The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-29 00:00:00

RECEIVED.

Great Britain £19,947,372 16 6
Ireland 4,614,486 16 11

Total X21,861,859 13 5

PAID.

Great Britain
Ireland

Total

Amount of Interest received upon Stock by
the Commissioners :
Great Britain
Ireland

Total
44,738,131 10
_

Amount of interest paid by the Commissioners
to Saving Banks and Friendly Societies :
Great Britain £5,370,672 16 6
Ireland 3:33,7:,1 14 4

Total

The Charges of Management in the last year
are stated by the Commissioners at 2,900/.

There is a practice into which the Police have
again fallen, of dressing in plai❑ clothes, and
merging the character of conservative officers of
the peace into that of spies of a most odious
description, if, indeed, the nature of spies can ad-
mit of any degrees of infamy. No body of
men can be more useful than our corps of
police, and the new system is excellent, but
it is obvious that it requires to be watched
b) the public with great jealousy. Some time
ago, the practice of the policemen insinuating
themselves among the people in plain clothes,
in order to detect real or pretended offences,
was strongly reprobrated by the Press, and Col.
ROWAN and Mr. MAYNE laudably forbade
such an abuse of duty. The poor, with
whom the police have to deal, meet them
at very unequal odds before judges and
magistrates, as well as in the numerous cases
which never come before any tribunal,
and are never known to the public. It is
essential, therefore, that policemen should be
made to appear under the responsibility of their
badge of office. English society would be more
vile than that of Italy, or Austria, or than that
of France under the old regime, if such a sys-
tem of espionage were to be tolerated as that of
which we complain. It is the curse of our
laws, to interfere, and with acrimony, in transac-
tions purely indifferent, and in which society has
no concern. The police are innoculated with
this evil spirit, and the disease should be checked
upon its first symptoms.

We are far from wishing to depreciate the
talents of Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN. We
acknowledge their power, and that they have
been used, throughout a long life, with singular
advantage to the country. In the commercial
propositions, however, which he has so often
submitted to Parliament, and which he reiterates
to night, it is obvious that this public spi-
rited gentleman has not clear views of his sub-
ject. This he has himself confessed, in his avowal
that one work upon Political Economy always
puts his prior reading at fault, until the mind
is in a state of chaos. Mr. WAITHMAN ought
to know, that all commerce must flourish ( ce-
tenis paribus) in proportion as it is kft free to
individual sagacity, stimulated by self-interest.
If our trade were lessened, our prices too low, and
our capital rn isemployed—if all the evils really exist
which Mr. WAITHMAN imagines, they could be
only aggravated by the course which he would
wish our Government to pursue. Take off re-
strictions upon trade, and, above all, upon the
corn trade, and every commercial, manufacturing,
and agricultural difficulty will vanish.

Brussels Papers, received this morning, ex-
hibit some symptoms of uneasiness, or, perhaps,
rather of a disposition to be prepared for the
worst, should hostilities re-commence between
placedthellnutcplot
natal dperßmealgniea,ni
permanent war
a rAfonot
twi
grp is to be
, and other
places are to be put into the best possible state
of defence. All this is at least prudent :

BKUSSELS, MARCH 24.—VestertLy the King gave
priv :te Ruci,encem to M. de Mulenaere, Alinister for Fo-
reign Affaits ; Baron Stasbart, President of the Senate ;
Sir A. Adair, Gen. Deslirsz, and several other persons.
It is said that our ambassador at P,ris has completely
failed, in hie applicati.ms fir a commercial Treaty with
Francs.

The French Journal Le Temps, mentions that King
Leop-Id had inforrucd the French Charge d'Affaires of his
intention to send to the King of Holland several valutn,le
pictures heloning to him.
The Courier Belye adds also on this subject—.
effect that
" We have been told that this piece of politenew,
on the part of the King of thwe:tolgitahni,
:so(f.:fltt\hite,rievldlitaitirhofAillis-inwas_iii-ll
an answer to an ',guilty polite communication, very
lately made de
TtohiKs iteigouLlmetul:o.iteltoi:the part of the King of
Holland, through the medium of the Fieneh Legation at
William (lid not feel any se:nintitp:niamepin:
roourdnedrsLtio,gaec.cel,errlaietettwhoe
towanis Leopold, and that if in the course of the Diplo-
matic a t icn g
expressingei a tti
iniroei
esfit:tewhretrn,ffi:ilacs
given
fortifications
try had sum times spoken of the King of the Belgian. .4
an en~•m), this could not be considered in any manner
sau towards Leopold of Saxe Coburg.
ePirtnall:;:reHelasi‘al(ti'efnigst(iti:ienrg to be provided with a larger quantity of
ammunicion mid provisions.
.... _

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MARCH 25.—The Gov,rnment has just resolved, at
dgt:Pir're:taci uttaaitoginnecindeilt:f°'tfu.(till'7e3tv'alt;reiri su:p(litliCinrct4:Ndnduir;ert:it,;(f)lFiGtcrhi:etnnitp:aner.'ilne:ix:uci'Fantl:fia(d7tr7niledeblre‘ly:
which we send to that kingdom, styli as linens and cattle.
The Motiteur contains two Royal Ordonances of the
15th of this ii.ornh, tine of them accepting the resignation
of M. C. de Brouckere, with thanks for his services; and
the other giving to Count Felix de Merode the signa:ttre
of the papers concerning the War Department.
ALtitell 26.—The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordi-
nance to the following effect:—
" Leopold, King of the Belgians.
Considering that the city of Antwerp is in a state of
siege, and that the troops there are plactd on the war
establishment, according to Article 261 of the code fur the
army. By the advice of the Minister of War, we have
ordained

" Article 1. A permanent council of war shall be Esta-
blished in the city of Antwerp.
" Article 2. Colonel lii.z Commandant of the prn—
viace of Antwerp, is charged with the formation of the

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Pertuanent council of `war, . enformably to Article* MESSRS. ZHA3,IBERS'AND CO'S. BANK- WESTMINSTER SESSIONS-(THIS DAY.)
i 368 aari 263 of the said code. RUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) _____.-........--.
" Article 3. The Minister of War is charged with the Mr. Thomas Roberts, a respectable licensed victualler wa
' tit'eutioU of this decree. A most numerous meeting of the creditors and assignees of ndicted for assaulting Mr. Edmund Henry Kent, collectini
" (Sißued) LEOPOLD. Messrs. Chambers, the late bankers of Bond-street, was belt clerk to Messrs. Goding and Co., the brewers.
" Briresels, 22d March, 1832. this morning, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street: Mr. ALLEY appeared for the prosecution. It appeared
Non
" (Countersigned) Count FELIX DE MERODE. Courtenay, Esq., the Chief Clerk of the House of the statement of the prosecutor, that on the evening of th;
I, Lords in the chair. The objects of the meeting were first, to :ki Jan., he was at the White Hart public-house, Knightsbridge.
Antwk-p, 26th March."
empower the assignees to abandon the sale of the bankrupt's on the occasion of that house being transferred to a nev.
A ditch and a curtain, which will be palissaded, are
4'4' making along the Scheldt, in order to defeat any property at Northaw,the title to the property proving insufficient landlord. The defendant was also there, and it being usua;
to enable the assignees to enforce the purchaser to complete this upon such occasions to have a sort of merry-making, some
ttletnpt'at landing. , purchase; secondly, to enable the assignees to employ aperson to seine was ordered, and the defendant, and several others,
Far this month past, every precaution has been adopted procure payment of a debt of 1681. odd, due to the partook of it. The prosecutor, however, preferred to drink
iat Antwerp, to prevent tha cholera. bankrupts ; thirdly, to settle and adjust all accounts ale, which seemed to give offence to the defendant, who, after
The Coarnber of Representatives still contidues the dis- with a person named White, who had been a part- a few words came round the table, and knocked the prosecutor
' lesion of the Budget of the several departments of the ner with the bankrupts in the Pozzolano business; off his seat by a blow on the head, following that up by threats
t'lotinistration. fourthly, to give the assignees power to enforce the completion of further punrshment. The prosecutor afterwards got
of a purchase, made by Mr. Henry Malpas from the assignees a warrant out against the defendant, who, upon hear.
• . -........p.---_____
The Paris Papers of Tuesday do not con. of an estate at Hough • fifthly, to settle the claims of a ing of it, wrote a note, inviting the prosecutor to
Mrs. Foley (the sister' of 0 e bankrupt': againit his call upon him, and they would make the matter
lain ally news of importance or interest. The estate, in respect of property to which she was entitled up over a bottle of wine. The prosecutor called upon him and
• •
11ffairs of Grenoble are in course of inquiry, and under the will of her father, and also the claims of the partook of a bottle of wine, and made out a memorandum of the
4
Committee of the estate of the Rev. James Chambers, a expenses to which he had been put, amounting to 19s. The
It now turns out that the French Government lunatic, to whose estate the bankrupt, previous to his bank. defendant put down the money, and the prosecutor put it in his
• •
a Wall rather hasty in its commendation of the
ruptcy, was Committee, and against whom the present Corn. pocket, upon which the defendant expressed great surprise at
mittee claimed a large debt ; also to enable the assignees the prosecutor's ever entering his house again, and denied that
i4lithorities :- to file a bill in Chancery to perpetuate the evidence of the wit- he had sent him any invitation. The prosecutor felt hurt at that
nesses in the bankruptcy against the bankrupts in any proceed- remark, and laying down the money, again left the house
lowing;rh__e Af_ngsburgh Gazette of the `Mid instant contains the fol.
ing to be taken by them for the purpose of upsetting the corn- and determined to proceed by indictment.
received
dated Vienna, March 17 :-" In consequence of letters
mission ; and also to enable the assignees to compound the The CHAIRMAN thought that the vacillation of the de-
see' here from Paris, it is generally believed that the French
pending action of Bernasconi against Farebrother and Wilton, fondant seemed to be the only provocation.
troops will evacuate Ancona, and that a convention is to be
with the defendants. The first of these propositions, relative Mr. Doble corroborated the statement of the prosecutor, but
rtr.sn h. wills the Roman Government relative to the Legs.
to the abandoning of the sale of the bankrupt's property at added that he thought the matter had been finally settled.
by the
order to put a speedy end to the differences occasioned
Northaw, was under discussion when our reporter left, and the The CHAIRMAN observed that he never knew any thing
. . , arrival of the expedition. Hence it appears that the . .
meeting appeared very likely to last for some hours. to be more like a settlement.
1 'fishes of the anarchists for a general war will be disappointed.
'Ole accounts from the Hague continue satisfactory; and the The following statement of the estates and property of the The Jury acquitted the defendant.
Portuguese affairs bankrupts was circulated through the meeting :- Mary Martin, a wretched looking old woman, was found
concern Spain and England more than the
rest of Europe. Considerable activity has consequently pre_ Rents of the King's Theatre, from 1824 to 1832, guilty of stealing a piece of an iron railway, the property of
received by the Assignees, deducting Ground- Mr. Thomas Cubitt, and sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.
. veiled in the Exchange and the funds have experienced a rise. rent and Insurance of 3,155/. per Annum £84,795 0 0
---
If the French leave Ancona, it is to be presumed that our Value of Stock on Chettle Estate 6,000 0 0
troops will also evacuate the Roman territory, when suitable 5,0'0 0 0 CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.
The like on Enfield Estate
Produce of Sale of Banking-house 10,500 0 0
ineasures have been taken by the French and Austrian Cabi- _-....----
Ditto Ditto Ilouse in Stratford-place 2,500 0 0
nets to restore legal order." Ditto Ditto Furniture, Sze. therein 2,000 0 0 CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
A letter from Senegal announces that one of the warehouses Produce of Giblett's Note of Hand
of the British factory being on the point of falling into the The. 700 0 0 DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
The like of Tebbutt's ditto
hands of the natives of the country, an agent was sent to solicit like of John Eaers' ditto .... 5,000 0 0 __ _
The like of Love's ditto 250 0 0 ta: • .11
the aid of the French Authorities, who immediately sent a The like of overdrawn Accounts 10,777 19 5 tee: t t.' W,'.4 fi,
' field piece with' a detachment of soldiers to its relief. This x E._ 's a.. - ",ca ucn
The like of Bonds and Bills discounted 35,1154 12 8 Places and Date. 'C c:.l , 'ao .5. c-.),:.; t,' :.I,'-ozro
expedition was conducted by Capt. Leblanc, of the Marines,
IThee likels e ofo Note-book
1,000 0 0 a
es-. it laa o g ~a)....5,
z t .0. -0
with great promptitude and ability, and made great ravage ' . Z sa• ca. H -.,.t.E tlt...E
amongst the assailants, who were driven back into the in e. 163,049 17 5 ---222-1----1-- ____l----I_----1:.----
rior. Two artillerymen were killed in the rencontre, to whom Add to this total Elwes Legacy and Interest on Milton, March
the English rendered military funeral honours with great the resp
pomp. the Sums forming the 163,9491. 17s. sd. from
Extract of a letter from Bologna, dated the 17th inst. :- the Assignees ective times the same were received by Ely, Cambr. March 28
"Col. Zamboni, alarmed by the danger he incurred on the Also, add Six Years' Rents of the following
13th, has resigned his commission. He received a wound in Estates, viz. :- South Shields, March 27 1 0 0 0 1 18 8
Chettle'Estate Two Estates at Wind- E -
~ the face from a stone, which broke two of his teeth, and anotherColdstream,March 26 I 2 1I 0 3I 0 I 117 41
field Estate, Lee Estate, Nrthaw Estate,sr Prno.
which bruised him very severely on the breast. He passed perty at Whetstone, Mrs. H 11's Farm, Slough
the night in the hospital of St. Ursula, guarded by three corn- Estate, Land at Finchley Edinburgh, March 26 ....I 1 0I 1 0I 0 45 'l6
panies.of Austrians. Cardinal Albani has had very warm al.
tercations with the Aulic Councillor Sabregondi and General £
Grabowski on the subject of his edict of extermination issued on Cannon Mills, Marchati... 0 2 1 0 1 12 9
The following estates are in the possession of
the 14th. The Austrian commanders prevented its insertion the Assignees, and unsold :- Value.
in the Bologna Gazette, but it was posted up in every direction, The King's Theatre £140,000 0 0 Stockbridge, March 26....1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
The
:,sntAteel:i '.l'satnatoer, and Advowson at Chettle 50,0, 00 0
and has been printed by the Government printer. The pope- : 1 5 4 1 2 6 50 24
lace, however, have not been intimidated by these terrible
1,200 0 0
FRUNCH FUNDS, MUM 26.-F ive per Cents. 96f. 50c. 60c. 55c. TLehee NEsotrattheaw ditto
Two Estates at Windsor
menaces."soc. Se'le.3o e. 25c. 20c. 30c. 96f. 10c. Isc. Four per Cents., 81f. Lease of Mrs. Hall's Farm
40c.; Three per Cents.; 60f. 60e. 59c. 40c. 35c. 30c. 25c • Property at Whetstone
Bank Stock, 1,660 f. ; Rente de Naples, 80f. 10e. 20c. 2-ac. 40e' Ditto at Slough
6,000 0 0
6,500 0 0
1,000 0 0
3,0 0 0 0
'2,000 0 0 Greenock, March 26.
Glasgow, &c., March 26...1 63 22 9 8 68 534 261
Coat Dyke, March 25 ..) 2 1 0 0 3 72 33
Mary Hill, March 25 5 1 0 3 3 58 24
95,
_c_. 80f. • Roman Five per Cents., 7914 34 !..', ; Royal Spanish Ditto at Finehlee
''''u'i, 4 I"4' 29Wz N ; Rente Perpetuell d'F.spagne, 551 S % LK, %
rat •••'''. Belgian Certificate 20c. lOc 80f. 77-X ,a ; Haetian Loan, .250.000 000 5 10 3 March 26 0 6 1
:413r. i_ Achange on London, one month, money, 25f. 60e. ; three Monies received by Assignees 1tZ,949 17 5 Larbert,
months, paper, 25f. 45e. ; money, 25f. 45c.-Coors Authentique Total exclusive of Interest on the 163,1491. Bothkenner, March 25...
FRAINCiI FUNDS. MARCH 27.-Five per Cents. 96f 20c 30c 40c 17s. 5d.. and of the Six Years' Rents of the 0 1 I 0 0 3 2
33e 35c 4oe 45c 35c :We 96f 25c 20e 30c 25c 20c ; Four per Cents, Estates received by the Assignees) 413,949 17 5
25c Falbirk, March 26 - 6I 0 0I 2 4 37 16
Sif 50e ; Three per Cents. 69f 20c 30c 35c 40c 50c 45e ; Total Debts proved not exceeding 170,000 0 0
7R9eMLide Naples, SOf 79f 90c 1.5 c 90c 80f ; Rente de l'Etat Roman, Surplus (exclusive of the Interest en 16a,940/. Dunbarton, March 26.... 1I 0 1I 0 0 a 3
~g,r,; Royal Spanish Loan, 79ta % 14 ',l,', ; Rente Perpetuelle 17s. sd. and of the Six 1 ears' Rents of the
Pagne, 55 % r 4.34 *434 34 ; Beige. Certif 7734. Estates received by the Assignees) 243,949 17 5 Total 1109 /45 20 122 , 112 1322 610
gee
At the KING'S Letei yesterday, we perceive A letter was also in circulation, written by Mr. Wilton, offer- and from which no returns have been this day
ing his services to effect a reconciliation between all parties, received 5720 1629
Sher 'L._ 17 1 ram • • ^ • ---"

At the KING'S Levee yesterday, we perceive
that the Earl of MACCLESFIELD and the Earl
of JERSEY presented an Address to His MA-
JESTY from the freeholders of the County of
Oxford, professing the usual devotion, and ex-
pressing a wish that both Houses of Parlia-
ment should concur in such a measure of
Reform as may correct any real abuses, but IM-
PLORING his Majesty not to annihilate the
deliberate functions of one branch of the Legis-
lature by a creation of Peers. All this is very
fine; but is his MAJESTY to consult the
wishes of certain freeholders of Oxford, at
the expellee of all the other freeholders in the
empire ? If a section of the House of
Lords resolve on obstructing the Reform
Bill, must his Majesty, and his Ministers,
and his faithful Commons, and his devoted
subjects, the people of England, yield to such
dictation or obstinacy, or self-interest, of such a
fragment of the general body politic?
But we are much deceived if the Oxford Ad-
dress mustered one-fiftieth portion of the free-
holders of that respectable and now Reforming
county. We apprehend it is much of the same
stamp as the Address presented last week by the
Earls of MOUNT-EDGCOMBE and FALMOUTH,
Professing to be from the county of Cornwall. That
address, we are assured by a most respectable free-
holder was not signed by one out of a thousand
of the inhabitants of the county of Cornwall.
It was in the strictest sense of the word a
hole and corner" address. Notwithstanding
all the exertions of the Tories during the last
four or five months, very few but boroughmongers
and Clergymen in the Magistracy, with their de-
pendents, signed that Anti-Reform address.
Even in a district where Lord FALMOUTH
holds considerable property, and which includes
the boroughs of Truro and St. Michaels, only
52 signatures could be obtained. How different
to the Reform Address signed by almost the
whole county in public meeting assembled !
And yet these are the manoeuvres by which
the Ultras hope to make his MAJESTY faker in
his glorious determination to benefit the country
by improving the representation of the people !

In another part of The Sun, under th head
Marlborough-street, will be found an examina-
tion of some five or six ragged individual;,
who were taken up yesterday for " ille-
gally assembling together, for the purpose
of training to the use of arms"—in other words,
for endeavouring to get up a conspiracy to over-
throw the Monarchy and all the existing institu-
tions of the country. The principal charge against
these modern Catilines is made by no less digni-
fied an officer, than the superintendent of the 'l'
divison of Police, who declared that he overheard
one " conspirator" say "right face" and another
1, left face ;"—startling evidence, most indu-
bitably, and such as cannot fail to bring home
a conviction of the prisoners' guilt to all reflect-
ing minds. The whole business is the most
absurd and ludicrous we ever heard of, conse-
fluently we are all positive that the Ultras have
something to do with it.

A letter was also in circulation, written by Mr. Wilton, offer-
ing his services to effect a reconciliation between all parties,
and contending that the Commission against Mr. Chambers
could never be sustained, and that no purchaser would ever ac-
cept a title under it, and that no Chancellor would be found to
be prejudiced in favour of it, as against an innocent purchaser
under it.

rand

LONDON -MARCH 28, FIVE P.

17042

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—Mus DAY.

F... 2 .3p g
Districts. ig U
6 EHEI2iI
-1-
.
Tower 0 2I 0 0 2 4 2
City 0 1 1 0 8 llif l5 7
Afloat in the River 26 2 0 2 26 85 35
Limehouse
Shaclwell. 1 0 0 0 1 20 17
Ratcliff
Poplar 4 1 0 0 5 18 I 6
Mile End Old Town ll 0 0 0 1 2 1
Bermondsey.,
Southwark 67 41 119 9 80 657 314
Newingten 8utt5.......
Lambeth
Christchurch ll 2I 2 1 111 11 61 30
Westminster 4 1 1 0 3 39 22
Chelsea 3 0 0 1 2 27 I 21
St. George's, Ilanover.sq. 1 1 1 011 I 12 9
Marylebone
St. Pancras 1 1 1 0 1 11 9
St. Giles's
St. Andrew's, llolborn ... 1 0I 0 0 1 3 2
Whitechapel ......... 7 1 1 2I 5 63 43
St. Georges's East
Warping
St. Botolph Aldgate
St. Luke's'
Bethnal Green 1 2 0 0 3 9 5
Spitalftelds 0 4 2 1 1 i 4 2
Wandsworth
Woolwich 1 1 1 0 1 I 4 2
:Total 1212 91 i 45 32 226 115'9 _845
Cases from ploi-es before reported
Grand lotaL ..... 1665 1 881

(Signed

ACL,

r, Socrt:tary,

CHOLERA INIORBUS.

The following caution was this morning issued by the Ca.
tholic Bishops, through the Central Board of Health, at the
Council-office, Whitehall
:
To the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the London District.
" Dearly beloved Brethren, and Children in Jesus Christ,
With the deepest affliction we learn that the dire pestilence
now raging in London and its vicinity has of late, in some of
our congregations, made a great and most lamentable progress.
It has been proved to us, that the risk of infection is immensely
increased with regard to those who remain with the bodies of
the unhappy victims.

" We therefore call upon our beloved Clergy to use their most
strenuous endeavours to persuade all of their respective congre-
gations not to remain with those bodies, and that such bodies
be interred twelve hours after death. And, above all things, to
impress upon their minds, that no Wakes should be held on any
account whatever.

" And we declare that all persons who assist at such Wakes
act most unwarrantably, and wickedly, by unreasonably put-
ting their lives in danger And we hope that for God's sake,
in attention to this our affectionate admonition to them, and
for the sake of their own immortal souls, they will not hold, or
be present at, any Wake ; or remain at all with the bodies of
persons who have died of this disease.
" And we most affectionately and earnestly desire that imme-
diate application be made at the nearest Station where medical
aid is afforded, in favour of each individual of our beloved
flock who may unhappily be visited with this fatal malady.

" May the blessing of Almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost, descend upon, and remain with you always.

L
DARTMOUTH, MARCFROM
H `27.—LOYD'S.
Arr Pene-
lope, Hutchinson, from Mauritiusandived off port the Cape e.
COWES, Masten 2of Good Hop B.—Wind S.E—Sailed the Arab, Ren-
pie, for Leith.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH t7.—Arrived the Jane, Chadley,
from Marseilles. One thousand bags of cotton out of the
renelope, from Alexandria, have been saved, and more may
yet be expected from different parts of the coast ,the wreck
will be sold on Friday.
GREENOCK, MARCH G.—Arrived the Frances, Griffith,
from New York.
WIDTEHAVEN, MARCH 27.—The Thomas Tyson, Wylie,
oiled from Maryport the 15th instant for Westport and Ame-
rica , in putting back on the 17th she struck the new pier,
arid received considerable damage.
OSTEND, MARCH 28.—The Emanuel, Morck, from Nor.
beg' Ls on shore to the eastward of the port, but expected to
ot °ff:

"f JAMES YORKE BRAMSTON, BISHOP OF USULA,
" And Vicar Apostolick in the London District.
"ROBERT, BISHOP OF LYI)DA, Coadjutor,
'• March S, 18.32,"

The Britannia, Gordon, sailed from Wigton for Liverpoo'
the sth instant, and has not since been heard of.