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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1841

placed it in the bands of the Members at an-earlier period
than was at present intended.
Mr. ESTCOURT said that as the petition referred to
a matter of great importance connected with the privi
leges of the House, it should be brought on at the earliest
possible period under their consideration. He should,
therefore, vote for the printing of the petition.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that it was their duty to ail-
here in that instance to the practice of the House. Ha
would not say whether a b. tter rule than the present
might not be established, or whether they should not
place some further restrictions on the printing of petit.
tions ; hut the question then was the application of the
existing rule. He found that the law of the case bad been
laid down by Lord Dunfermline as follows:—" That all
petitions which are presented relative to subjects which
Members wished to bring under the consideration of
the House are printed with the votes, tl-e Member
giving notice when he presented the pet tien of the day
on which he will make his motion." When, therefore,
they refused to print a petition, it should be on some
ground of exception why the rule laid down should nut be
adhered to in a particular instance. There might be va-
rious grounds for such an exception. It might be si I,
for instance, that the matter was one so well known
that it did not require any particular notice; or it might
be found that the petition was libellous, or such as oughf
not to be printed unless for the use of Members only.
The petition before the House did not, however, seem
to him to offer any just ground why the House should refuse
its being printed. It did not relate to a grievance which
the pct:tioner alone had felt, but the subject was one of
great importance, relating as it did to a refusal to pr sent
a copy of a registry, for which the party ofFered 155.,
while the officer stated that a far larger sum would be re-
quired. The case was one to which the House should look
with great delicacy. The petition contained troth ng af-
fec;ing the chatacter of the individual against whom the
complaint was made. He might have acted with perfet
propriety, and it might have been impossible fur him ti
have presented a copy at a lower price than be named.
La, ing aside, therefore, every consideration as to the fitness
of establishing a new rule with regard to [etitione, he
should certainly vote fur tie printing of the petition is
question.
The petition was then ordered to be prin!ei.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL mevel that the petition of
Mr. Henslow, which he had presented on the 24th inst.,
be printed with the Votes. If, however. the Chancellor
of the Exchequer would promise to produce the papers to
which the petition referred, the necessity for printing
would be obviated.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not
think it advisable that an attorney should be encouraged in
com'ng to that House relative to a legacy duty, and would
oppose the motion.
Sir R. PEEL thought it of great importance that the
rules which bad been laid down by the House with regard
to the presentation and printing of petitions should be
strictly attended to. The rule adopted by the House at
present was that a Member might move the printing
of a petition, provided that he gave notice of
his intention to found a motion upon it. But
if that rule were permitted to be abused, then
all the rules and regulations with regard to the printing
of petitions would he entirely superseded. He hoped that
his Right Hon. Friend (Sir E. Knatchbull), who, on all
occasions showed a great anxiety to uphold the rules of the
House, would withdraw his proposal fur the printing of the
petition.—( Hear, hear.)
Lord I-10 WICK would vote against the motion, for he
thought that much less inconvenience would arise fr An re-
ferring petitions in all cases to the Committee, than from
having discussions in each particular use. He has of
opinion that without a reference to the Committee no pcf-
tion should be printed upon the motion of the presenter,
except in cases only where time was of importance.
Af er a few words from Sir R. Peel, Mr. Flume, and
Mr. Goulburn,
Sir E. KNATCHBULL said he would withdraw his
motion until Tuesday.
LIVERPOOL GAS BILL.
Lord SANDON brought up the report of the Liver-
pool Gas Bill.
Mr. SHEIL said that the Liverpool Gas Bill, 158
Geo. 111 , empowered the Company to raise a capital
of 50,0001. and no more. Unfortunately the Act con-
tsined no provision by which the distribution of profit
should be limited to 10 per cent., the surplus profits being
applied to the reduction of the rates. By ills present
Bill, it was proposed to add a considerable sum, tu t less than
125,0001. to the capitat:of the company. The profits had been
very considerable, sometimes amounting to 40 per cent. ; 20
per cent. had been distributed among the proprietors, and
the remainder had been applied to the erection of works,
and it was now proposed that a sum of 125,000/. should be
consolidated in tie capital of the Company. It was also
proposed in the present Bill that the profits should be li-
mited to ten per cent., and that the public should be bene-
fited by obtaining gas at the rate of 7s. per thousand cubic
feet, instead of 83., which was the present price. There
was nothing in the present Act which he was called on to
oppose, but he must protest against the practice on which
the Bill was founded.
After a few words from Lord Sandon, Mr. Tattoo
Egerton, and Mr. Labouchere, which in consequence of
the noire in the House were inaudible in the Gallery, the
Report was agreed to.

dirtily of its manufacturing, commercial, and shipping
interests." 2. That the above large expenses of police
and gaol establishments have, since July, 1835, been de-
frayed by the application of a considerable portion if the
Let proceeds of the sales of Crown lands in the colony
to the general purposes of the Colonial revenue- 3.
That it appears, by papers now before the House
(No. 511, 1840, No. 81, 1841), that there has been
received from the sales of Crown lands in New South
Wales, during the period from 18:31 to June 1840 inclusive,
a gross total sum of £958,000
From which deduct-
1. Charges of various kincle, in-
cluding expenses of the settlement
of Port Peil.p, and of protection to
the Aborigtees £41,300
2. Actual charge of survey and
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Whereof the sum of 502,5001 only has been apeiad
to the purposes r f emigration from the United King-
dom to New South \Velez. 4. Tnat this House,
concurring in the opinion stilt the Governor and
Legislative Council of Ncw South Wales, that
the charge ef g tole and peiiee that col my
ought for the present to he apportioned between the
colony and the mother country, will, on Wedresday t ext,
resolve ite:f into a Committee of the whole
House, for the purpose of considering what may he the
proper amount to be allotted is tee nay of a fixed
suns, in aid of that cirrge ; and for the pur-
pose of considering what may be the best means of makii g
good to ti e Land and Emigration Ford of New South
Wales the deduction ahich has been therein «maiioned
by the entire burthen of gods and policy having
been unduly thrown upon the Colony sine) 1835.
The Hon. Gentleman stated that last year he prese meet a
petiton on this subject which had tees printed with the
Votes., and which he hoped had met the e)e of every lion.
Member. In the various commercial towns cf England
there were a number of merchants and traders carrying on
an extensive commerce with New South Wales, and the
opinions of those merchants might be gathered from the
petition which he had had the honour to present from the
merchants of the City of London on the subject; they had
stated many facts, :bowleg the great importance of the
colony of New South Wales. The amount of shipping
which had sailed during the last year from London and
Liverpool alone to the colony of New South Wales
amounted to 49,000 tons ; the total value of the exports
front the United Kingdom in the year 1839 to New South
Wales was 1,700,000/. ; and the imports of wool from that
Colony into the United Kingdom ie 1839 amounted
to 6,900,00011e5. weight, being one-f,urth part of the total
amount imported into the kingdom, includi• g the importa-
tions from Russia and Germany. He did not mesa to lay any
stress upon this in his argument, because if he could make
out that there bad been unfair dealing with the financer of
a colony, no matter whether that colony was a large one
or a small one, it was entitle-I to redress. But he thought
it fit that the House should be aware of the subject mattm
with which they would that evening have to deal. This
was a colony of the greatest importance to England, and
not open to all those severe criticisms wl ich had been so
freely iadulged in the other evening, when the affei s of
the colony of South Australia were under discussion—this
was an established colony in a thriving condition, and giv-
ing employment to a large amount of capital. The tree
population of New South Wales amounted to 110,000
soul=, and the convict population under assignment to
38,000 souls. He should show to t':e House that an
jury had been done not only to that col my, but to every
poor person in England desirous of emigrating, by the
abstraction of a large sum from the Land and -Emi-
gration Fund of that colony, iu consequence of
the measures adopted in 1835, transferring to the co-
lony of New South Wales the entire burden of the ex-
penses of the goals and the police. He had thought it
right to record that fact, by transferring to the votes of
that evening the record of the resolutions come to on the
subject of the Legislative Council of New South W.l m.
The Legislative Council of the colony was nominated by
the Crown, not elected by the colony, and those resolu-
tions announced facts which it would net be very easy for
any gentleman to dispute or deny. Up to the year 1e34
there had been no dispute as to whether such charges
ought to be borne by the colony or by the 'nether country.
Those charges had passed in everybody's estimation as an
incident and a consequence of the transport.tion
system.—( Hear, hear, hear.) It had never been pro-
posed that the colony should bear the expense
either wholly or in part. At the end of 1834 the Trea-
sury and Mr. Secretary Rice adopted a resolutien im-
posing upon the colony the entire burden and charge of
gaols and police. They came to that resolution without
having given the colonists any notice of their intention,
and without having ascertained how it would be received
in the colony, or what arguments could be advance.]
against it. They appeared not to have considered that
there was an intermediate course between imposing upon
the colony all the charges and imposing none. lie had
in his hand a despatch and secretary minute of the 15th
of November, 1835. addressed to Sir Richard Bourke,
then Governor of New South Wales. In this despatch
the proposition was, for tee first time, mooted. It ap-
pe_red from this minute that the resolution was founded
upon the general pros' erity of the colony, ano upon the
apparent surplus then existing in the colonial treasury.
The Hon. Gentleman then read an extract from the Trea-
sury Minute, to the effect that, in 1827, when the exist-
ing arrangements were made, the local government
were advised that, as the prosperity of the colony
augn.cntcd, the coloni il revenue would become chary c-
able. In the es imate of the surplus Mr. Secretary
Rice had not borne in mind that there was included in that
surplus a considerable amount receseed from the Land
and Emigration Fund of the colony, cchich hal rot at that
time been detached from the general revenues. The es-
timate formed by Mr. Secretary Rice, and the Treasury,
of the amount of burden, which they were in this way int-
posing upon the colony was 25,000/. per annum. If this
charge had been in reality 25,000/. a year, and no more,
no complaint would ever have have been heard. But the
fact was that the charge which that resolution of 1834 bad
created amounted in the 6 years to 597,0001. By a state-
meat which he held in his hand of the annual disburse-
ments it was no less, upon the average, than 100,0001. per
annum. It might be asked how it had happened that the
chi ge which had been the actual consequence of the
minute so largely exceeded the estimate. It appeared
that at teat time the gaols and the police of New South
Walee were in the most desperate and dangerous condi-
tion. There lad for some time preciously been
scarcely any attention paid to therm—(len., hear )
In his opinion it was no reason for imposing upon the
colony any charge that ought to be borne by the methcr
country, teat there was an eve,tliwing treasury. t
them look at tie amount of convict population in New
South Wales, and they would at once see that the moteer
country ought" in justice to bear the gaol and police ex-
penses; had the colony been peopled by a free population,
such a charge would not be asked to be borne by the Trea-
sury ; but the transportation of the convict: was a relief
to the mother country, and he thought it would be the
he ght of injustce to call upon the colonists to pay for our
transportation system, which was fur tire benefit of Erg.
land and Engli.h purposes, not for the good of the color')
He did not quarrel with the Colonial G, vernmeLt for not
asking a premium from the parties in New South Wales
to whom the convicts were assigned, he thought every in-
ducen.ent ought to be held out to aettlers to obtain 1 tbour
at the cheapest rate; but if the tax was not to be paid by
the emigrants, it was most unfair to impose a tax upon
oth r parties to defray the expen:e; of the gaols and
police. In 1834 the revenue of the colony wan in
a moat flourishing and prosperous state, but since then it
had fallen off considerably. That arose from the heavy
charge which had been imposed for gaols and police, and
the large demands that had been made upon the emigra-
tion fund, Hon. Members would find that remonstrances
had been sent to the Government at home from all qua r-
ters, praying that the burden might to be taken off their
shoulders; and he regretted to find that the Treasury had
not bees induced to comply with the just demands of tee
coloniste It would appear that a sum of 100 0001. per
annum had been added to the burdens of the colonists slice
the charge fur gaols and police had been laid upon them.
Had it not beer, for that most injudicious step, it was im
possible to suppose that there would have been so great a
diminution in the rcve ,ue of the col my. If the Treasury
had proposed to pay one half the charge for the gaols and
police, they would have contributed to tl e colonial revenue
not less than 280,0001. and that sum would bye rendered
is unnecessary for them to draw upon the emigration fund.
He admitted that emigration to New South Wal s
had never been stopped entirely, but the g ,neral
complaint was, that it did not go on to the
extent they had a right to anticipate, or to
an extent at all commensurate with the wants of the colo-
nists. The expense of sending an adult emigrant to
Now South Wales was about 20/. ; and it appeared that
there had been a sum of 260,000/. subtracted from the
emigration fund. Now, that sum, at the rate of 20/. per
head, would send not less than 13,000 respectable emi-
grants of the class most required in that colony from
Great Britain to New South Wales. It was not to the
colony alone that the question of emigration was of con-
sequence. Other persons besides the colonists were deeply
interested in the question ; he meant those individuals in
the mother country who vier° desirous to emigrate, be-
cause their condition would be thereby greatly eeftere.l.
It was most difficult to obtain a sufficient supply of labour
of any kind in the colony, and hence the high wages given
to labourers,. Every thousand pounds abstracted from the
emigration fund deprived fifty poor persons of the
those individuals.yte The Hon. Gentleman here read an ex-
tract. from a report of a Commieee of tle LegislativeCoun-
ethdeoef
able difficulty of onor
itatibeousruebrjse,et of
wage',e m.a and tthi7i,n
eto o
cs show
w_
gravated by the cessation o. f 'the'
&seri} tier, and PPrrneceeeerdientl:oe.v,rts
smoectire.nhiesc,of arty
e means (mein
to be taken to remedy that s'erater oowft
ciets to e celorty. Ile i ttdrhajnnsgpso altLn ct.tas r
get
and that if in the year 1831 such had not
had a r:glit to expect that the that the coloni: s
%praoceeds of the sates
of the Crown land should
tesdte at: oefm' emigration
been their expectation these proteetZ
amount-
ing to the sum of 950.0001. would not he more than
o
9,5001. The Hon. Member in proof of his statement had
read a
passage froms
tnatedieospatch of Lord Howiek, the
Under-Secretary the Colordes, dated the 18th
64. July, 1831, which
h went to r
show
that Lord Goderich,
the then Secretary
for the Colcleli
plica for the
tion of the revenues Crown lands to emigra-
tion purposes.
tan was here interrupted by
The H ,n. Gentlen an HON.
_
that the House be counted, when
MEMBER, who moved
_ers present the House tene Me mb
there being only thir y.o
adjourned at Hal o'Clock.
past,Sec en
Half

£191,000

BRUSSELS, MARCH '2l.—After a Council of
Ministers there was to day, at noon, a General Council at
the Palace. Nothing has transpired; consequently all the Va-
rious reports which are spread deserve no creda.

111EMORANDT./31 OF INSTANCES
IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES HAVE
PURSUED ENEMIES, OR ALLEGED CRI.
IMINALS, ON NEUTRi;L TERRITORY.

In June, 1817, an expedition, fitted out against East
Florida by the Spanish Americans, and commanded by
General M'Gregor, obtained Amelia Island from the
authorities of Spain by capitulation. The garrison sur-
rendered as prisoners of war, to be sent to Augustine,
or to the Havannah,— State Fapers, 1816, 1817,
page 814.
Tne Amer.can Government immediately despatched
a force against these Spanish Americans, who were in-
formed that orders had been issued by the Government
of the United States for taking possession of the island,
and that, in the event of their consenting to evacuate it,
they would be at liberty to depart.'
Amelia Island was in consequence surrendered, under
protest, by G, nend Aur, " Commander-in-Chief of
,h„ e. at F•rnandica,'.' to the Amerieaa combined
forces, in Docernirer fell ,w:rig.—State Papers, 1817,
1818, pages 748, 753.
'file American Government justified this proceeding,
on the, ground that the Spanish American expedition
was a. 4 mere pr,vit unauthorise l adventure," and
that East Fiurirk, which lies eastward of the
sippi, aad is bounded by the United St,,tes and the
ocean on every sides bad been the subject of negot a-
lion with the Gi.vernment of Spain, as an indemnity
for losses by speliation, or in exchange for territory of
iquel value, westward of the Mississippi."—State
Papers, 1817, 1818, page 172.
A similar estab,ishment forme 1 by the S,eanish
America :s at Galaeiton, in the Gulf of Mexico, was
also ordered to be suppressed by the American Govern-
ment, upon the ground that the place was within the
limits of the Unite" States, "as we contend," under
the cession of Louisiana ; and it was at the same time
stated, in a Message of the President to Congress, that:
" the imperious considerations which produced this mea-
sure, would be explained to the parties whom it might
in any degree concern."
In May, 1818, forcible possession was taken of the
Spanish Fort of St. Marks, in West Florida, by the
American troops under General Jackson ; he having
received information " that a party of Seminole lu-
dians (with which tribe the United States were el•
gaged in war), had threatened to seize that fort,
and that the Spanish garrison was net in sufficient
strength to defend it against them."
The Government of the United States observed to
that of Spain (which had suspended the negotiation he-
twten the two Courts, in consequence of the proceed-
ings of the American forces in Florida,) with reference
to St. Marks, that " by all the laws of neutrality and of
war, as well as of prudence and of humanity, General
Jackson was warranted in anticipating his enemy, by
the amicable, and, that being refuse", by the forcible,
occupation of that fort ; that there would need no cita-
tions from printed treatises on international law, to
prove the correctness of this principle, which was en-
graved in adamant on the common sense of mankind,
which no writer upon the laws of nations ever pretended
to contradict, and which none, of any reputation or
authority, ever omitted to assert."—State Papers, 1818,
1819, pages 337, 475.
It was on taking possession of St. Marks and Sa-
wany, that the remarkable cases occurred of the txo
British subjects (Messrs. Arbuthnetf, "an inmate io
rate Emily of the Spanish Commandant of St. Marks,"
and Ambrister), who were male prisoners, and were,
after being tried by an American court-martial, for
having excited the Indians to hostilities against the
United States, both found guilty, and sentenced to death.
Upon a consideration of the case of Arnbrister, the
Court mitigated his sentence to flogging and imprison-
ment.

General Jackson, the Commanding-General, approvAl
the sentence upon Arbuthnott, and the first sentence
upon Ambrister, but disapproved of the reconsideration
of the latter, "it appearing, from the evidence and
leading of the prisoner, that he did lead and command,
within the territory of Spain (being a subject of Great
Britain), the Indians in war against the United Sates,
those nations being at peace." His decision adds :
" It is an established principle of the law of nations, that
any individual of a nation making war against the citi-
zens of another nation, they feing at Race, forfeits his
allegiance, and becomes an outlaw and pi; ate.
Arbuthnott and Ambrister were accordingly both put
to, death on the following day, at Sr. Marks.—State
Papers, 1818, 1819, pages 462, 475.
In May, 1818, Pensacola and the Fort of Barancs,
in West Florkla, were alio taken forcible possession of
by the American troops,—the former " with only the
show of resistance," the latter by capitulation ; the gar.
risons of both being conveyed to the Havana at the ex-
pense of the American Government.—Stale Papers,
1817, 1818, page 1160.

. - - -
The occupation of these Spanish possessions was jus-
tified by the Government of the United States on this
occasion, upon the ground that, "as almost the whole
of the Tribe of Seminoles inhab:ted the country within
the limits of Florida', Spain was bound, by the tre sty of
1795, to retrain them from committing hoi.tilities
i,giinst the United States ;" that as she was unable to
fulil this obligation, her " inability to mairt.iin liar
authority over the territory and Indians within her
ought not to expose tiro United States to other
and greater injuries ;" and " where the authority
of Spain ceased to exist, the Un't.±d States had a rhzbt
to pursue their enemy, on a principle of self-defence."—
Slate Papers, 1817, 1818, page 1091.
" The right of self-defence," says the President, (in
one of his Messages to Congress,) upon the subject of
the Seminole War, " never ceases. It it amongst the
most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to in-
dividuals. And, whether the attack be made by Spain
herself; or by those who abuse her power, the obliga-
tion is not the less strong,"

" In pursuing the savages to an imaginary line in
the crow's, it would have been the height of folly to
have suffered that line to protect them. Had that
been done the war could never have ceased. Even if
the territory had been exclusively that of Spain, and
her power complete over it, we had a right, by the law
of nations, to follow the enemy on it, and to subdue
him there."—State Papers, 1818, 1819, page 95.
The Spanish Minister at Washington protested most
stron;ly against these violations of the territory of the
King of Spain. He denied thA any encouragement or
protection had been given by the Spanish authorities to
the Seminole Indians, bet%em whom and the United
States they did not even know that a war had cotn-
menced ; and he called upon the American Govern-
ment forthwith to restore to Spain the ;daces which had
been forcibly wrested from her, and the property which
had been found in them—to make indemnity for the in-
juries and losses which Lai been occasioned by the in-
vasion, and to punish the General and officers by whom
the outrages ha] been committed.—Slate Papers, 1818,
1819, pages 229, 230.

The American Government, in reply, reiterated the
grounds upon which it justifi»d the occupation of the
forts : the Spanish Minister was, however, informed,
that Pensacola would be restored to any person duly
authorized, on the part of Spain, to receive possess:on
of it, and that St. Marks would be surrendered to any
Spanish force sufficiently strong to hold it against nn
at'aek from the It.dians.—State Papers, 1818, 1819,
pages 233, 238, 332.
But the American Government decl'ne.l to inflict
punishment, or to pass a censure, upon General Jack-
son, whose conduct was " founded on the purest pa-
triotism, and whose vindication was written in every
pa3e of the law of nations, as well as in the first law of
nature,—self-derence." On the contrary, it considered
that it bad a rigl.t to claim from Spain (and which the
American Minister at Madrid was instructA to de-

mand), the punishment of the Spanish Governors who
had aidod and assisted the Indians, in the hostilities

against the United States, whom it was their duty to
base restrained.—Slate Papers, 1818, 1819, page 339.

TIIE INTRUDER AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
—Soon after the boy Henry Jones had his first visit to
Buckingham Palace, his father, who occupies a small
tailor's shop in Derby-star, Parliament-stroet, was
waded upon by Mr. Fenimore Cooper, the celebrated
American novelist, who said that fi-om the freaks he had
been guilty of he had no doubt, he was a sharp enter-
prising lad, and if the father was wiling he would take
him with him to America, aid make his fortune. When
Mr. Cooper called again the boy was introduced to him,
and he expressed his disappointment at seeing, instead c f
a clever active boy, a dull, undersized runt, remarkable
only for Isis taciturnity and obstinacy. Upon being asked
if ho would go to America, he declared that he would
not, hence
sh
enceAil,rrt.ly af
Co:oepretrhistoothkenfoathfuerr was visited by thether trouble in the
stage-manager of a certain minor theatre, who informed
11;in that they were getting op a piece for representation
to be called intrusion ; or, a Guest Uninvited; and they
were willing to give the real intruder a I be-al salatty to
make his bow to the. audient.e, as they anticipated his
presence would add gr to the attraction. This offer
was refused by the father, some one having offered t r get
him a situation with a builder in Coventry-stre-t, to which
place the boy subsequently vent. Many persons, amongst
whom is the father of Jones, is ef opinion that he ohtrns
admi- sion to the Palace by means of the kitchen entrance
iu Pimlico', and that he is acquainted with some of the
scu'len-bo)s, or othtr attaches of the Iti•chen. There
a n be Itttle doul t hut he got in this way on the last
occasion, for a quantity of cold victuals was found upon
him, indicating that he had paid a si;it to the kitchen,
which it would have been impossible for him to have done
had he scaled the wall, as is supposed, on Constitution-hill.

• -
CAPITAL INDICTMENTS.—On the motion of
Mr. Kelly, a re' urn has been laid before the House of
Commons of the number of per.ions capitally indicted, ac-
quitted, convicted, and executed, during Vac three years
ending 1840, for arson, burglary with violence, robbery
with violence, cutting and maiming-, and other injuries with
intent to murder, and piracy with intent to murder. • Ti e
numbers convicted were--22 in 1838, 16 in 1839, and 23
in 1840; of whom only two were executed, one in 1833
and the other in 1839, both for cutting and maiming.
THE NIAGARA HOAX.--The author of the ,
Ni*gara hcax is said to be a Mr. Nichols, who once
edited a scurrilous paper in this city, and has for sorne
time past published and edited the Buffaionian, an un_
principled sheet, is Buffalo. —.Bolan Mercantile Journal (

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE-.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24. At present all the disposable
smell vessels are employed at the different seaports in col-
lecting volunteer seamen for the navy. The Indus, 84,
Capt. Sir James Stirling, and Vernon, 50, Capt. Walpole,
are nearly 200 mnn short of the established number.

The corvette Tweed, 20, Commalder Douglas, remains
t. Spithead, under orders to join Vice- Admiral Sir Thos.
Harvey in the West Indies. She takes out Commander
Charles Keel, of Southampton, to join the Rover, 16,
%ice Symonds, promoted, and a draft of boys for the
squadron.

The corvette Iris, 26, Captain Nurse, is still dctained in
Pk mouth Sound, under orders to proceed to the coast of
Africa.

The Court of Inquiry which was pending on Mr. Wood,
master. aud the crew of the Milo store-ship, for the loss
of that ship on the coast of New Zeal ind, has terminated
in the fall acquittal of the master and crew on th it occa-
siom Rear-Admiral the Hon. D. Buuverie, President.
The steamer Alban, -commanded by Mr. King, mast: r,
is gone to the River, and will not raturn for some timc.
AT SmnEau.—lglus, 84, Vernon, 50, Tweed, 20,
Pelican, 18, and Nautilus, 10.

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IN HARBOUR —Qu( en, Victory, Royal George yacht
Excellent, Echo steamer, ald flag.ship's tenders.

SHIPPING -INTELLIGENCE.

'(LLOYD'S.)

Lo
Rnorr, MARCH 25.—Wind this day at noon—Light
breeze from S. W.
DEAL, MARCH 24. —Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Cham-
pion, Champion, from Cadiz. Arrived from the River, the
Waverley, Morgan, for Hobart Town ; Symmetry, Mackwood,
Ceylon ; Houghton Lespru, Barely, Demerara ; Charlotte,
Wattie, Nevis; Rebecca, Drake, St. John's, New Brunswick;
Liverpool, Spence, ditto ; King Alfred, Knill, St. Michael's ;
Hercules, Sr. Übes. Sailed the Queen Victoria, Connor, far
Sydney, New South Wales; General Kyd, Madras.
STA NDOATE CREEK, MARCH 23.—Arrived the Joseph
Stowe, Spence, from Odessa; Orlando, ditto; Exeter, Tripp,
Palermo; James and Elizabeth. Leghorn.
FA L3IOUTII, MARCH 23.—Wind W., strong and squally.—
Arrived Anna, from G.nstant:nople. Sailed the Mads Weds,
Stang, for Hamburgh ; Coquette, Morrison, ditto ; Navigator,
Ecke'lt, Amsterdam; Patriot, Shand, Bridlington; Venus,
Plumner, Cork.
PENZANCE, MARCH 23.—The Mary Stewart, from Cardiff,
at anchor near the Praa Sand, was taken inhere this afternoon,
and supposed to have proceeded t) Falmouth. A narrow
board was picked up this morning, with the letters cut out in
lead, and tacked on the wood, " D'Envers," of Antwerp.
Bain° EWATER, MARCH 24.—The Kara, from Messina to
Bri tol, has been towed in here, with loss of rudder and serious
damage,-having been on shore on the Gore Sands.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Swan,
Lagurwall, from Pernambuco ; Patrick Henry, Delano, New
York ; John and Robert, New Orleans ; Concordi n, Paive,
ditto ; Pighfield, Africa ; Hero, Wakeham, Fayal ; Ruses
Castle, Symmonds, Constantinople; Mary, New Orleans;
Trinity Yacht, Maxwell, St. Michael's.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24. —Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the
Margaret, Duck, Waterford ; Philadelphia, New York.
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 2.3.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Eccles,
from St. Brieux.
BRISTOL, MARCH 24.—Arrived the Castilian Maid from
St. Michael's; sailed the Swallow, for ditto. ,
PLYMOUTH, MARCH W.S.W.—Arrived the
Waterlily, Leggett, from Barcelona; Rouennais, Trouett, St.
Domingo, with loss of fore and main-masts, having been in
contact, on the 19th inst. ; Voyage, Campbell, Sunderland,
with loss of bulwarks, sails, &c.