Star. — London, England, 1824-08-02 00:00:00

. •, inffrajW .l ool .ollllSlON. THE ASH ES' *km ma HAMIPSHIRII IALIKIRAPH, JULY sl. This morning arrived his Majesty's sloop of war the Driver, Captain Chilies Rowers; from the coast of .Africa: she left Commodore Bullen, in the Maidstone, at Cape Coast Castle, on the 29th of May last: the Owen Glendower and Ban were also at Cape Coast when she sailed. The Thetis had not arrived when the Driver left, nor had they heard of her. Lieutenant Amsinck,of the Bann, and the boatswain and carpenter of that sloop had come home invalided in the Driver. Mr. Finlayson, Master of the Owen Glendower, is dead; and Mr. Whitelaw, Surgeon of the same ship, had re . covered from a fever. We regret to state, that the in te;ligence from the coast, brought by the Driver, is i3t a very unfavourible nature. Daily skirmishes were taking place between the Ashantees and the. Fantees, which generally ended to the disadvantage of the latter. There is little doubt but they will, ere long, be driven under the guns of the British forts, and be compelled to abandon their country to their enemies. An action was fought within ten miles of Cape Coast, between about 10,000 Ashantees, and six or 7,000 Fan tees, assisted by a few white troops, and a detachment of the 2d West India regiment, commanded by Major Chisholm. Lieutenant King, of the Driver, who was on the field of battle, and who was wounded on this occa sion, says, that the Ashantees were defeated, and driven back U considerable distance. This success was, no doubt, owing to the exertions of Major Chisholm, and the regular troops under his orders. The next day, how. ever, intelligence was received that the King of Ashen tee, with a powerful army, was within three days march of Anamaboo. This caused the Fantees to disperse, and no entreaties of the English commander of the forces could induce them to keep the field. In the meantime the armies of the Ashantees are laying waste the country in all directions. The plantations of Indian corn, yams, plantains, and bananas, which form the food of the in habitants, have been entirely destroyed; and the re maining Fantees, who may be fortunate enough to es cape the sword, will, to all appearance, perish next year by famine. John Tasker Williams, Esq. Acting Colonial Secretary, who was taken prisoner when Sir Charles M'Carthy was killed, is now living at the Dutch fort of, El Mina. Through the humane intercession of the Go vernor of that fort, the favour of residing there was ob tained for him, on condition that he should, on no ac. count, be allowed to quit El Mina until a peace should , be concluded. The following officers have recently fallen victims to the climate—Ensign M'Lean, 2d %Vest India regiment; Hospital Assistant, F. R. Riton ; En signs O'Meara and M'Kenzie, Royal African Corps; Lieutenant McCarthy, 2d West India Regiment. mminiinv EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED BY THE DRIVER : " CAM COAST, iIAT QB.—Since our most disastrous action with the Ashantees, they have increased in confidence and activity, and we have been environed with difficulties of all kinds, so that the war here bears no bright prospects. A skirmish has since taken place, but without any other result than the advance of the Ashantees towards Cape Coast; which, in consequence of the want of ord nance stores (a most extraordinary neglect rests somewhere), we have not been able to prevent. Our field movements are now at a complete stand, and they have been enabled to take up a position and establish themselves in the gardens of the settlement (about two miles from the coast.) Our movements must be guided by circum stances; but the small quantity of powder and lead we have re maining must be reserved to defend the fort in the last extremity. There is not a musket-ball in the place; and the ships of war can not spare us any more than they have : even the lead intended for houses has been cut up for ammunition. Besides, we have only twelve effective white troops in the Castle: the others are people of colour, and Fantres; and the rainy sickly season is commencing.— In short, Cape Coast is now very sickly; our troops are all called in to recruit ; we have a scarcity of provisions, by which the white in habitants are suffering greatly ; the natives in our favour are net to be depended upon, and the Ashantees are very powerful, making in the whole an accumulation of horrible misery. It would be much to the advantage of our country if the place were abandoned. We understand the enemy are equally anxious with ourselves for peace, but their conditions are repugnant to the feelings and principles of Englishmen; it is, that the lives of the King of Dinkera and his brother, anther Chief, and the bravest of our allies, should be ren dered a sacrifice. It is pretty confidently ascettained,that the Dutch settlement of Fl Mina supplies the Ashantees with gunpowder, which tends to protract the war, the inhabitants of the place being in their favour, and too strong a power for the Governor to con trout ; se that the Castle is more a dependency of the town than the town of the Castle. Colonel Sutherland has arrived from Sierra Leone, and assumed the command of the forces at Cape Coast; but Major Chisholm continues in the administration of the Govern ment on the Gold Coast. We hear that the bones of Sir Charles M'Carthy have been dried by a fire, and sent to Cronsajie (the Ashantee capital), as a national trophy'" 0 Can COAST CAVILS, May 26. " The state of this place is most dreadful—nothing but war, con fusion, and disease. We had another touch at the Ashantees on the 41st of this month, and after a contest of live hours and a half, both aides ceased Bring. We lost, however, about 150 killed, and up- wards of 800 wounded. We expect another and more serious brush very shortly, as the King himself is coming down with strong re inforcements. How It will end, Oen only knows; but, in the interim, you may conceive what is our situation, when I inform you that we have more than 5,000 strangers (women and children) now in the town for protection • and such a mass of disease and filth I never before witnessed. I have now for four months been almost in cessantly in the busk, and you may therefore believe that I am, as indeed we all are, most anxiously looking for a termination to the present state of t hi ngs. " - _ _ THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1824. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 91i for the Account; but soon after some large lots were purchased, and they rose to 92k, I, at which price they have remained steady. The Expreu from Paris has brought the Renter much lower : they opened on Saturday at 97f. and were, after 'Change, 971. 9k. FOREIGN FUNDS. There is little doing in the Foreign Market this morning, except in Mexican and Colombian Scrip. Current Prices :—New Spanish 16, Old '2l il, Russian 941 1, Mexican 53, Alliance Shares 121 t, Colombian Scrip 41 discount, French 101, Milian 78, Portuguese 861. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 236 1 / 2 -3 per t. Reduced 92% 93 92% 3 per Cent. Cons. 92 91% 92 1 / 2 y a per Cents. 101 1 / 4 .-4 per Ct. Assented 101 100% 4 per Cents. Old 101 1 / 2 -4 per Cent. New 105% 5 Bank Long Anns. 23 India Stock 284—India Bonds 82 83 £l,OOO Exchequer Bills (2d.) 42 39 ; (1 1 / 2 d.) 41 39 £5OO Do. (2d.) 41 39 ; (1 1 / 4 d.) 41 39 £lOO and £2OO Do. (2d.) 39 45 ; (1 1 ,4 d.) 41 43 Consols for Acct. 92 1 / 4 91% 9 2 3 4 1/2. In the STAR of Saturday we gave an account of an engagement our forces had with the Ashantees, near Cape Coast Castle, on the 21st of May, on the authoritY of dispatches received at the Colonial Office ; and in the preceding part of this column we give, from an of• cial source, some further details, which will be read with interest, to these we art enabled to add an official return of the killed and wounded :n the engagement : aIOVILAZIL .. XII4IOI. WOMIDED. Royal Atrtam Corps, and 14 West India Re giment - - - . . 1 20 sauna. One Captain wounded - - S S 4 MOM. Unorganised Force - The Ashantees are a powerful nation—for to call them a tribe is to underrate them ; and they are so far advanced in that part of civilization which relates to military tactics, as to render them far from despicable as soldiers. If the accounts of travellers can be relied on, they have a very favourable opinion of the whites; and wt confess we have more hopes in the present hos tilities being terminated by an amicable arrangement, than by the terror ' r success of our arms. This morning we received the French Papers of Saturday, and the Etoik of yesterday, by Express, those of Friday having previously reached us. The Mentikur of Saturday contains, from Rio de Janeiro, on important correspondence between the French Consul at Bahia and the President of the Government of that Province, relative to the rumour that France was on the point of assisting Portugal. to recover her South American Colonies, which is posi tively denied by the French Consul. There is also a letter from the Consul offering the Academies, &c. of France, for the education of such young Brazilians as may wish to adopt them—a circumstance with which the British Public has long been acquainted. The following are the articles to which we allude: RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL so. Ever since the European newspapers announced that Portugal intended to make great efforts to reduce Brazil to a state of dependence, it was believed, not only here, but in all the principal cities of Europe, that the French Government would aid Portugal in an en terprise which alone she has not the means of under taking. We now, however, give a literal translation of a correspondence which has taken place on this subject, between the Consul of France at Bahia, and the Govern ment of that city : BAHIA JANUAItIf 9, 1844. Mossuxua—Reports have been publicly circulated for some time, that France has manifested a disposition to aid Spain and Portugal in reconquering their late colonies. These reports, which are directly contrary to the truth, ate not only calculated to render individuals uneasy, but to injure the commerce carried on by French subjects ie this Province. It therefore becomes my duty to declare to your Excellency, that I am authorised expressly to contradict these re ports, and to assure you, that so far from France having any hostile designs against Brasil, she desires on the contrary , to unite more closely the bonds which existed between the two countries, and to give to the commercial relations a reciprocally advantageous et tension. I have the honour to be, Ike. The Consul of France, GUINEBAUD. To his Excellency M. Joaquin Jose Pinbeiro .de Vasconctllos, Secretary to the Provi sional Government of the Province. ANSWER. Having submitted to the Provisional Government your letter dated this day, in which you declare yourself, Monsieur, to be autho rised to contradict the reports that France was disposed to assist Portugal against Brazil, which reports were prejudicial to the French Merchants established in this Province, and having de clared that you know France, on. the contrary, wishes to draw more close her relations with Brazil, I have received orders from the same Government to reply, that such leports have indeed been circulated, but no person believed them, sad now less than ever, since they have been contradicted by you. It never can be believed, that a nation so enlightened as the French would contribute, in violation of the principles of, humanity, and to the prejudice of its own interests, to the oppression of a country which has legitimately proclaimed Its political independence. I pray you, Monsieur, to receive, &c PINHEIRO DE VASCONCELLOS. Palace of the Government of Bahia, 9th January, 1824. To 111.Guinebaud, Consul of his Most Christian Majesty in this City. The very decisive denial of any such views as have been attributed to France, in regard to South America, by the French Consul, itone of the many proofs which are daily occurring of the pacific disposition of our neighbour, notwithstanding the reiterated assertions of some of our contemporaries to the contrary. The domestic intelligence in the French Papers is of little interest ; it relates principally to the movements of the Duchess de BERRI, who is visiting the principal towns along the coast, and had arrived at Havre, whence she would proceed t• Rouen. On Friday the KING transacted business with M. de VILLELE, and on Saturday his MAJESTY took an airing. A commercial courier, arrived in Paris on Friday, announced that on the 25th of July it was reported in Rome that the Comte de Slams, the French Ambassa dor at Naples was dead. A private letter from Constantinople, dated the Sd of July, states that General Gumamttroi had had his first audience of the Grand Vizir some days before, bu he would not be received by the Grand Seignior unti e September. It was reported that the Capitan Puha had attacked Ipsara and taken it, but it was doubted ; it isi however, stated as certain that the Egyptian fleet had burnt Cassos, opposite the isle of Crete, and had put the inhabitants to the sword. The Turks, it is added, have no doubt of 'the campaign : when the Capitan Pach; 4hall have been joined by the Egyptian fleet, 014'4.. dons will immediately commence. On Saturday the Duchess of ORLEANS gave birth to a Prince. The Etoik of Saturday contains nothing but a long article, in which it endeavours to chew the impolicy and danger of recognising the independence of the Haytian Republic. It boasts that two ships of the line before Port-au-Prince would suffice to throw the Haitians into confusion, but it admits, that 01 even success would not restore St. Domingo to France, and that there would remain for her only a heap of ruins." The Journal des Debats denies that there is any truth in the report that Russia insisted on a solemn and una nimous declaration being made by the Sovereigns of the Continent in favour of the rights of the King of SPAIN over South America, with a threat of furnishing auxiliary troops. It states on the contrary, that the wishes of the Emperor ALEXANDRA have been made known for several months, and that they do not extend beyond " sending a Commission from the Allied Powers to engage the Americans. under the promise of an Am nesty guaranteed by all Europe, to return peieeably under FXRDINAND'S sceptre. The same Journal adds. that the Emperor of AUSTRIA has indirectly taken part in the conclusion of an arrange ment by which Portugal is to recognise the independence of the Brazils, on condition that the same Dynasty shall be preserved on both thrones, through a mode of succession similar to that formerly established between Spain and Naples." The following is from Galignasis Messenger of Sa turday : PARTS, JULY 51. STOCK EXCHANOX, Five o'CLocx.—A rumour of an insurrectionary commotion in Spain, added to the fears entertained relative to Settling-day, threw a depression over the market, and occasioned a further decline in the price of Stock. The Five per Cents. for money closed at 98f. lOc. for the end of the month ; the price at four o'clock was 97f. 85c.; at this hour it is 97f. 65c. with a heavy market. This morning we received ilamburgh Papers to the 28th ult. Dutch to the Slst, German to the 27th, and Brussels to tbe Ist instant. It is stated in an article from the Maine, that among the important subjects dis cussed at Johannisberg was the increasing injury which is caused to commerce in general, by the various regu lations of the smaller German Powers respecting im ' port and export duties, and the means of remedying this-evil. One of the Brussels Papers states that important dis patches were expected at Vienna from Baron COTTZN.- eaLcs, the Austrian Internuncio at Constantinople, te specting a new and pressing note said to have been addressed to the Reis-Effendi by the Ministers of Eng land, Austria, and France, and drawn up in terms which left the Porte no alternative but that of com plying with the demands of the Cabinet of St. Peters burgh, or running the risk of a war with Russia."— The Prussian Monarch, it appears, has assembled an army of 100,000 men in Silesia, which he intends to re view on his return from Toplitz. The following are extracts: ST. PETERSBURGH, JULY 14. The French corvette Egeria has sailed, with the Am bassador and his family. The Salamander and Arethusa frigates will follow with the first fair wind. On the 3d of this month, the Council entrusted with ill affairs relative to public credit had a sitting, in which the Minister of Finance, Lieutenant-General V. Cancrin, presented a Report on the state of the finances in the course of last year. From this Report, which gives a very favourable account of the improvelnent in the finances, it appears, that on the Ist of January, 1824, the whole of the public debt amounted to 20,620 rubles in gold, 91,534,318 rubles in silver, 260,628,077 rubles in paper, and 47,600,000 florins (of the Dutch Loan.) JULY 17.—His Majesty, in a letter dated the 26th ult. to Count Romanzow, thanks him for sending the account of the voyage of the Rurick round the world. His Majesty is pleased to express himself as follows 1 see with pleasure that now, when the diminution of your strength has long since obliged you to retire from the service of the State, you still give such proofs of your desire to promote the public good, by the pro tection which you afford to the Arts and Sciences." ATTACK UN MR. ARCHER. Therm Angier, the unfortunate young man whose case appeared in our Paper of Saturday, was this day again brought up before the Loan MA Toe. The poor fellow was very respectably dressed, and his master, Mr. Barron, his wife, and a fellow workman came for ward in his behalf. After the most infinite pains had been taken, it turned out that he bad lost a considerable sum of money about three months since, which had preyed upon his mind. He had been married to his wife only two months, to whom he had represented himself to be a man possessed of property, and was ac tually about taking a house, shop, and fixtures ; but on the money being to be paid, he went away, and was not heard of until he was taken into custody. The Loan Matron conversed with his friends as to the course to be pursued with him, the charge, we believe, having been with drawn ; and having advised with the prisoner, remanded him for a Yew days; and directed that his friends should b e at liberty to converse with bins, and in the event of his state of mind permitting it, inti mated that he would be discharged. Yesterday his MAJLSTY and suite attended Divine Service at the private Qtapel, Cumberland Lodge. Lord MaNtt.La's summer cruize has been inter rupted by his sudden return to the Admiralty, on business of importance. The other branches of the Navy Board have em barked and sailed from Portsmouth. _ _ _ --- Yesterday the Governor and two of the principal suite of the late King and Queen of the Sannwoot Iguana had an inter view with Mr. Secretary Camino, at the Foreign Office. Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. HUSKI3SON left London, to proceed to the Netherlands and other foreign parts. Wednesday, the Archbishop of DUBLIN had his col lar bone broken by his bone falling and rolling over him. The ac cident occurred near Churehtown, when his Grace was on his way into Dublin. The Surgeon-General (CaaMrrow) was immediately sailed in. The I r enure Was set, mat the Archbishop bled and put to bed ; his Grace is going mi very inn, and no sort of serious conse quence is apprebeoded. Mr.Tzuronn is just returned to town from a survey of the Ship Canal, for union of the Bristol and British Channels. Vauxhall has been all sunshine and success, and the unusual line weather has increased the general inclination to revel in that abode of rational delight. The Proprietors have already been honoured by most of the rank, fashion, suadd beauty of the metropolis. Tna lEstics'a Tissnras.—Notwithstanding the late ness of the season, the Operant &mined* was attended on &aura day by a ery numerous modicum. Among the company present were the distingskbed individuals :—The Duchess of Heat, Duke of Sussex, Duke of Wellington, Duchen of Winter, Marquis et Londonderry, Marchionesses Dowager Lansdown, Lon donderry, Westmeath, Prince Emerhasy, Count and Neaten St. Antonio, his Excellency Count Lieven Lbrds SeftosilLauderdale, Bernick, Westmorland, Harrington, lake; Ladles Pd. Bentincit, Mohiseux, Westmorland, Sefton, Guilford, Harrowby, Farquhar, Rycroft, H. Parker, 8k T. Farquhar, Mrs. B. Dawkins, &c. HAIIMAAKIT THEATRE.—Mrs. INCHBALD'S Comedy of Ascli Things Are, was revived on Saturday with a good deal of entertaining contrivance. There is some humour in this Play, and the scene being laid in India, gives opportunities for displaying con siderable varieties of manners nail of costume. Some friends of MINDEN gave him a dinner on Sa turday last, on the event of his gaining the Stage. SUPPOSBD Muanan.—Between ten and eleven o'clock en Saturday night, the screams of a woman calling out" Murder !" " Help, help !" was beard on the wooden tridge, Chelsea, and a Gentleman crossing at the time, saw a woman thrown over the bridge, and a man running away : the Gentleman gave the alarm, the man, who is a navigator, or pile driver, was stopped and secured in the watch-house. The body of the woman was found about twenty minutes after, suffocated in the mud, it being low water. The body lies at the Chelsea Water Weeks public-house, for the C.orener's* art. Tim 411 nom --The total number of men that belonged to the 411 d, or Highland Regiment, tram the year 1797 to 1816, • 111,1t7. In 1517 there were only three men living in the corps that fought pin* BOVAZAZIX in Egypt. 116VER, Ati 4tlST 1. t eZi fiuniliet tannia Sseam a Gaser Pa s e l let, sir ri ss ch m sailed vsaAT yr a tv d da umen i for Ostend, with tams, two carriages, and about twenty passengers, returned this day with the Honourable Mr. Gate, one carriage, and many p al . angers, after a fine sun of seven hours. Arrived also his Majesty's Steam Packet the Foal, Captain ETAXILTON, with passengers from Calais; and the Sovaaxune, Capt. Hsrwsia, from Boulogne. Sailed the Duc de Bordeaux, with three carriages and passengers for Calais The Medusa Steam Packet with passengers for Boulogne. COURT OF CHANCERY—THIS DAY. RIGHT OF SOLICITOr TO DETAIN PAPERS. COLORAVE V. MANLEY. This was a motion by the plaintiff to commit the defendant, a Gentleman formerly practising as a Solicitor In this Court, to the custody of the Warden of the Fleet Prison, for a contempt or Court, in not delivering up certain papers, writings, Etc. which h a .i been placed In his hands as solicitor to the plaintiff. The fats of the case are that the defendant, on his retiring from business, ga ve up the whole concern to another Gentleman; and, with othera, handed over the plaintiff to him as a client. This, however, did not meet the wishes of the plaintiff, and he claimed his papers, Scc. A lien was however claimed on them, and a consequent refusal fol. lowed. The consequence was, that an application was now made. The Loan CIIANCILLOII said, the Court would never perniit a so. licitor to detain papers under such circumstances, and they must be delivered up. RRAIIAM V. LORD STRATDMORF.. This was a motion on the part of Lord Strathmore, to appoint the trustees of his Lordship's extensive estates the receivers of the rents and profits, in the room of the late Gentleman who had filled that office.—The motion was opposed by the incumbrancen, and his Lordship declined granting the motion until the trustees had in spected the receipts of the late receiver. ROYAL YACHT CLUB. • COWES, JULY 31. _ Since last Monday, more than twenty of the yachts of this truly important Club have sailed to the West ward, to join the squadron under Commodore Lnrd YARBOROUGH, which had been attending the Dartmouth and Torquay Regattas, preparatory to the Plymouth Meeting, on the 3d and 4th August. Among them, The Swallow, 124 tons, the Duke of Noarout. The Louisa, 525 tons, the Earl of Canvau; and her tender, the Mayfly, 40 tons. The Arid, 338 tons, the Earl of HARBOROUCTI. The Antelope, 92 tons, Lord Wir.r.ourany na BROKE. The Jack-e-Lantern, 140 tons, THOMAS A. Sum, Esq. The Hussar, 120 tons, THOMAS P. %mums, Esq. The Sabrina, 84 tons, hails Maass, Esq. The Elizabeth, 65 tons, Sir GODFREY %ism, Bart. The Arrow, 84 tons, Joan. War.n, Esq. The Briton, 92 tons, J. P. Powat.t., Esq. The Unicorn, 158 tow, HENRY PERIM; Esq. The Erin, 94 tons, T. Amax Esq. The Cygnet, 57 tons, Joan . Itintomis, Esq. And the Hind, 21 tons, Captain Hzautounsa. All which, with fifty other yachts of the Club, now on various parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom, will assemble at Cowes on the 19th and 20th of August en suing, to celebrate the original Regatta of Old Eng land, and which, from arrangements already made, and the largest expected assemblage of yachts ever viewed, cannot fail to &tot a scene of the highest inte rest and splendour. Such is the increasing spirit and taste of the day for aquatic pursuits, that a yacht, to a Nobleman or man of fortune, is now just as much considered as natural an appendage to his domestic establishment and comfort as a carriage. The magnitude of the Royal Yacht Club in tonnage and men has attracted the attention of the Directors of Greenwich Hospital; and the csews, by their contribution, are to be placed prospectively, with regard to allowances, on the same footing as other sea men claiming the benefits of the Institution. How de lightful the pursuit which combines the most healtlifid sources of enjoyment with the national advantages of improved science in naval architecture, and the employ of hundreds of deserving sailors NAVAL. I.vTELLIUENCE. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Arrow cutter, for the seizure of sundry tubs of spirits; and the blosjuito, for the Zephyr, on the Sth inst. at No. 70, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, and recalled there Mondays and Saturdays. . Arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday, his Majesty's sloop of war Danes, Captain COAKIP Bowan, from the Coast of Africa, where she had been two years and a half employed, durin g w hi c h period she captured 500 slaves, although, lately, her services had been partly directed from that object, by Captain Bowan having been entrusted by the late Sir Ronnie Manes with the naval protection of all .ur settlements on the Gold Coast, which were menaced with destruction by the King of Autumns The Akbar (troop-ship) is fitting at Portsmouth as an additional lazaretto, at Milford. lieutenant Joins Sesame is appointed to the VALOROUS. Faznourn, JULY 51.—Wind E.—Arrived off the port, the Mary, Wzranot from Charleston in thirty-three days : Comet,Oastsron, from dadeira ; William and Alfred, DALSTXTLR, from Dominica in thirty-five days; Sally, Gaya, from Miramichl—sailed Ist July. Arrived the Saltoun, 33 4 Kmaza, from St. Vincent's in forty days; Emery, Bunn from Oporto I. twenty-five days ; John, Dawson, from Bahia in sizty-five days; and Success, Ewan, from St. John's, New Brunswick, in forty-one days. Pavans= JULY 31.—Wind E.—Arrived the Sp e cific, Haanv, from Chiozze; Sappho Hreezistna., from ditto ; Cygnet, Hat, from Charleston ; and Sappho, Dutch ship of war Wassenaer, Admiral RUTS, from the Mediterranean. Of the port, the Athens, --, from New York; and the Hope, Faun from Madras. Dem., JULY 31.—Wind N.E. A rrived the Maris, Monty, from Batavia, and sailed for Antwerp; Ocean, —, from Mira michl ; London, —, from the Mediterranean ; Lady Keith, from Sicily; Thomsons, —, from the Mediterranean ; Hope, Patna son, from Malta; Pheasant, Homon, from Trieste. Came down from the River and sailed, the Stewart, Ceylon; Bee, WISHART, for Constantinople; Crossthwaite, Wit.sou. for Mira michi ; Tranmere, Timmons', for Barbados ; Allies, Maros, for St. Sebastian; and Columbus, Jonsson for Quebet. Dona, boar 29.—Saile this mo rning his Majesty's packet Smenz, with the Earl of Haaaowsv and suite, and very many other passengers: the same vessel came in last night from Calaii, with nearly 100 passengers. Arrived his Majesty's steam packet the Fuer, from Calais, and the Britannia, from Boulogne, the former bringing above 100 passengers % and the latter forty. The principal arrivals are the Countess . of Norranonon_, Sir G. Pazscorr, Co lonel HAMM Mr. WATTS RUMS * M. P. and Mr. Wuxi, M.P. for Maidstone. Amon I —Wind N.E—Arrived the David Lyon, Bator, from Jamaica; and the Morley, flatmnar l , from London for BengaL Lorzaroot., itTLY 51. Arrived the Two Brothers, Roam, from Smyrna; Pomona, Suns, from Havre • John Reid, Fuxin, from Peter,burgh; Jane, CUIPULL Irom Rig's; Alexander, Mau *Rau, from Quebec; Mary, Ron, from St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Corsair, Piero; from Charleston • Rndymion, Gomm; and Middleton, GAILII/TT, from Miramicht THE COMMON SENSE BOOK (N 0.3) is this day pub' fished. It is occupied wholly with the discussion of that important question,* The Press in Indii."—Lupton Retie, Omaha l; Hat chard and Son, Piccadilly; Sherwood, Jones, and Coe Alternate' row. Price 41e. ALARMING ACCIDENT.—This morning, about half past one o'clock, the inhabitants of Old Compton-street, Soho, were roused out of their sleep by the springing of watchmen's rattles, and on making inquiry it was discovered that two houses bad fallen to the ground, and it was supposed that all the Inmates had perish in the ruins. One was the house of Mr. Samuel Poole, bookseller, No. 4S, the other house was untenanted, and under repair. The constables and neighbours rendered all the assistance they wo g able, and Mr. and Mrs. Poole, who (had no faultily) slept in the front attic, were precipitated through the two floors, and dug UP from tinier the ruins in the paseage. Mr. Poole escaped with veil trifling injury, but Mrs. Poole was dreadfully bruised; she vas carried on a shutter to the Middlesex Hospital, with little hope nr recovery. The maid-setvant, who slept in the back attic, and ton young in n who slept in the tiro-pair back room, escaped unhorse as the b .ck apartments remained standing 3 they were rescued froo their p :Mous situation by the help of bat-ladders. 'All Nr. Fools 's furnitu 33 crushed to piece.s. • as itor 4 `talks et saires bar ar mod] The 14 sabs. Lo sadiron' marl as -- Da 1 4 „ouch The 31 to march The 54 erdeeed_! The 61 to land ai Chatham Lest tl she Come ssiK inten ing ath June a Ist Jai * Wary Bi the Trooi safe Age executed lug Offic such corr they may to Which Ey Cu! 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