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Mr. Henry Clark,
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, Mushroom Ketchup - - - -
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~ French Capers
Ditto
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THE SECRETARY. A Novel, in 3 vols
By the Author of " The Horse Guards," " The Days when
we had Tails on us," " The White Charger," 8:c.
London J. and D. A. Darling, 12G, Bishoplgate-street.

Just out,
Si OYER'S MODERN TIOUSEWIFE.—The
Seventeenth Thous nd is published. This New Edl
tion has been carefully revised by the Author, and upwards of Forty
Pages of ( ntl!ely New Matter and Recipes, most useful and interest-
hig. especially on Condiments ; and also Experiments made for the
Board of Health on sundry Waters in and near London for the supply
of the Metropolis.

to 34s Od ; barley, new, 14s ed to 16s 6d ; ditto old, Os to Os ;
potato oats,oos to 00s ; ditto new, 14s Od to lbs Od ; common
oats OGs to 00s Od ; ditto new, (Ms to 00s Od ; peas, 20s Od
to 21s Od; beans, 19s to 21s per boll of six imperial bushels.
KIRICALDY, Juts 13.—The following are the quotations
up to this date :
Wheat.
First 433 Od
end 41s ('CI f 213 Od

Barley.
22a Od

Oats.
2h G 1
21a Od
18s 61
imperial,

Beans.
—s 01
—s Od
—s 01
27s Od to
kg are the

I Pea.
—s 0,1
—s nJ
I
Os 01
prices ce

Third 363 Gd 1 183 61
Oatmeal, per ba' of 2801lis.
HADDINGTON, JULY 12.-11
grain at oar market to-day :
Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 Beans.
First ... ... Cs 0.1 24s Od 23s Od 32s 03
Second ... ... 41a ::4 212 21 21s 63 i 29s 44
Third ... .. 37s 01 20s 01 19s 91 1 264 Od
Total quantity of Wheat in market 471 qrs., 423 sold
Do. Barley do. 85 qrs., 56 sold
Do. Oats do. 163 qrs., 153 sold
Do. Beans do.
39 qrs., 35 sold
STIRLING, JULY 12.—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 235; ditto,
home, Os to Os; ditto ditto new, 19; 64 to 21s 6d; barley, per
boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, I's Od to 17s 64.
Oats, common, Os 04 to Os 01 ; ditto-new, 12; Od to 15s 3d;
ditto, Flemi4i, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt,
distillers, 32s 04 to 31s ; citto brewers, 34s 04 to 35s ; beans
per boll, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 13s Od to 14s 3d;
pease 13s
Od to Os Od; flour, new per sack, 3ls Od to 33s Od; ditto common
ditto, 18s 6d to 20s Od; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od ;
ditto new 27s 3d to 29s 04 ; ditto per peck of 7lbs, 8d to 9d ;
fresh butter per lb, 7d to 91; eggs per dozen, 7d to 94;
hay per ton, 77s Cd to Os.
FALKIRK, JULY 11. —The supply of grain in this day's
market was 130 bolls; wheat at 2Cs 64 to 215 04 per bell. ;
barley, 16s 6d to Gs Od ; oats, 00s Od to Os Od; beans, 12s Cd
to 155 Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. 19s 9d ;
oats, 19s 5d ; rye, 00s Od ; beans, 25s 44; peat,
BERWICK, JULY 11.—Wheat, 335 24d ; barley,
average per imperial quarter.
HAWICK, JULY 11.—Wheat, new, 28s to 29s Od; barley, ,
new, 14s to 15s Od ; ditto old, OOs to Os •
potato oats,
14s 04 to 15s 6d ; common oats, 13s to lls Od; peas, 18s Od
OOs Cd
to 22s Od ; beans, 18s Od to 22a Od per boll of six imperial
bushels.
DUBLIN, JULY 12 =We, have tin alterat ion to report in the
currencies of our corn market. All discriptions of grain met
a steady demand to-day at the prices of Tuesday. here was
not much business done in Indian corn, but our last quotations
were fully supported. White wheat, 23s 6d to 24s 6d ; red
ditto, 2ls 64 to 23s Od ; barley, 9s Od to 12s Od ; oats, per
barrel, 9s 64 to lls 6d ; oatmeal, 10s 6d to lls 6d ; second
flour, per cwt. Its to 14s Od; Indian corn, per 4801 b, 25s 6d to
2813 6d.

COAL MARIE'
Bate's West Hartley 133 6d
Buddle's W. Hartley 13s 6d
Carr'a W. Hartley l3s 6d
Holywell
North Percy Hartley l3s 6d
l'anfield Moor Butes l2s Od
West Hartley
Wylam
Wall's End, &c.
Eden Main 143 6d
Belmont 143 9d
Braddyll
fletton
Haswell 163 6d.
Ships at na

'T.—YESTERDAY.
Lambton
Lumley l4s 0,1
Russell's Hatton
Stewart's
Caradoc .....
Ileugh Hall
Renee lss 3d
South Hartlepool
Adelaide Tees
fees
Bircbg. Graigola 20s Od
Nixon's Merthyr and
Cardiff
Snapethorpe l4s Od
iarket, 53.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 15.

STOCK EXCTRANGE.—The market was firm to-day, and
the principal business done was in the Great Western and
Bristol and Exeter lines, but without ♦ariation in prices.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day,
nevertheless, prices have been generally well sustained. The
transactions were as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Fifths, 9% dis.—London and North-Western, 109—Ditto,
New Quarters, c. p 3314—Ditto, Halves, 24%
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Regtstered,
MANCHESTER, JULY 15.
STOCK EiCHANGE.—Business in this share market still
continues inactive, and prices have a drooping tendency.
The transactions to-day were as follow:—East Lancashire,
634 —Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 84
dis.—Ditto, Preference, 6 per cent, 1214 n.—London and
North-Western, New Quarters, I,lp p.—Ditto, Manchester and
Birmingham, Quarters (C), 13-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnsire, 15% n.—Ditto, Preference, 8 8-16.
BIRMINGHAM, JULY 15.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day,
and prices of some of the leading lines of railway a trifle
lower than during the last week. The only transactions re-
ported were—London and North-Western, 108 41—Shrop.
shire Union, 414 dis.
YORK, JULY 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Great Northern, 9%B—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, 141. 18s. 9d.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
6 to 4 agst Captain Archdall's Windischgratz—t
9 to 1 agst Lord H. Lennox's Borne)
12 to 1 agst Sir J. 13. Mills' Won't-you-acme-out-to-
night—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. N\ ilkin na Langton—taken
30 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Bacchanalian—taken
The odds quoted alit Windischgratz were taken to a
considerable amount, and could not be got at the close;
the betting, irievtctive of this horse, was entirely with-
out interest.

GOODWOOD CUP.

3 to 1 sgst Capt.Archdall'sWindischgratz—t freely
t5-to 1 agst Mr. Medley's Cossack—taken and after.
4 wards offered
6 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Cstu son—taken and
afterwards offered
.61.11.41115 o 1 agst Windischgratz winning the S!akea as d
Canczou the Cup—taken to 701.
In this race, as in the Stakes, Windischgra'z slot.°
was in any force.

ST. LEGER..
7 to 4 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur
7 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Clincher
7 to 1 agst Captain Archdali's Windischgratz
11 to 1 apt Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke
20 to 1 agst Mr. E. J. Irwin's King of Oude—taken
200 to 100 and 600 to 400 taken in one quirtcr
about Voltigeur, and 7 to 1 each offered agst Windisch-
gra'Z and Clincher, the former having the call.
THE CESAREWITCH STAKES.
1,000 to 10 each laid agst Kissaway, Langton, Snow-
storm,
Miss Ann, Sir Richard, Rhesus, Montague, and
Lady Evelyn.

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
1,000 to 10 egst Glauca, Loadstone,
Knight Errant,
Langton, Osterley, Belus, and Gill 3 flower.

DERBY.

9 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian—taken
17 to 1 agst Lird Eg Hippolytus—t to 1001
25 to 1 agst Sir J. Ilawley's Teddington —t freely
2,000 to 50 agst Mr. James Clarke's Marlborough Buck
—taken
2,000 to 50 agst Mr. Worthington's Goliah—taken
1,000 to 25 apt Lord Eglinton's Juggernaut—taken
SALE OF THE LATE EARL OF ALBEMARLE'S

STUD.
The following horses, the property of the late Lord
Albemarle, were sold yesterday at Tattersall's :
Guineas.
390
50

Spangle ...
Minaret ...
Flight ... ... ••• ... ...
Mcander ... ...
..• •• • 0 • • ••• 50
Ortz ... ...
••• ••• •• ••• 120
M •
oguliston, with a colt foal by The Emperor 105
Evelina ...
••• . ••• ••• ••• 51
Bm by Birdcatcher, cut of Retrospect 46
Routh
••• 37
••• ••• •••
B m by Charles XII., cut of Arsenio ...
•••BO
Copere ... ...
••• ••• •••
••• 10
Bay yearling filly, by the Emperor, out of
Odille 22

This highly
sheer
ei bd e, el t
o byo k
p AQUATICS.
neighbour-
hood FULHAM. REGATTA.
respectable contest amongst the watermen
belonging to this place, for a purse of sovereigns sub-
dtihreectilioeni
T. S. Walford, a well-known aquatic amateur, and Mr.
W. Chasemore, an influential patron of aquatics. It was
undergen gentry y t
hoef
a double scull match, in threa heats, and was through-
out capitally contested.
First Heat.
James Banyard and John Kelly, son. (Pink) 1
William Hill and John Freeman (Yellow) 2
William Phelps and John Kelly, jun. ...(Dark Blue) 0
The men started from Putney-bridge, round a boat
moored off the Crabtree, down round a boat moored off
Broom-house, up through the centre arch of Putney-
bridge. A capital start was succeeded by the winners
taking the lead and keeping it; a capital race occurring
between the second and third pair.
Second Heat.
Joseph Powell and John Phelps (Green) 1
Stepen Knight asd Samuel Millett . (Plaid) 2
William Blake and John Powell (Light Blue) 0
They were scull and scull for a considerable distance,
and then the winners took a trifling lead. The second
pair, however, put on a spurt, and were upon the other's
quarter until nearly the end of the race. Won by half
I a length.

Grand Heat.
James Maynard and William Perry (Green) 1
William Wilson and John Maynard (Pink 2
Henry Shelton and James Perry (White)) 0
Georae Wilson and Edward Perry (Blue) 0
'The winner took the ad, and kept it; White took
the second place, but off the Penit,tntiary Pink passed
them manfully, and came in second. •

[)A RLIAM EN TAlt Y DI VIS

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 15.
FACTORIES BILL —(IN COMMITTEE.)
Division on QaeL4tion of including " Children" within the
provision of the Bill.
CONTENTS.
EARLS.

DI7%E.

Cleveland
MARQUISES.
Winchester
Exeter

rowby.
St.:Germans
➢loantcashcl
VISCOUNTS.

EARLS.
Galloway
Enniskillen
Stanhope
Colchester
Effingham

DUKES.
Devonshire
Richmond
:MARQUISES.
Anglesey
Abercorn
Breadalbane
Lansdowne
Salisbury
Westminster
EARLS.
Bruce

Sidney
Middleton

BARONS.

BARONS.
Lyttelton
Feversham
Wharnclitre

Alvanley
Boston
Kinnaird

NON-CONTENTS.

BISHOPS.
Gloucester
Oxford
Salisbury
Manchester
Ripon
Chichester

Strafford BARONS.
Scarborough Cremorne
Shaftesbury De Lisle
Waldegrave Dufferin
Wilton De Tabley
Warwick Elphinstone
Yarborough Eddisbury
viscou las. Erskine
Combermero Foley
Strangford Kenyon
BISHOPS. Langdale
Durham - Milford
Down Monteagle
Hereford Overstone
BARONS. Redesdale
Ashburton Sudeley
Beaumont Saye and Bele
Byron Sondes
Blayney Stanley -
Broderick - Truro
Camoys Wodehouse
Crewe Wharncliffe

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[PRICE SD.

I LORD ASHLEY'S POSTAL
ARRANGEMENTS.

From the Leader Weekly Newspaper.)
Sir,—Quite enough; has been written and said on this
subject to convince any unprejudiced wind of the in-
justice of Lord Ashley's interference with people in the 1
country obtaining their papers through the m-dium of
the Post-office. But the way in which a an all portion
of the press end a few news-agents are endeavouring to
support his Lot thitip in carry in„ out Lis one-sided views
de serves some netiee and reprehatiet . A re port appears
in the co;uains of the Murnin4 Herald of an hit, rview
nth Lord John itussell, containing, probably,.a greatcr
q !entity of nonsense and untruth than ever before ap-
t eared in a et lumn and a half of that paper. We are
gravely told by the Herald day the deputation represented
a large aid influential body of proprietor., printers,
publishers, acid venders of London weekly papers.
L-4 us test this assertion by their own report. We
find representatives from Bell's Messenger, the
Britannia. Patriot, Banner, Record, and Christian
7 imcs. Now, four of the above six papers are avowedly
religious papers, and not published on Saturday or Sun-
day, therefore not likely to be affected by the new postal
arrangements—utterly incompetent to judge of the affect
produced on Saturday papers; unjustly interfering in a
measure likely to affect the interest of the proprietors of
papers published on Saturday; unnecessarily and obtru-
sively tendering information to Lord John on a subject
that from their position they are not likely to be well
informed on, and unnecessarily mixing themselves up in
a question they have no interest in; and have therefore.
no pretension to be called the representatives of Satur-
day and Sunday papers. Bell's Messenger has long since
ceased to publish on & Sunday, for reasons best known to
the conductors of that journal. So that the Messenger
and the Britannia arc the only papers that were repre-
sented by this influential deputation out of forty papers
publishing Saturday or Sunday editions, and, oddly
enough, the gentleman who represented the Britannia
had not a word to say on the subject, the whole weight
resting ou the shoulders of Mr. Lee, whose strength is
so great as to enable him to sustain the representation
of the Herald, Standard, St. James's Chronicle, and
Bell's Messenger; so we find him stating to the Marquis
of Clanricarde, who appears to have received a visit
from some of the same gentlemen that occupied Lord
John Russell's time the other morning. The only
printers who chivalrously stepped forward on this occa-
sion were Messrs. Tyler and Reed, printers of the
beforenamed Banner and Patriot. The influential
publishers probably consisted of the gentlemen whose
names grace the imprints of -the respective papers, as-
sisted by Mr. Freeman. The news agents were misre-
presented by Mr. Smith, whose religious scruples will
not allow him longer to suffer the Post-office to deliver
papers on a Sunday, though his men and horses are
busily employed every Sunday morning in conveying
Sunday editions of London .newspapers to the different
lines of railway for the purpose of being conveyed in
parcels to be delivered by the country agents, men and
boys, who have been working all the week. Mr. Gilbert,
who appears to have been specially retained by the Sab-
batarians for the purpose of getting up a demonstra-
tion in their favour, appears from the report to have
given utterance to some original and not very clear
notions of his own. Take an example or two. Mr.
Gilbert " assured Lord John that the cessation of print-

ing, publishing, and selling of newspapers on Sunday
would be a social benefit." What does the pro-
prietor of the Herald say to this, whose staff of
compositors and editors work on the Sunday to produce
Monday's paper? Perhaps the Herald will explain what
Mr. Gilbert means in this sentence. Again, Mr. Gilbert
says, " if the papers hitherto distributed late on Satur-
day afternoons and Sunday mornings were to be sold on
Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, the sale
would be greatly facilitated and increased, and
their One of morality much improved." Per-
haps Mr. Gilbert is ingenious enough to inform
us by what process the Saturday evening
papers are to be published on Friday afternoon or Sa-
turday morning, and can also show, by some process of
reasoning, how the tone of morality of any newspaper is
affected by being published on Friday in preference to
Saturday or Sunday. Is the Observer, which is published
on Sunday, less moral than Lloyd's ?newspaper, which
publishes on Friday?
Again, Mr. Gilbert tells us, "that his own experience
convinces him thst the London newspaper interest en-
tirely misunderstands its own interest." In all humility
we must differ from this gentleman, and believe the
row spaper proprietors quite as capable of looking after
their own interest as Mr. Gilbert.
However, these are trifling matters compared to the
imposition Mr. Gilbert attempted to practise on Lord
John. He said—" The newspaper agents who trans-
mitted the papers by post to all parts of the kingdom
were, with one exception, entirely in favour of the change
which hud taken place in the Post-cffice arra4ements."
Now the Herald reports Mr. Gilbert to have used these
words to Lord John on the 9th of July, although he was
present at a meeting of news-agents, called by him elf,
on July the 4th, at which the following amendment was
carried, in spite of the opposition of Mr. Gilbert and his

party :
Mr. Wild suggested several difficulties, and moved
an amendment to the effect, ' That the closing of the
Post-office on Sunday for the delivery of newspapers and
letters is arbitrary and unjust, and that this meeting
considt rs such a proceeding opposed to the feelings of a
large mass f the people, and pledges itself t make
every lawful exertion to get such older rescinded.'"
How much is it to be regretted that Lord John Rus-
sell had not been furnished with a report of the meeting
rt which the above resolution was carried.
I refrain from expressing my opinion on the short-
ness of Mr. Gilbert's memory, or the unscrupulous
course pursued by those persons who are endeavouring
to assist Lord Ashley iu preventing Englishmen rcai-
log newspapers on a Sunday.—l am Sir, yours, So.,
July 11,1850. A LONDON NEWS-AGENT.

PURITANICAL INCREASE OF
SUNDAY LABOUR.
(From the Leader.)
Really the public must make a push to rescue the
weekly day of rest from the immense increase of la-
bour entailed upon numbers by Lord Ashley's ill
contrived and hopeless attempt, with the connivance
of Ministers, at converting it into a Puritanical
S .hbath. On every side we are met with com-
plaints at the interruption occasioned by the call for
unpractised hands to do the work of the Post-office in
carrying letters and papers.
In the metropolis, persons connected with Sunday
schools have observed a remarkable falling-off in the
attendance of the boys during the last two or three
Sundays • the boys having been enticed away by the
wages they can earn in delivering newspapers. A
company for conveying " parcels throughout the
kingdom receives a new impulse to its activity.
In Manchester, one of the largest newsvenclors
advertises that he has engaged a staff of boys " equal
in number to the men employed by the Post .office,"
for the delivery of newspapers on Sunday morning.
In Liverpool, Messrs. \Villmer and Smith announce
that they have organized a distribution of newspapers,
by their own messengers, on Sunday morning. "Be-
sides foot-runners they will have sixty mounted
messengers, and, considering the extent of their busi-
ness and the wide range of town and country they
propose to supply, such a staff is by no means too
large." Another newsagent complains that the
change has forced him to become " a Sunday trader,"
which he never was before. He says he must either
surrender a large part of his business or hire several
messengers to deliver papers to his subscribers on the
holy day.
These are only samples of what is taking place in
every large town.
Nor is this the whole of the evil. Those artisans
and mechanics who were in the habit of receiving
their London papers by post, on the morning of the
only day in the week when they have leisure to read
them, must now either pay for the delivery or go to
the newsagents for them. As the latter course is ge-
nerally preferred, the result is said to be an increase
of drinking, since the travellers are very apt, when
they meet together at the newsvendor's, to adjourn to
some public-house and discuss the news of the week—
not drily.
The newsagents also justly complain, and the
newspaper proprietors hare a still greater right to
complain, that Government, having imposed a penny
stamp upon each . paper, in consideration of its
being sent postage free, has no right to refuse the
performance of its contract. If it persists in doing
so, the penny stamp should be abolished on all news-
papers sent en Sunday. Under the present system,
instead of sending the papers by post, as they were
wont, to Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liver-
t pool, and other large towns, the newsagents send
them by the mail train; a very costly process. Now,
were Ministers disposed to act fairly towards the
weekly newspapers, they ought to allow all those
which are thus sent by parcel to be printed on un-
stamped sheets. Unless they do this they are guilty
of taking money under false pretences.
It will be seen that the increased labour is not
limited to the news trade or parcel carriers—ser-
vants and all who receive communications are called
upon to take extra trouble at awkward times. And
the evil will increase—unless the new plan be
abandoned.

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I:IA4NAL INTELLIGENCE.
LISIL+N, JULY 9.—The royal yacht, Vietorii and
Albert, has arrived here. Lord Pitzclarence and his
ditinguished party are all wc:l, and have much en-
joyed thf,ir voyage out. The yacht has made the most
wonderful passage on record (the quickesvet.made
by a steamer from England occupied seyeidy-eight
hours). The Victoria and Albert basi-made it in
sixty-five hours. The distance she ran !s about 760
mile,. The current was against her crossing tie Bay
of Bi,icay, by which she lost thirty-nine miles; con-
sequently she averaged a mean speed per hour of 12-: "--
knots 2 fins. for sixty-five consecutive hoUrs, \
achievement neverbefore accomplished by any steamer,
and altogether unparalleled.
The yacht brought out a copy of Lord Palmer-
ston's interesting speech on his defence, and delivered
it at the rnicknce of the British Minister at Lisbon
in sixty-six hours from England !
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A.
B,auclerk, stood no chance of keepitg company with
the Victoria and Albert; she arrived in the Tagus
29 hours after the royal yacht.
Commodore Martin's squadron are all here, looking
.iemarkably wel, and in most supt-rb order.
The Victoria and Albert will shortly proceed on her
voyage, and may be expected back at. Portsmouth the
latter end of this month.

Retribution will leave Woolwich for Greengni he
on Thursday morning, and thence proceed to Po. a-
mouth.

Princess Alice is to come round from Deer
on the 25th instant, to be fitted with new boilers at
Woolwich.

Inflexible was commissioned on Saturday O'er-
noon by Commander Peelle Hart Dyk at W. ol-
wich.

Polyphemus arrived at Woolwich from Portsmouth
on Sunday evening, in charge of Mr. Macdonald,
master-attendant.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY...—Her Majesty's steam-sloop
Vixen, 6, Commander R. Jenner, came in from the
West Indies on Saturday evening, and proceeded to
Barn Pool. In the early part of the year she was
engaged conveying the Governor of Barbadoes on
his annual visit of inspection to the Windward
Islands. She arrived at La Guayra on the Bth, and
left the 28th of May; called at Port Royal on the
Ist, and sailed therefrom on the Bth of June ;
reached Havannah on the 13th, and left the 14th
of June.

The shipping on the station are healthy, but on
shore fever has visited the British islands severely.
Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, izt the Wel-
lesley, 72, Capt. G. Goldsmith, is supposed to be at
Halifax; the principal part of the squadron are in the
northern latitudes. _ _

At Grenada, on the 4th of Marcb, the Alarm, 26,
Captain G. Ramsey, and a Dutch corvette, name
unknown.
At Port Royal, on the Bth of June, the Imaum,
72, Commander T. Bennett ; expected daily, the
Trincomalee, 24, Capt. R. L. Warren, and was to
proceed to England.
The schooner Bermuda, 3, Lieutenant-Commander
A. D. Jolly, after a 48 hours' chase, had captured a
schooner off the Isle of Pines, with 280 slaves on
board. She secured the prize by firing into her a
great number of shots, some of which eventually
disabled her foretopsail-yard and jibboom.
June 21, the Vixen spoke the barque James Shep-
pard, from Jamaica to England ; and July 9, ex-
changed colours with the Ida.
Since her commission, on the 11th of May, 1647,
the Vixen has been constantly moved about in active
employment. Her engines (Seward's direct) and
boilers, although so much employed, have not re-
quired repair, and are still efficient. She sails well,
making by log 114 knots wind abeam and quarterly,
and close-hauled 84 knots ; but on the latter part of
the passage home she sprang her foretopmast badly,
and, like other steamers, not being allowed spare
spars, was obliged to come in here for coal.
ller crew are very healthy ; during three years
four deaths only have occurred, of which three took
place at the Nicargua expedition, where two were
drowned and one shot.
The Vixen has orders for Portsmouth, and sailed
at 7 o'clock this morning, but she is, we believe, to
be paid off at Woolwich.
The three-masted screw-steamer Hellespont, Cap-
tain William Watts, put in here last evening. She
left Constantinople June 22, Smyrna 25, Malta 30,
and Gibraltar 7th instant. The Mediterranean fleet
was at Malta. The steam-yacht Victoria and Albert.
Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence ; the steam•fri-
gate Stromboli, Captain Lord A. Beauclerk ; and the
Janus, were at Gibraltar.
Spoke, July 3, screw-steamer Astrologer, let. 37
18 N., long. 5 40 E., steering E. by S. ; sth,
schooner City of Julian, 70m. E. of Gibraltar ; 6th,
schooner Liffey, off Gibraltar; I 1 tb, schooner
Torch, off Cape Finisterre, steering S.S.W. ; Penin-
sular and Oriental steam-ship Jupiter, 40m. N E. of
Cape Finisterre, outward bound ; 60 miles IV.S.W.
cf the Eddystone, barque Louisa Munro, steering to
the eastward.
The Hellespont lands mails here ; she has a full
cargo of valuable goods for London and Liverpool.
Af.er coaling at Millbay-pier, she proceeds up the
Channel.