The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1811.

Mr. LLOYD stated that he had no further questions to
put to the bankrupt at present.
(We shall give the contiunation in our Second Edition.)

GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
A young man, who gave the name of George Murray,
was placed at the bar, before Messrs. Kelly and Lainson,
the sitting Magistrates, on a charge of being found on
the premises of Messrs. Clay and Son, wholesale woollen-
drapers in Skinner-street, Snow-hill, for the purpose of
committing a robbery.
The prisoner in answer to the charge told the usual story
of going to look for a situation.. He also said he was a
type-founder by trade, and had worked with Messrs.
Sherwood and Co. of Aldersgate-street.
The policeman said he inquireil there, and no such per-
son was known; however his acquaintances at the station-
house at once recognised him.
The prisoner was remanded till Monday.
The three paupers, Murphy, Owen, and Roebuck,
whose case was reported in yesterday's Sun, were again
placed at the bar on the charge of selling the workhouse
clothes which they wore yesterday.
The Relieving Officer having proved the case, a sharp
debate ensued between Sir Peter Laurie and the master
of the workhouse, relative to the decision in yesterday's
case, in which Sir Peter told the master he was inca-
pable of managing the workhouse, and the master told
Sir Peter he was "mighty wise in his generation."
Mr. Alderman KELLY sentenced each of the prisoners
to a month's imprisonment with hard labour.

MARLBORO C GR-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Simpson, the driver of the Maidenhead wag-
gon, from the Rose Inn, Farringdon-street, City, was
placed at the bar.
Police constable, No. 73 of the E division, stated that
between six and seven o'clock last evening, while on duty
in Regent-street, he observed a waggon heavily loaded,
and drawn by a team of four horses, proceeding along
without any guidance or control. At some distance
behind he saw the defendant so excessively drunk,
that he was reeling from one side the pavement to the
other, and quite incapable of taking care of himself—he
was therefore, with the waggon, taken into custody.
house.

Inspector Beresford said, that on examining the con-
tents of the waggon he found it to consist of property of
such value, upwards of 7001. worth, that he did not
deem it safe to trust it in the green-yard, therefore
sent it to the Rose Inn by a police -constalale,
Ordered to pay a fine of 205., or be committed for
16 days.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 16.—Wind this day at noon S. by W.
OFF DOTER, DEC. 14.—Mount Stuart Elphinstone,
Bombay.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 15.—Arrd. Ruby, Sunderland, for
Southton, with stern stove, &c., having been in contact ;
Ireby, Hartlepool, for Toulon, with decks swept, &c.,
having been struck by a sea.
DEAL, DEC. 15.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. Bright-
man, Calcutta ; Douglas, Quebec. Arrd. from River,
Mary Dugdale, Calcutta ; Thames, Sierra Leone.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15.—Wind S. to W.N.W., fresh.—
Arrd. Magnet, Montreal, sld. Quebec, 20th ult. ; Roscius,
New York, sld. 27th ult. The Erin-go-Bragh, Quebec
to this port, was fallen in with in a sinking state, on the
7th inst., in lat. 47, lon. 40, by the Roscius, arrived
here, crew and passengers saved.
COWES, DEC. 15.—Arrd. Pilot, Quebec ; Neponset,
Bremen, for Batavia.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. H.M.S.
Spy, Westward ; Charlotte, New York for Rotterdam,
with loss of boats, leaky, &c. Sld. Forester, Ruth, Eagle
and Elise, Malta; H.M.S. Madagascar, Africa.

DARTMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Sailed Minerve, Guadaloupe.
ILFRACOMBE, DEC. 15.—Arrd. Retrieve, Quebec.
MILFORD, DEC. 14.—Arrd. Resolution, Quebec, for
Liverpool, with sails split, loss of boats; and very leaky,
having been struck by a sea on the banks of Newfoundland.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Wind W.S.W. to W., strong
and squally.—Arrived Hendrick Hudson, Morgan, New
York, sailed 23d ult. ; Port-Glasgow, Quebec; Quebec,
London, New York ; Dartmouth, do., Bombay ; Caro-
line, New York ; Johannes Christoph, Hamburgh, Rio.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind N.N.W. to W., fresh
gales.—Sld. London, New Zealand ; Hebe, Ceylon ;
Amity, Hall, Jamaica ; Spheriod, Trinidad ; Supply,
Cuba ; Mountaineer, Mobile.
TORBAY, DEC. 16.—The wind having shifted yester-
day to the northward, several vessels endeavoured to
proceed, but were obliged to put back this morning on
account of stormy winds.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending Dec. 13, 1841:
Passengers £625 5 6
Merchandise 522 8 3

£1,147 13 9
Darlington, Dec. 15. D. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

SUICIDE.—This morning, at an early hour, a
young man of the name of Edwin Donaldson, who re-
sided with his father, a picture-frame maker in York-
street, Westminster, committed self-destruction in the
following manner. He had been out all night drinking;
his father quarrelled with him concerning a young woman
to whom he was paying his addresses ; when he took up
his hat and walked out of the house, followed by his
father at a distance. The young man went onward until
he came to the water-side, when, nearly facing the Peni-
tentiary, Millbank, he threw himself into the river, and
before his father could get up to him he was carried
down with the stream and perished.
" THE LONGEST LINK."—But eight miles
remain to be finished of the railroad between Batavia
and Buffalo, which, with the Boston road, will complete
a continuous road from Boston to Buffalo, 600 miles, the
longest in the world.—New York Weekly Herald.
In consequence of the continuance of wet
weather the banks of the Arun, in the neighbourhood
of Arundel, have overflowed, and the hay-stacks are
now standing in three and four feet of water. Persons
are obliged to be conveyed along the roads in waggons
Some of the meadows have been under water for the
last three months.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NOVELS.—What
would Sir Walter Scott have said if he had seen his im-
mortal Novels on sale at a few pence each week? We
think " This is popularity" would have escaped him. His
family have done wisely, in these times of Jack Shep-
bards, to bring healthy reading to every one's fireside;
and we certainly have it in the powerfully drawn cha
meters of the Waverley Novels.
"ON THE LOOK-OUT."—The Rev. John
Peel, brother of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
accompanied by Mrs. Peel and family, arrived at
Mivart's Hotel yesterday, from Canterbury ; and in a
few days leave for Waresley House, near Stourport.—
Tory Paper.
The announcement we made of a vessel having
sailed from Rotterdam, to purchase a thousand blacks at
Ashantee for the King of the Netherlands, is fully con-
firmed by more recent accounts. The name of the ves-
sel, however, is not the Britannia, but the Europa.—
Anti-Slavery Rsporter.
THE CONVICT WARD.—Yesterday an appeal
on behalf of John Job Ward, the convict under sentence
of death in Newgate for the murder of the child, in Wil-
liam-street, Regent's Park, was sent to the Right Hon.
Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the Home
Department. The result of this appeal has not yet trans-
pired, but it4s thought that the sentence will be carried
into effect, as there do not appear to be any circumstances
connected with this particular case that can be urged in
favour of a mitigation. The Sheriffs, Messrs. Magnay
and Rogers, visit the criminal every day, and are most
earnest in their entreaties that he will unburden his mind
by divulging the truth respecting the crime for which he
is condemned to suffer. To all their importunities, how-
ever, his only reply is, " I am not guilty of murder. The
child was hurt by my accidentally falling on him." Ward
appears deeply to feel his situation. He occupies nearly
the whole of his time in reading the Scriptures and other
religious books, supplied him by the Rev. Mr. Carver,
the chaplain. He converses freely on religious matters,
but when the subject of the murder is spoken of he most
vehemently protests his innocence. _

STROUD:—The Anti• Corn-law agitation is
making very rapid progress in the borough of Stroud.
Associations are formed in several of the parishes
in the neighbourhood, and meetings are held
every week to receive members; and to discuss
the bearings of these' unjust laws on the distress of
the country. The operatives are just getting alive
to the duty of watching over their, own interests,
and are beginning to put forth rational and moral ener-
gies, which no Government will be able to resist. The
Tories, beforo another year is past, will have deeply to
regret their defeat of the Whigs, and the objection of
the Bs. duty. Their doing so has aroused the labouring
classes. Notwithstanding their poverty, the people feel
their strength, they know that, properly speaking, they
are the real wealth of the country, and that, apart from
labour, the land is worthless, and ships and machinery
useless, and they are determined to have the grievance,
under which they at present groan, redressed. Their
first movement, therefore, will be confined to the state-
ment of their grievances, and petitioning the Legis-
lature. Lectures are every week delivered on the in-
justice and cruelty of the Corn-laws.—Cheltenham
Examiner.

ROYAL GEORGE.—Twelve tin packets of pre-
served French beans, in a wooden box, have been brought
up from the Royal George, stamped " Conserves Arti-
chena de Catron, Marseilles." Neither vinegar nor
pickle had been used ; they had been boiled and placed
in air-tight vessels, and were as fresh and fit for use as
when first inclosed. They have been fifty-seven years
under water.—Kentish Observer.
BREAST PINS.—A most detestable fashion is
that of wearing breast-pins with heads like those of
pumpkins—sometimes it is a two-fold enormity, looking
hugely like a brace of buoys connected by a swinging
cable. The man of taste has no relish fur hanging him-
self in chains, and very seldom goes beyond a speck of
brilliant.

ACCIDENT,—On Thursday night last, two men
and a boy were at work in a pit at. Hevsyche Old Hill,
near Dudley, and in the night, by some means, the pit
fired, and the two men and the boy, and five horses,
were burnt to death. The horses were worth 401. each.
—Staffordshire Gazette.
TEWKESBURY.—The population of this town
is about 6,000, of which number nearly half stand in need
of relief, very many being in the greatest distress. A few
wealthy individuals, and, in fact, all who can afford to do
so, have subscribed towards supplying 800 families with
coal during the ensuing winter, but although several hun-
dred pounds have already been raised, the subscription is
not so large as it might at first sight have been expected
to be, owing to the trade in the town being in such a de-
plorable state as to prevent the tradespeople acting as they
would wish to do.—Worcestershire Chronicle.

AMERICAN NEWS
(EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.)
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
By the arrival of the Roscius, Captain Col-
lins, at this port to-day, after a quick passage of
less then eighteen days, from New York, we
have received papers from that city to the even-
ing of the 27th ult. inclusive. The Roscius has
27 passengers, and has besides brought home the
crew and passengers of the Erin go Bragh, from
Liverpool to Quebec, which vessel she fell in
with lat. 47, lon. 40, when she was in a sinking
state. The vessel was laden with grain and flour.
Business at New York was dull. Stocks con-
tinued to decline in price, particularly Illinois
and Indiana. The rate of exchange 1001 to 110,
but not much business doing.
The political news by this arrival is not im-
portant. The Prince de Joinville and suite had
been entertained at a ball in Boston, one of
the most sumptuous affairs ever known in that
city. He was also entertained by the French
residents of New York at the Astor House, and
on the 27th by the Corporation of that city at
the City Hotel.

Lord Morpeth was at New York, and was at-
tended by the Mayor and civic authorities in an
inspection of the public institutions of the city
on the 26th, and dined at Bellevue. He was to
dine with the British residents on the 26th, and
the Prince de Joinville had also accepted an
invitation to be present.
There is news from Texas to the 13th Novem-
ber. The President of the new Republic had
communicated an address to Congress on the
3d ; it is a well written and interesting document,
and gives an encouraging view of the prospects
of the country.

We have further accounts of the great fire at
-St. John's. There appears to have been thirty-
nine buildings of, various descriptions destroyed;
but the fire happening at nearly tide time, the
shipping was for the most part hauled away in
safety.
There is no news of moment from Canada.
It was reported at New York that Mr. M'laeod
had been arrested at Niagara, on a capeas for
defalcations in Canada.

The Roscoe was seen off New York, by the
Roscius, on the 27th.
(From the New York .Herald.)
IMPORTANT FROM MISSISSIPPI.—REPUDIA-
TION OP THE STATE BONDS.

We have received intelligence from MisSiisiPpi, by the
way of New Orleans, which rendered it almost certain
that the anti-bond ticket had succeeded by a large ma-
jority. Our correspondent states that returns have been
received from about one-third of Mississippi, and that the
anti-bond ticket was upwards of 6,000 votes ahead. He
adds that the majority was estimated at 15,000, and that
in several counties the vote was unanimously against pay-
ing the State bonds. There may be some exaggeration
in this, but we presume there can be no doubt of the
complete success of the Radical party.
This is the first election that has ever been decided
exclusively on this ground. In Michigan it was made
a question to some extent, and the large democratic
majority was swelled immensely by the determi-
nation of the people to get rid of their burdens in
this most summary manner ; but it was not made the
paramount consideration, as in Mississippi. Looking
at the result, as an example for the imitation of other
States that are ground down by debts which they cannot
pay, we regard this election as the most important one
that has ever taken place since the foundation of the
Government. Hereafter we may expect that Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, and others of the most deeply in-
debted States, will pursue the course adopted by Mis-
sissippi, and refuse by a formal vote of, the people, to
pay their liabilities.
What is to be the consequence I) It will bring up a
remarkable state of things, and overthrow at once the
entire system of State, credit. The whole difficulty has
grown out of the various abuses of the credit system by
banks and other corporations, by States, and by indivi-
duals. The sufferers by the excesses and mismanage-
ment, and frauds of the banks are individuals. This
evil is sufficiently wide-spread and deplorable, but the
bankruptcy of the States involves more serious conse-
quences still.
The aggregate debts of the States is two hundred
millions of dollars. The money was borrowed prin-
cipally in Europe, on the faith of the several States.
If the example of Mississippi is followed to the extent
which now seems probable, the loss to the creditors can-
not be less than one hundred millions, and may reach
one hundred and fifty. Will the British Government
permit the citizens to be swindled out of the immense
sums loaned to the States without remonstrance, and
perhaps interference ? If the States refuse, or are un-
able to pay, there is no way for John Bull to get his
money, but it will bring great reproach upon this country
on the other side of the Atlantic.

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It is probable that an effort will be made at the en-
suing session of Congress to get the general Govern-
ment to assume these debts, or at least, to adopt
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being successful. Much was anticipated from the distri-
bution bill, but it has failed entirely. No effect what-
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what-
ever has been produced by the prospect of its operation,
and the sentiment was becoming general, even before
the Mississippi election, that a large number of the
States were inextricably involved. The general Govern-
ment cannot relieve them without injustice to those States
which have managed their affairs with prudence, and
such of the States as follow the example of Mississippi,
and determine to refuse payment, would even scruple to
contribute their quota, in the event of the assumption.
It is idle to close our eyes to the true state of the case.
Many of the States will not and cannot pay their liabili-
ties, and we must make our mind up to bear the odium
as a nation. It is not to be avoided.

RECEPTION OF THE FRENCH PRINCE AT
BOSTON.
His Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville, was re-
ceived by the citizens of Boston in a style never before
equalled by them. The Mayor of the city on being in-
troduced to his Highness, addressed him as follows :
" I have the honour to present myself to you, in the
name of the city of Boston, and in its behalf, to welcome
you here. We welcome you, Sir, as the representative
of your country.. America delights, in the strength of
her manhood, to remember and acknowledge her deep
obligation to France, in the days of her infancy and
weakness. And with the events which made the aid of
your country so opportune, this city, as you know, had
no mean connection; and nowhere will you find the
feeling of gratitude stronger than here. We welcome
you also, Sir, as the son of that great and good man, the
present King of France. We recognize in him the
blended virtues of the sovereign and the republican—
the distinguished ruler of his own kingdom, and the
friend always of America and Americans. And we are
most happy, through you, to pay a tribute of respect to
him. And we welcome you personally, Sir, and tender
to you the freest and heartiest hospitalities of the city.
And permit me to express my hope that your visit may
be one of present enjoyment and pleasant recollection ;
and that it may tend to cement, in even greater amity,
our two nations."

The Prince made the following neat and brief reply:—
" I am highly gratified by the attention which has
been paid to me by the city of Boston, and for the senti-
ments which have been expressed toward my country,
my father and myself ; and shall take great pleasure in
communicating to my father the kind feelings which
have been evinced towards me in this country, and shall
ever recollect my visit with high satisfaction."
The ball which was given to him, was attended by fif-
teen hundred of the beauty and fashion of the city.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
THE FIRE AT ST. Jorm—The Observer of Tuesday
last gives the details of the great fire at St. John, from
which it appears, that in addition to the new market-
house, lately erected at an expense to the city of 40,000
dollars, the following buildings were destroyed, viz.—
Seventeen in South Market-street, eight in Ward. street,
eight in Water-street, three in Market-square, and three
in Prince William-street—making a total of thirty-nine
buildings, nearly all of which were large, and of three
or four stories each. Many bonded warehouses were also
much injured. No mention is made of vessels burnt ; it
was high water at the time, and they may have hauled off
into the stream. The aggregate loss is estimated at not
less than 400,000 dolls. The Observer says that a large por-
tion of those persons now deprived of their places of busi-
ness were burnt out in former fires—Messrs. M'Avity, D.
M`Millan, and C. M'Lauchlan, have been three times
subjected to this trial. The whole of the present district
was within the district laid waste in January, 1837.
Many of the sufferers lost their entire stock of goods.
Several of them have been but a few months in business.
The Insurance Companies have of late decidedly refused
taking risks on wooden buildings in the district now de-
stroyed, except at very high premiums ; consequently
nearly all the parties were without insurance. The
offices of the New Brunewicker and British American,
Mr. Shives, and the proposed new paper (the Mirror),
were destroyed ; though they all saved the chief part of
their materials, except the British American, which were
wholly consumed.
n Sunday the City
fHrote
FIRE AT PROVIDENCE.--We have rarely recorded in
one edition a greater number of fires than come upon us
quarters
Providence t h i
was
as nearly morning.
destroyed. rile Journal
. says
• " The fire was discovered in the room of one of
the boarders, and in a few minutes the flames burst out
with violence in several rooms. The boarders in the
south part of the building barely escaped with their
Hotel gill
nl
clothes, &c. Amongst those who saved scarcely any-
thing were several ladies. The furniture was mostly
saved, but injured by removal. The south part of the
building, which was of wood, was entirely destroyed ;
the centre of brick, Was badly injured, particularly at
the south end ; the north part of the building on Broad-
street, received no injury. The fire is supposed to have
originated from a defect of the chimney. The firemen
were promptly on the spot, but there was at first a diffi-
culty in procuring water ; a supply was obtained from
the steam factory. The fire was got under in about an
hour, but was not extinguished until after 11 o'clock. It
is difficult to estimate the loss, but it will not probably
come up to the insurance, which was :10,000 on the

building at the Mutual office—s3,ooo on the furnittii
at the American, and $2OO on the furniture at the
JEtna."

On the day before (Saturday) the four storey brick
building, owned by Joseph R. Angell, and occupied by
B. Almy and G. W. Tyler, in Canal-street, Providence,
took fire, and was much injured before the flames were got
under. Mr. Almy's kiss is four or five thousand dollars,
and he was not insured. Tyler's loss was not more than
$5OO, fully covered by insurance.
The wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishment of
Mr. Beech, near Clymer village, in Chautacqe county,
was consumed on the night of the sth instant, with about
4,000 yards of cloth, and a considerable quantity of wool,
belonging principally to the neighbouring inhabitants.
Total loss about p4,ooo.—Albany Argus.
FIRE IN CHARLESTOWN.—A destructive fire broke
out in Charlestown, about half-past three o'clock on Sa-
turday morning, in a large building situated in Franklin-
place, near the Methodist meeting-house, owned by Mr.
George Emerson, of Malden, of the firm of Loyd,
Packer and Co., of this city, by whom it was partially
occupied as a morocco manufactory. The building was
insured at Concord by the Middlesex Mutual Insurance
Co., to the amount of 1,500 dols., but upon the stock,
&c., owned by Messrs. Packer and Co., there was no in-
surance—loss
probably not exceeding 1,000 dols. A
portion of the building was occupied by Mr. Moses B.
Sewall, in the manufacture of morocco, whose tools,
stock, machinery, &c., were almost entirely destroyed—
insured 1,000 dols.

The building and contents were of a highly combus-
tible character, and the flames soon communicated to a
block of four dwelling houses adjoining, fronting on
Bartlett-street, owned by Phineas J. Stone, of Charles-
town, and occupied by a number of Irish families. Three
of these tenements were entirely destroyed, and the oc-
cupants have lost their all, and were turned out of their
houses in the night, to encounter the pitiless storm. Mr.
Stone was insured 1,500 dol.

A block of two tenements, nearly adjoining the factory,
owned by Mr. Emerson, were on fire several times, and
were only saved from total destruction by the great exer-
tions of the firemen. The loss on these, it is supposed,
will not exceed 200 or 300 dol., and is insured.

Several of the Fire Companies of this city promptly
repaired to the scene of destruction, and rendered very
valuable assistance.—Merc. JournaL
Some advices mention seventy-five buildings were de-
stroyed.—Boston Merc. Journal.

ARREST OF MURDERERS.—The Charleston papers
received here yesterday, mention that a man named
Jones, a hand on board the ship Troy, had been found
dead in the street near the Exchange, his death having
been caused by a stab from a knife, and that a man
named Barnett had been arrested on suspicion of being
concerned in the murder. Finding the evidence before
the Coroner's jury bearing very hard against him, he
confessed his participation in the crime, and implicated
three other men, named James Eldridge, Eugene Agar,
and Thomas Riehardson, but his information came too
late to be used there, as it was ascertained that these men
had left the city. On Sunday the Mayor of this city received
a letter from the Coroner of Charleston, stating that he
had reason to believe that Eldridge was on board the
brig Ashley, then on her way to New York, and that the
others, Agar and Richardson, were on board the ship
H. Allen, also bound hither. This letter the Mayor sent
to Justice Matsell, and that gentleman immediately set
officers Sweet, Tappan, Lownsbury, Stokely, and others,
on the look-out for the arrival of those vessels. On
Monday evening the Ashley came up, when she was
boarded, and Eldridge, who had shipped as one of the
crew, was arrested and conveyed to the tombs. Yester-
day morning the H. Allen came up, and on boarding her,
Agar and Richardson were found and also secured. The
whole three are now in prison, awaiting the requisition
of the Governor of South Carolina.
PRICE OF PORK IN CHILLICOTHE.—The Chillicothe
Advertiser of the 12th says, " A few engagements have
been made by the packers of this place for heavy pork,
at $2 per 1001bs. net, and we understand they are un-
willing to make any large contracts at present, even at
that price. It is most probable that the farmers will put
up their own pork to a considerable extent during the
present season."
The greatest curiosity in the world is now exhibiting
in this town, in the person of James Washburn, the
wonderful Dwarf, decidedly' the smallest man in creation!
He is in his 17th year, weighs but 231bs. and is only 36
inches in height. He is in good health, has fine spark-
ling eyes, is active, intelligent, in short a perfect man in
miniature. He is said to have been born in Vermont,
and ceased growing at an early period without any assign-
able cause.—Mass. Spy.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—An awful accident happened
at Munroe on the 11th instant. Our very worthy fellow
citizen Mr. Cady, came to his death in the most shocking
and sudden manner. After the cars had arrived at
Adrian, in running the engine back over the west switch,
she ran off, in consequence of a defect in the switch, made
worse by the heavy rains.
In getting the engine back on the track, Mr. Cady
placed himself with a lever under the driving wheels, so
as to force them on the track, when she started. Stand-
ing himself between the lever and the engine, so that
the first motion of the engine brought the lever round
with such force as to knock him directly under the
driving wheels, one of which ran over his body, one
leg and arm, crushing and mutilating him in the most
shocking manner. He survived about two hours, with
a full consciousness of his situation.—Detroit Advertiser.

IMPORTANT FROM FLORIDA.—We learn from a pas-
senger in the Stephen and Francis, from St. Augustine,
that information had been received at that place of a
skirmish having taken place between a portion of the
United States troops, under command of Captain Wade,
and a party of Indians, during which 8 of the Indians
were killed, and 55 captured, a portion of which were
women and children.—Charleston Patriot, Nov. 20.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—Orders have been received
at the Navy-yard, Brooklyn, to prepare the sloop of war
Falmouth for sea. She is to be one of the home squadron,
and will be commanded by Captain M'lntosh. Nearly
all her officers, we understand, have been ordered to her.
The frigate United States, bearing the broad pennant of
Commodore T. A. C. Jones, dropped down from Nor-
folk on the 19th, preparatory for sea. The frigate Po-
tomac, Captain Storer, sloop of war Marion, Captain
Belt, and schooner Enterprise, Lieut.-Com. Goldburgh,
were at Rio on the Bth ult.

SMALL Pox AT THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—Captain
Brown, of the whaling ship Charles Frederick, arrived
at this port yesterday, reports that the small-pox was
raging violently at Otaheite on the last July, so much so
that he could not obtain a reinforcement to the number
of his crew.

THE FIRE AT ST. JOHN'S, N.B.—The report that
forty vessels, including five square rigged ones, had
been burnt in the recent conflagration at St. John's,
was incorrect. A few wood boats and other small craft
were somewhat injured, but the tide being up, they were
hauled out.