She had a comparatively rapid passage, reaching Amsterdam on the fourth of November following, a little over six weeks. The very next day, the delegate of the States- General in the "Assembly of the XIX.," then in session, advised that august body of the arrival, and the news, by letter. Unfortunately Minuit's official despatch has not been preserved, but tlje letter of Pieter Schagen, the States-General's representative, is still in the Royal Archives at the Hague, and proves the fact. It is, in full, as follows; --

"High and Mighty Lords : -- Yesterday arrived here the ship ' the Arms of Amsterdam,' which sailed from New Netherland out of the River Mauritius,^ on the 23d of September. They report that our people are in good heart and live in peace there ; the Women have also borne some children there. They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders; 'tis 11,000 morgens in size.- They had all their grain sown by the middle of May, and reaped by the middle of August. They send thence samples of summer grain ; such as wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, canary seed, beans, aud flax.

The cargo of said ship is ; --

7,246 Beaver skins. 178J Otter skins. 675 Otter skins. 48 Minck skins. 36 Wild cat skins.

33 Minckes.

34 Rat skins. Considerable oak timber and hickory.

Herewith, High and Mighty Lords, be recommended to the mercy of the Almighty. In Amsterdam, the 5th of November A. D. 1626. Your High Mightinesses obedient,