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AMERICA.
Tho Royal mail stoam-ship Canada, which
left Boston on the 19th Nov., had arrived at
Liverpool. The newspapers aro filled « ith re-
ports ot disasters at sea and on the lukes, dur-
ing tho stormy «eather ni tho early part of
last month. Wa haye elsawbore given an ao
oountof the loss of the L)onnais, with nearly all I
on board. Another calamity of a similar des-
cription waa the loss of the steamer Superior on
Lake Suporioi, in a gale of wind, hy wbiob
thirty-live lives were lost, as it would seem,
irom the most culpable carelessness file boat
was one ot those light pasteboad houses, ad-
mirable suited for the Hudsouor Mississippi, but
totally unlit to contend with tho tempestuous
seas ol Lake Superior. They wero rolled in
upon her by a still broeze, she parted with her
rudder, loll into tho trough of the sea, and was
lost.
The political intelligence by last mail consists
mainly of speculations relative to the probable
oourse which the slave power will tako Pre
aident Pierce is said to bo preparing lus clos,
ing annual mosage to Congross, and it is anti-
cipated that he will therein endorse the
Uurdor-Ruflian policy for making Kansns a
slave State.
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