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Commerce of the Uest.-The extent oi the commerce carried on in steam boats on the Western waters, may be imagined from the following facts:-.. "from 1911, when the first Western steanl-beat was launched, to the spring of 1851, there had been employed on these waters 402 steam-boats, of which 2aO were in use last year, and I82 not in existence. Of these, G6 were worn out, y snagged, I6 burnt, 3 run down by other boats, 1 or 6stoyc by ice, and bars, rocks, &c. and 30 destroyed b, causes not exactly known; less than G, boats have been building or contracted for within the present year."

 The rapid increase of commerce which these facts indicate, is, perhaps, unparalleled in the history of the world. # isii acsc=ssc bc m received asss the hss::s of prospective calculation, the result Will stagger the confidence of creduli- ty itself; and those whose anticipatlons of Western greatness have derided as utopan, will find that even they are lett in arrear, and that the daring wing of hope itself has fallen far short of the probable reality. How cheering is it to the Jaded mind of the journalist, to turn aside from

 Every days report.

 oi wrong or outrage witA which earth Is filled" from the sickening details of Europeon suffering, blindness, and op- presslon, to the widening prospects of of Western America; wIere wealth seems to wa;t on enterprize, and hap piness on freedom; where a teemIng healthy and virtuous population start up, asby magic, beneaththe brightening eve ofour common country.--- Western Paper.

 We are informed by a gent.euSss, who was present during debate in the Literary Convention, lately held in the city of New York, that the President (ex-President ADAMs,) pronounced em. +phatically the word ecldt with the broad full English sound. As one object of the Literary Society is said to be the regulation of orthoepy, V epresnme from this, that an effort will be made to pro. duce q radical change in the pronunci- alton of all exotic words used in our language; that they will be thoroughly Angliciscd; making an exception for