The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-15 00:00:00

DEPTH OF RAIN.

A rain gauge has for some time past been kept at Bar-
rowfield Mill, by Mr. James Smith, gardener to James
Oswald, Esq., M.P. According to this instrument there
1173 fallen during the last month (December) the extraor-
dinary quantity of eight inches of rain.— Glasgow Argus.
The depth of rain which fell at Inverness in the months
of December in each of the five years mentioned below, as
noted in the register kept by Mr. Adam, Rector of the
Inverness Academy, was as follows ;-
1829. 1630. 1831. 1832. 1833.
Inches. Inches. inches. Inches. Inches.
.9743 2.4026 1.9927 3.4192 4.8177
Here it may Le observed, that the depth of rain which
fell at Inverness in December, 1829, was less than one
inch, and also considerably less than that which fell here
in the same month in any of the following years. But it
will be recollected that the latter end of August, 1829,
was remarkable for a❑ excessive storm of wind and rain
from the N.N.E., which flooded most of the rivers in this
,iistrict, and caused great lose, p irticularly on the banks
of the river Spey. The depth of rain which fell at Inver-
ness in August, 1829, amounted to about 8:1 inches ; and
this, it is apprehended, may sufficiently account for the
diminished quantity of rain which fell there in the month
cf December following. By inspection of a register, kept
for a number of years, it will appear that the great rams
are successively shifting to different months of the year,
and also that the annual depths of the rain are subjoct to
continual change, which, like that of the winds, is pro-
bably periodical. The quantity of rain on the east is
greatly less than on the west coast of Scotland, arising, in
all probability, chiefly from the great difference of event
in the adjacent oceans, and the ridges of interj icent hills,
which generally rob the clouds of their moisture before
they reach the eastern coast.—lnverness Courier.

BEAUTIES OF THE COURT OF CHARLES 11.
Independently of the Windsor Beauties, fourteen in
number, which illustrate Mr. Jameson's interesting
Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles IL, now
completed, and which were copied by order of her Royal
Highness the late Princess Charlotte, the Work con-
tains several portraits not at Windsor, which were added
to the collection by her Royal Highness's command.
Among them are a❑ original picture of the Duchess of
Portsmouth, at Goodwood, sent at the Princess's personal
request and application, by order of the Duke of Rich-
mond ; and Nell Gwynne, from the original, once in the
possession of the St. Alban's family, and now belonging to
General Grosvenor. By desire of Sir Gerard Noel have
also been added—the Countess of Chesterfield, from the
picture at Narfurd, in the possession of Mr. Fountaine ;
Lady Falmouth ; the lovely and amiable Miss Bagot, from
the exquisite picture at Althorp ; the first Duchess of
Devonshire, sister of Lady Chesterfield, from the picture
at Hardwick, copied by permission of the Duke of Devon-
shire ; and La Belle Jennings (Duchess of Tyrconnel),
from the picture at Althorp, forming the frontispiece to
the volume. The Windsor Beauties comprise :—Queen
Catherine of Braganza, the wife of Charles H. ; Barbara
Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland ; Frances Stuart, Duchess
of Richmond ; Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Somerset ;
Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Northumberlard ;
Emilie de Nassau, Countess of Ossery ; Elizabeth Hamil-
ton, Countess de Grammont; Anne Dighy, Countess of
Sunderland ; Susan Arrnine, Lady Bellasis ; Elizabeth
Brooke, Lady Denham ; Henrietta Boyle, Countess of
Rochester ; Anne Hamilton, Countess of Southesk ; Mrs.
Middleton ; Mrs. Nutt, and Miss Lawson.

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LO ArD ON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1834.

All our anticipations respecting Spain are

likely to be realized. The Paris papers of
Monday, which arrived this morning, state that
General SAN MARTIN, the new Captain Ge-
neral of Valencia, had concurred in the address
of General LLANDER to the QUEEN REGENT,
and that it was believed in Madrid that most of the
Generals in the service of the Government enter-
tained similar intentions. If this statement be
true, the QUEEN must of necessity give way, and
a Constitutional system will be established.
Whether M. ZEA, the head of the juste milieu
system which the French Government, in its
ignorance of the state of public feeling in Spain,
or its determination to oppose the tide of
opinion, appears so anxious to uphold, will re-
tire from the Ministry, or take part with the

Constitutional Generals, remains to be seen.
We think lie sN ill take the latter course, for

lie has always been the creature of circumstance,
sometimes a Ferdinandist, sometimes a Carlist,
and more than once a partisan of the Consti-

ution.

In a country where the natural character and
a thousand other circumstances tend to extremes,
there can be no prospect of establishing a juste
milieu system, at least none for many years to
come, and it is little else than madness to at-
tempt it. In Spain there are, as in all other
countries, two classes—the educated and the un-
educated ; but there is this important distinction
as to Spain. In most countries of Europe the
officers of the army, who may be said to belong
to the educated class, pay a blind allegiance to
the autholAies, whatever may be the principles
of the Government under which they serve. In
Spain ninety-nine officers out of a hundred, al-
though members probably of families interested
in the maintenance of a despotic system of go-
vernment, are decided constitutionalists, and in-
veterate enemies of the priesthood. This is a fact
of which no man who has lived in Spain and
associated with military officers can be ignorant.
How can it be possible, therefore, for a Govern-
ment, which opposes Carlism only from personal
considerations, and on a question of the right of
succession, and not from hatred of its principles,
to maintain itself. Without the army it is
powerless against the Carlists, and the army will
only attack that faction as the first step towards
the accomplishment of their own object—viz., a
Constitution.
It would appear that the Carlists, taking ad-
vantage of the want of good understanding be-
tween the Government and the army, have
increased in numbers and audacity. They are
ravaging the country on various points ; and it is
stated, in proof of their boldness, that the last
courier from Tolosa to Iron, although escorted
by 200 men, was repeatedly attacked.
The Paris Mioisterial Papers deny that there
are any differences in the French Cabinet. 'We do
not, however, attach much credit to the denial.
The Funds are still heavy ; but the depression
appears to have been produced entirely by the
deficiency in the French Budget, and the an-

nouncement of a new loan. The following are
the quotations of Monday :

FRENCH FUNDS.—Paais, JAN. 13.
Five per Cents., 104 f. 65c. 6rc.
Three per Cents. 75f. 25c. 15c.
Bank Actions, 1,705 f
Rente de Naples, 90f. 90c.
Roman Five per Cents., 91N.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18.
Bente d'Espagne Three per Cents., 36%.
Royal Spanish Loan,i 79.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 59%.
Belgian Loan, 18:31, Five per Cent., 96%.
11a)tian Loan, 275 f.

German Papers to the 9th inst. arrived this
morning. They contain no news of interest.

We have received Brussels papers to the 13th
inst. Their contents are not important. The
Chamber has agreed to the following sums for
the three principal ambassadors :

London 80,000 francs per annum,
Paris 58,000 francs ditto
Berlin 54,000 francs ditto
As these include the salaries of the secretaries
of legation, the expense of offices and many
other charges upon the ambassadors, the remu-
neration is moderate, although not more so than it
ought to be in these times of economy. We would
advise our own Ministry to reduce the scale of
remuneration of our own ambassadors. It is a
mistake to suppose that the greatness of a coun-
try is inferred from the extravagance of the sala-
ries paid to its servants, or that able men are
not to be had without enormous remuneration.
The envoys of the United States of America are
paid at a still lower rate than those of an
inferior state like Belgium, and yet who dis-
putes the greatness of America, or will deny
that her diplomatists are men of considerable
talent ? The great error of this country, not
only with the Government, but throughout
society, is estimating a man by the amount of
his income. It should be considered, however;
even by those who entertain this absurd doctrine,
that out of • England no man derives importance
in the estimation of the higher or middle classes
from the mere fact of his having money to
throw away upon objects of ostentation. The
Duke of DEVONSIIIRE was sent to Russia, not
because he was thought to be the most skilful
man who could have been chosen, but because
he was willing to spend more money indepen-
dently of what he was allowed by Government,
than any other person would have expended,
yet what great end did the Duke of DEVON-
SHIRE attain as regarded the honour and
interests of the country ? From similar motives
the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND was sent to
France to attend the coronation of CHARLES the
Tenth, yet when the Duke ostentatiously gave to
the State-coachmen of the King of FRANCE, who
were, according to the old etiquette, sent to con-
duct him and his suite to Court, ten times more
than any former Ambassador had given, what
was the effect upon the minds of Frenchmen ?
Did they think the Duke a clever man, or
entertain a higher respect for the country that
sent him than they would otherwise have enter-
tained ? No they set down the Duke as a
simpleton for his profusion, and were half in-
clined to believe that we intended an insult by
such a ridiculous display of ostentation.

In a former number, we endeavoured
to make foreign exchanges intelligible to our
readers. The Mint price is as hale understood,
and we shall now show the errors that have pre-
vailed with respect to it, and their consequences
upon the currency.
The Mint price of silver was said to be ss. 2d.
an ounce, because, from the time of Queen ELI-
ZABETH down to 1816, we coined one pound of
Mint silver into 62 parts or shillings, and ss. 2d.
was the twelfth part, or the exchangeable value,
of an ounce of silver in our currency. So the
sum of 31. 17s. 102 d. was said to be the Mint
price of an ounce of gold, the Mint pound of
which consists also of twelve ounces, because it
required this amount of silver in our currency
to purchase an ounce of gold, in the proportion
of 15.2096 to 1, which is the Mint proportion
between the exchangeable value of gold and the
exchangeable value of silver. The sum of
ss. 2d. thus represented an ounce of silver, as
3/. 17s. 101 d. represented an ounce of gold, in
our currency previous to the year 1816. But
these Mint prices on this representation have
ceased, through an alteration made in our cur-
rency in that year, since which our Mint pound
of silver, still consisting of 12 ounces, has been
coined into 66 parts or shillings, of which the
Mint retains four for seignorage. We can, there-
fore, no longer be said to have any Mint price
of silver, or any Mint price of gold ; at least, if
we can be said to have, the Mint price of silver
is now about 6/. per cent. less than ss. 2d., as
the Mint price of gold valued in silver is also
about 6/. per cent. less than 3/. 17s. 102 d.

The Bank, however, under a mistaken im-
pression that there is still a Mint price of gold,
and that that Mint price is 3/. 17s. Mit:. an
ounce, gives 3/. 17s. 9d. for every ounce of gold
that is brought to it, and it purchases every
quantity of gold that is brought to it at this
price, under the also erroneous notion that it is
desirable to keep the market price of gold up
to the Mint price, as was stated by the late Go-
vernor of the Bank before the Bank Charter
Committee. As it gives this price in its own
notes, it is plain that it thereby depreciates the
notes by the amount of the sum which it gives,
and the amount of the sum it ought to give for
an ounce of gold, according to the present Mint
price, as that can he made out by means of
the former Mint price ; that is, it depre-
ciates its notes to the amount of about 61. per
cent. upon all the gold it purchases. But it
ought to regulate the price it gives for gold by the
market price of silver, which for several years
back has not exceeded 4s. 11d. an ounce, and
has generally been only 4s. 10-id. an ounce ;
and an ounce of gold valued in silver at this
price would not exceed 3/. 135., so that the
Bank over-issues upwards of 6/. per cent. upon
the amount of all the gold it purchases. If
money were falling in exchangeable value, this
amount of over-issue would be of the less im-
portance, but it operates powerfully when money
is rising, as it now is in exchangeable value—
but the Bank does not seem to be at all aware
' of the mistake it makes or the mischief it does
in this respect.
• The Bank has fallen into a similar error with

regard to silver. It has received silver coin from
shop-keepers who did not keep an account with
it, and has given its notes in exchange for such
silver coin as at the price of ss. 2d. an ounce,
and silver thus came to accumulate so much in
its coffers that the Bank had it melted into bars,
by which it sustained a loss upon the quantity
melted to the extent of 67,5841. (Bank Charter,
App. No. 73.) And yet the men who do these
things have intrusted to them the regulation of
the currency, which is beyond mortal power, for
it depends upon circumstances which man can
neither prevent nor control. The currency re-
gulates itself even in spite of the interference of
the Legislature, by which it is deranged, and
would regulate itself, if it were not interfered
with. If it were not deranged by Legislative
interference, there never would be more of paper
in circulation than there would be of gold if
there were no paper, and the paper in circulation
would always be of the same exchangeable value
with gold ; but having interfered with it, there
is more of paper in circulation than there would
be of gold if there were no paper,—and the ex-
changeable value of the currency is lowered in
proportion to the over-issue, which last, however,
is corrected by notes coming in upon the Bank
for gold, and thereby bringing down the amount
of paper in circulation and raising its exchange-
able value to a par with gold. As it is the
course of things alone which restores the ex-
changeable value of the currency to a par with
gold, so the course of things alone would pre-
serve its exchangeable value upon a par with
gold if it were not interfered with. But here,
as in other cases, man, wise in his own conceit,
must needs attempt to set up his law against the
law of Omnipotence, although, as often as he
does so, he never fails to suffer for it.

One of our Contemporaries has stated that
troops are abdut to be sent from this country to
the assistance of Don PEDRO. The report in the
City isth4t Lord GREY opposes, and Lord PAL..
4,
MERSTOI4 advises such a step. We have reason,
however, to :believe, that no intention of the
kind is entertaiUed, What is certain is, that
nothing has taken place in any department to
indicate that such an expedition is contemplated.

The following appears in an American paper :
" DEPARTIItNT OF STATE.
" Washington, Dec. 21.
" To satisfy inquirls that have been made as to the
extent to which Anierican vessels are admitted into
British possessions at and beyond the Cape of Good
Hope, it is deemed proper to state, that vessels
of the United States Ire entitled by the third article
of the Treaty of Commerce of 1815, to trade with
Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Prince of Wales' Island,
hut not with Singapore; and that they are also permitted
to trade with the free ports at the settlements of the Cape
of Good Hope, which are Cape Town, Simond's Town,
and Port Elizabeth, and with any other free ports in the
Mauritius, in Ceylon, or in Australia, which may be
established by order in Council."

London has at length raised its voice in the
good cause. Its million and a half of mouths
promise to shout out with one accord, " The
Corn Laws must be repealed." The mightiest
and most enlightened metropolis in the world
rises to declare that it will no longer allow its
energies to be paralysed by the ignorant selfish-
ss of the Squirearchy. It will be seen by the
•art we have given elsewhere of the proceedings
the Crown and Anchor Tavern yesterday
.ning, that the very flower of the middle
classes have taken up the questibn. There
are names in the Committee which 'WY ap-
pointed to initiate the formation of the Central
Anti-Corn Law Society, which give every deno=
mination of liberal thinkers on the subject of a
free trade in corn an assurance that the So-
ciety will watch over the interests of all. The
wealth, influence, and respectability of the
London and Westminster Reformers, whose
names are at the head of the Report, are indica-
tions of a determination to carry the object they
pursue into effect with a moderation, yet firm-
ness, in the highest degree gratifying. But
what ought to be, and, no doubt, will be,
matter of especial rejoicing to the mind, to the
intelligence of the country, is to see the author
of the celebrated Catechism of the Corn Laws
take his proper place as the moving spirit of the
feeling which his writings have been so mainly
instrumental in raising and enlightening. This
alone is a guarantee that whatever caution
may guide the acts of the Society, its great
object of obtaining the total removal of the
tyrannous tax which has so withered our in-
dustry, will never be lost sight of. There is
another name on the Committee which will
hardly be of less weight with a portion of the
public, indeed will be received with more confi-
dence by it, we mean the farming classes, than
that even of Colonel THOMPSON. That name
is the name of nr. LouDoN. If Colonel
THOMPSON has acquired fame as the writer
better than any acquainted with the meta-
physical parts of the question of agricultural
prosperity, Mr. LOUDON is not less known as
a complete master, if we may so speak, of its
physics. Any farmer who has had occasion to
use either the Encyclopredias of Agriculture or
Gardening, will feel compelled to acknowledge
that advocacy of a repeal of the Corn Laws, so
far from being inconsistent, as the country
Journals have been lately contending, with any
practical knowledge of agriculture, is consistent
with perfect informatio❑ of even its most minute
details.

Of the principles enunciated in the resolutions
passed last night, we have long been the stre-
nuous supporters, but we must for the present con-
tent ourselves with referring the reader to them.
On the speeches also we must take another
opportunity of commenting ; but we cannot
help referring to two points which either have
been quite overlooked or not had that weight
attached to them they deserve. The first is Col.
STANHoPE's argument in favour of a repeal of
the Corn Laws, founded upon the insecurity
its continuance entails upon the Aristocracy.
Truly has BACON said that the great rebel-
lions are those of the belly. The evidence
given before the house of Commons last Ses-
sion, sufLiently proves that we annually incur
the hazard of such a rebellion. Let the
Aristocracy ponder upon the consequences.

Let them take the words of Colonel STAN-
HOPE,-a man who, though one of themselves,
is most intimately acquainted with the wishes,
wants, and feelings of the middling and lower
classes—let them, we say, take his words as a
warning. The other point to which we allude
is the connexion which Mr. ASIIURST pointed
out, as necessary to he formed between a re-
vision of the poor laws and cheap bread, and
free industry. The argument is well worth
consideration.

A second edition of a little pamphlet, entitled
Repeal or No Repeal," is now lying before us.
This unanswerable treatise, which Mr. O'CON-
NELL has evidently read with attention, he has
attributed, we understand, to the pen of Mr.
DONI.NICK BROWN, and acting on such a sup-
position, has poured forth on that gentleman
such a copious flood—such a deluge, in short—
of abuse, as cannot fail to be taken as a com-
pliment by the respectable individual on whom
it is lavished. But the best of the joke is, that
Mr. DOMiNICK BROWN, has no more to do
with the pamphlet which has thus provoked the
Agitator's " splendid bile," than his Royal
Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER. It is
the composition of Mr. MONTAGUE GORE,
and exposes the fallacy of all the Repeal argu-
ments in such style, that we at once cease to
wonder at its having so completely bewildered
Mr. O'CoNNELL as to induce him, in the heat
of passion, to place the cap on the wrong head.
Mr. GORE indulges in no vain, showy theo-
ries ; he confines himself to a plain, unadorned
statement of facts, and this is precisely the sort
of reasoning—this the eloquence, which Mr.
O'CONNELL has always found it so difficult to
answer. it is one of the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman's favourite themes of declamation,
that the Union has been the means of impo-
verishing Dublin, and all the other great com-
mercial towns of Ireland. Mr. GORE meets
this assertion by a flat denial, and shows, by a
long series of matter-of-fact statements, that, so
far from impoverishing the country, the Union
has enriched it to an extent which it could newer
otherwise have known. Dublin, in particular,
he proves, has every reason to be satisfied with
the Act of Parliament that_ incorporated the two
kingdoms.
Now as Mr. GORE'S pamphlet has been be-
fore the public some weeks, and Mr. O'CoN-
has made no other reply to it than by abuse,
directed (almost as a matter of course)
against the wrong person, it is fair to presume
that its arguments have proved too much for him
—that its formidable array of facts are stumbling..
blocks which he cannot leap over. Else, where-
fare, is he so reserved—except when abuse is to be
poured forth ? Repeal is now his darling pet—his
most cherished hobby ; he hugs it to his bosom
with as much affectionate solicitude as if it
were the Rent ; it is the only prop he has left
to lean upon ; why then does he not come for-
ward to the contest, when Mr. GORE threatens
to knock his ricketty crutch from under him ?
Why ? Because he knows that such a contest
would end in his certain defeat—because it would
be, like Irish reciprocity, " all on one side."
It is with satisfaction, unmingled with the
slightest alloy of surprize, we learn that the
clamour for Repeal is fast dying away in Ireland ;
and that the leading agitators, knowing this,
have cunningly contrived to mix it up with the
tithe question, so that those who publicly meet
to discuss the one, should also appear to discuss,
and be identified with the other. Such being,
we verily believe, the true state of the question
in the sister country, the pamphlet before us
has appeared just in time to give the humbug
its coup de grace.

On Sunday last the Portuguese Ambassador,
the Chevalier de Lima, Mr. Mendizabal, and other of the
principal agents of Donna Maria, visited her Majesty's
frigate Don Pedro, of 60 guns, Captain Bertrand, lying
at Northfleet. They were received with the usual
honours, and after inspecting her fine batteries, and ex-
pressing their high satisfaction at the steady appearance of
the men, left that ship, under a salute of eleven guns, for
the City of Edinburgh steamer, having on board 500 or
600 Belgian troops. Tire colours of the regiment were
presented by the Ambassador, and received with the most
enthusiastic cheers, the band playing the Constitutional
Hymn, &c. This vessel left yesterday for Lisbon.

Similar to the case of the late Rev. Mr;
Parker, of Glin, GO years a curate of the established
church, was that of a Mr. Holland, when about, 40 years
a curare in Sixmile-bridge, who was presented to the
precentorship of Kilf?nora, by the now Bishop of Cashel ;
he was bedridden, and a subscription to meet the expenses
of induction, viz., in stamps, registers, &c., was entered
into by the clergy and gentry of that neighbourhood. The
bishop had been many years in the see before he thought
of Mr. Holland. The poor gentleman, when told of his
appointment to a preferment of 801., exclaimed " They
have given me bread when my teeth are all gone." He
lived not many months after.—Limerick Chronicle.

Yesterday, at 11 A.M., the IVillam and Anne,
of Hull, Darnbrook, from Wisbech to London, with
wheat, drove from her anchorage in the south roads, and
came to the beach. Lieut. Evison, R.N., and the crew
of the coast guard stationed at this port, repaired imme•
diately to the spot with the life apparatus, and had the good
fortune to obtain a communication the first shot, soon after
which, a boat manned with Pakefield fishermen, pulled
down through the surf from that village, in most gallant
style, reflecting the greatest credit upon them, took out
the crew, and landed them in safety, snaking use of the
line of communication to haul the hart backwards and
forwards. The precision with which Lieut. E. firsd the
mortar, and the active zeal of himself and crew, are deserv-
ing of much praise.—Norwich Mercury.
THE TENDER MERCIES OF THE GAME
LAws.—Last week three respectable farmers of Stokein-
teignhead, Devon, were fined in the mitigated penalty of
131. 13s. 6d., for hunting with barriers over the lands
in their own occupation, not having taken out game
certificates.
SINGULAR DEATH.—Saturday last, one of
the prisoners succeeded in snaking his escape from our
gaol (Taunton), with his gaol dress and handcuffed. He
managed to get over the fields unobserved to Bathpool.
Then he was seen and pursued by some men. They were
close upon him. He came to the river and dashed into it,
hoping, probably, that it was not deep. He immediately
sunk. Rising handbolted he could not even struggle for
life. The unfortunate man was drowned. He had been
committed for uttering false ruin.—Shcrborne Journal.
On Thursday week, at about half-past six
o'clock, a beautiful meteor was seen at Kedleston, in the
North Eastern hemisphere. It bore the resemblance of a
pillar of fire, of a very clear red colour, about twenty feet
in length by three in diameter ; it remained stationary for
about three quarters of an hour, and then totally disap-
peared.—. Nottingham Review.
rue A boy,
t.Ao y a
r,
d,
rebed 13, living
des
Arts,
ha ving iewithn his
severely
parentscorr iectt the
eld
for
repeatedly robbing his father's till, said to his sister,
" Since they won't let me have money, I will kill myself;"
and having procured a pistol, he last week carried his
desperate resolution into effect by shooting himself through
the heart, in the presence of his grandfather.—French
Paper.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

PORTSNIOUTH, JAN. 14.—Wind S.W. to S.S.E.—Arrived the
Ocean, Bacon, from Shields, bound to Algiers.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 13.—Wind S. to S. W., strong gales with
violent squalls.—Arrived the City of Exeter, Long, from Rio
Grande, leaky, and with fore and main-masts sprung. 9th,
Sailed his Majesty's ship Rolla, for Oporto and Lisbon ;
the Lord Melville packet, for Halifax ; and Lyra packet, for the
Brazils, but put back on the 13th.
BIDEFORD, JAN. 13. Arrived the Benonez, Le Port, from
Cardiff, leaky, bound for Rouen.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Tamesi, Masters, from
Tampico ; the Lady Mary Fox, Sowerby, from Demerara;
the Vergeman, Harris, from New York ; the Plymouth,
Ackerman, the Citizen, Barstow, and the Henry Lee, Prince,
from New Orleans; the Jefferson, Newcomb, from Virginia;
the Jane, Hunt, from Newfoundland ; the Hellespont, Lang-
ridge, from Odessa; and the Caroline, Ferraseur, from Mar-
seilles. The John and Mary, Johnson, bound to Mobile, has put
back to L iverpool, leaky.

The York, Sprattly, from Singapore and Batavia to London,
put into the Alauritius, after being on her beam ends—cargo
discharging in a damaged state.
The Stenevent, Neale, from Gonaires to Cork, sunk in River
Bay, Jamaica, the 10th November.
The Prince Rupert, Bell, and Prince of Wales, Hanwell,
from London, arrived at Hudson's Bay previous to the Elth
October, and were in winter quarters, all well, the former at
Churchill, and the latter at Charlton, with their homeward.
bound cargoes on board.

Foreign Office, Jan. 13, 1834.
Gentlemen,—With reference to your letter of the 28th of
November last, on the subject of the detention of the British
vessel Caroline, by one of the cruisers of the Queen of Por-
tugal, I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acquaint you
that his Lordship has lately received a despatch from Lord
William Russell, his Majesty's Minister in Portugal, in which
he announces that the vessel in question has been released by
order of the Supreme Maritime Tribunal at Lisbon.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient, humble,

GEORGE SHEE.
To Messrs. Bradford, Clayton, and Co., Chapel-place, Poultry.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)