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AMERICAN NEWS.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
This admirably conducted, and in every sense legi-
timate theatre, closed for a short interval of repose on
Friday evening. The season has been one of unusual
duration, extending over a period exceeding twelve
months, and embracing more than three hundred act-
ing nights. Except on the occasions prescribed by
law, there has been no interval. It seldom happens
that the members of any dramatic establishment can
congratulate themselves on such uninterrupted em-
ployment. The life of the actor is one of continual
toil, and his rest is sweet ; but he enjoys it at the
expense of his pocket, which he can seldom afford.
The recess suspends salary while it relaxes labour,
and the gratification is a little too bitter to be palat-
able. Some of the features which have marked the
season just concluded were insulated and peculiar.
They can scarcely be appealed to with safety as
general data on which to build calculations for
the future. They must be separated and judged
distinctly to estimate their proportionate effects.
The late unusual excitement may be followed by
a temporary re-action, but both will pass away,
and before long the current of events will resume
its ordinary course. It would be idle to deny
that the attraction of the Crystal Palace, and the
crowds of visitors, foreign and indigenous, which for
the last five months have been daily pouring into Lon-
don, have not been the primary causes of keeping
open the metropolitan theatres during the time when
they aro usually closed. Without the extraneous
gathering such an experiment would have savoured of
insanity. The managers decided with sound policy,
and have reaped their full she of the golden harvest,
although at first, particurgy during the month of
May, unmistakable symptoms indicated that their por-
tion was likely to 'dwindle into a scanty gleaning.
One or two took sudden fright, slackened sail, and
gave in, while the majority, who steered gallantly
on, despite of impending breakers, have brought their
argosies into port, with rich and goodly lading. Some
had been so severely crippled before the favouring
breeze set in, that they could do little more (to carry
on the nautical metaphor) than pall up their lee-way.
But the Princess's Theatre had never been in this pre •
dicament. A good snug profit was borne on the
books before the Exhibition mania commenced, and
consequently there was no lee-way to pull up. Dur-
ing the long period we have named a steady, regular,
flowing tide of success had attended the exertions of
the authorities, guided by the judgment with which
Mr. C. Kean so happily blends the talent of a❑ ac-
complished actor with the tact tied experience of an
able director.

sphere of exercise; and there is: still a public who
have shown substantially their power and will to
foster and reward national enterprise when pointed in
the right direction. Modern taste is too highly re-
fined, and has been pampered to too great an extent
to be satisfied either with mediocrity in the actor or
parsimony in the manager, but looks for high ex-
cellence in both, and is ready to pay in adequate pro-
portion.

ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING.
By the arrival in the Mersey of the British and
North American Royal mail steam-ship Africa, A.
Ryrie, commander, we have received advices and
letters from New York to the Bth inst.
The Africa sailed from New York at noon on the
Bth inst., and arrived off the Rock Lighthouse at 2.45
this morning, having made the run in 10 days 10
hours mean time. She brought 76 passengers, and
12,277/. sterling, and 437,712 dollars in specie on
freight.
The Royal mail steam-ship Canada, Harrison, com-
mander, with the mails of the 20th ult., arrived at
Boston at 6 P.M. on the Ist inst.
The screw steam-ship City of Manchester, Camp-
bell, commander, arrived at Philadelphia from Liver-
pool, on the 3d inst.
The Africa passed the Humboldt, Lines, com-
mander (which sailed from Havre on the 24th ult.),
on the Bth inst., three hours' sail from New York,
and on the 9th inet., at 5.50 A.M., passed the Royal
mail steam-ship Asia, Judkins, commander, which
sailed from Liverpool on the 27th ult.
The steam-ship Empire City had arrived at New
York, from Havannah, with advices to the 2d inst.,
and 350,000 dolls. in specie on freight. 42 Ameri-
cans were sent to Spain in the brig Rips the day be•
fore the Empire City sailed. There were 13 remain-
ing in the hospital, being all that remained on the is-
land of Cuba of the Lopez expedition. Exchange
had improved. Freights remained very low. Mo-
lasses and sugars in limited demand, and lower prices
would be accepted to make large sales.
We have advices from Jamaica to the 29th ult.,
which state that the cholera was prevailing in that
island ; 11 deaths had occurred during the week
ending the 29th. A smart shock of earthquake bad
been felt in Port of Spain, but no damage was done.
Antigua, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Dominica papers
furnish no news of interest.
From Canada we have accounts to the 6th inst. The
Ministry had resigned, and Lord Elgin had been en-
deavouring to form a new Cabinet, but had not suc-
ceeded up to the date of our latest advices. The Go-
vernor-General, who was staying at Drummonds-
ville, had sent for Mr. Morin, Speaker of the Legis-
lative Assembly, to form a Cabinet. In a speech
made by Lord Elgin at Montreal, on his way
from Boston, he referred to the possibility of his soon
being released from the cares of the Governor-Gene-
reiship of British North America. His reception in
the city from which his Government was driven by
violence in 1849 is reported to have 'been on the
whole respectful ; though accounts. published in the
Upper Canada papers this morning state that he was
greeted with hisses and groans on coining out of the
cathedral en Sunday. Mr. Archibald, an English
contractor, has addressed a letter to Lord Elgin,
offering to construct the Halifax and Quebec Rail-
road on condition of receiving the amount formerly
offered by these provinces-80,000 dolls. a-year from
Nova Scotia, a like sum from New Brunswick, and
120,000 dolls. a year from Canada. He also offers to
construct the European and North American line on
the debentures offered by New Brunswick, taking the
risk of selling the balance of the shares. 34,030
emigrants had arrived at Quebec this season on the
20th instant, being an increcse of 6,464 over last
year's emigration to a corresponding date. To the
same date 917 vessels had arrived at Quebec, with an
aggregate tonnage of 384,256 tons; being an increase
of 73 vessels and a tonnage of 31,474 tons over the
arrivals of last year to the same date.
The steam ship Prometheus, Captain Churchill,
arrived at New York on the 4th inst., with advices
from California on the 6th ult., three weeks later than
last received. She brings intelligence of the burning
of the screw steam ship Lafayette, Captain Stoddart,
at Ciiagres, on the 11th ult. The Lafayette was a
new ship, having only made one voyage between
Philadelphia and Liverpool. The Prometheus brought
123,000 dolls. in gold dust.
The news from California does not possess much
interest. The election seems to have absorbed every-
thing. Law and order were entirely disregarded;
two men convicted of highway robbery had been
taken by force from the authorities and executed.
The particulars of the affair are as follow:
" On the 224 of August, in conformity with the sen-
tence passed upon them by the law, Thompson, Robin-
son, and Hamilton were hanged in Sacramento for high-
way robbery. On the morning of the execution
Robinson was reprieved by the Governor M'Dougal,
notwithstanding which the populace took the prisoner
and executed him. On the Tuesday previous to the
above (which took place on Friday) the Governor,
with his aids, went in the middle of the night and
rescued, without opposition, the two prisoners, Whitta-
ker and M'Kenzie, who were placed in the custody of
the Vigilance Committee. This caused a tremendous
excitement, but on account of the forbearance of the
committee under the circumstances quiet was restored,
and everything was thought to be at rest until Sunday
morning, the 24th inst., when a portion of the members
of the Vigilance Committee broke into the county gaol,
took the prisoners, drove them in a carriage to the
committee-rooms, and in 17 minutes from the time the
men were first taken from the gaol, they were hanging
in front of the committee-rooms on Battery-street, in
the presence of 20,000 people, all of whom approved of
the act."
The accounts from the mines continued to be very
satisfactory. One vein in Miraposa, worked by a
steam-machine, was realising from 600 dolls. to
1,500 dolls. daily. A company of four men, working a
quartz mine at Mount Ophir, were takiag'out on an
average 3,000 dolls. a fortnight; and the Canon Creek
Milling Company were realising upwards of 5,000
dolls. per day. A very large and destructive fire had
occurred at Marysville, California, supposed to be the
work of an incendiary, by which upwards of SO build-
ings had been destroyed. The loss is estimated at up-
wards of 500,000 dolls.
The steam-ship Pacific, Captain Bally, arrived at
San Juan del Sud on September 20, with 220 pas-
sengers, and 100,000 dolls. in gold dust on freight,
having left San Francisco on the 6th of September.
The steam-ship North America left San Juan del
Sad on the 20th ult., with 250 passengers, for San
Francisco. The steam-ship Gold Hunter left San
Juan del Sad on the 21st for San Francisco. The
steam-ship Monumental City left on the 21st for
Reehjo, thence to Panama.
The clipper ship Flying Cloud had mar? the run
from New York to 'San Francisco in eighty-nine
days, the quickest ever accomplished.
Intelligence from the city of Mexico to the Ist
inst. states that disturbances had broken out in several
parts of northern Mexico, and that Government had
sent 3,000 men to defend Tehuantepec. Don Fer-
nando Ramnez had accepted the appointment of
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and was charged with
the formation of a new Cabinet.

THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.

DOVER, SATURDAY.—Yesterday the great cable,
for telegraphic communication between this country
and the Continent, the progressive stages of which
have already been recorded, was at length completed
by carrying it up one mile out of the sea to Sangatte,
on the Calais coast. Telegraphic communication be-
tween Calaie and the South Foreland—the latter about
three miles from Dover---was practically, and, for the
first time through a perfected sea cable, effected be-
tween coast and coast; and it is therefore hoped that
no interruption will arise to continuous and success-
ful telegraphic intercourse, when arrangements at
present pending are completed. The portion of cable
that has just been added on the main length is one
mile long, and was manufactured during the week
at "Wapping, in the same way as the entire cable,
and was worked off the wire rope machine in about
a day. It left the Thames on Tuesday by the
Red Rover steamer; and though only weighing be-
tween seven and eight tons, it had to be taken to
Dover and Sangatte by water, as it could not be
conveniently coiled up into the compass of a rail-
way truck, and sent by the South-Eastern Railway,
which would have been the means of forwarding it
faster. On arriving at the point on the French coast
where the extremity of the cable, a mile out at sea,
was anchored to the pilot buoy, the Red Rover was
joined by the Fearless, Captain Bullock, R.N., who
has remained upon the spot until the operations should
be completed. Here the end of the submerged cable
was hauled up by the workmen on board the steamer,
and the additional mile spliced on to complete it, the
"join" being secured by iron clamps screwed over it.
The inner cores of copper wires were braized together,
and the overlapping strands of gutta percha, bitumized
yarn, and galvanized iron wire securely interwoven.
As calm a state of high water as possible was selected
by Captain Bullock for the purpose, so as to prevent
the pitching of the vessel from affecting so nice an
operation. The part of the cable where the "join"
occurs is thought to be as strong as any part where
nothing of the kind occurs ; but is is curious that it
should exist at this particular place, where it will have
to contend against the ebrasion of shingle on the beach
and other casualties, and which in the experiment of
last year sawed asunder the gutta percha cable on the
rocks round Cape Girsnez. The communication is
now perfect between coast and coast, though it suited
parties and purposes to say it was so before. Captain
Bullock, who co-operated throughout with his valuable
nautical knowledge, left Calais to-day with the Fear-
less for Portsmouth ; and it is only fair to mention
that the unskilful manner in which the cable was paid
out, and which resulted in its short coming, is gene-
rally attributed here to the engineers and not to those
who piloted the expedition, and who state that one of
the chief causes of the cable running short arose from
the fact that while the Mazer was being towed out
by the Fearless at only two miles an hour, the cable
at certain intervals was run out at the rate of four and
five miles an hour, which necessarily caused it, from
want of regularity in the delivery motion, to take the
sea-bottom in a series of loops or "kinks," thus ac-
counting for each mile of cable not covering its allotted
mile of sea. The affair since it happened has been
the general subject of conversation here, particularly
among the sea worthies, who ask how it was " the
landlubbers did not take out enough yarn," and that
in this case the " miss was good as a mile." It is
now regretted that Mr. Cubitt, the company's head
engineer, and who is well known for marine engineer-
ing, was not present with the expedition.
It is not yet known at what precise date the wires
to connect the cable at the South Foreland with the
telegraph-office of the South-Eastern Company here
will be completed, but this would be only the work
of a day or so, as during the past week the connecting
wires for the purpose have been manufactured. They
consist of the usual copper wires enclosed in gutta
percha, the latter to protect it, being covered with
spun yarn, it being known that gutta percha, on ex-
posure, expands with heat and contracts with cold.
The wires, forming about a two-inch chord in diame-
ter, will have to be run for about three miles along
the coast intervening between Dover and the South
Foreland. Some negotiations have been going on be-
tween the promoters of the Submarine Telegraph
Company and the South-Eastern Railway Company,
with the view of establishing some working arrange-
ment, but nothing conclusive has been come to,
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be sent from here to Paris, by arrangment with
the Great Northern of France and other rail-
ways, for 155., being about ss. more than is
now charged for a similar message between
London and Liverpool or London and Dover; so that
probably, although nothing is yet known as to the
tariff, the expense of an imponderable dispatch of this
kind between London and Paris will come to 20s.
Should no arrangement be made with the South-
Eastern Railway, the promoters have power under
their charter to run wires between London:and Dover
along the high road. Considerable difficulty is of
necessity experienced in the adjustment of any tariff
in connexion with an enterprise so novel, nor is the
matter found to be susceptible of such careful esti-
mate, as in the carrying out and construction of a
railway. For these reasons it has been found diffi-
cult to state with certainty the amount of revenue to
be derived from the undertaking, to enable it to pay
as a commercial speculation. It has been calculated
that the submarine telegraph will be capable of print-
ing 100 messages of fifteen words each in 100 conse-
cutive minutes, and that if the whole of the commu-
nications between Europe, Great Britain, India, and
America, might be supposed to 'employ eight wires
twelve hours a day, it would give a return of 96,0001.
per annum, at a tariff of only one shilling per
message of fifteen words. It is calculated, however,
that when the four or more cables are completed and
in full operation the probable return will be 25,0001.
per annum, after allowing for working expenses
and maintenance of telegraph and works. The cost
of the present cable has amounted to about 16,0001.,
or with contingencies to about 20,000/. The proba-
bility is that the remaining cables intended to be laid
down will cost 20,0001. each, which will render a
costlier scale of tariff necessary. The sources of re-
venue calculated upon are the Government dispatches
of the different countries, the newspapers (English
and foreign), the public funds, the Paris Bourse and
London Stock Exchange, bankers, merchants, Lloyd's
correspondents, markets, India mails, and general
messages.

A theatre may be taken as a kingdom in epitome,
which requires a clear, quick, executive head, to keep
in order and harmony a host of conflicting elements.
The public see only the effect, end not being behind
the scenes or initiated into any knowledge of the in-
tricate machinery, have no idea o the incessant labour
both of mind and body through which the effect they
see is produced. All appears so simple and easy that
they cannot imagine where there can be any difficuly.
We are not among the self-glorifying critics who
write ourselves down as infallible, and fancy, exoSicio,
that we understand every man's trade by inspiration
better than he does himself ty long practice. As
most people think they can poke a flee more cleverly
than their neighbours, so is it a common delusion '
among many that they can manage a theatre better
than the manager. According to these philanthropic
meddlers nothing can be more transparent than his
business if ho would only nederstand it, or take
advice. But he is obstinately wedded to his in-
capacity, and resolved to be he own executioner. If
some of these liberal counselers would try conclu-
sions by actual' experiment, a month, perhaps, might
alter their opinions, and they would be glad to com-
pound for an exchange from the manager's chair of
uneasy dignity to the bed of Frocruetes, or the gentle
pastime of the tread-mill. We are not of Mr. Kean's
cabinet council, and of course cannot pretend to speak
from an official scrutiny of figures, but we have heard
on good authority, and congrutulate him accordingly,
that the result of his first yet of management has far
exceeded his most sanguine expectations. To wind
up a long season with a good substantial balance of
several thousands on the right side, is to accomplish
a feat as difficult as untying the- Gordian knot, and
almost of as rare occurrence as the blossoming of the
aloe. Let all due honour then be accorded to the
skill and perseverance which _have realised this pro-
digy, and to the general commanding, who has car-
ried through a hazardous cempaign with such con-
summate ability.
For a long time it has been proclaimed at every
market cross, with bell, boot, and candle, that the
national stage of Great Britain is in a rapid decline,
that its days are numbered, and that it is stricken
with a mortal disease which (fies cure. For months
and years we have been told Gaily in emphatic phrase,
and have read in most undeniable print, that the legi-
timate drama is dying, dead, some even say, buried,
with a tomb to its memory, End utterly forgotten by
all except a few weeping motrners who fondly await
its resurrection ; as the monks and other old ladies in
Portugal believe still in the return of Don Sebastian,
and the Brahmins in India expect hourly the avatar
of Vishnoo. According to these light-hearted, en-
couraging theorists, we have neither actors to act,
nor a public to appreciate
genuine acting, if the
opportunity was vouchsafed to them. But in the
face of all this, night after
night we have gone to
the Princess's Theatre, where we have witnessed
some of the brightest creations of Shakspere's
genius, Hamlet, Henry the Fourth, The Merchant
of Venice, Twelfth Night, As You Like 11, performed
in constant repetition, to the evident delight of
crowded and fastidious audiences. Henry the Fourth,
as then revived, had a longer ran, and produced more
remunerative receipts than had ever attended that play
during the time which is usually referred to with
groans of lamentation as the most flourishing
epoch
of the British stage. Twelfth Night has been acted
forty-one nights, with a cast in which there was no
blemish, including in the foremost rank the Viola of
Mrs. C. Kean, the Sir Andrew Agueeheek of Keeley,
and the Clown of Harley, which have never been
surpassed. The Wife's Secret continues to be re-
ceived with undiminished popularity; The Gamester,
and the old comedy of Town and Country, have been
revived with admirable effect, while the gorgeous
spectacular play of The Templar, and the English
version of Mdlle. de Belle Isle, The Duke's Wager,
with Bourcicault's sparkling comedy of Love in a
Maze, may ha enumerated among novelties of un-
usual success, in an age when, to meet the characte-
ristic impatience, novelties are required to succeed
each other as rapidly as the shifting forms of the sum-
mer clouds. The Christmas pantomime proved, as
usual, a sheet-anchor; and the Easter spectacle of
the Alhambra, with the little interlude of Apartments
to Let, supported by the inimitable acting of Mr. and
Mrs. Keeley, have occupied their places iu the bills
for more than six months.
While reverting to the varied list of performances
at this theatre, we cannot forget the breathless atten-
tion with which the audience was rivetted down to
the harrowing incidents of Pauline—the intense
energy and truthfulness with which
and hichMrs. e I
pioerewanino-
vested the character of the heroine,f
original conception displayed by Mr. Kean in the
part of Horace de Beaupr6—a delineation which
spectators to lose their disgust at har-
dened villany in astonishment atthe power of the
compelled the
actor, working as a magicians spell, and bearing be-
fore it all the rules of ordinary reasoning.
In the various dramas we have enumerated above
there has been admirable acting in the principal cha-
racters, the most minute attentidon. and support in the
subordinates, the text carefully elive.red, scenery new
anfd the managers of the
country, with a studied correctness
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we imagine we de, the impression they produce on us,
and the full houses attracted by their combined exer-
tions, and at the same time are continually told there
are neither actors nor audiences lett, we are almost
compelled to doubt our own physical existence and
perceptive faculties • we begin to suspect that every-
thing must be a delusion, and that Bishop Berkeley
was the soundest of philosophers when he proclaimed
the non-existence of a material world. But facts are
stubborn evidences, and neverfail.in the long run to
vindicate themselves when weighed against flimsy
theories. We believe the palpable evidence of our
senses in preference to vague assertions. We aro sa-
tisfied that the drama is neither dead, nor dying, nor
in danger of dissolution. If there is disease it is tempo-
rary, and the consequences, though debilitating, are not
fatal. The obscurity of a passing eclipse renders the
brightness that follows the more conspicuous. Good
actors are to be found, although not under every hedge,
as Stephen Kenible informed Liston when he offended
him. There aro managers who know how to distin-
guisli talents and place them in their appropriate 1

COTIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
The state of monetary affairs during the 2d, 3d, and
4th inst., at New York and Boston, may be described
as one of panic, which, however, had greatly subsided
at the date of the steamer leavin,r. There was a great
and unnecessary run on the Was, which, however,
stood firm.

The extension of the telegraphic wire to Marseilles
is now looked upon in Prance as an indispensable
adjunct to the completion of the submarine telegraph,
since the ramification of the wires between Paris and
that port would place the capitals of both countries
in instantaneous communication with the Mediterra-
nean. The cost of doing this, by completing the link
between Chalons and Avignon, is estimated at under
3.0001. On the other hand, the telegraphic commu-
ideation is now completed from Ostend to Trieste,
giving a through stretch of telegraphic communica-
tion little short of 2,000 miles. Telegraphic extension
is also progressing throughout the east of Europe.
Three great routes are now being laid down through
the interior of Hungary; and the Turkish Govern-
ment have come to the determination of laying down
the telegraph in Turkey, and it already reaches
Brussels, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna, and the Adriatic.
It is a somewhat curious coincidence that, although
the establishment of a submarine or continental tele-
graph originates with British enterprise, England
will be the last stage in the transmission, and the last
recipient of all its European intelligence, although,
from the instantaneousness of the method of commu-
nication, the intelligence, whatever the boundaries,
may be said to be übiquitous. It is not to be ex-
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Some failures aro recorded; amongst others, Dexter,
Harrington, and Co.; P. R. Southwick and Co.; J. S.
Gould; J. Earle, jun., all of Boston; and David Piu-
gree, of Salem. The latter was quite unexpected. At
one time the stringency at Boston wus so great as to be
equalled only by the pressure of 1837. The arrivals of
specie from California would serve to counteract the
effects of the exportation of specie to this country.

NEW YORK, TUESDAY EVENING.
Exchange.--Foreign—The Market is heavy. We
quote as follows;—On London, 109:1 to 1101; Paris GO
day bills, sf. 15c.; and short sight, sf. We.; on Am-
sterdam, 4141 to 41i; on liamburgh, 361 to 36i1; Bremen,
781 to 7q.
Flour, &c.—ln western and state flour there is but
little doing, and the market for common descriptions is
heavy; prices, however, are without material change.
3 dolls. 68ie. to 3 dolls. 75c. for common to straight
state; 3 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls. for Now Michigan and
Indiana; and 4 dolls. 121 c. to 4 dolls. 25c. for pure
Geunesee.

There is but little Canadian Dour offering, and the
market is very firm at 4 dolls, for good common super-
fine. Southern flour is unchanged, and the sales are
quite moderate, at 3 dolls. 87ic. to 4 dolls. for old, and
4 dolls. 121 e. too dolls. 25c. for new mixed to good brand.
Grain—ln the wheat market there is more doing, but
holders have been compelled to accept a shade easier
prices in order to realise. For corn. there is less in-
quiry, and the market favours the purchaser. There
are no contract lots offering; sales of 10,000 bushels
were wade at 551 a 58c. for unsound to good merchant-
able. Oats are unchanged, and moderate sales are making
at 39 a 40c. for State, and 34 a 36c. for Jersey.
Cotton—The market for this staple is quiet, and
drooping. No sales of any magnitude are reported this
morning, and yesterday only 500 bales were disposed of.

ENCLOSURE OF HAINAULT FOREST.—On Friday
the Commissioners appointed under the recent Act of Parlia-
ment for the clearance and cultivation of Ilainault Forest
commenced their operations for its disreforestment. At
eleven o'clock the Commissioners assembled at the Ridino,
bridge, Ilford, where they were met by the verdereis and
other forest officials, and from thence proceeded to ascertain
the limits of the forest, placing boundary marks at fixed dis-
tanceF. The enclosure will also include that portion called
King's Forest or Wood. Immediately on the boundary
lilt-lee being settled, the felling and removal of the trees will
ennune
nee • and on the ground being cleared, it will be por-
tioned 'Alt in allotments, and placed wader cultivation,

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Commander J. J. M'Donnell (1846), hes been
appointed to the Crane, G, late packet-brig, at
Devonport.
Commanders—David Robertson has been ap-
pointed from Grimsby coast-guard station to Ald-
borough district, as inspecting commander, vice J.
R. Ward, period of service expired; Augustus John
Woodley, from Scilly to Swanage district, as in-
specting commander, vice E. W. Pillington, period
of service expired ; George Beadon to be inspecting
commander of Scilly district, vice Woodley, re-
moved; Richard Studdert to be inspecting com-
mander of the Donaghadee district, vice H. C.
Hurston, resigned ; Thomas Cochran to be inspecting
commander of the Grimsby district, vice D. Robert-
son, removed.

Lieutenants—R. A. Buchanan has been appointed
from Buckie coast-guard station to Dungeness
station, vice W. Lidstone, removed ; Henry Collins,
from Katerline to Buckle, vice Buchanan.
Chaplain—Rev. J. N. Russell to the Waterloo,
120, Sheerness.

Second Masters—William Lidstone has been ap-
pointed from Dungeness coast-guard station to En-
chantress station, vice W. F. Hort, deceased.
Masters Assistants—W. S. Hebrook and Thomas
Warr, to the Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich.
Commander Archibald G. Bulman (1844), we re-
gret to state, died on the 9th instant at Southamp-
ton, aged 53. This gallant officer, it will be re-
membered, was promoted for his excellent service in
the command of the Fair Rosamond, in the West
Indies, and has recently come home invalided from
the same station from the command of the Persian, 12.
Lieutenant John A. Sanford died at Haslar on
Wednesday last, at the early age of 26 years. He
was son of one of the Members for Somerset. He
was Second Lieutenant of the Dauntless screw-fri-
gate ; was one of the most promising young officers
in the service, and was beloved ; his decease will be
sincerely deplored by every one of his messmates and
acquaintances.
Paymaster Shugar (1795), died at Portsea last
week, aged 76.
Commander-in-Chief Vice. Admiral Sir G. F. Sey-
mour, C. 8., G.C.H., was in his flag-ship, the Cum-
berland, 70, at Halifax on the sth instant, and will
leave for the West Indies about the first week of the
next month.

The royal yacht tender, the Fairy, Master-Com-
mander Welsh, arrived yesterday morning at Ports-
mouth, and went into harbour. The Victoria and Al-
bert royal yacht will now go up to her moorings, and
be laid up for the winter.
Frolic, 16, Commander Vansittart, has gone along-
side Portsmouth Dockyard, and will be paid off on
Thursday. She has been a most happy ship during
the whole term of her commission, and has come home
in excellent order.
Hecate, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hand, has
been ordered to be detached from Commodore Mar-
tin's command at Lisbon, and to return at once to
Spithead.

Hercules, 74, store-ship, went out of Portsmouth
harbour and anchored at Shithead on Saturday
afternoon. She has on board a quantity of stores for
Malta. She is manned by the Bellerophon, but will
probably proceed to Malta before that ship.
Modeste, 14, Commander Lord W. Compton, left
Devonport for Leghorn on Friday.
WRECK or A FRENCH CORVETTE.—lntelligence
has reached us, by the overland mail, of the wreck of
a fine frigate of war belonging to the French Republic,
called the Alcmene, mounting 3G guns, commanded
by M. Le Compte d'Harcourt, on the west coast of
Sidney, New South Wales. Towards the latter end
of June she proceeded on a voyage from Hobart
Town, and on the 3d of July, when between Kiapara
Head and llockianga Heads she was driven ashore on
a formidable ridge of sand. All exertions proved
fruitless in getting her off. Nearly the whole of the
crew succeeded in reaching the coast, but unappily
all were not preserved, between 12 and 15 poor fel-
lows having perished in trying to reach the beach.
Several of the officers and men, after obtaining aid,
pushed their way on to Auckland, and having in-
formed the governor of the lamentable event, his Ex-
cellency instantly adopted the most prompt measures
to afford them assistance. The lost of the frigate will
reach to upwards of 30,0001.

•
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Rattler screw-sloop,
Commander Mellersh, received orders on Friday
night to proceed to sea yesterday, and Lord Frederick
Fitzclarence, the Lieutenant-Governor of this gar-
rison, Lady and Miss Fitzclarence, and suite, em-
barked this morning for passage to Madeira. The
Governor was most cordially greeted on his embarka-
tion at the Victoria-pier, whereon was congregated a
large assemblage of the military and the townspeople,
although the weather was very unfavourable for the
exhibition of any " demonstration." Prior to his
leaving, the town-council of this borough voted him
(Lord Fitzclarence) an address, expressive of their
gratitude for the many benefits he had endeavoured
to confer upon the town by improving the suburbs,
and regret at the cause of his premature removal from
the military presidency of the district.
By letters from China, to hand yesterday, we are
informed of the holding, and of the result of, the Court
for the trial of Commander Peter Cracroft and the
officers and crew of her Majesty's screw-sloop Rey-
nard, lost or, the Batas Shoal, in the China Seas, on
the 31st of May last. The court-martial assembled
at Penang on the 3d ult., on board the Fox, 42,
Commodore Lambert, and consisted of the Commodore
as president, and Captains Austen, of the Hastings, and
Barker, of the Amazon; Commanders Shadwell, of the
Sphynx, and Tarleton, of the Fox. The Court having
heard all the evidence in support of the case, and what
the prisoners hed to allege in their defence, found that
Commander Cracroft and Mr. M'Ausland, the master
of her Majesty's ship Reynard, had committed an
error in judgment in approaching the shoal at all on
the south side, and that the evidence showed that no
soundings had been tried for (it was also shown in
evidence there were " no soundings" thereabout) nor
leads kept going; and that, nevertheless, the conduct
of Commander Cracroft and the officers had been
most exemplary and praiseworthy since the vessel was
lost, and that they bad done all in their power to save
her, and had not abandoned her until all further at-
tempts were useless ; therefore, in consideration
thereof, the Court only adjudged Commander Cra-
croft and Mr. M'Ausland to be admonished to be
more careful in future. The other officers and ship's
company were, of course, fully acquitted. Every
officer in the squadron, without exception, regrets
that Commander Cracroft was not " fully acquitted,"
for a more skilful navigator and better officer, not-
withstanding this unfbrtunate casualty, does not exist
in the service. In returning him his sword on the
rising of the Court the President delivered it with a
very handsome acknowledgment of Commander Cm-
croft's high merit and professional character, which
we sincerely trust will weigh favourably in the minds
of the Lords of the Admiralty. Commander Cracroft
caught the mail just after the close of the Court, and
arrived at Malta in the Indus. He may therefore be
expected in England daily.
The Hastings, 72, Rear-Admiral Austen • the Fox
42, Commodore Lambert; the Amazon, 26' Captain'
Barker ; Serpent, 12, Commander Luard ;
Sphynx
steam-sloop, Commander Shadwell, were all at Pe-
nang on the 4th ult.
The Salamander steam-sloop proceededA from Hong
Kong to \Vhampoa on the 20th of
the Pilot, which was ordered to recruit usutsiti,e tho
areltlhievoef
her crew by moving. Mr. C. D. Moultrie, midship-
man,e a fine promising young man, of the Pilot, died
on board the Alligator on the 15th of August, and
was buried on the following day in the " Happy
Valley," at Hong Kong, with military honours.
The following appointments, promotions, and
changes, have taken place in the China squadron :
Mr. Spratt, Mate of the Hastings, to beLieutenant,
vice Partridge, of the Fox, invalided.
Mr. Eady, Mate of the Amazon, to be Lieutenant,
vice Strode, of the Hastings, invalided.
Mr. Copland, Mate of the Cleopatra, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Hallowes, invalided.
Mr. Ford, Mate, to join the Amazon, from the Fox.
Assistant-Surgeon Digan, M.D., to be Surgeon of
the Cleopatra, vice Hare, invalided.
Assistant-Surgeon Addison, late of the Hastings,
to be Surgeon.
Mr. Edwards, late Midshipman of the sphynx, is
awaiting passage to England.
THE COAST OF AFRICA SQUADRON.
By letters from this station we are informed the
Cyclops arrived at Loando on the 12th of August,
with troops on board from England for the Cape, and