The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-12 00:00:00

SHIPPING._

Matta Aantvan.—Duhliw, 3; Waterford, 2; Donacka-
dee, 1; Guernsey, &a., 1 ; French, 1; Flanders, 1.
Loa nos, tday 12.—Wind this day at nom% W.R.W.,Ught
pleasant breeze, and fine clear weather.
DEAL, May IL—N.H.—Arrived • Queen, Shenehee; For-
mica, St. Croix, for Copenhagen; nudism, Porto Rico, fur
Bremen; Fantome, Jamaica; George Delia., Havana,
for Bremen; Prins Carl, Havana, for Hamburg; Bremen,
New Orleans, for Hamburg. Arrived front the river and
sailed: 11th, Richard Thornton, Batavia; Sultana, Cape
Coast Castle.
LIVERPOOL, May 12 —The Molly Hawn, hence to Valpa-
raiso, which wits stranded at Kingstown, was towed back
here to-day, for repairs.
LERWICK, May I.—The Pledge, of Hell, arrived here
2nd inst., sailed 24th ult.. from Greenland, with two seala,
reports the seal fishery to he almost a total
failure ; also that a Bremen galliot has been
lost on the Wend of Jan Mayen, the master and eight of the
crew saved ; Lnd that the St. Andrew, of Aberdeen, sus-
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tained s use 11 age in the ice, and had • narrow mans.
Spoke the fo ng vessels during the week previous to her
leaving the : The Sarah end Elizabeth, Liebe, North
of Scotland, Frigid', Pink, of Hull, Superior, clean ; Com-
merce, of Peterslurg, with 5,000 seals ; and the Traveller,
of Petersburg, with 10.000. Moat of the vessels had sailed
northward, to prosecute the whale fishery,
TAHMOCT/I, May 10.—The Thorns* and Margaret, of and
from Sunderland, to Portsmouth, which got on the Know 1
Sand yesterday, was hove Of, after throwing overboard
thirty tone of coals ; she makes no water, and proceeded.
Doves, May 11.—Arrived: Charleston, Trinidad de
Cuba, for Bremen ; Eleanore, Port-au-Prince ; Esther and
Sophia, Bolivia; both for Hamburg, all put in on account of
the Danish blockade.
Orr lleavirma, May 11.—Independance, Rio Jancrio,
for Antwerp, with mainmast sprung.
OFF DOrF.K, May 11.—Arrived : Henrietta Sophia, 13a-
Meta, for Uddewalla ; Atlas, New Orleans, from Bremen ;
Gilua;Philadelphia, for Roth rdam.
Ore llymoggime, May 10.—Arrived : George, Havanna,
fur Trieste.
Ore EASTROVaNB, May 10.—Arrived: Minerva, Ha-
vanna.
Jr:inter, May 9.—Salled : Atlantic, Honduras.
IS THE CMANNIIL.—Arrived: Queen, China.

COASTDEPENCES.—The Bryhilon Ga.xtle of yes._
terJay says. " Workmen have been busily employed for',
some days in putting the batteries at Newhaven, East
Blatchington, and Seaford into repair ' • and one of the re.
venue cutters his been empllyed in bringing down guns
from Woolwich. At Newhaven onegun, a 46-pounder, hu
arrived ; and at Blatchingron three 30 pounder. have bees
landed. The latter see daily exercised by the coast guard
under the direction of a muter gunner in target practice.
At Seaford one gun has also been landed, and more wilt
shortly be brought to each plan,. The guns are so heavy
that a cutter can only carry one at a time.
KING'd COLLEGE lithiPlTAL.—The following letter
has been received by the secretary of King's College, Lon-
don :—" Delgraveoquare, May 9, 1818.—Sir,—.I have di-
rected my bankers, Meuse. Drummond to pay on my behalf
6001. to the account of King :v College Hospital ; concurring
with Lord Brougham in the opinion which bit lordship has
expressed, that money may-be more usefully applied towards
the assistance of existing eetsblishmenti of this nature, than
to the foundation of others ; and I may add, not forgetting
the conduct of the students of the college on the 10th of
have the honour to be, &c., Haewrow ELLEs•
mum."