Drinking Wager

On Monday last, a man by the name of Castongué waged he could drink six half pints of Rum immediately, one after another, which he did, and expired about an hour after.

This morning, about nine o'clock, Lieutenant Birch, of the Royal Navy, put a period to his existence, by shooting himself through the head.---We are informed that Mr. Birch had, for some time previous to his death, laboured under a melancholy state of mind.---An amiable wife and one child are the survivors of this awful catastrophe.

DIED--On Tuesday last, the 31st ult. Mr. William Martin inspector of Chimneys for this City and Suburbs for many years.

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The great propensity the Americans have to possess themselves of the territories adjacent to them, has already been observed in the Gazette: to strengthen this observation, it will not be improper to quote from a respectable Boston paper a remark made by its Editor, who, speaking of the fertility of Canada, its flourishing state, and the facilities afforded by the government to promote its prosperity, adds, "It ought, and must eventually belong to the United States, but the cost is not easily to be calculated." Thus the most virtuous nation in the world is at the same time the most envious, and sickens at the prosperity of a neighbour. But if the United States must eventually have Canada per fas aut nefas, they must calculate on not having it at least for less than the full value.