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Ths following is comparative statement OF the
spuation Of New-York and Boston, with the
paber Of vessels entered for the year l84l:-
l4nerican vessels. Foreign vesseis.
Population No. Tons. No. Tons.


ssais 1ss 1919 a:5sss assss ~ "a lss1S5 ssas5
In Massachusetts there were built, of all class
:, ,ll2 vessels, or %, $50 tons; and in New-Yoik
isvesses, or II, ,436 tons.


Is this net enough TO awaken the citizens OF
1MwYork, and to induce them to notice the rapn
rides Of their commercial riva2 The people OF
Boston move in body and with one opinion, in
ra,ion 10 the Improvement and business of their
ly. They select the most competent men to rep
resen, them in the Legislature; men, who 60 tor
8ac interests of their constituents, regardless OF
garty influence. But in Ncw.York every Interest
ss made subservent to party; our Representatives
ire selected for party purposes. We are govern
ii BY the most ignorant portion OF our population
md it is a remarkable fact, that every important
-ycmenr for the advancement of the City OF
.Hw.York, from the canals to the present period,
b, been opposed in the State Legislature by the
3SwYork Delegation This evil must continue,
1 mil ,he ,ax-pavers take the management OF the
3Cy into their own hands. MERcAToR.
] ELECTRIC CoMMuNIcArloN.-In the course of
Nperiments instituted by Messrs. Wright and
5an, for the Improvement of their electrical tele
naub, thew discovered that the electric circuit OF
!, gavanic battery is as eiectually completed
sdreugh an insulated wire. They have applied
bis curious discovery so ehectually as to be now
bl. 10 dispense with two of the wires heretofore
bought necessary for the action of their printing
nlesraph; and they are thus enabled to print all
stommuuications either verbal or symtollcal, at
any distance, by the uso of single wire. we un-
ieraand they are now in treaty with the Govern
aeu 10 construct telegraph on this principle be-
neen the Admiralty and Portsmouth. One insu-
a,ed wire would be laid down between the two
prats to connect the galvanic battery of the out
Rsiwith the printing-apparatus OF the Admiralty
sa tue current would be sent through the earth In


leu Of using second wire to complete the ci'cuit'
Should the moisture in the ground not prove sutli-
etai 10 conduct the electricity, the inventors pro
pae 10 lransmi, the return current BY water max
ag pass down the Thames TO the German Ocean,
and thence along the Channel to Portsmouth TINS
0Qndabout voyage to be performed instantaneous
&! BY thus simplifying and consequently greatly
!aucing the cost of electrical printing-telegraPh
tse inventors have gone far towards rendering 1t
geReraly available; another step in advance viii
dispense with all metallic connexion Whatever
The atmosphere and the ocean may then be all
sufficient media for the communication OF thought,
literally to realize the poets visions,


"And wait sigh from Indus to the Pole


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