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The English whale fishery has been almost entirely abandoned The success of the American whaemen has outstrpped that of all other nations. Whether it is the fearlcssness perseverance of onr men, or their superior skull in harpoonng the monsters of the deep, we have not yet learned. The fact, however, is esahlished that the trade is prosecuted with more success by the Americans than by any other nation Hull, in England, formerly had 50 ships engaged in the whale fishery whereas, at the present time she has hut two. The editor of the Nantucket Enquirer, who understands "every rope in the shp,'' thus speaks of the whale fishery, carried by the En- glish people,

 !" The time has been,' remarks the editor of the Enquirer, when from thirty to forty ships arrived at Hull in single season, bringing the bubber of half a thousand fish, producing some 5000 tons of o-- Now, the two remaining vessels have brought bui 50 tonsresaitng in mast runous loss to the own- CTS. Newcastle, and other northern British ports, have fared even still worse; and the editor of the Hull paper, after decaiming against the trade, as d system of gambling, giving fortunes to few lucky adycnturers, impoyerishng others, dcpriying saors of half their education, turning aside the regular channels of commercial enterprise, and adding nothing to the general capital, concludes that " cure has been nearly effected of the whole fishing mania ''- The decline and final fall of the fishery is inscribed partly the gradually growing conviction of is un. erodsctvcness and to the fact that the fishing sta have become almost inaccessible, by reason of the vast quantities of ice accumulated in and around thir cust0mary passages"