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Jr the resignation or dismissal of M. Thiers we
..oere prepared by the intelligence furnished during the
past week by our Paris correspondent. We say dis-
missal, for it is evident that M. Thiers, however at
variance with the ruling will, had yielded much, if not
for the sake of retaining place, at least out of deference
to the experience and wisdom of his Sovereign. He
at first insisted on the necessity of doing precisely what
England had done in fulfilment of the Quadruple A l-
lixace, viz., he proposed to send 6,000 soldiers, re-
cruited from the military population of France, to join
the 3 or 4,000 Poles and Germans comppsing the
Foreign Legion, these to be in Spanish pay and un-
der Spanish orders. The envoys of the three Courts
protested against this in Paris, and were answered in
independent language by M. Thiers. Their efforts,
however, were not relaxed, and they succeeded in awak-
ening the fears and scruples of the King of the French.
The resolve of co-operation, although already acted up-
on, although Gen. Lebeau had quitted a French for a
Spanish command, although the Spanish Ministry had
filled Pamplona and Estella with provisions, and provided
pay for the expected army—although all these orders
had been issued and expectation excited, the resolve of
co-operation was, we say, stopped. The majority of
the Council insisted on continuing ; a minority of one
declared the contrary, and the minority of one pre-
vailed ; in consequence the former resigned. They
could not do otherwise. A telegraphic despatch, con-
veying the news of the proclamation of the Constitution
of 1812, arrived apropos to terminate the difference,
and give force to the arguments against co-operation.
M. Thiers bowed to this new argument, and consented
to keep office at least for a time. He insisted, how-
ever,
that the organization of the division of co-opera-
tion at Pau and Bayonne should continue. In the
meantime General Lebeau published an order of the
day, in which he rather vaguely declared that he was
appointed to the .command of the Foreign Legion by
the King of the-French. It was a soldier's oversight.
But in consideration of the severe disappointment inflicted
on M. Lebeau, in enticing him from his command in
France by promise of the command of an army in
Spain, M. Thiers entreated that the mistake of Gen.
Lebeau might be let pass. Not so, however ; the
Moniteur rudely contradicted and reproved General
Lebeau for stating that he was appointed by the King
of the French. Not content with this, the party of
anti-co-operation pushed still farther the determination
to throw a slur upon M. Thiers and the military com-
manders whom he had engaged in his plan. Orders
were sent to dissolve the Legion forming at Pau ; to
set adrift the staff and the officers engaged in organiz-
ing and recruiting ; and thus declare irrevocably that
Spain had no more to hope from France. This act
turned M. Thiers out of office with a want of defer-
ence and a violence almost insulting ; were he, indeed,
not saved from the insult by his previous offer of his
resignation. The doors of the Council Chamber and
of office being thus shut against him by a movement
ab irato, it is evident that M. Thiers cannot resume
place. It was thought by some that the removal
of M. Thiers would be the signal for the re-ap-
pointment of M. Guizot and the Doctrinaires. M.
Guizot removed the only apparent obstacle to his no-
mination, by causing the Doctrinaire netvspaper, the
Paix, to declare that he was not a partisan of inter-
vention. Yet M. Guizot has not been called to form
a Ministry, nor has the Duke de Broglie. The Doc-
trinaires, however objectionable their domestic policy,
must be admitted to be true to the English alliance,
and, consequently, to the Quadruple Alliance. But
other sentiments than these are requisite, it seems, in
a French Prime Minister. Count Mole was first
summoned, and he made overtures to M. Guizot. This
appears to be all as yet certain ; and the questions, will
M. Guizot accept the Ministry of the Interior, and full
power over domestic policy, abandoning foreign mea-
sures to other influence ? Will he insist on being in-
trusted with the formation of a Cabinet, and, as once
before, upon having a genuine Prime Minister ? The
illoniteur can alone answer these questions satisfacto-
rily.—,l^orning, Chronicle.
Daniel, it appears, has come out of his den again.
How is this ? Are the beagles distempered as well as
their master ; or has his pony broken down, though
the Premier bears up under his weight still ? Daniel
is not so good as to tell us. But Lord Holland tells
a story of a celebrated pickpocket, who was accustomed,
like Daniel, to give himself relaxation from his illegal
labours for a short time every year ; and during that
period of rest he is said to have made it a point
never to indulge in the exercise of his calling, except-
ing always the stealing of a snuff-box or a smell-
ing-bottle now and then, not for the value of the
things, hut just to keep his hand in. So Daniel,
who, like the Chevalier d Industrie, lives by preying
on the public, has been devoting his learned and
light-fingered leisure to doing a Popish Bishop out
of a five pound note, which, though a trifling feat,
ii clealy the cleverest he has performed since he ex-
tracted the 501. from close-fisted Cleveland. Daniel
announces this " do" to the " General Grab Associa-
tion" in Dublin, in an epistle which we publish in
another column, and in which, amonp, other things, he
tells the Association that " it will be his duty to bring,
in all its proper bearings, before the public, the
hideous details of the life of that unrespectable person
Lord Lyndhurst." Now, what a falling off is here !
There vas no blackguardism too foul for that blatant
beast to bellow forth against that accomplished and
eminent statesman at White Conduit-house and other
houses of call for assembled rebels of his own kidney.
How then happens it that the false and foul-mouthed
fellow descends to mere " unrespectability ?" We
strongly suspect that the scars of the fearful castiga-
tion Lord Lyndhurst bestowed upon this national
pauper, afflict him more even than the pain and dis-
grace he suffered on the occasion of the actual appli-
cation of the whip at the bar of the House of Lords.
Still Daniel cannot screw his courage to the sticking
place. He says he will postpone his attack upon
Lord Lyndhurst till " the beginning of the next ses-
sion of Parliament," which, we venture. to predict,
will be precisely the postponement attack he
last year promised upon Sir R. Peel '0• ent—that
is to say, a postponement sine die. Sn... sing, howe-
ver, we should be mistaken, it would seem that Daniel
will " give a history" of Lord Lyndhurst's private as
well as of his public life. Of all public men, we be-
lieve that Lord Lyndhurst has the least reason to
shrink from a " history of his private life." But
what an unredeemed, and unredeemable scoundrel
is this O'Connell, to make such a threat, and at
such a time, too ! If he has not lied more foully
than it could have entered into the imagina-
tion of the Devil himself to lie, he makes the threat
with his own wife dying under his very eyes ! Oh
how long shall such a wretch as this be tolerated
among civilized men ! But let him mark us well. As
surely as he dares to invade the privacy of the life of
Lord Lyndhurst, or of any other man, woman, or child
that may happen, by themselves or their relatives, to be
opposed to him in politics, so surely will we carry the
war into his domiciles at Derrynane and Dublin, and
show up the whole brood of O'Connells, young and
old. When Lord Holland reproached us with answer-
ing O'Connell in his own language, and beating him
with his own weapons, we told the constitutional loid
who supported the Stannaries Bill, that there was but
one way of dealing with Daniel, and that the true and
right public policy is to brain those who may be so
brained with a lady's fan, but to use a broomstick, if
(acting upon the defensive, be it always remembered)
no other weapon will make the desired impression.
We hold to the same opinion still ; and if Daniel make
good this menace of his, there is not one of the O'Con-
nells who shall escape handling by us, precisely after
the paternal pattern.—Times.
The dissolution of the French Ministry (for, with-
out giving any opinion upon the yet litigated question,
whether the chief alone or all the members resigned,
there is in fact a dissolution) is an event of great im-
portance at the present moment, the more so because
it is a consequence of the state of affairs in Spain,
which become every day more difficult and embarrassing
to the Powers that mixed themselves up with the war
of succession in that country, by the treaty of the
quadruple alliance—a treaty which, instead of tran-
quillising Spain, has only served to blow the flames of
civil discord into fiercer rage, and to create the danger
of an European war. Previously to the success of the

conspirators at St. Ildefonso, and the triumph of the
revolutionary rabble at Madrid, it was understood, as
our readers are aware, that a change in the French
Ministry was inevitable, in consequence of the differ-
ence of opinion which existed in the Cabinet on the
subject of " direct intervention" in Spain. All that
publicly transpired of the collision in the Council of
Ministers between M. Thiers and his Royal Master
has already appeared in our columns. It was
known that all the Ministers, with the exception of
M. IVlontalivet, and, as some say, M. Pelet
(de la
Lozere) supported the proposition of M. Thiers, in fa-
vour of direct intervention. Notwithstanding the an-
nouncement of a London morning paper (the Chro-
nicle) that the French Government had decided on
sending an army into Spain to support Christina's Go-
vernment, with the approbation of the Northern
Powers, Louis Philippe continued firmly opposed to
the intervention policy of the majority of his Cabinet,
and it is pretty clear that the Northern Powers could
not have given their consent to a determination of the
French Government which never had existence. On
the contrary, there is every reason to believe that he
resisted the proposed intervention, because he paid
more attention to the remonstrances of the Northern
Powers than to the arguments of his own Ministers.
His whole conduct since he has come to the throne
has evinced his constant and anxious desire to conci-
liate the absolute Powers, and to wipe out the stain of
his revolutionary title by such a course of policy as
might qualify him to be at least tolerated, if not ad-
mired, in the society of legitimate despots. In this, it
must be confessed, he has pretty well succeeded, and
M. Thiers must have greatly overrated his own talent
of persuasion when he supposed that he could make a
convert of Lous Philippe to the doctrine of direct in-
tervention, which the King of the French well knew
would have brought upon him more than mere expres-
sions of displeasure from those Northern Powers, to
obtain whose favour he would gladly blot from the
history of France all record of the " glorious days of
July." But Louis Philippe is quite as honest a poli-
tician as his late Minister M. Thiers, and a much
more sagacious one. He had supported the juste
milieu system in Spain by various indirect means, but
he did it more with the view of preventing the triumph
of the violent democratic party than even of crushing

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Don Carlos, whose cause naturally engaged the sym-
pathies the Legitimists of the North. When, however,

the democratic party succeeded in, putting down the
juste milieu system in Spain—when they trampled
it under foot with all manner of indignities, and
dyed their felon hands in the blood of some of its
bravest and most distinguished supporters, no person
supposed that M. Thiers would have acted so pre-
posterous a part as to still press the subject of in-
tervention upon the King. Our Paris Correspon-
dent observes that this fortunate politician has been
made giddy by his elevation. This appears to be
so ; and if Louis Philippe had assented to his
proposition, he would have been as " giddy" as him-
self. The Paris Journals some days ago regarded the
news .of the acceptance 'of the Constitution of 1812 by
by the Regent of Spain as decisive against the further
support of a French intervention by M. Thiers and
his party in the Government. The Paix stated
more than a week ago that the Minister had ac-
tually tendered his resignation to the King ; but
that the telegraphic intelligence from Spain announc-
ing the Queen's acceptance of the Constitution,
caused him to withdraw it. At the same time the
Journal des Debats had the following statement :
" It appears certain that serious dissensions had
broken out within the last three or four days in the
Council of Ministers respecting the affairs of Spain.
The two telegraphic dispatches received to-day have
suddenly put an end to'tliem, and it is affirmed that
orders were immediately transmitted to Bayonne to
suspend the entry into Spain of the reinforcements
intended for the Foreign Legion."—The latter part of
this paragraph seems to be confirmed ; but that which
relates to the supposed extinction of the dissensions in
the Cabinet is falsified by the event. M. Thiers an.!
the colleagues who accorded with him in opinion must
have continued to take the same view of intervention.
after the triumph of the democratic party in Spain as
before, to make their resignation imperative. If
Louis Philippe even did not stand in awe of the
Northern Powers in regard to Spanish affairs, he
would not be without a good and sufficient reason
against sending an army into Spain under existing cir-
cumstances. Republican opinions are said to be at
present more prevalent in the French army than the
inmates of the chateau can desire. To send the " tri-
colour" over the Pyrenees to float at the head of the de-
mocratic movement, would certainly not be the most effec-
' tual way to purify the French army from the taint of
republican doctrines. Louis Philippe has no desire to see
the military drama which has been enacted in the
Queen's Palace at St. Ildefonso rehearsed in tilt
neighbourhood of Neuilly ; and so he prefers not
sending his armies to support by his orders abroad
those political doctrines which they might subse-
quently think proper to enforce against his orders at
home. Among the motives which may have induced
some of the late Ministers to insist upon intervention
in Spain under any circumstances, the spirit of gamb-
ling in the Spanish Funds, which has been carried to
a great extent by a certain class of politicians in Paris,
may have been one. As to M. Thiers, we can give
him no credit for any such attachment to liberal prin-
ciples as would cause him to make a generous sacrifice
of his ambitious hopes and interests on the altar of
public freedom. His conduct towards Switzerland was
such as must affix indelible disgrace to the history of
his Ministerial career. The bullying tone which he
adopted towards the Government and people of that free
State, because they appeared to be still faithful to their
principles of ancient independence, showed that when the
Sovereign of France and his Northern Allies were re-
solved to play the tyrant towards a small State, they
could not have a more fitting instrument than this
" liberal" Minister. His celebrated letter to the Duke
of Montebello, in which he threatens the " hermetical
blockade" of Switzerland, if it does not sacrifice its
national independence by expelling the political fugi-
tives that have fled from despotic persecution to the
asylum of its hospitality, could not be the emanation
of a mind that either loved or understood the cause of
genuine freedom, the most glorious recollections of
which are associated with the name of Switzerland.
It is true, a sort of denial of the authenticity of that
letter was subsequently published, but it was not until
it was found that the bullying threats which it con-
veyed had not produced the intended effect upon the
Swiss nation. The denial was also so vague as to
lead to the inevitable conclusion that the document was
substantially authentic. Perhaps the question of
Switzerland, as well as that of Spain, may have had
something to do with the revolution in the French
Ministry.—Morning Herald.

The 'fall of the TFliers Cabinet is confirmed by our
Paris express of last night, but the reported arrange-
ment of the new Ministry is not yet complete. Louis
Philippe finds it easier to part from the friends of his
late adoption than to meet with others willing and
qualified to take their places. One point, however, is
clear ; and that must be a source of consolation to
the lovers of good order throughout Europe ;
namely, that non-intervention in favour of a Mo-
narchy surrounded with Republican institutions at
Madrid is decided upon. It is only on that prin-
ciple that the King of the French will confide to any
of the persons whom report has named as charged
with the task the power to form a new Administra-
tion. Let us hope that the principle will be carried a
little further, and, as the Quadruple Treaty is virtually
annulled, that means will be taken to open a negotia-
tion with the great European Powers on the subject
of Spain, and to have secured by a marriage the
pacification of the Peninsula. The great body of the
people who are now apathetically looking on at the
struggle which devastates their country, would promptly
declare in favour of their rightful Sovereign, if they
were assured that the European Powers were prepared
tc, support them against the fury of the disappointed
revolutionists. Indeed, the latter would shrink away
into their natural insignificance, if they believed that
France was determined not to interfere in their behalf,
and that the Quadruple Treaty was actually at an end.
Let the crowds of rich and Noble Spaniards, voluntary
exiles in Paris and London at present, be taken as evi-
dence of what the feelings of the honourable part of so-
ciety are. We cannot believe that the reported detec-
tion of Iturralde from the Carlists can be true, as he

was one of the most devoted of the Navarrese cap-
tains, and was, perhaps, the first to raise the standard
of revolt at Estella in October, 1833. He was loved
and respected by the people, and called " Father"
in ordinary conversation. It is not to be believed,
without further proof, that such a man has betrayed
his country and his King. Our express also states
that Mendizabal was named Director, not Minister, of
Finances, at Madrid. We thought that his handi-
work would soon become visible. If he can lay his
clutches on the Treasury the revolution will have pro-
duced its fruits. We have no doubt but that he was
the chief promoter of all the late movements. 'We
have looked in vain through the Spanish intelligence
for some notice of the part which our Minister is
playing on this occasion. Has he, too, abandoned
the Queen, and does he seek to escape from the awful
responsibility which awaits his diplomacy by not ap-
pearing at the death of the Estatuto Real, of which
he was one of the original movers, and since the un-
wearied advocate? The juvenile Whig and his hope-
ful pupil at Madrid, appear to great advantage at this
moment.—Morning Post.

The speech of Lord Lyndhurst, at the close of the
session, has produced, as we expected, a great acces-
sion to the indignation already felt in the public mind
against the House of Lords. Notwithstanding the
elaborate eulogy of the Tory press, the summary given
by his Lordship of the misdeeds of himself and his
party was felt by the more prudent portion of his col-
leagues to be exceedingly injudicious, and the effect
which it has produced throughout the country, espe-
cially in Ireland, leaves the Peers but little cause of
congratulation. The Duke of Wellington, like an
experienced General, saw the danger of the Lyndhurst
position, and endeavoured by a skilful manceuvre to
screen their Lordships from the consequence of the
untimely exposure. He affected to act the part of
mediator between the Ministry and the Peers, and
proposed a compromise or armistice, in order to
throw the people off their guard, in the hope that
by inducing the country to remain tranquil until
the next Session, the House of Lords might again
have the opportunity of appealing to the absence of
political excitement as a mark of their conduct receiv-
ing the public approbation. Their Lordships, how-
ever, had already committed themselves too far, and if
any thing were wanting to prove the incompatibility of
an hereditary chamber with the progress of political
and social improvement, and the impossibility of puri-
fying our Constitution of its abuses while those must
interested in their preservation—hereditary senators—
are allowed to trample on every measure of efficient
Reform, it is to be found in the demoniac exultation of
Lord Lyndhurst, when he insultingly addressed the
Premier in allusion to the defeat of the ,promises made
in the Royal Speech on opening the Session—
" Your promises were as you then were, mighty—
Your performance as you now are, nothing."
Why were the promises of the Ministry barren ?
Why were the people robbed of the benefits to be de-
rived from the Bills which were proposed by the Go-
vernment, and which received the sanction of their Re-
presentatives ? The answer is to be found in the
Lyndhurst legacy. The House of Lords, in its pa-
ternal solicitude, fears to trust the people with the ma-
nagement of their own affairs—like dishonest guar-
dians, who plunder the estate of their ward, and defer
the settlement of the account on pretence that the in-
jured youth has not yet arrived at years of discretion.
But we are much mistaken in our estimate of the Eng-
lish character, if these opponents of public justice be
not brought to a strict account, and visited with a
severe penalty for their iniquitous and insulting re-
sistance to a nation's will. If England have not
yet made any strong or violent demonstration against
the House of Lords, to what cause is the for-
bearance of the people to be attributed ? Not to
any sympathy with the House of Peers, but to the ge-
neral prosperity which the country at present enjoys ;
which prosperity may be regarded as the first fruit
of Reform, and which, far from begetting apathy,
should rather serve to stimulate our exertions in sup-
port of a policy already productive, even in its partial
operation, of such favourable results. But what is
the attitude of Ireland, when the entailed miseries of
Tory dominion are less mitigated ? The " General
Assr,ciation," as may be seen by an abridged account
published in this day's Advertiser, receives assurances
of support and co-operation from every part of the
kingdom—and in a short time we may expect to see it
embrace in its combination all that arc wealthy, intel-
ligent, patriotic, and honest amongst the Irish people.
Why is there such an unanimity of feeling amongst
the Irish people ? Because being the victims of national
wrong, they feel that by union alone can they obtain
redress. The people of England are not less sensible
of the value of popular government, though at the pre-
sent moment they have not the same grievances to
rouse them into action which Ireland has—but if we
wish to reserve the reforms we have obtained, and pro-
mote those we aspire to, we must make common cause
with the people of Ireland. She must not be left
to fight her battle alone—but a strong exhibition of
sympathy and support from the people of England
must show that they are not parties to the injustice
derpetrated by the Tories and the Lords. Ireland is
at present rather in a dignified than a minatory atti-
tude—she appears conscious of her power, and col-
lecting her mighty energies around her, prepares to
show such a front as will scare her foes from withhold-
ing her demands. It is a glorious and sublime spec-
tacle to see a people, by the force of moral combina-
tion alone, overthrow a tyrannical usurpation by the
mere expression of their will. Such is the prospect
now before Ireland—and before twelve, nay, six,
months, we may expect to see the Lords either retreat
from the contest, or receive such a shock from the col-
lision, as will render the recovery of their position in
the legislature impossible.—Morning Advertiser.

The Countess Claudine Potocks, consort of the
Polish Count Potocks, died at Geneva on the Bth of June.
She was distinguished for the most ardent patriotism, the
most enthusiastic devotion to the cause of her unhappy coun-
try, and the most untiring efforts to relieve the distress of her
exiled countrymen. The lamented Countess, with the gene-
rous accord of her husband, divided, we believe, more than
half their annual income amongst the Polish refugees in
France and Switzerland. Such intellect and virtue as she
displayed in adversity shed lustre on her sea and on her
country.

At Brives-la-Gaillarde a Count Spinola lately ar-
rived, a man of the most elegant manners, and apparently of
great opulence. Everybody strove to have the honour of re-
ceiving him, and of showing him hospitality. It was hoped
that he would make a long stay there; he talked, indeed, of
buying an estate in the environs, as soon as he should receive
80,000 f. from Bordeaux, which he was expecting. He stood
godfather to a little girl of one of the inhabitants, and in-
tended to give this property to her. The sub-prefect of
Brives, howeer, had his suspicions, and recommended the Com-
missary of police to observe the Count. A few weeks after-
wards a list of escaped forcats arrived, at the head of which
figured the Count himself.—Galignani's Messenger.

A few days ago a sale of ordnance stores took place
in the Tower, and amongst the broken and worn-out imple-
ments of war, consisting of old drums, rusty firelocks, swords
and carbines, old coats, trousers, &c., which lay indiscrimi-
nately in a heap in one of the warehouses on the Tower
Wharf, was discovered a curious weapon, having a long well-
worn wooden handle with an iron ring or ferule at the top,
from which sprung nine thongs or cords, well twisted and
knotted at the ends. The irregular form of the instrument,
and the probable purpose to which it had been applied, elici-
ted many curious observations ; but when at length one of the
discharged marines who are employed on the wharf took up
the weapon, and pronounced it to be a cat-o'-nine-tails of the
same description as those now used in the British army, an im-
mediate exclamation of " Kick it into the river—burn it !"
was heard from a number of voices. An old Israelite, who is
a dealer in marine stores, however, seized the weapon, and,
addressing the indignant assemblage, said, " No, mine friends,
I will take this home and leave it as a legacy to mine children
—my grandchild will make more monish by it than me shall
make by dis sale, for the English peoples will not allow their
fellow men to be cut up by such a weapon much longer, and
then dis instrument will be purchased for de British Museum
as a relict of dis barbarous times, and as a proof of the ad-
vancement of humanity and civilization; the Jews and sol-
diers will be emancipated together." The audience was so
much affected by the warmth of feeling exhibited in these sen-
timents, that he was allowed to carry off the implement of
English torture in the nineteenth century, amidst great mani-
festations of applause.
On Monday last, about six o'clock in the evening,
two labouring men, named Cousins and Tapsell, who had been
drinking together at a beer shop near the lime-kilns at the
Priory, Hastings, having quarrelled, agreed to go out and
fight four rounds only. They had a line marked for each to
keep within. Cousins, in the first round, knocked Tapsell
down. The second round was a scuffling one ; but, in the
third, Tapsell struck Cousins a violent blow under the ear,
'NI +he latter fell dead. He has left a wife and eight children
to lament his drunken folly. Tapsell was taken into custody.
He is a single man.—Brighton Gazette.

GUST

536.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 27.—The Numa transport, Lieute-
nant Howe, agent, arrived last evening at the Quarantine
Ground, from Corfu and Zante, with returned Ordnance
stores, a company of Royal Artillery, and detachments
of different regiments of the line, invalided soldiers, wo-
men, and children. She left the former place the 23d and
the latter on the 26th of June last. On the 21st of June
the British squadron, under Sir J. Rowley, sailed from
Corfu for Patras, comprising the Caledonia, Edinburgh,
Thunderer, Revenge, Canopus, and Vernon. The Bar-
ham left Malta about the 27th of May for the Dardanelles ;
the Sapphire was stationed at Corfu and lonian Islands ;
the Medea steam frigate was with the fleet. The Numa,
on her passage, and off Cape Bond (African shore), saw
a French squadron of four sail of the line, and one corvette,
supposed for the lonian Islands. The Numa left Gibraltar
on the 30th ult. The Prince Regent transport was to sail
for England in about a week after ; she has on board the
head-quarters of the 42d Regiment, from Corfu, and may
be expected daily ; the Parmelia may be also daily ex-
pected from the Mediterranean. The Numa is ordered to
Woolwich.

The Arab transport arrived on Monday from Quebec,
which she left on the 18th ult., with invalids, under the
charge of Lieut. Smyth, of the 79th Highlanders, returned
ordnance stores, and 29 military convicts, transported for
desertion. The Racer, 18, Commander Hope, arrived at
St. John's, Newfoundland (the day before the Arab sailed
thence) on the 4th August, in five days from Halifax, with
money for the commissarat. The Rainbow, 28, Captain
Bennett, was on the western shore of Newfoundland, pro-1
tecting the fishery. Colonel Sall, the Commandant at St.
John's, was coming home on leave of absence in the Nep-
tune, merchant ship, when the command of the garrison
would devolve on Major Law. Governor Prescott and
family were quite well. The Catherine Stewart Forbes,
and Stakesby, transports, were at Halifax. The first-
named was to bring home the 92d Regiment, and the
latter a battalion of the Rifle Brigade. Colonel Bridge-
man (from Barbadoes) and 'the Chief Justice of New-
foundland came home in the Arab, which sailed for Chat-
ham on Thursday.
The Cove, Capt. Ross, has arrived at North Yarmouth.
The following is an extract of a letter, from an officer of
that ship, dated North Yarmouth, 24th of August, 1836 :
" Our cruise has not terminated in the result which we an-
ticipated on leaving England ; we have not been able to
ascertain the fate of the remaining ship, and I am afraid
there are but few hopes to be entertained of her existence ;
Davis' Straits and Baffin's Bay were full of ice, when we
left, and no appearance of a break up ; a worse season has
scarcely ever been seen. Our passage out was very severe.
We examined along the edge of the ice, as far as possible,
till we arrived at an impenetrable barrier ; touched at two
or three Danish settlements on the coast of Greenland,
after which we returned along the ice, to the Labrador
coast, to see if she might be down there. We are last
from a missionary settlement on the Labrador coast, called
Akkak, and have had a most beautiful passage across, being
only three weeks to-morrow since we left it, which we were
about as many months going out ; we have done all that
our means would allow in one vessel. The Admiralty pro-
mised to send other ships out, which did not arrive, so our
cruise was at an end. We left all the whale fleet, of 60
ships, on the 2d of July, in 71 N. lat., not able to proceed
for the ice, and no fish ; very bad prospects, but towards
the end of the season it may turn out more favourable."
The Goldfinch packet, Lieut. Collier, arrived at Fal-
mouth on Wednesday from Rio Janeiro, with mails from
thence to the 26th June, from Bahia July 4, and Pernam-
buco to the 9th. The Delight packet arrived at Rio on
the 25th June ; the Dublin was at anchor there ; the
Cleopatra sailed from Bahia on the 4th for Rio Janeiro.
The Hornet, 6, Lieut. Coghlan, had detained the Vence-
dora, a slave ship, but because our English Colonial Office
had neglected to furnish the Hornet with the formal
authority to seize slave vessels, the Mixed Commission at
that place had refused to condemn her, and had declared
that she was unwarrantably captured. Doubtless the flag
ship made a prize of her immediately ; she at least was
properly authorized. The Harrier, 18, was at Buenos
Ayres on the 27th May. On Tuesday the Goldfinch, off
Scilly, signalized to Sir Charles Paget's squadron, com-
posed of the Bellerophon, Malabar, Cornwallis, Hercules,
Vanguard, Pembroke, Partridge, and Scylla.
Sir Charles Paget's squadron will return to Plymouth
about Tuesday next. Letters received to-day mention, we
are told, that the half-filled Vanguard beats all the ships.
In a day's trial, clause hauled, she was two miles to wind-
ward, and in a long run to leeward was seven miles a-head
of the stcrnmost ship. The Bellerophon has been trim-
ming, till she has lost her trim, and has allowed the Pem-
broke to get a-head of her ; she must take her old seat in
the water. The Malabar is the worst sailing ship of the
squadron.
The Asia, 84, Captain Fisher, touched at Gibraltar on
the 9th instant, from this port, on her way to Malta. On
the 12th instant the Childers was at Gibraltar, and the
Magicienne at Cadiz. . . . _ _ .

The Harlequin, a new sloop, and now the largest brig in
the navy, has been commissioned at Sheerness for foreign
service by Commander J. E. Erskine. Lieutenant William
Boys, Mr. J. Brooks, Surgeon, Mr. A. R. Martin, assistant-
surgeon, Mr. Richard Pritch Beddock, purser, Mr. Henry
Eames, acting master, are also appointed to her.
The Pique frigate, Hon. Capt. Rous, was moved out of
the basin o❑ Wednesday, to moorings in the harbour.
The Firefly steamer touched here from the River on
Thursday, with supernumeraries, and proceeded to Ply-
mouth and Falmouth.

In the Harbour—Britannia, Excellent, Royal George,
Pique, Inconstant, Beacon, Pantaloon, Cracker.
At Spithead--Eden convict ship, Numa transport.
_ _

At Motherbank—Fairlie.

The Board of Admiralty, consisting of the First Lord
(Earl Minto), Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Rear-
Admiral Sir William Parker, Captain the Hon. George
Elliot, with Mr. C. Wood, Secretary, and Mr. Tuffnell,
Private Secretary to Earl Minto, and accompanied by the
Surveyor of the Navy, Sir W. Symonds, and James Meek,
Esq., Comptroller of the Victualling, arrived on Monday, at
the George Hotel, on an official visit to this port. The board
have since been fully engaged inspecting the various esta-
blishments in their department—the Dock-yard, the Ordi-
nary, Clarence Victualling-yard, and Naval College, and on
Wednesday visited the Britannia (flag ship), when the Ad-
miralty ship was hoisted and saluted. Their Lordships on
Monday evening were entertained by the Commander-in-
Chief, Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Durham, with
a most sumptuous banquet ; on Tuesday evening by Sir
Frederick Maitland, and on Wednesday again by the Com-
mander-in-Chief, who on both occasions displayed his splen-
did services of gold and silver plate and French porcelain.
On Thursday the Board gave a dinner at the George Hotel,
to the heads of departments, consisting of Admiral Sir P.
Durham and Flag Lieutenant Blair, Rear-Admiral Sir F.
Maitland and Flag Lieutenant M'llwaine ; Major-General
Sir Thomas M‘Mahon and Lieutenant M'Mahon, A.D.C. ;
Captains John Hayes, C. 8., Deans Dundas, Hon. H. J.
Rous, T. Searle, Hastings, Loring, Col. Lewis, R.M. ; and it
is due to Mr. Guy, the landlord, to mention that the dinner
was of the very first order in viands, wines, and fruit, and was
served up in a very superior manner. Yesterday their
Lordships held a levee, which was attended by about fifty
officers of all ranks, and in the evening they were enter-
tained by the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Thomas M'Mahon.
To-day, after inspecting the College, they embarked in the
Firebrand steamer, and set off for Plymouth ; but, as the
wind is fresh from the westward, it is most likely she will
bring up at Cowes or the Yarmouth Roads. Previous to
their departure their Lordships ordered the Volcano steamer
to be commissioned, and gave the command to Lieut.
Wllwaine ; she is intended as a packet between Malta
and Falmouth.

The Rear-Admiral Superintendent Sir Frederick Mait-
land, K.C.8., hoisted his flag on Wednesday, on board
the Prince (hulk to the Victory), Captain Searle, C. 8.,
on which day the board of Admiralty visited that ship,
and inspected the Ordinary, of the regulations of which
they expressed their entire approbation. Captain Searle
has commenced entering men and boys on the new system.
The marines will be disembarked on Tuesday and be re-
placed by a party consisting of a First Lieutenant, a ser-
geant, corporal, drummer, and 21 privates. The Victory
is to be paid as a third rate. The following Warrant Of-
ficers have been appointed to her :—Mr. W. Jefferys,
gunner; Mr. John Ward, boatswain ; Mr. William Cooper,
carpenter ; Mr. Richard Hartfield, acting second master,
to be employed in charge of the Lively ; Mr. David
Blackey, acting second master, in charge of the Drake ;
Mr. John King, acting master, to be in charge of, and Mr.
Samuel Cook, first master's assistant, and Mr. James Hun-
tenton, second master's assistant, to be employed in the
Messenger steam-vessel.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. J. H. Pu-
get (late acting Commander of the Trinculo), to the rank
of Commander ; Mr. Frederick Holland to the rank of
Lieutenant ; Lieutenant Mcllwaine (flag Lieutenant to
Sir Frederick Maitland), to the command of the Volcano
steam-vessel (fitting out in this harbour) ; Lieut. John
Colpoys Ommanney to the Minden ; Lieut. W. Hornby,
of the Canopus to the Beacon ; Rev. W. Mears, to be
Chaplain of the Madagascar ; Mr. G. Henderson, Purser,
to be Clerk of the Ordinary at Plymouth, vice Archer, who
retires on account of ill health ; Dr. W. Brown, Assistant-
Surgeon to the Hope ; Mr. G. F. Rowe to the Magnet ;
Mr. A. I. Samwell, Second Master and Pilot to the Scor-
pion. Mr. J. Appleby, Boatswain, and Mr. J. Daniells,
Carpenter, have been superannuated, the former at 651.
the latter at 271. Bs. per annum.
The Eden, convict-ship, at Spithead, for Van Diemen's
Land, has taken 100 convicts from the hulks in this har-
uout• ; side will proceed in a few days.
The free trader, Buckinghamshire, after a long passage,

passed by this morning from Bombay, the Cape, and St.
Helena. Mr. Blair, late Collector of Customs at the Cape,
came passenger in her.
The Fairlie, for Van Diemen's Land, full of emigrants,
will sail the first fair wind. Sir John Franklin, appointed
Governor of that settlement, with his family and Captain
Macconochie, R.N., who will act as his secretary, and a
large family, are embarked.
The Philadelphia, New York packet, sailed on Sunday
last. On Thursday arrived the Toronto packet in twenty-
three days, from New York ; she spoke on the sth inst.
the St. James's packet, outward bound, in longitude 69.
The Duke of Northumberland, Pope, and the Duke of
Buccleugh, Captain Martin, sailed, the former on Wed-
nesday ; the latter on the following day, for Bengal. Both
ships took in passengers at Spithead.
The Zephyr, London and Exeter steamer, on Thursday
morning, brought about fifty fine fellows from London, who
had entered into Gen. Evans's artillery service ; they were
immediately sent in the Osprey cutter to San Sebastian,
Captains Townley and Duncan accompanying them. On
Sunday next about 140 more recruits are expected here,
in the Cork steamer, and will be sent on in the General
Evans cutter, with Col. Churchill, Capt. Ellis, and Lieut.
Fitzgerald, all returning from leave of absence.
A report is prevalent that the building now used in the
dock-yard as a naval college, and the building opposite to
it, erected for the occupation of the superior class of ship-
wrights, are to be converted into a barrack for the Royal
Marines, and that Mr. Taylor, the architect to the Admiralty
Board, has surveyed it for the purpose. In its present state
it would not hold 500 men, and yet very recently we had
1,200 men at quarters ; and, to render it efficient, therefore,
many thousands must be expended. A much better bar-
rack could be attained at little cost by adding the large
store in the New Gun-wharf on which the clocks is placed
to the Marine Artillery Barracks, and which store is now
scarcely used, with the additional advantage of plenty of
parade ground, and a superior facility of communicating
with the water. The inhabitants of Portsmouth should be
alive to these changes, as the expenditure of the division,
never less than 60,0001. per annum, is a matter of consi-
deration to its tradesmen.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, AUG. 25.—Lord Wilton's yacht
the Xarifa went out of harbour on Sunday, and proceeded
on a cruise.

The Madagascar, 46, Captain Sir John S. Peyton, ar-
rived on Monday, from Spithead. She waits till the
Galatea is ready, and then proceeds with her to the West
Indies.

The Comus, 18, Commander W. P. Hamilton, was paid
off on Monday, and on Tuesday was towed into the Sound
by the Pluto steamer, Lieut. Duffield, to receive the con-
valescent part of the crew of the Minden, after which the
Pluta proceeded to the north coast of Spain.
The Phoenix steamer, Commander W. H. Henderson,
arrived on Tuesday from the north coast of Spain.
The Diligence navy transport, and Tortoise lighter, with
stores and ammunition for the squadron on the north coast
of Spain, sailed yesterday.
The Plover packet, lately paid off at this port, is ordered
to the river Medway, for the quarantine service.
The Impregnable, fitted as a demonstration ship is or-
dered to be dismantled. Major-General Robert Ellice will
relieve Major-General Sir Willoughby Cotton, Lieut.-Go-
vernor of this garrison in October next, Sir Willoughby be-
ing appointed Governor of Bombay. The squadron under
the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Paget, now on a
cruise, are ordered to return to this port on the 28th inst.
His Majesty's brig Scorpion, 10, Lieutenant Robilliard,
went out of harbour this morning into the Sound ; she will
be paid wages to-morrow, and proceed directly for the
north coast of Spain. His Majesty's packets Magnet,
Hope, and Sheldrake, have bent sails, and are expected to
get out of harbour to-morrow. His Majesty's ship Rus-
sell, 74, Captain Sir W. H. Dillon, K.C.8., has been taken
into dock to have her coppers examined and her defects
made good.
A great indulgence has been given to the warrant offi-
cers respecting their monthly allotment, as the following
statement will show :

Gunners, Boatswains Allotment per Monthly Allowance
and carpenters, per calendar month. per calendar month.
First rates £3 11 0
Second ditto 3 3 0
Third ditto
Fourth ditto 2 6 0
Fifth ditto ... ..... 2 2 0
Sixth and sloops ... 1 18 0
Cooks of first-rates 1 6 0
Other c00k5.....—„, 016 0
The Victory is to be paid as a third-rate.
It is expected that the Colonelship of Marines, vacant by
the decease of Sir C. Cole, is not be filled up.