The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

THE SQUADRON IN CHINA.

Various surmises have been afiant why Admiral El-
. 1 ot, apparently, so hastily quitted the Gulf of Pe-the-li
and the Yellow :3ea, at the very first promise of good
behaviour on the part of the Chinese Government.
(her own fear was that his troops, principally sergqs,
unused to ship living, and perhaps repugnant (from re-
ligious scruples) to such food as could be afforded by a
ship, were not in a state for effective operations, and
that therefore, wisely concealing his weakness, he had
determined to retecat while he could with credit, and
wait for a favourable opportunity of attacking the capi-
tql, or of carrying on
.his operations against Ningpo and
Nankin, which
places, his troops were effective, he
may get possession of at Any time of the year ; but
we are told, by an anonym,ms writer, of a physical rea-
son why the expedition could not remain in the upper
part of the Yellos Sea, with which t.'c were not before
acquainted.
But there is one very impor'ant eircucistance to be
considered in judging of the Aklmiral's pro.'lpt depar-
ture from the Gulf of Pe-the-li, which is entirely over-
looked by, as it was perhaps unkoiwn to, those a-ho so
hastily condemn that proceeding-4 mean the phys:r.al
obstacle to his remaining there much longer—the
hazard to the ships of a protracted stay, owing to the
singular phenomenon which is peeulisT to that bay, of
the waters leaving it, on a change of ‘N ;Liii to the north-
east, so shallow that even vessels of smllf draught would
be aground there. When the wind is fr o,w the south-
west there is plenty of water : but let thi wind chop
round to the northeast, and there I.\
feet where there were before fathoms. Thebe InkySy
ph,
Captain Wallace, in the year 1834 (1 think), got.
aground
owing to this peculiarity, and would have been .lost but
for a change of wind. Now at the date of the 1a st ac-
count;; from China the north-east monsoon was
to set in, and the ships could not safely remain in' the
(gulf of Pe-che-li."—Hampshire Tar.szraple. obout

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, .L 4 N. 28.

•
BARTHOLOMEW V. CATER.
The plaintiff in this action was a constable in
the Metropolitan Police Force, and having resigned
that situation he
_refused to deliver np his uniform
as required by the regulations of the Com-
missioners. Upon this refusal he wan taken into custody
by the defendant, a Police Inspector, upon a charge of
felony. The plaintiff was next morning brought bef"le
the Magistrates at Bow-street, who dismissed the ,^•3m-
plaint. The plaintiff thereupon brought h's action f‘lr
false imprisonment and obtained a verdict of 40/. damages.
Mr. Humphrey for the defendant, obtained a rule nisi,
last term, for a new trial, on the ground that the Judges
had excluded evidence of she statute under which the
defendant acted, because it Gad not been set out in the
pleas. _ _

Mr. Sergeant Bompas with whom was Mr. Martin, now
showed cause against the rule, and their Lordships took
time to consider judgment.

SIIIPPENG INTELLIGEN
(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Ayrshire, from Liverpool
eff Cape Palmas ; Thunder, Liverpo
r Tutor
G ,enoaived , 24tat
h
inst. lat. 48, lon. 9, by the Falcon,
n arr
Liverpool ; Pilot, of Hamburg., for Valparaiso, reported ;
John Cobin, supposed from London to Calcutta, in corn.
pany, 24th ult., lat. 4 N. lon. 21; Robert Henn, Liver.
pool to Charleston, 24th inst., lat. 52, lon. 8 ; John Leman,
Bristol to St. John's, N. 8., same day, by the 13irkby,
arrived at Liverpool ; Hamilton, 29th ult., lat. 9, lon. 25,
by the Geima, Adboll, arrived off Ramsgate ; Thetis,
Leith to Sydney, N.S. W., ISth ult., lat. 48, lon. 46, by
the Echo, arrived at Liverpool ; Kingston, Jamaica to
London, 11th inst., Ist. 42, lon. 42 by the Sea
Lion,
arrived at Liverpool ; Belle Poule. Bozee, Liverpool to
Bordcaux, 29th November, lat. 34 S., lon. 27 W. ; Berk-
shire,2 N
AbbotsforPH.
N. S. W., 17th ult.
Morris, London to Sydney,
;Felix Henry, arrived in n London,the G r
02n ld set
by 4 t\bVe.
Late.. 83, NI
lon. 26, 02n6.,

NOTICE TO MARINERS ENTERING TUB
WESER.
The following has been received at Lloyd's from 11.
A. Lacks, Esq., the Oldenberg Consulate-General:—
Upon the Island of Wanderoog, situated at the extreme
western mouth of the River Weser, the nature of the na-
vigable waters of the Weser as respects the drifting ice, so
far as the information can be obtained, will bo signalised
to the mariners in the following manner:-
Ist. A ball of about four and a half feet in diameter,
projecting from a pole placed in the west side of the great
church steeple, about 26 feet from the steeple, and about
125 feet above the level of the sea, indicate that there is
still floating ice in the Wooer, the navigation in the same
must only be undertaken with the greatest circumspec-
tion ; still, however, with a good wind, and otherwise un.
der favourable circumstances, it may be possible to reach
Bremerhaven or Fedderwarden, if, for the first
case, the wind blows briskly from the East to the N.E.,
and for the latter, between the N. W. and W. S.W.
oil. Two balls, on the contrary, hanging out perpendi-
calarly one under the other, with an interval of six feet be-
twocil them, intimating that the Weser is considerably
blocked up by floating ice, the beacon ships have left
their stations, Bremerhaven will not be attainable, and,
therefore, navigation down the Weser must not be at-
tempted.
The above-named signals will be belt pe;ceived from
the vessels from the points in the compass S. S.E. and
S. W. by S.