The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

OFFICIAL NOTE.

Buenos Ayres, Nov. 9, 1846.
The Minister of Foreign Relations, &c.
To Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, Commander-in-Chief
of her Brit;sh Majesty's naval forces in the river Plate.
The undersigned, by order of his Excellency the Governor
anti Captain-General of the Province, has the honour to ad-
dress you, for the purpose of placing at your disposition the
articles composing the luggage of the Brititli officer Charles
G. Peg-en, commander of the schooner Federal, captured by
the Argentine forces stationed at San Lorenzo, on the passage
down of that vessel.
His Excellency the Governor has directed the under-
signed on this occasion to forward you a copy of the list re
mitted with said luggage by the provisional Commander- in-
Chief of the department of the north. General Lucio Mancilla,
and also of the note addressed under this date to that officer,
detailing the motives of this resolution.
The undersigned trusts that Commodore Herbert will look
upen the slight demonstration of the Argentine Government
as a fresh proof, among so many others that it has evinced,
o f the esteem with which it regards the recent course of
policy adopted by her Britannic Majesty with respect to the
Argentine Confederation.
The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to re-
new to Commodore Herbert the expression of the high esteem
with which he has regarded him at all times.
God preserve you many years.

FELIPE ARANA.

ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLTJM.—HiS Grace the
Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess, and the Princess
Mary, and the Prince Frederick of Hesse, visited this insti-
tution yesterday, where they remained upwards of two hours.
They expressed themselves highly delighted with the cheer-
ful and hearty appearance of the boys. A band, consisting
of thirty of the Imp, played several national airs, while the
rest danced on the lawn, all of them in full Highland
costume. The Princess Mary requested Captain Lamont,
R.N., to give the boys a holiday, to which he readily ac-
ceded.
THE SPEAKER'S LEVEE.—The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons gave his fourth grand
Parliamentary entertainment on Saturday last, at his man-
sion in Eaton-square; tLe guests of the Right. Hon Gentle-
man on this occasion being the leading members of the Pro-
tectionist party. Covers were laid for 28. The circle in-
cluded Lerd George Bentir.ck, the Marquis of Chandos, Vis-
count Bernard, Lord John Manners, Hon. C. E. Law, Sir
John Tyrrell, Sir William Verner, the Right Hon. F. Shaw,
Colonel Sibthorp, Major Beresford, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Miles,
Mr. Bankea, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Packe, Mr. Hudson, Mr.
Christopher, Mr. R. Palmer. Mr. Arkwright, Mr. G. A.
Hamilton, Mr. Finch, Mr. Quintin Dick, Mr. Neeld. Mr.
Houldsworth, Mr. F. Mackinnon, Mr. Henley, and Mr.
Lefroy. After the banquet the Right Hon. Gentleman held
his first levee for the present session. The Duke of
Wellington was amongst the earliest to pay his respects
to the Speaker. His Grace arrived in company with
'Lord Charles Wellesley. The general circle at the levee
comprised the following members of the Lower House:—
The Earl Jermyn, Viscount Mahon, Viscount Sandon,
Viscount Ebrington, Viscount Newry and Morne, Lord
Brooke Lord Dalmeney, Lord James Start, Lord Norreys,
Lord Clements, Lord Ernest Bruce, Hon. H. T. Liddell,
Hon. H. Fitzroy. Hon. T. Vesey, Right Hon. Sir. Robert
Peel, Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Right Hon. the At-
tornev-General, Sir William Somerville, Sir Charles Douglas,
Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir Charles Lemon, Sir E. Colebroeke,
Sir John Pakington, Sir W. Ileathcote, Sir Richard Bulke-
ley Phillips, Sir A. L. Hay, Sir Robert Inglis, Sir John Hope,
Sir Montague Cholmeley ; Right Hon. Colonel G. L. Darner,
Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Right Hon. E. Strutt, Right
Hon. Fox Maule, Right Hen. T. Milner Gibson; Captain
Boldero, Captain Connolly, Captain Egerton, Captain James;
Alderman Copeland, Dr. Bowrill, Mr. Greene, Mr. Black-
burne, Mr. Waddington, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Dodd, Mr.
Ricardo, Mr. Dugdale, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Sanderson, Mr.
R. Ferguson, Mr. D. O'Connell, Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Card-
well, Mr. Stuart, Mr. W. 0. Gore, Mr. D. Barclay, Mr.
Gibson Craig, Mr. Muntz, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Willshere, Mr.
Spooner, Mr. R. D. Mangles, Mr. Towneley, Mr. Godson,
Mr. V. Stuart, Mr. Protheroe, Mr. Kemble, Mr. B. Denison,
Mr. Romilly, Mr. Bannerman, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Williams,
Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Hayter, Mr. Rich, Mr. Wrightson, Mr.
P. Butler, Mr. Brothertun, Mr. W. Brown, Mr. Hastie, Mr.
Aldam, Mr. Brownrigg, Mr. llindley, Mr. Ross, Mr. Cripps,
Mr. Fernald, Mr. S. Crawford, Mr. Dundas, Mr. F. French,
and Mr. Hildyard. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Whitbread,
Mr. Setwell, and some few other gentlemen, not having seats
in the House, paid their respects to the Speaker, at the levee.
The Duke of Wellington was the only Member of the House
of Peers present.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBER-
LAND.—The remains of this lamented nobleman were re-
moved on Friday last from Alnwick Castle, and will
to-day be consigned to the vault of his ancestors in West-
minster Abbey. The body was conveyed in a hearse drawn
by six horses, and attended by the household of his Grace's
establishment and a numerous body of tenantry, 300 of whom
were on foot and 600 on horseback. The magistrates and
clergy of the county of Northumberland preferred a request
to be allowed to follow the remains in a body, but the re-
quest was respectfully declined by his Grace's relatives, it
being their wish to have the attendance confined to the im-
mediate dependants on the family, the townspeople, and
the tenantry. The shops in the town of Alnwick were
closed, and the bells of the churches and of the Town-hall
tolled at intervals. Nearly the whole male population
of the town joined the procession. About a mile from
Alnwick the procession halted, and the townspeople and
members of the household filed off. Three miles fur-
ther another halt was made, and the tenantry filed
off, and the procession, reduced to the hearse, the
private carriage of his Grace, that of the Duchess, and a
mourning coach with four horses, proceeded onward by
Felton and Morpeth to Newcastle, being met at every stage
of its progress by the mournful demonstrations of respect of
the inhabitants of the various places through which it passed.
At Newcastle it was met by the Mayor in his state carriage
and the authorities of the town, and by a great number of
gentlemen on horseback, upwards of thirty private carriages,
and a large body of tenantry. The concourse of spectators
was immense, the bells of the churches being tolled and
minute guns fired from the Castle. On reaching Tyne-
bridge the procession was met by the Mayor and corpora•
tion of Gateshead, the flags on the ships in the river being
hoisted half-mast high. At the railway station the hearse
with the coffin in it was at once run on to a truck and se-
cured in the usual manner. This caused some disappoint-
ment to those who expected to get a view of the coffin. The
arrangements throughout appear to have been very judicious.
The manner in which the immense crowd of people who
witnessed the possession exhibited their respect for the de-
ceased is the best testimony to his character and of their
egret for his loss.
FURTHER DISCOVERLES IN MINERALS IN WEST
AusTaLlA.—We have been favoured with communications
from Sir James Stirling (the first Governer of the colony),
Mr. T. R. C. Walters, and Mr. A. Shton, announcin
coveries of minerals by their respective correspondents.g Sir
James Stirling's letters inform him that traces of a mine of
copper or lead, or both have been discovered on his Wood-
bridge estate, as well as indications of coal ; also, that on
Government land, about eighteen or twenty miles from Guild-
ford, a mine of tin, with a large proportion of silver, has been
discovered. This letter is from Mr. Abraham Jones, of
Woodbridge, and is dated "15th September," from Guildford.
Mr. Menton writes (under date " September 13th"), " We
are now in a state of great excitement respecting minerals,
good specimens of the ores of copper and tin being found ;
and great hopes are entertained of the coal mines." Mr.
Walters' letters announce the discovery of copper on the
grant of Mr. Lukin, at the Toodyay about twelve or four-
teen miles west of Mr. Davey's grant; and on Mr. Demp
o-
ster's, six or seven miles north of it, ore supposed to be 1
tin or platina.—From the Swan River News fur Feisruary.
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning, us a
man was walking towards the entrance of Victoria-park, bi!
perceived a quantity of blood close to a gravel pit, and on
proceeding towards it discovered the body of a
i man in the
pit with his throat cut, and quite dead. Ile mme4iateiy
informed the police, who conveyed the body to the Hackney
workhouse, where it remains awaiting a coroner's inquest.
The deceased was about thirty-eight years of age, aau was
respectably dressed. He must have first inflicted the wouno,
and during his struggles have rolled into the pit. At present
he has not been identified.
MACRAREL Fisimar.—There are up Ards o
150 ooats engaged in this fishery, now in this harbour. Each
boat carries a crew of seven—generally six men and one Is
With the excel), ion of some four or rive boas, they hail f
Brighton, Shoreham, Reigat, and other plazeS eastward, k.nd
from Penzance, westward of this port. Dwing the past week
large catches of mackerel have been taken. On Saturday
last thousands were sent off oy r 1,3 railroad. to the Lond,,e
and Bristol markets, and a market for them a now procured
through railway agency in Birmingham. Thousands were
retailed on that day in this town at one penny each.—ply.
mouth Journal.