, who took
off the heads of the two dead men, and which we have
since found in the King's house. During this time the
Bloodhound had silenced the batteries; but remained
still aground; and the boats proceeded round the north
point and silenced one or two more batteries by the time
it was eleven o'clock; when they were all recalled, and
went to dinner, being annoyed occasionally by the
musketry opposite. At one, the Teazer signalised her
killed and wounded, and was signalised to close when
the tide turned, and she could get off. At two, P.M.,
the boats of the Sampson, with a spiking party,
under command of Lieutenant Saumarez and
Lieutenant McArthur, with all his Majesty's artillery,
were ordered to land, and spike the guns in the
batteries under cover of the Sampson's boat, in
charge of Mr. Bayley (mate). When they left the ship,
the place opposite looked quite deserted. The boats
pushed for the shore; but they had to cut and break
through a stockade in the water, the carpenters with
axes, the men with tomahawks; when the enemy, who
were lying in ambush, opened a terrific fire, and in less
than ten minutes, finding they could not cut and force
this stockade, they had to return to the Bloodhound,
having Lieutenant Saumarez severely wounded in three
places, Mr. Richards, midshipman, mortally (since
dead), and eleven men severely wounded. The stockades
consisted of green cocoa-nut trees, then sand, and
then cocoa-nut trees; hence they had no splinters. In
each stockade was a trench; so that when a shell was
fired at them they jumped in the trench, and hence
escaped danger. Each stockade had a ditch to
communicate, so that they could reinforce or retreat at leisure.
About fifteen feet from the shore, in nine feet water,
were a quantity of bamboo stakes, so firmly driven
in, and so secure, that 130 pounds of gunpowder
could not effect a breach, and hence prevented any
one from landing. At 4.30 the Teazer got off, and
anchored in deep water; buried her dead, and sent
her wounded out of the river. Thus ended the 26th.

"At daylight on the 27th, the Teazer weighed under
a terrific fire; which was returned by the Bloodhound
and herself, and anchored astern of Bloodhound, having
had her gunner, Mr. Howard, as also some men, severely
wounded. The rocket-boat then commenced an opening
fire, and the two steamers and boat commenced shelling,
as also the Volcano's and Water-witch's boats, which
had then arrived. The rocket-boat succeeded in setting
fire to Tappi, the second chief's house, and the place
was in a blaze. Commander Coote then took the boat,
with the rocket-boat still in command of Lieutenant
Marshall (first of Penelope), and attacked the batteries
towards the King's house. This, and a little more
skirmishing, lasted till sunset; when the rest of the
wounded were sent out. You may imagine their
sufferings, when they left at 8 p.m., and were obliged
to anchor all night off the bar, and did not reach their
ships till next morning at 9.30.

"On the 28th, at daybreak, the town was found
deserted, the enemy having left on the other side of the
island in their canoes. The forces then landed and took
possession; fifty-seven guns were taken and destroyed;
the paddle-box boat retaken, with gun; and all belonging
to the present king, Akitoye, placed on the throne,
and all his men with him. Thus finishes the capture of
Lagos, and with it, we hope, the suppression of the
slave-trade."

The official return of the killed and wounded exhibits
a most serious loss:—

Killed 15, wounded 75. Of the killed, 14 were officers
and marines and Kroomen belonging to the ship
Penelope, who endeavoured to spike the guns which
were firing on the Teazer when she lay aground. Mr.
F. R. Fletcher, midshipman of the Penelope, Mr.
Thomas Richards, midshipman of the Sampson, and
Mr. H. M. Gillham, master's assistant of the Penelope,
were the officers killed; Captain Henry Lyster,
Commander C. F. Hillyar, Lieutenant J. Corbett, and First
Lieutenant of Marines, J. W. C. Williams, all of the
Penelope, with Lieutenant Thomas Saumarez, of the
Sampson, were wounded "severely."

The dates from New York are to the 11th inst. The
political intelligence is unimportant.—The town of
Parkersville has been thrown into a state of intense
excitement by the arrival of a band of Delaware Indians
from a hunting expedition, who brought with them a
large quantity of gold dust, finer than California
"dust." . The Indian, from whom it was purchased,
said that he obtained it on this side of the mountains,
about 700 miles west of Parkersville.—Kossuth had
raised six thousand dollars in Pittsburg and its vicinity
—principally from the contributions of the working
classes, numbers of whom he has personally visited in
the foundries, factories, &c. The Ohio State senators
have subscribed five dollars each to the Hungarian
fund.

Kossuth left Columbus on the morning of the 9th inst.,
in company with the joint committee of the legislature,
together with the governor and lieutenant-governor.
At Xenia, Springfield, Dayton, and Hamilton, he met
with enthusiastic receptions, but on account of loss of
voice was able to speak but little. About 1000 dollars
were contributed on the route, and at Hamilton the
people, by a resolution, tendered a loan of 500 muskets
in the possession of the county. The train entered
Cincinnati amid the roar of cannon. The procession,
comprising all the military and fire companies and other
societies, formed at the depôt, and conducted Kossuth
through the principal streets of the city to the Burnett
House, where a suite of apartments had been fitted up
for him. He appeared on the balcony, and was most
enthusiastically cheered, but owing to the delicate state
of his health he was unable to speak.

The census of the Mormon territory of Utah has
been published. The number of dwellings in the
territory when the census was taken was 2322; families
the same; white male inhabitants, 6032; white
females, 5038; total number of whites, 11,330; free
coloured males, 12; and the same number of females;
making the total free population, 11,354. There are
26 slaves, all of whom reside in Utah county. The
number of deaths during the year was 239; and the
number of farms in the territory was 926; number of
manufacturing establishments, 16. The total population
of the territory, free and slave, amounts to 11,380.
There are seven counties, respectively named Davis,
Great Salt Lake, Iron, San Pete, Tooele, Utah, and
Weber. The most populous of these are Great Salt Lake,
with 6157 inhabitants; Utah, with 2026; Weber, with
1186; and Davis, with 1134.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

The supply of books which is generally looked for at
this busiest of bookselling seasons, has not greatly
abated either in quality or number during the past
month. We give precedence, as usual, to the graver
and more important subjects.

The Memoirs and Correspondence of Mallet Du Pan,
published some months ago from the papers of his
family, has been translated into English, and issued in
two octavo volumes. Mallet du Pan was a journalist of
enlarged knowledge and liberal views, whom the
agitations of the first French Revolution so little shook
from principles already formed before they broke out,
that to the opinions maintained in his journal on the
meeting of the States General, he adhered until the
seizure of supreme power by Napoleon. The book
possesses, in consequence, a political as well as historical