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ARRIVAL OF THE CHINESE JUNK. - he Chinese
Junk arrived at New York last Saturday morn
ing, altcr passage OF more than two hundred days
from China. The evening Gazette saws tha, She
looks las mnch like a huge red morocco shoe
turned up at the toe anything we can compare
her to-" Her bdd is that Of whale bJls she is
$50 feet long; breadth Of beam % feet; II feet
hOld her stern has rise from The deck of aboul
30 feet; is bull! entirely of leak wood and is very
strong; her masts (three) of teak wood, and la.
teen sails, which she has used during her passa ge:
her cables made of bamboo and anchors of
wood; her cabin is 80 feel long. 23 fee, wide. and
9! feet high. painted with designs Of birds, beas,s
Nc.; IN the after part OF the cabin is large case.
containing one of their principal goddesses. she
having thirty arms and hands stretched ou,,-
She is decorated with watches, flowers. and other
offerings, and contains large number Of other
curOslles.


lhc Express says that every person on the land
ana on inc water Is asonshed at her unique appear
ance. SAc IS unlike ship, bri =, schooner, loop
steamer canal boat, or any other crait. Her stern
appears hko Two or three poop-decks piled one
above another nearly fifty feet above the water,
ana her rudder. which is atlced, weighs eight
tons, and is IN shape somthlng like, only much lar
ger than; canal boats. 1t takes forty men to
steer her IN gale Of wind. Her row is nearly
square, aud open in front, with a large wooden
anchor projecting out like figure. heau. She
has galleries or walks outside extending from the
stern to mldshps. Her stern is nearly square.
and she is gaudly painted with figures. We
learn from her commander that it is two hundred
and twelve days since she left China. She has
iloated, drl:ted, and sailed along stopping at the
Cape OF Good Hope and ST. Helena She was
bound to England, her captain beng an English
man, and the speculation English; but in conse
quence OF the long passage her course was alter.
ed, and she put into this port, where she will be
exhibited for several weeks, a nd then proceed tC
her port of destination in Britain. She has a crew
OF about fifteen English snd fifty Chinese. 1t i.
a singular sight to see many Of the crew al worl
near naked, and others in the Chinese garb.-
She is an excellent sea boat, lies-,o and drift,
win grea. ease and safety; is about seven hun
dted tons burden, and has a large surplus Of pro
visions aud water on board. The commando
states that he has experienced very severe wealth
er, particularly off this coast. The passage ha
been nearly hundred days less than no antici
pated. Her accommodations within are handsom
and commodous, and she is filed with curosi,ie
descriptive Of the country she came from.


Bali. Sun.