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 The Ckelsea (Mass) Bank.--The Boston Album says :-" The Chelsea Bank has exploded. Its notes are represented to be hardly worth the paper on which they are printed Within sixty days its circulation has been extended from $69 900 to SlO2OOO The assets of the Bank are in the shape of $74OOO due from John B. Glover, $l1OoOO due from w. H. & G. L. Montague, $7 600 in the bills of other banks. S, 279 in specie. "But penny worth ef bread for all this sack "

 A hlack woman aged 20, was convicted at Hudson of numbering her child aged two years. She had, in a fit of desperation, thrown it into pond about year since-6nding it prevented her getting work. It imprisonment for life.

 Great storm.--CAurek destroyed-The great storm at Edgefed, (Geo) April 5th, besides uprooting trees and blowing down chimnes and fences, nearly total ly destroyed the beautiful Episcopal Church in that town. Half the roof was blown in, the chandelier, lamps, pulpit, &c. crushed, and aise the walls The organ was saved.

 CathOlic Collage at Nyack burnt dOsSn.-We learn by a gentleman who came down the river in the steamboat on Wednesday, that the Roman Catholic Seminary at Nyack was entirely destroyed by fire on that day. The loss is estimated at fen thousand dollars. We have not learned any particulars

 Kirk Boot, Esq. of Lowell. Mass. died of apopIexy. As token of respect the part of his fellow citizens the stores in Lowell were closed. and business sus' pended for the day. He died while m the act of get ting into his chaise.

 foolish story was put aAoat in the street that eight or ten Banks had falediRthe neghboThood ot Boston The report was soon corrected by private letters re- ceived from Boston, dated yesterday at o'clock which were silent on the subject. The rumour mus have been put afoat by some base and wicked per l son.

 4 Ucsy liberal Contrbution n GeOrgia-The Gov ngton Herald of 4th April says-" We learn, from al andoubted scurces that Josiah Fournoy, Esq of Pu. nam county, in this State, has presented to the Meth odist Episcopal Church, as donation, the handsom sum of forty thOusand dOavss for the purpose of estab fishing another Manual Labor School to be located il some one of the counties south or south west of th place"

 TEE CAxALs-The water, according to the Alban. Argus be let into the canals, so that they may navgabls by April 20.