The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

PENITENT FEMALE ASYLUM,

Mr. HENRY BLAKE presented a petition from the Com-
mittee of the Westminster and North-West London
Penitent Female Asylum for a grant in aid of their
funds. The institution was one into whose bosom un-
fortunate females, wherever they might reside, wore re-
ceived and supported to the utmost extent of their funds.
It had a peculiar claim upon the benevolent, for it af-
forded succour and relief to those who were afflicted
with the awful malady of the loss of virtue, a malady by
which they were cut off from the respect of one sex and
the ayrapatby of the other, and often plunged into a
condition of hopeless crime. Subjected to the jeers and
taunts of the thoughtless and the unfeeling, the victims
of seduction commenced a course of horror which ter-
minated in misery the most appalling. The institution
he recommended made every effort to save the wretched
objects who were to be seen at night at the corners of
streets with bleared eyes and bloated countenances, and
its endeavours had been blessed with such success as pro.
raised the greatest source of gratification to its ben&
cent suppo•ters.--(Cheers.) Mr. Blake then, in a very
foaling manner, described the e ffect produced upon the
grateful hearts of the poor females who were receind
into the a stablish rn nt, and the extraordinary efficacy of
the system of kind discipline adopted under its regula-
tions, and concluded by moving that the petition be re-
ferred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
Upon the motion of Mr. R. L. JONES. a petition from
the president and governors of St. Mary's Hospital,
Paddington, for a grant to their funds, was referred to
the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee.
Mr. FREEMAN (chairman of the Coal, Corn, and Fi-
nance Committee) brought up the following reports,
which were agreed to, and re'erred back to be carried into
execution :—Fur granting 210/. to the Asylum for Idiots,
105/. to the German Hospital, and 1051. to the Ragged ,
School Union.

Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR brought up a report with the draft
of a petition to Parliament against the Metropolitan
Market Bill.

After some opposition from Mr. BZNNOCH, the report
and petition were agreed to.--Adjourned.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDYNT.)
Cowes, -ARCM
13.— TUE WORLD'S FAIL.---At two
o'clock this day arrived the American frigate St. Law-
rence, Captain J. R. Sands, in twenty-one days from
New York. She has oe board Mr. Stansbury, the
United States Commissioner for the Exhibition of all
Nations, who is in charge of the American contributions.
On coming into the roadstead and sighting the British
standard on Osborne Palace she fired a royal salute of
twenty-one guns in honour of England's Queen, and a
short time afterwards she saluted the American Consul
at this port, Joseph Rodney Croskey, Esq , with nine
guns. She is expected to proceed to Southampton to-
morrow.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN

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FRIGATE ST. LAWRENCE.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.—The United States' fri-
gate St. Lawrence, 50, Commander J. R. Sands, arrived
off Cowes about two o'clock this afternoon, after a pas-
sage of 22 days from New York. She is the bearer of
the long expected freight of American contributions to
the Great Exhibition of 1851, in Hyde-park. The St.
Lawrence has anchored in Cower Roads for the night,
and will probably come up to Southampton to-morrow,
when she will exchange Wales with the town and im-
mediately commence discharging the articles intended
for transmission to London. We understand that she
brings a much larger quantity than was at first expected,
there beiag upwards of 500 exhibitors in all, and there
are between 1,000 and 2,000 packages, extending to a total
of nearly 1,000 tons of general products of industry, many
of which are of great interest and of considerable value.
Owing to the largeness of the freight all the armament
of the St Lawrence, save only the guns on the spar deck,
had to be taken out. She has a complement of 303 sea-
men, and is officered as follows:—Commander J. R.
Sands; Lieutenants Charles S. Boggs, Latham B. Avery,
Washington Gwathemy, George H. Prebble; Purser,
Samuel F. Todd; Surgeon, Lewis P. Hunter; Assistant-
Surgeon, James F. Harrison; Master, Bays N. West-
cott; Passed Midshipman. Andrew F. Munroe; Mid-
shipmen, J. R. F)ffe, Henry Erben, jun.; William T.
Glaseel, Captain's Clerk, C. S. Livingston.
In connexion with the arrival of this vessel it may not
be uninteresting to give a short account of the proceed-
ings adopted in the United States which led to the dis-
patch of the St. Lawrence to the shores of Great Britain'
with so extensive a freight of American industrial pro-
ducts, designed to enter into competition with those of
the Old World at the Crystal Palace. The subjoined
account is abridged from a late American paper:—
"On May 17, 1150, a letter was addressed by the
Secretary of State, Hon. J. M. Clayton, to the President
of the National Institute, transmitting the correspondence
which had taken place between the Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and the
State Department relative to the proposed Exhibition.
This letter was immediately laid before the Institute, and
by it referred to the following select committee:—Peter
Force, Joseph Henry, W. R. Johnson, J. J. Greenough,
and Charles Wilkes.
" The committee reported in favour of taking imme-
diate action, by nominating a central authority' for
the United States. The report was adopted on the 27th
of May, and the following gentlemen were nominated to
the State Dept' tment:—
•• Millard Fillmore, Chairman.

" Peter Force.
" James A. Pwarce.

" Charlet F. Stansbury.
" J. J. Abort.

" Joseph G. Totten.
" Thomas Ewbauk.
" William Dishy.
" Leonard 1). Gale.
" Joseph C. G. Kennedy.
" Ears C. Seaman.
" William W. Seaton.

" Levi Woodbury.
" Lewis Warrington.
" Joseph Henry.
" Alexander D. Bache.
" Charles Wilkes.
" Jefferson Davis.
" Matthew F. Maury.
" J. James Greenough.
" Walter R. Johnson, Secretary.
" The authority thus nominated was approved by Mr.
Clayton, the thou Secretary of State, sad the central
authority at once entered upon the discharge of their
duties. They addressed a letter to the Governors of the
several States, of which the following is a copy:—
"'CIRCULAR LETTER ADDRESSED ET TUE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE TO THR GOVERNORS 01 Tat SEVERAL
STATES.

" ' Rooms of the National Institute,
Washington, Juno —.
"1 To his Excellency the Governor of —.
" ' Sir—We have the honour to submit to you the ac-
companying papers, from which it will be seen that the
undersigned have been appointed a central authority,
through which alone, according to the regulations
adopted by the Royal Commissioners, the productions
of American art and industry can be recognized as en-
titled to admission at the Industrial Exhibition to be
held in London in May, 1851.
" Our object in eddressing you is to request that
you will confer with societies and individuals in the
State of —, and appoint a local committee or commit.
tees to correspond with us; and to select from such ar-
ticles as may be submitted by the citizens of your State
those most suitable for the Exhibition. Ey this means
we shall better accomplish the objects for which we are
appointed, and your citizens be enable to avail them-
selves of the advantages promised by the Exhibition.
" ' An early reply is respectfully solicited.
" Very respectfully, your obedient servants, ,
666—.
" A majority of the Governors appointed committees
in accordance with this request; but in some cases there
was great delay.
"The central committee also published a pamphlet,
containing an account of their appointment and duties,
and of their action up to its date, as well as the regula-
tions of the English Commissioners, arrangement of the
Exhibition, and a classified list of objects to be admitted
to the Exhibition.
"The committee also published a number of ciroulars
of information to person+ interested in the Exhibition,
and a second pamphlet, containing the correspondence
between their secretary and the secretaries of the Eng-
lish Commission, and the regulations of the Commission
adopted subsequent to the date of the tint pamphlet.
o These pamphlets and circulars were distributed to
the committees throughout the country, and attention
was called to them through the press.
" The committee prepared blank forms in duplicate
for the applications of exhibitors In sufficient number to
supply the whole demand by the country.
having prepared the work fur the State committees,
the central committee next interested themselves to pro-
cure free passage for goods across the ocean. The first
idea was to obtain the Pennsylvania, but that was
found to involve too much expense. The Fredonia was
then assigned to them, but subsequently the St. Law-
rence was substituted. The revenue cutters were also
ordered to aid in concentrating the goods at the port of
shipment.
" The committee have been for some months occupied
in issuing certificates for articles submitted to them by
the State committees for approval.
4, When the goods began to arrive at New York, Mr.
C. F. Stansbury, recording secretary of the National
Institute, was appointed to attend to their receipt and
delivery, and accordingly came from Washington for the
purpose.
"'rho services of the committee have been gratuitous
—not a dollar has been appropriated to pay their ex-
pehtee_and_ they have, now that the Government has,
at the last moment, refused them a paltry sum to carry
out the plan in a manner creditable to the country, put
their hands into their own pockets, and advanced the
means. The object is purely "national, involving the
honour and reputation of the United States, and it is
unjust that the committee should incur any loss."
Mr. Charles F. Stansbury (recording secretary of the
National Institute at Washington) is on board the St.
Lawrence. He is charged by the central committee with
the care of the whole of the packages,
super-
intend their transmission to Loudon and and will
arrange for the
fittings necessary for their proper exhibition. The
cargo is consigned to the American Consul here (Hr. J.
R. Croskey), who has obtained the privileges of having
It conveyed from the ship to London free of dock dues
or railway carriage.
Some the packages are very large, consisting of
machinery, models, sculpture, No. The list of exhi
bitors alone occupies three columns in the Jew Y
Herald of the 13th ult. One curious item is an immense
block of zinc ore weighing 16,4001 b. (eight tuns), and is
probably the largest single block of that ore ever ob-
tained. It is sent by the New Jersey Exploring and
and cost that association many hundred
Mining CompanY,
dollars to transport it over the mountain roads from the
mines to its place of shipment. From the magnitude as
well as from the peculiarity of this kind of ore this block
is esteemed a great curiosity.
After discharging her cargo, we are informed that the
St. Lawrence is ordered to take on board the remains of
the celebrated Commodore Paul Jones, now reposing in
Paris. The ashes of the first Republican naval officer
under General Washington are thus to be honoured by
special removal across the Atlantic in g ship of war.