The Reward called at the island of Tristan de Acuna, and found there nine families, in all ninety souls. The Governor, Mr. Glass, came on board, he is about 72 years old, and is getting very infirm. There are eight above the age of 55 to 70, and nine from 36 to 50 ; the greater part of them are females, fifty-eight out of the ninety; they have everything growing on the island to supply shipping, but few call, it being out of the track of shipping to the East Indies and the colonial. They are very much in want of common cottons for the use of the females, as they have no means of procuring them; only slop shirts, from the few American whale ships that call there. They have about 400 sheep and about 90 head of black cattle ; plenty of pigs and poultry, and every thing grows well ; they have always a great stock left every year ; potatoes in abundance, but they want a person to be sent out as a teacher. Captain Salmon intends to get a subscription in London, and call on his next voyage out. Captain Campbell, late of the Abberton, and Mr. Wildman, clerk in the Customs, have arrived per Reward. Port Phillip Patriot, 10 November, 1845.

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