The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-18 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18. 1833.

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, OCT. 15.—We learn that M. G. G.
Clifford, who held, ad interim, the Department of National
Manufactures and Colonies, has been honourably discharged
by his Majesty from that office, and imme,liately afterwards
appointed Minister of State, and Member of the First
Chamber of the States General. His Majesty has also
appointed Count Van Limbuu S'irum, general of infantry,
and governor of this town, to he a Member of the First
Chaatber. The apartment of National Manufactures is
to he given to that of Foreign Affairs, and that of the
Colonies to remain for the present detached, and the ex.
pense of it, after January 1, 1834, to be defrayed by the
Indian Treasury,
Accounts from Utrecht, of October 12, state that the
cholera, which prevailed there on the Bth of June,
bad ceased. There had been no new cases for some days
past, nor were there any patients remaining.
We learn from Zealand that several merchants of Ant.
werp continue to realize their property, in order to remove
their commercial establishments to Holland. Several
ships, either Belgian property or lading on account of
Belgian houses, have received orders on arriving off the
isle of Walchereu to proceed to Rotterdam.

THE HAGUE, Ocr. 11.—(Fmm a letter.)—We learn
that Prince Schwattzenberg yesterday delivered to Baron
Von Zuylen Van Nieveldt, as Minister f x Foreign Af-
f,irs, the despatches which he has broueht for the Dutch
Government. This forenoon the. Cabinet Council met and
eat till nearly half-past two, after which Prince Schwart-
zenberg had the honour to be presented to his Majesty.

AMSTERDAM, OCT. 15.—We have the folk-wing letter
from the forts on the Scheldt, dated the 13th inst :—" La.t
night, at about ten o'clock, the Belgians again made :.n
heroic attempt to surprise two of our soldiers, who, with.
out arms, were attending the cows on the Dike within our
territory, and had gone to sit down in a hut. Luckily.
they were net asleep when the Belgians came, and one of
them, hearing a noise, went out to see what it might he.
The Belgians accompanied their qui vive with firing a
musket, which flashed in the pan ; on which, finding that
the cowherd was not alone, but seeing a second come out
with a hay fork, took flight before this force of two rcen,
which was too strong for them, and who pursued them to
the frontiers. -

HAARLEM, OCT. 14.—0 n the Exchange of Amster-
dam, on Saturday, the Funds were much depressed,
owing to the low prices from Paris. The 2i- per Cents.
Were at 46k; Five per Cents. 90/ ; Synd. 44- per Cents.
•3i; Three and a-half per Cents. 67 3-16.
To-day the prices were again very low. The decline
in the Funds at London, on the 11th, seems particularly
to have an effect. The 2i. per Cents. 46 3-16 ; Five per
Cents. 89 5.16 ; Amort Synd 42 per Cents. 82i.

DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, Ocr. 15.
Actual Debt, .216 per cent 454i to 4616
An» t Syndic, 416 per cent B2i to 83
Ditto, ditto, 316 per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent
Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent. 1 89N
Ditto, 1833, 5 per Cent.
Exchange on London 1,202 5.10 to 10
Ditto, two months
—Dutch Papers, Oct. 16.
ST PETERSBURG t. SEPT. 30 —The journals continue
to give account. (mostly from the German papers) of the
journey of the Emperor to Germany and Poland.
After reviewing the Limps at Modlin, and inspecting
the works of the new citadel of Warsaw, which will be
completed in a year, his Majesty retired to Mod in, and
on the 26th, in the morning, inspected a b ittalion of the
regiment of Archangel, which, having been on duty, could
not be reviewed with the other troops. Hi. Majes y
hiErhly commended the fine appearance of the men, and,
after having cordially thanked the Marshal and the Gene-
rals of his army, set out for St. Petersburgh, Liking the
road to Kowno. At Ostrolenka his Majesty stopped to
view the celebrated field of battle (260. May), or whi.h
General Bug, who had taken an active part in that bril•
lianr affair, gave him a description on the spot. Tne
ereatent aqonishini-nt w is excited by the sight of the long
bridge, the planks of which hail been taken up, and
which was, notwithstanding, passid by some of our batt
ions under the grape-shot of the enemy, and in face at his
whole army, the several corps of which were repeatedly
repulsed by the unNhik-n intie idity of our grenadiers.
This memorable day ended in their total rout.
Having crossed the kingdom of Poland in its greatest
breadth, from Kalisch to Kowno, his Imperial 11.1,jesty
arrived on the 28th of September, in perfect health, at
Czsrskozeselo, where her Mdj..stv the Empress now is.—
St. Petersburgh Journal, Oct. 2.

A shark, 54 feet long, supposed to be about
three years old, was caught by some fishermen on Tuesday
in the Woodbridge river.—Bury Herald.
ELGIN CATHEDRAL.--11l Consequence of
the important discovery of four steps to the grand west
entrance, which has been bid for aces past by rubbish, the
Exchequer m!)st readily ordered an excavaiion of the pre-
sent approach, and a Right of stone steps to bring the
visiter at once to the new level. The effect thus produced,
by restoring to its original and just proportion this magiii-
thient entrance, which has ever been au object of admiration
to architects, artists, and all persons of taste from every part
of the island, will be exceedingly striking. The directions
ofof
completion.—Elgin King's architect
Courier:tforth
this purpose are now in progress

M. de St. Sauveur, the French Consul at
S Monica, has lately presented to the Kind some antique
Greek marbles, found in Macedonia. They consist of
heads of divines and kings, funeral monuments, orna-
mented with bas.reliefs and inscriptions, a colossal bust,
supposed to be that of Persiu., the last King of Macedon,
arid a colossal statue of Diana. His Majesty has sent
them to the Museum of the Louvre, and has presented to
M. de St. Sauveur, in return, a magnificent dessert ser-
vice of Sevres porcelain.

The following is a statement of the number
of French merchant vessels, on the lit of January, of
the years 1830 1831. 1832.
Total number of vessels 14,742 14,852 15,031
Vessels built
Reduction by shipwrecks, &c.... 587
Vessels of SOO tons and upwards 2
Vessels from 700 to 8,0
600 to 700
500 to 600
400 to 500
SOO to 400
200 to 300
100 to 200 1,345
60 to lull
30 to 60.... l,lOl 1,0-',6
30 and under 9,883 .....10.071 10,358

Total 14,742 14,852 ......15,031

'rite President of the United States, on the
18th ult., read to the Cabinet a long statement of his rea-
sons for making a public avowal of the feelings and views
which had induced him to assume the responsibili y of
directing the Government deposits to be withdrawn from
the Bank of the United States, and to be ph: Rd in that
of the States. It embodies very grave and ~;etions charges
against the administration of the bank in question ; but
much doubt appears to have been felt whether the charges,
even if proved, were of such a nature as to warrant the
President in withdrawing the deposits before the meeting
of Congress, which was so soon to assemble. The Secre-
tary of the Treasury, it appears, declared there was no
necessity for such a course, and rather than lend his aid
to the President's resolution he would resign his appoint-
mitt.

COWES, OCT. 15.—0 n Sunday last the
brigantine Rival, of Kingston, in Jamaica, Charles Henry
Coulsting, arrived here from Havannab. One of the
crew, Foren, was dangerously ill, reported to have fallen
down the forecastle; the man was immediately landed,
and in three quarters of an hour of erwards he died. On
a coroner's inquest being held on the body, which lasted
all Monday and yesterday, the jury, composed of 15 of
the most respectable tradesmen of this town, returned a
verdict against the master, Charles Henry Coulsting,
the wihul murder of Charles Forel]. The vessel had a
passage of 66 days to Cowes, during which time they
were short of provisions, and the master was obliged to
put them on allwance. The ship's company were much
prejudiced against the master, and from the evidence given
by tee mate and ship's crew, that Foren was sick when
he was taken on board at the HavAnnali, and the master
having lost two men from sickness during the passage,
and the vessel much disabled, tin ced him to do the ship's
duty by violence and repeatedly beating him. Notwith-
standing there wasi some contradictio❑ in the statement of
the witnesses on sonic points, it did appear to the Jury,
who very impartially and carefully heard the evidence that
was adduced, that the treatment Foren had received be-
yond all doubt accelerated his death.

BELGIAN COMMERCE-POST-OFFICE.

(From the Times.)

13RLELS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 15. The
followii7 is the reciprocal of _.ct of the differential
duties yiow• in force in England and Belgium respec-
--
tively,ln favour of their native begs. The difference.
in this country on the import duties in favour of
13elgiEvi vessels, amounts t ten per cent., and on a
clrgolof 200 tons it will affect the principal articles
of for4gn produce as follows :
Asirta.—The duty on 200 tons will be 1,809 florins ;
the di pace is. therefore, 180 florins 80 cents., and the
effect o 'le freight is at the rate of 3 per cent., the ave-
rage aTo , which in mercantile phrase is earned on the
same from the United States, being 6,000 florins, or 21.51.
a ton.

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COFFEES.—A vessel of 200 tons burden will load 160
tons. The average freight from the Brazils, at the rate
of 51., will matte 6,400 florins, the duties .vill be 3,616
florins, and the difference of 10 per cent. 361 florins 60
cents., so that the effect on the freight is 5} per cent.
CorroNs.—The same vessel will not carry more than
100 tons. The average freight from the United States,
is 5-Bths of a penny per pound, or 7,000 florin 3, the du-
ties 904 florins, the 10 per cent. difference 90 florins 40
cents., or one and a third per cent. on the freight.

HVOKs. —This cargo will not exceed 100 tons, the
freigh7.l64run South Amel jet will be 5/. per ton, or 6,000
florins ; the duties 282 florins 50 cents., the 10 per cent.
difference 28 florins 25 cents., or one-half per cent. on
the freight.

DYEWOODS.-Campeachy or filmic, the full cargo of
200 tons, the average freight from the West Indies 3/. 10s.
per ton, or 9.000 florin•, the duties 452 florins, the 10
per cent. difference 45 florins 20 cents., or one-half per
cent. on the freight.

RICE —Also 200 tons, the average freight from the
United States 3/. per ton, or 7,200 florins, the duties
678 florins, and the 10 per cent. difference 67 florins 80
cents., or five sixths per cent.
SUGAR.-200 tons, average freight from Cuba or the
Brazil. 41. per ton, or 10,000 florins, duties of customs
on 200 tons by foreign vessels 1,808 florins, 10 per cent.
difference 180 florins 80 cents., or four-fifths per cent.
On the importation of sugars Belgian vessels have an
advantage over foreigners of 70 cents. per hundred kilo-
graffiti-les on the special duty, which on 200 tons makes
1,582 fin, ins, or 15 4.sths per cent. on the freight.
TOBACCO.-200 tons or 200 hogsheads, average freight
50s. per ton, or 6,000 firing, duties 1,107 florins, 10 per
cent. difference 110 florins 70 cents. or 1 5-6th per cent.
on the freight.

On the other hand, this system of differential
duties in force in Belgium in favour of the mitional
fl tg, to the amount of 10 per cent. on the import
duties, is mil in England by an augmentation of
20 per cent, on the eonsump'ion duties, in case the
produce of Belgium be imported in Belgian vessels,
and not in those of English registry. Taking, as
before, the vessel of 200 tons as the basis of calcu-
lation, the result on the chief articles of importation
will be as follows :
OAK-BARK.-120 tons, freight 255. per ton, or 1,800
florins, duties 960 II trios, 20 per cent., difference, 192
fl,rins, or 11 ter cent. on tie freight.
FLAX —l5O tons, average freight 20a. per ton, or
1.800 florins, dutie- 150 fl trios, 20 per cent. difference,
30 (lir inq, or 1 per cent.
BUTTER.—IBO tons, freight 159. per ton, or 1,620
fl 'ring, drive, 43 200 florins. 20 per cent. cl,fference,
S 620 flains, am 20 per cent, on the freight.
CHEESE..-180 Mi., freight 15s per ton, or 1,620
fl trios, duties 22,680 florins 620 p.r cent. difference,
4,538 fioriro, or 320 percent. on the freight.
NIADDERS.-200 'one, freight 124. 6d. per ton, or
1,500 fl.ii ins, duties 14,400 fl 'ring, 20 per Gent. diffe-
tenet', 2,880 fl ,rin.m, or 190 per cent. on the freight.
SALTED HIDES.-200 tons, freight 12.4 61. per ton,
or 1,500 flririns ; duties 5 560 florins, 20 per cent. dif-
ference, 1,003 II ,rins, or 75 p. r cent. on h-• fr,ght.
SHEEP'S WooL.—So toils, freight 2,1)00 florins; duties
8,960 farina ; 20 per cent. diff.renee, 1,792 th,rins, or
90 tier cent, on the freight,
CLOVER SEED.-200 tons, freight at 18., or 2,160
florins; duties 48 000 florins, 20 per cent. difference,
9 600 florins, or 400 per cent. on the freight.
LINSEED.-100 lasts, freight 1,800 florins ; dories 600
ti wins, 20 per cent. difference, 120 florins, or 7 per cent.
on the freight.
OIL CAKE.-200 tons, freight at 155., 1.800 fi.mrins ;
duties 20 florins; 20 per cent, difference, 1 fl trio, and
SO not perceptibly affecting the freight.
These calculations will be duly appreciated by the
Parties who take an interest in the subject, and do
not therefore call for any imme4lia.e observation.
TUESDAY EVENING.—The Moniteur Beige, in
two leading paragraphs, announces the arrival in
Brussels of General St. Cyr Nugues, the chef
d'etat major of the French army of the north, and
the removal of the head-quartets of the first divi-
sion of the Belgian army from Louvaine to Diest.
This approach toward Maesrricht, and the scene of
the former irruption of the Dutch in August, 1831,
is naturally regarded as a demonstration of the reso-
lution of this Government to oppose itself by force
of arms to the violation of the territory, for the pur-
pose of relieving the garrison; while the arrival of
General St. Cyr is an indication sufficiently intel-
ligible that the French Government is equally ready,
if need be, to lend its aid in exacting the strict
performance by Holland of those clauses of the con-
vention of the 21st of May which relitie to the re-
moval of the obstructions which 5011 impede the
navigation of the Meuse, before it is put in posses-
slot' of the co-relative advantages of communicating
with this insulated fortress. Still, however, we are
tinder no s.rious apprehension of any actual colli-
sion. The King of Holland is too prudent to
expose himself to the risk of chastisement when
there is no longer anything to gain by it. The per-
formance of an act of justice towards the troops of
the garrison entitled to their discharge will not be
regarded as a sufficient motive at the Hague for
taking the initiative in any active measure of hos-
tility. It is nor passive resistaneo to an act of foreign
aggression, as in the case of the defence of the cita-
del of Antwerp, which is here in question, but the
positive violation of a ratified treaty, to which the
King of Holland is a parry, and the invasion of a
territory which, by that very convention, is declared
to be neutral and inviolable. It is, nevertheles*, an
ascertained and authenticated fact, that the mutiny
which has manifested itself among the troops of time
garrison is becoming every day more alarming. Our
conviction, however, is, that the loss of Maestricht,
through its abandonment by the garrison, would be
a smaller evil in the eyes of the Dutch Government
than the inevitable consequences of another appeal
to arms.

The Duke of Richmond, or, to speak more cor-
rectly, Mr. Freeling (who rules both his father, the
Secretary of the Post-office, and his Grace the Post-
master-General), has at length consented to a more
frequent communication with Belgium as well as
with France. As soon as the subordinate arrange-
ments are completed, there will be four arrivals and
four despatches weekly, both from London and
Brus-els, in place of two, as at present. The direc-
tor of the Belgian Post-office, M. Delfosse, proposes
to pay a visit to London, for the purpose of promot-
ing the free interchange of English and Belgian
newspapers, and of seconding the negotiations al-
ready begun in London, with a s;milar view, by M
Comte, of the French Post-office. Should the
proposal of M. Delfosse, however, be received with
the same coldness as that of M. Comte, there is no
great prospect of its leading to any useful result,
unless a question so intimately connected with the
maintenance of a good understanding between
England, France, and Belgium should be seri-
ously taken up by the public press. The obsta-
cles which have been raised in every possible quar-
ter, and on every possible pretext, to defeat the ar-
rangement in all its details, are of a nature to make
Englishmen blush, and foreigners admire our powers

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of endurance. When certain principles had been
settled, for instance, it was found impossible to carry
them into effect, becau,e it was beneath the dignity
of a Cabinet Minister to sign a convention with the
head- of the continental Post-offices, their official
rank being never higher than that of a simple di-
rector. In France this d fficulty was ultimately
got over by the King's consenting to sign the con-
vention, a precedent which will, no doubt, be fol-
lowed in this country. Mit, pray, how long is this
solemn trifling to be tolerated ? The day; to be se-
lected for the arrival and despatch of the additional
couriers will depend on an arrangement which is still
to be made between the Belgian and Prussian Go-
vernments.

On the Brussels Stock-Exchange the monthly
liquidation, which has taken place this morning, has
gone off much !Pifer than the recent depression of
the market had given reason to fear. It has been
followed by a rise on real transactions, the Perpe-
tuelle having been done at 52, and the Belgians at
91i. For the end of the month, however, there
was nothing doing. The exchange on London con-
tinues at 12 florins 5 cents. short, and at two months
12 florins.

ASSESSED TAXES.--Last night a meeting of
the Householders' Union of St. Gileta's was held at the
King's Head, Broad-street, St. Giles's, Mr. Rogers in
the Chair. Mr. Johnston and others :addressed the as-
sembly, and it was agreed that a public meeting should
be convened for next Thursday. A parishioner observed,
that, on account of the Assessed Taxes, he had not been
able to have a new coat on his back for the last eleven years.
THE RUSSIA TRADE.—The commercial
advices received from the Russian capital to the Ist inst.
state that the Russian merchants have taken alarm at the
price of tallow coming lower from London, and as they
had a considerable quantity on band, they reduced the
quotation from 130 to 125 roubles per pond, at which
large purchases were made. The total quantity shipped
from the quays up to the date of the present letters was,
135 310 casks, and there were still for sale 40,000
casks, which, with 7,500 casks bought, but not
shipped, made the total supply for this year 182,810
casks, against 153,836 casks shipped in 1832. As soon
as the contents of the letters were known here tallow fell
10s. per ton, at which it is new heavy, it not being ex-
pected that the quantity remaining on hand in Russia
would be so large. Nearly all the stock is monopolised by
speculators, who are now almost the only buyers, the con•
eumers fearing to purchase at the present rates. As the
supply of whale oil this year is now estimated at 15,000
tuna, besides 3,000 tuns left from last year's stock, a
cheap stahstitute for tallow is thus afforded, oils being now
exceedingly low in price.

• .
DEAL, OCT. 16.—We were visited last night,
about half past seven o'clock, by one of the most violent
storms of wind, rain, and hail, accompanied by tremen-
dous peals of thunder, that has been witnessed here by
the oldest inhabitant, but its ravages have not oc
casioned so touch injury as was teared. At Deal
Castle, at which Lord Carrington now resides, most
s rious apprehensions were felt by its inmates, as two
chimneys were thrown down, the materials of which
tell upon two of the beds of the visiters, and some
of the beams in the roof were broken. Much valuable
stock has been destroyed in our marshes, the cattle Lakin
fri.2,14 and running into the dikes, where they were
drowned ; but we are not apprised that anything diets
trolls took place among the vessels in the Downs, which
were numerous. The wind having shifted in the morning
nearly the whole of the outward ...un•l have proceeded to
the westward ; hut, fro•n the present appearance of th,
weather, they will he obliged to bear up ag iin.
Wednesday afternoon, between two anti three
o'c ock, as a Mrs. Maxwell and her daughter, between
eight and nine years of ag., were re urning to their resi
&nee in Seymour street. 13-yanstonssquare, from the Re
gent's-park, in passine along P.rk-road, a monkey, which
was setted on the iron rails of a g trden, unobserved by
either of them soddenly 1.,ti0-ti on the chihi'm tdmulde,
and seizing her hand with its paws and teeth, endeavoured
to ohtain an apple that she was eating; and in so doing is
itii,cted some rev re lacerations on her hand. Mrs. M.,
observing the perilous situation of her daughter, struck tb,
animal with her parasol, for the purpose of making it
relinquish its hold, when it instantly flew a• Mrs. M.'s
face and arms, which were very seriously lacerat•d before
the owner of the monkey could make it quit his hold.
The Magistrates of Marylebone police office have recen•ly
sent many of the foreign boys who perambul Ire the public
streets with monkeys, for a month to the House of Cur.
rection.

WINE AND AUTHORSHIP.—Wine, we take
it, has more to do with the styles of authors than hat,
hitherto been remarked and acknowledged. "Tell me
your company," saith the proverb, " and I'll tell you what
you are." Tell us, say we, the wine you drink, and we wi,i
tell you what manner of writing you will indulge in. The
poet will achieve little upon solid weighty port, unless be
is set in for a heavy epic ; and the historian would " fail of
his intent," if he expected to travel over the deserts and
plains of time on the momentary spirit of champagne.
Could the novelist create character and incident unoer the
quiet influence of a Rhenish potation ? or the biographer
expect "to do to the life," on the deadening draught of
base Cape ? No; as the writer imb:hea, so will he form
the style +s the insect is coloured by the leaf on which it
feeds. It would be curious to ascertain, by a reference
to the works of some of our present writers, what are the
favourite wines of the several poets and provers. Cobbett,
of course, drinks port ; not the curious, light, racy, be-
verage, long schooled in the wood and colleged in the bot-
tle, but your genuine, rude strapping, b inging, black-
strap. Lord Byron, anti indeed, he confesses it in his
journal and letters, indulged in claret—brandied claret ;
hence the strength, spirit, and flavour of his writings, anti
the yet soured views he took of all things and all me
Rogers drinks moderately of the sobering Rhine wines;
and so he always writes correctly and never loses his
memory. And Moore takes his champagne—which, it
grieves us to say, he must sometimes have bought of
Wright—and so he writes in a dazzling, sparkling style.
Scott drank all wines, and to glorious excess. Crabby
lived on hermitage, and vin-de- Grave— Strangford, upon
Lisbon. It is, we believe, a well known fact, that the
School for Scandal was written under the influence of
sherry only; and that the late John Scott wrot,, his account
of the battle of Waterloo under tent alone. We have neither
room nor time to push this curious inquiry further. But
we have started the subject sufficiently to give such of our
readers as are at the throw off, an opportunity to pursue
the hunt if they please.—Athenceum.
SINGULAR VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER.
—We question whether the annals of " Crotvner's quest
law" furnish an instance of greaser singularity of verdict
than a case we are now about to notice. On Sunday last
a three horse coach was proceeding from this town to
Manchester. When at a little distance on this side Butley
Ash, the coach door flew open, and a little girl, named
Ellen Rushton, six years old, fall out and alighted heavily
on her head. The child was taken up, apparently not
much hurt, and restored to her mother. The coach pro-
ceeded, but immediately afterwards the child was perceived
to be ill, and the coach was again stopped at the Batley
Ash. Here the child was taken out and medical assistance
sent for, but before the arrival of the surgeon the child
died. A coroner's inquest was held on the body on Wednes.
day, before Mr. John Hollins, when it ended in the return
by the jury of a verdict of "Manslauebter" against Wan.
William., who is now in custody. From inquiries we
have made, we learn the following circumstances relative
to the affair : —William Williams is the driver of the Hero,
stage e,,aeh, from this town to Manchester; and on Satur-
day last, in consequence of Macclesfield wakes commencing
on the following day, be engaged a coach in Minches er
from Mr. Rubinson, to carry his extra passengers. This
coach was driven by Robert Owen. Oa the Sunday morn-
ing, Williams, having passengers enough lor his own coach
and the hired tine, despatched the latter with five women,
one man, and two young children, one of whom was the
deceased, in the inside, the coach being licensed to carry
six inside only. William, himself closed the door upon
these passengers, and despatched the coach under the
care of Owen, he himself remaining to drive his own
coach. He followed in about aqu trier of an hour, and
was not, of course, within two miles of the spot when the
accident took place. Steps are being taken to have Wil-
liams admitted to bail before the Judges,—Macclesfield
Courier.

Mr. JOHN BAINBRIDOIC (of the New Brunswick Land
Company), and the Military Secretary to the Comm,nder
sif the Forces, had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary
STAWLF.V, at the Colonial Office.
The Baron de WEssENnitit3 visited the Dutch Minister
.yesterday
Tho Marchiowss of WELLISLEY left town yesterday
morning
The West India Mail was detained on Wednesday even-
ing, and will not be ,ent off till to-morrow evening.