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Stopford, flag of Vice-Admiral the Ho—e.
rett,y, Commander-in-Chief; London, go,
Captain 0-;m:Tvl.undy, advanced ship; Monarch, 84;
Captain C. Hope; guard-ship of ordinary ;- Wellington,
72, Lieutenant- N.l...,N;.tmare, depOt store-ship of ordi-
nary ; 'Horatio, 24, ~,:rew steatOrigate, Oftiptain the
Hon. S. T.' Carne-kie ; F'britudei coal depot ;...N.Ocelih,
receiving-40R; Lixiid and Cuckoo, advanced steamers ;
Myrtle steam-vessel ; African,: strain-tug; Thames
and Hart tenders. •
Sbips in the Basin—The Cyclops; 6, steam-frigate ;
Abhilie, 76 ; Russell, 72 ; and Gossamer cutter.-
Ships in Dock—The Ainphien, 34,, screw 03am;:.
frigate ; Ganges, 84, fitting as an advanced ship;
Howe, 120; and Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate,
building. , •
11Toormicn, Aran. 13.—The Adder stestm-vessel
arrived at WOOlwich on ' Mboday afterno On from
Chatham,' and' reinains at this port to assist in "towing
the vessels of the Arctic expedition to Greenlithe on
Thurtd[iy, the,lsth inst., the day fired. for ,tileir de-
parture from Woolwich. Toe vessels Will' It'aro tbejr
compassei adjusted by Captain Johnson, on Friday
and Sitgrday next ; and the Basilisk, advanced pad-
pie-wheel steam-sloop, of 400-horse power, at Ports-
trtouth, and the Desperate screw steam-sloop, e f 469-
horse power, at Devonport, have been ordered round
to the Nore, to. tyke the Assistance, Captain fiir Ed-
ward Belcher, C. 8., and the Resolute, :Captain
C. 8., in tow, and accompany them to .the iie.
With tbesetneans of aid, Captain Belcher's expedition
Will be at the iceat a very early period, tail the Ins
trepid and Pioneer screw-steamers of. the Arctic;
squatTron'will consume less coall•than „they would
have done had they been employed in towing the sail-
ing vessels to the ice.
MALTA, APRIL s.—Yesterday her asiesty7s steam-
sloop GroWier-reaChed port from Consttantitiople, with
dispatches, as it is reported, of very great importance:
Little his transpired as to their nature, beyond the
simple fact:that they refer to the Taniunat, and
_it
seems now tolerably certain that Abbas" Pasha, re-
fusing to Make known in Egypt the conditions of the
Tanzirnitt, has- brought matters to a oriel?, and the
Porte is snaking ready to meet it.
Two vesaels have left port since my lest—the Bel-
lerophon and Fury steam-sloop. Tunis is the desti-
nation of the first, and Palermo of the second, when
she too will proceed :to Tunis.
We have no news '6 f any importance'- besides lise;
above.

The Medusa is preparing for England, and will
leave after the arrival of the Antelope, now expected
in ten days.

APRIL B.—The Bentinck, with the Indian mail,
arrived this morning, at half-past four, having come
from Alexandria in seventy-four hours. Notwith-
standing a somewhat unnecessary detention (till
noon) the Indian mail will probably reach England
quicker than has ever before been known, as the
Banshee goes on to Marseilles, and has been tho-
roughly cleaned.
To Alexandria against a heavy gale the Company's
steamer did the distance in 82 hours.

The Spitfire surveying steamer will leave port to-
day to resume her surveys. •
The Oberon, from Corfu, has arrived to-day.
The fleet, with Admiral Dunda. is to put to sea
early next month, visiting Corfu, bishop, and other
ports. They will extend their cruise to Gibraltar,
not returning till November.
The French screw steam frigate Charlemagne was
at Naples when the Firebrand, which arrived here on
the sth inst., left. She was to go to the Gulf of
Venice to receive on board the remains of the late
Duke of Reicbstadt, which were to be interred in
Paris.
The United States are sending a large navy to the
Mediterranean. The Commodore has already passed
the Straits of Gibraltar in the Jacinto. The frigate
Powbattan and St. Louis and Levant sloops may be
daily looked for.
HoNG-Koria, FEB. 28.—1 n Harbour—Her Ma-
jesty's steamer Sphynx, the United States steamer
Susquehanna, and sloop Saratoga. At Whampoa—
Her Majesty's surveying vessel Royalist, the Canton,
and the Hon Company's steamer Nemesis. At Amoy
—Her Majesty's brig Lily ; and at Shanghai, the
Contest.

Latest dates from England are to the 24th of De-
cember; America, December 8; Calcutta, January
18 ; Bombay, January 18 ; Singapore, February 5 ;
Manilla, February 15 ; and Australia, November 18.

THE BIRKENHEAD IRON STEAMER.
TO THE EDITOR OF TEE TIMES.
Sir,—Among the various remarks that have been
made by professional gentlemen upon the melancholy.
loss of the Birkenhead steamship, I am surprised to find
that no allusion has been made to its water-tight com-
partments. Now, in a vessel of the size of the Birken-
head there could not be less than three, but more pro-
bably ttcre were four or five watertight compartmknts.
If ever there were a case in which the value of water.;
tight compartments could be tested it surely must be
that of the Birkenhead. The vessel has a hole driven
through her bottom, by which one, or at most two, com-
partments are filled with water. The vessel then parts
in the middle, leaving either end of the ship to its min
• buoyancy.. The weather was elle), the shore at no great'
AiAtaime, the crew asset trottfea in perfect order, so that
had the vessel fhated but a single hour, or any part of
it, for that titec, probably 200 lives of our soldiers would
have b,ca ss!vA.
It seems almost inevitable to conclude that the ship
had no water-tight compartments, or that they were
fictitious. When the compar4tive merits of iron and
wooden ,tc,in,r, were con,idertd, so much was said as
to the value (,1 water-tight compartments in the former
that it is impossible to imagine that no attention was
paid to !his in the construction of the Birkenhead. If,
on the other hand, the ship was so rent and torn by
the straining of the parts before breaking up that
all the water-tight compartments were rendered unser-
viceable, so important a feet in the construction of iron
steamers ought not to be passed over in silence.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
NAVIGATOR.
April 13.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.
The following is the letter of Sir Fitzroy Kelly in
reply to en inquiry for his opinions respecting the
endowment of May nooth College. It will be ob-
served that he is distinct in his opposition to such a
c7to leave your letter nnan-
P however, depended principally
pervf rsion of the funds of the state :--
" Si-,—l have to ir,itvreeabt
eyeonucrom indulgence
pelled, byforththeeplroene!
time during which I nape
sure
reodf. m ray
its oe cuur
g:nti
p
my pow‘rttrhree
upon the probable approach of a general election, I
trust that the present session still continuing, the le
words with which I have to trouble you will not' arrivew
of my earnest desire and determination to promote
too late. In the first place, then, I can since, rely assure
cause of Protestant
you
Truth in opposition to Popish
~And upon the particular question
of the grant to
Maynootti, I am 5150 anxious
to the utmost of
duty to the Go‘e rimer t, of hieto be as explicit as my
h I am a member, and
my sense of independenceW
permit.
my
incithation as an English gentleman will
have been, opposed to and my (pinion are,, and always
whether the'
good faith of the
grant
; but I have doubted
its continuance as long of Parliament was not pledged to
as it appeared to answer the pur:
Pokes with which it
was originally assented to and made.
Su I have thought it inexpedient to agitate such a ques-
tion amidst strong party feelings, and animosities, and
bitterness,
fur
i
But 1 aumn every successive session of Parliament.
from satisfied that the ends of Parlia-
ment in the original grant have ceasedbe
attained or attainable. I am, therefore,
not
efure ,to
strongly
in
l_avour of inquiry; and whenever again in the louse of
Commons, shall support Mr. Spooner's or any other
motion for a Committee upon the whole subject of the
grant, and shell cordially and strenuously concur with
Lord Derby's Government in any measure which the
report of that Committe may warrant, or which on
any other ground Lord Derby and his Ministry may
adopt for the entire repeal of the Act of 1845. More
than this I cannot think you will require from one who
aspires to be your representative in Parliament, and is
already a member of the Administration to which alone
you can look with confidence for the sincere and eft ctive
support of Protestantism against the spirit and inroads
of the Papacy. You are at liberty to make any use you
think proper of this letter, and I have the honour to re-
main, Sir, your very faithful friend,
(Signed) FITZROY KELLY."

DARING ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM THE MIDDLE
SEX Housx or CORRECTION.—On Saturday forenoon a man
of the name of Sullivan, who was a convict in the Middlesex
House of Correction, Coldbath-square, and who was under
sentence of transportation far ten years, having been con-
victed of felony at the previous Central Criminal Court, made
a daring attempt to escape f, om the gaol under the following
circumstances :—lt appeared that the man was under solita7
confinement, to undergo which punishment he was impri-
soned in a cell under the infirmary. At the time he atternpl
to make his escape he was in the yard adjoining his cell, w_hni
__
was allowed him for exercise, where be was without any ft;
to watch his movements, as there was no expectastid
making the attempt he did. From this spot he go on _,•_" Vhe
he
descended through a sky-light into the matroorn. "•!•jl,sZil
provided himself with a ladder, with the assists: of
. which the
went and reached the fly-wheel. by °fie:l:heal he was en-
he was enabled to get on a wall, by the eideof
tread-mill is put in motion. From
tlhiveepaairnapaetcoisu
thhee ' dam, abutting on
fcewhich he
abled to reach the boundary wall of P
of
theyr associatesc hfm
therehL observed by Mr. Dun-
ham,Coldbath-square, to the base
depth of about 30 feet. He was
_Coldbath-square, who gave
dairyman, Gough-strrf
officers of the gaol, who had left •
information to some of the
R., returned to the prison, upon
to go to their dinner.
art
which the man was secured.. known to be a
rid he ismost desperate
in GraY'S'illn-la"' 8
character.
A desperate Attempt at murder (sat's Galignani)
ago in the church two days
Pri's. ,
and a young workwom
a workman himself near the an, when a man, who
11 had stationed altar, suddenly drew out a
nd att near
of
kniteta t empted to plunge it into the breast
:)-f. the bride. For unately, the beadle, whose attention had
been aroused by the sinister expression of the countenance
of the man, watched his movements and at the moment
s
when he was about to use his
weapon he laid hold of his
arm, and turned the blow. The was then arrested.
man was
He turned out to be the bride
a workman who had known
for some time, and. wished to revent the marriage. Ile
had come to the church armed mpith the knife, thinking to
alarm the bridegroom, and thus postpone the ceremony, but
not arriving until the ceremony had commenced, his feslimp
carried him away, and be made the Wye attempt.