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This ACADEMY, for Tuition' and Practice of DANCING, is
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RAZING AND ARABLE FARM.
FOR SALE, on terms advantageous to a purchaser, a rich
GRAZING and ARABLE FARM, bold by lease under the See of
Ely for three lives (which are insured), and consisting of a home-
stead and 290 acres of land. The farm adjoins the city of Ely, lies
nearly within a ring fence, and is distant a few furlongs only from a
railway and an excellent navigation.
Apply to Messrs. J. and G. Archer, Solicitors, Ely.

EYEBROWS MUSTACHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a
few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented, by the use of
GRIMS TONE'S AROMATIC
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If you are in want of that beautiful adornment of the human
figure, a natural supply of human hair, obtain through the post, or
of any wholesale or retail chemist or druggist, or perfumer, an 11s.
bottle of Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential
spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers (grown at his Her-
bary, Highgate), which has been long known to the nobility and
gentry, by whom it is highly appreciated for its manifold virtues, too
numerous to be set forth in au advertisement, but may be read in his
pamphlet, in which the bottles are enclosed.
Each pamphlet has the signature of William Grimstone, Merchant,
fferkwy, Highgate, and will be tound at page 11, unier the copy of
Mrs. Weekly's Letter to the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th
of August, 1546.
This pamphlet is forwarded through the post, on receiving two
postage stamps.
The Aromatio Regenerator can be forwarded through the post on
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cludes the postage with the case.
The ifs. size contains four of the 4s.
A few of its many virtues, as thousands can prove, are published
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Reader, reflect for a few minutes, and if you are 40 years of age
you will remember the thousands of blind you meet with in your
walks, others with various coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was
the demand for eye-shades, that it was a business. What has re-
moved those sightless beings, and given place to a straightforward,
clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? I'll tell you the cause
—the universal use of Gemstone's Eye Snuff! and because it cured
Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Cataract, Nervous Headach, and Deaf-
ness, the Lords of the Treasury directed it to be denominated a medi-
cine, and to be stamped. Although this advanced its character, 67
cases of cure being proved by the informers, still it was an act of
oppression ; as in 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq.,
altered the label, and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of
the Treasury ; the letter of protection, signed by Berries, Esq., to
Mr. -William Gemstone, bearing date 18th February, 1525. This was
on account of its curative qualities, being sold at that time in canis-
ters, within the reach of every poor family. But under this order of
Government it is obliged to be stamped.
GItIMSTONE'S MEDICATED EYE SNUFF, sold in canisters,
inclosed in a pamphlet of medical and other testimonials, under the
Government order, at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. The
Pamphlets sold at Id. each. If through the post, Is. Bd., 3s. 6d. and
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many thousand proofs.
Read the. following Medical Testimony to the cure of five cases
of Gutta Serena, from G. 11. Boutell, Professor of Galvanism:—
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DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
Ni)A MATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON
STEEL.
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Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two

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(.ELF-PRESERVATION; a
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usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate
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eelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, or the Influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Ind's-
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tnatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
-xplaining their stractures, uses, and functions, and the various
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infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
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of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
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Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un-
fortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indul-
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.3equences, unwisely entertains a tear of aplying to a qualified physi-
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art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking 'or assistance where
alone it can be procured. Dr. LA'MERT has taken the highest
medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his
practice fer many years is a guarantee for his professional experi-
ence. which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these
diseases.
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THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aram 21.—The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steam-ship Avon, Captain Hast, arrived this
morning at seven o'clock, from the West Indies, with
the usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant South, Ad-
miralty agent.
The Avon on her homeward voyage experienced
stormy weather off Nassau, and from thence to Ber-
muda strong N.E. winds and exceedingly heavy
rains. After leaving Bermuda the weather was fine,
and she has consequently made a very good %'O:, age.
The latest dates brought by the Avon are—VP ra
Cruz, March 19 ; Tampico, 17 ; Havannah, 29 ; Ja-
maica, 25; Demerara, 21 ; Trinidad, 23; Barbadoes,
27; Grenada, 25 ; Porto Rico, 25 ; St. Thomas, 31 ;
Bermuda, April 7 ; Mobile Point (New Orleans),
March 24 ; Nassau, 31 ; Antigua, 29 ; Martinique,
Dominique, and Guadaloupe, 28.
The freight brought by the Avon is 233,986 dolls.
on merchants' account, 81,505 dolls. for the Mexican
dividends, 25,286 dolls. in gold dust and gold bars ;
3821. i❑ British coin ; 235 serous of cochineal, 2 ditto
jalapa, 156 half-barrels arrow-root, 37 barrels of
ditto, 10,000 varilla beans, 69 cases of cigars, 46 bales
of tobacco, 33 turtle, 69 barrels of new potatoes, 7
cases succades, and 41 packages sundries.

JAMAICA.
The Avon has brought us our customary dispatch
from our correspondent at Kingston, Jamaica. The
steamer left the harbour of that place at daylight on
the morning of the 25th March. There is no intel-
ligence of particular interest.
The Right Honourable the ]?arl of Dundonald,
Vice-Admiral of the West India station, left Port
Royal, in the ship Wellesley, 74, for Bermuda, a few
days before the departure of the steamer. An address
was prepared and presented to his Lordship by the in-
habitants of Kingston, welcoming his Lordship to the
island, and at the same time representing to him' the
inconvenience and injuries that will probably arise
from the alteration in the routes of the Royal Mail
Company's steamers. His Lordship made a suitable
reply, and promised to use his official influence for the
benefit of the island in respect to the measure. _ In
reference to the subject, on the following day his
Lordship addressed a second letter to the Mayor of
Kingston, in which he observes :
" Referring to our inclosed resolutions, passed at a
meeting of the merchants and other inhabitants at the
Court-house, on Wednesday, the 28th of December,
1849, I have no doubt that to exclude Jamaica from
direct communication with the mother-country, to di-
minish the number of mails, and convey them by St.
Thomas's, would be injurious to the trade and commerce
of this island; that the geographical position of Jamaica
points it out as an entrepot of commerce between Great
Britain, Yucatan, Maracaibo, the Northern and Western
coasts of South America, the Isthmus of Panama, and
Gulpn of Mexico; that Jamaica possesses a harbour of
great capacity ad convenience, its marginal depth of
water at Kingston faailitating the coaling of steam-
vessels, and the debarkation or embarkation of cargo
and passengers, without the intervention of boats, and
that all kinds of refreshments can be afforded here to
the passengers and better than at St Thomas's, which is
an island destitute of vegetation."
His Lordship then proceeds to point out the im-
policy of the island authorities of Jamaica in sub-
jecting vessels arriving there to the payment of ton-
nage dues, and recommends their assimilating their
laws in this respect to those of St. Thomas.
There were several vessels of war lying- in Port
Royal. The following is a list :—Ship Imaum (72),
Commander Sandom, with broad pendant of Commo-
dore T. Bennet; ship Trincomalee (26), Captain R.
L. 'Warren ; brig Helena (16). Commander N. De
Courcy ; brig Sappho (12), Commander the lion.
Lieutenant Cochrane ; brig Persian (12), Com-
mander A. G. Bullman ; steamer Plumper (6),
Commander M. S. Nolloth ; schooner Bermuda (2),
Commander Jolly ; U. S. ship Raritan (60), Captain
Page.
The island newspapers contain a report of a case of
quite a novel character, recently adjudicated by a
Court of Admiralty sessions. It appears that upwards
of twenty-six years ago, a person named Klaber in-
duced an old black woman named Betsey Neilson
to proceed with her to Cuba, where, on their ar-
rival, she sold her into slavery. The old black woman
subsequently got her liberty, and after a very long
absence returned to Kingston, where she acciden-
tally met Klaber. The prisoner was convicted, and
sentenced to an imprisonment of three years in the
penitentiary.
The Jamaica Bank had made its usual half-yearly
report, which was considered satisfactory by the
shareholders.
In the parish of Trelawny a very useful associa-
tion has just been set on foot, called ' The Trelawny
Joint-stock Agricultural Association." Its object is
to cultivate the minor products of the soil, and, at
the same time, to furnish the means of employment to
many at present unemployed. The project has been
very highly spoken of by the press.
The weather was unchanged, and the island re-
mained healty.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.—Jamaica Bank, 90 days,
par ;60 days, per cent. prem.; 30 days, 1 per cent.
prem.. Colonial Batik, 90 days, per cent. prem. ;
60 days, 1 per cent. prem. ; 30 days, 11 per cent.
em.

TRINIDAD.
The Port of Spain Gazette publishes a detailed ac -
count of a destructive fire which took place at that
town on the night of the 7th March. It says :
"It is our painful duty to record to-day the most ex-
tensive loss of property, by fire, which has occurred in
this town since the memorable conflagration of 1808;
but at the same time, with heartfelt gratitude, to return
thanks to that Divine Providence which, in its mercy,
so signally aided the efforts made for arresting the pro-
gress of the devouring element; but for which gracious
interposition the whole of the most valuable portion of
the business part of the town—the substantial buildings
and the immense amount of property stored in them—
Must have been consumed to ashes; many of our most
prosperous merchants reduced to bankruptcy, and num-
berless families involved in the general beggary and
ruin. The loss sustained on this occasion cannot be es-
tim,,ted at less than 12,0001. sterling. It is divided be-
tween Dr. Garcia (the owner of the whole of the build-
ings that have been consumed), Messrs. J. S. Wain-
wright and Co., Mr. Craddock (proprietor of the Crown
and Anchor Hotel), Mr. N. Garcia, Mr. Carrera, Miss
Parker, and other owners of retail shops."

The news from Mexico by this arrival is not 01
the slightest importance. At Vera Cruz and Tam-
pico there is considerable activity in commercial
affairs.

At Cuba we learn that the crop of coffee was likely
to be a failure. The tobacco crop, on the contrary,
would be most abundant. Mr. Bankhead, her Ma-
jesty's Minister for Mexico, took his departure from
the Havannah, in the Medway, on the 26th of March.
At Barbadoes nothing worth noticing has trans-
pired since our last advices. The island was healthy.
About one P.M. on Saturday, the 30th March, the
town and harbour of Nassau were visited by a sudden
squall, termed a " tornado," which scarcely lasted one
minute, but during that time it did much damage,
having destroyed about fifty houses, teacittloup large
trees by the roots, &c. Eight personi',were killed ;
one man had his head carried clean oft Many per-
sons were severely injured; eight qiie.are danger-
ously hurt. Several vessels •weo:glitik and others
dismasted in the harbour. .

ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A 1307.—0 n Thursday
a boy about sixteen years of age, named James Smith, was
charged at the Man,:hester Borough Court with attempting
to cut a lady's throat on the previous evening. Mrs. Knight
said her husband was a pawnbroker in Butler-street, Oldham.
road, and the prisoner had been in their employment for
some time past. On the previous evening she was in the
kitchen, no one else being in the house at the time but the
boy, when the latter, who was engaged in cleaning some
knives, aimed a blow at her neck from behind with a carving
knife. The wound was apparently inflicted with the blunt
side of the knife, not being a serious one. She had given
him no provocation, and was quite unable to account for his
conduct. The doors were all fastened, so that no one could
have entered without witness's knowledge. She screamed
for assistance, and she freed herself from the boy's grasp,
and took refuge in the house of a neighbour. Mr. Knight
said the boy had been detected on the previous Saturday
stealing some money from the shop, and he thought he had
perhaps been actuated by a desire for revenge in committing
the violence with which he was charged. The prisoner de-
nied the charge, and said the assault was committed by a
man who had rushed in unobserved, and run out again im-
mediately the prisoner caught sight of him. He said the
man was dressed in a Scotch cap, a round jacket, and a light
vest. Mr. Hodgson, and the other magistrates on the bench,
without as yet pronouncing any opinion on the case, ordered
the depositions to betaken.—Leeds Mercury.
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Holloway's Establishment, 214, Strand, London.
Another new writer from the ranks of the aristo-
cracy is spoken of as about to make her debut in the literary
world ; and it is said that her production is one singularly
adapted to meet the religious feeling which has arisen front
the recent schism in the Church. The work takes the
popular form of the novel, and bears, the title of " Sin and
Sorrow." It is reported to be a touching exposition of the
evils that necessarily follow the development of human pas-
sion uncontrolled by religion. The author, we understand, is
a relative of the Marquis of Sligo, and from her reputation
for talent her work is looked for by her numerous friends
with considerable interest.

At Antigua, the House of Assembly had been I
specially called together by the Governor, in conse-
quence of the impossibility of adjourning at the pre-
vious meeting, owing to the separation of the council
before the adjournment was decided upon by the
House. A Bill authorising the treasurer to effect a
loan of 7,5001. was passed. Mr. Baker's Bill to pro..
hibit the use of acetate of lead and other poisonous
substances in the manufacture of sugar, was read a
third time and passed. Mr. Walter's Bill to repeal
the Bill for encouraging the introduction of labourers
from Madeira, was thrown out by the consent of its
introducer, with an understanding that the House
would pass a Bill making the period of indenture of
such labourers three years, instead of one year, as at
present. A message from the Governor was received,
intimating his Excellency's intention of visiting Eng-
land on leave of absence, and informing the House
that the general Government would be administered
during his absence by the Lieutenant-Governor of
St. Kitt's. The house stands adjourned till the 4th
of April, when it is expected his Excellency will pro-
rogue the Legislature previous to his departure for
England.
The weather during the last week had been fa-
vourable to vegetation. The late long-continued
drought had been most severely felt. Th© scarcity
of grass and water had been so great that in many
places the cattle had died for want of food.
The Jamaica Dispatch, of the 25th of March, has
an account of the wreck of the Clarence, from Liver•
pool to New Orleans. Her commander (Captain
James Mitchell) is said to have been accidentally
drowned on the Bth of February, when the mate
took charge of the ship. Being short of water she
neared Port Maria, in Jamaica, and got a boat on
shore, and in trying to get near the shore to meet the
boat, she missed stays, and was totally wrecked near
Castle Gordon. The crew and their effects were
I saved.
An accident attended with loss of life occurred at
Demerara on the Bth of March. The royal mail
t steamer Eagle, with the mails, on going out of the
harbour, ran foul of the schooner Tay, and so injured

NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—Lace—We have had fewer
buyers than usual since our last report, and the trade
may be' reported niore quiet than for some time the
t still
stocks are low, and prices remain tolerably stationary.
Hosiery—Therel is not much doing in this market. We
have but a very limited demand for the home trade, and not
much yet fur the foreign, although a few American orders
have been received. We regret to announce a further ad-
vance on the price of cotton again in Liverpool this week,
as it has a most unfortunate effect upon - this branch
of business, especially in heavy goods. Nottingham
Journal.

her that she filled and sank in a few moments. The
Tay had a large number of passengers on board,
and, notwithstanding that immediate assistance was
rendered, three or four lives were lost. Captain R 43-
tarriek is fully acquitted of all blame.
The British iron brig Josephine, of Liverpool, was
on the bar at Tampico, the cargo saved.
A small steamer and two barques (Americans),
en route to California, put into Bermuda in distrese.
The English schooner, Scots wood, of Newcastle,
Ellis, master, bound to Cork or Falmouth, was run
down in the Bay of Biscay on the night of the 6ia
February last, by the English barque Ivanhoe, of
Liverpool, and brought to the Havannah 26'h Marc}:,
all hands saved. The English schooner, Return, of
Halifax, was totally lost near Mariel, 15 miles west
of Havannah, within twelve hours after leaving port.
Foreign Vessels of War—Left at Havannah : The
American frigate Raritan, Commodore Parker;
American schooner Flirt ; Spanish brig Isabel 11.,
Spanish ship Soberano, Spanish corvette Colon; Louis
Ferdinand, 24 guns, sailed March 27.
Stations of her Majesty's Ships—Sappho, Persian,
Plumper, Vixen, and Bermuda, at Jamaica. Trin-
comalee and Alarm at Barbadoes. Wellesley (Vice-
Admiral the Earl Dundonald), at Bermuda. No
English ship-of-war in the Gulf of Mexico or
Havannah. _

line, in the operation of taking whales. Around the
gunwhale outside battens are fitted for men to hold
on to, in case of their being thrown out of the boat ;
and also along the bilge of each boat battens are also
fitted fur men to hold on in case of the boats being

Stations of the Company's Steam-Ships—The
Great Western, Captain Wolfe, at Havannah, bound
to Jamaica; the Tay, Captain Chapman, down the
Spanish Main ; the Medway, Captain Simmons, sailed
from Havannah 28th March, for Vera Cruz ; the
Clyde, Captain Moss, arrived at Bermuda sth April,
from St. Thomas's ; the Conway, Captain Woolley,
arrived at St. Thomas's 31st March; the Eagle,
Captain Reatarick, at Barladoes.

capsized. The air-trunks on each side these boats are
fitted in a similar way to those fitted in life-boats.
The SharpshOoter sere w-shooner, Lientenant-Com-
m:i.nder Bailey, is still at Devonport. The Somerset
House surveyors have returned to London ; but there
a quarrel between the commander and the master
shipwright, which will most likely have to be settled
by the Admiralty.
The Superb, 80, Capt&n Purcell, will he paid down
six months to-morrow, in Plymouth Sound, and her

JAMAICA MARKETS.
GENERAL REMARKS.—Since the publication of our
postcript issued on the 16th instant, for the American
steamer Crescent City, no new features of any moment
have been apparent in the condition of the market. In-
deed we may report business as being unusually dull,
the trade supplying themselves only as their stocks be-
come exhausted. With the exception of the disposal of
two cargoes of Halifax fish, the business transacted since
the 16th has been trifling and unimportant ; but pries
generally rule high, while the consumption of many
articles has, in consequence, been considerably restricted.
The stocks of all articles of every day use are fully ample
for the confined demand, especially of fish, of which
there are now three cargoes iu the market unsold, and
of breadstuffs which remain in large quantities on the
hands of importers. Our stock of East India and Caro-
lina Rice is, however, very low ; there is not any in first
hands, but it does not appear that the deficiency of this
article has called any other into more active consump-
tion. The abundance of our native• vegetables un-
doubtedly affects the sale of foreign breadstuCfs.

new hands will b 2 pai(l advance.
The Trincomalee, 25, Captain Warren, is ordered
home from the West Indies to be paid off. She has
been in commission since July, 1847.
The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain
Lord A. Fitzelarence, has now her engine completed,
and steam was got up for a few hours on Saturday.
She has taken on board some coal, is rigged, and will
probably be taken out of the new steam-basin at Ports-
mouth to try her engines at Spithead about Thursday
next. Should her engines and new boilers prove all
right, she will, after her trial, go into the old basin
to be gilded and painted.
THE DOCKYARDS.—The Admiralty have ordered
that officers in the Royal Dockyaras who may desire
to have gas lights in their official residences, are not
to claim the right of being supplied at the rate con-
tracted for by the Government for lighting the estab-
lishment, but they are to make their own private ar-
rangements as to price with the gas companies. Inti-
matioH has been given to all the dockyards that the
Rev. Mr. Moseley will visit the establishments in
May next, for the purpose of examining the schools
and selecting the pupils for the Central Mathematical
School at Portsmouth.
The number of men at Portsmouth factory is
ordered to be still further reduced—the strength is
not to exceed 480. Mr. Dotterell's tender for the or-
dinary repairs of the buildings of Portsmouth yard
has been accepted.
Dr. dames Clerk, assistant surgeon, died, at his re-
sidence, at the Royal Naval Hospital, Ireland Island,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PROMOTION FOR SUCCESSFUL CRUIZING AGAINST
SLAVERS.—Lieutenant Stephen Smith Lowther Crof-
ton (1842), in command of the Rifleman, screw-
schooner, on the coast of Brazil, has been promoted to
the rank of commander for his gallant, indefatigable,
and successful services against the slave-trade in the
neighbourhood of Rio, his last capture having been
that of a steamer, the Providentia, which had previ-
ously escaped ail the fast cruisers on the west coast of
Africa, and had landed many thousands of slaves in a
very short period of time. The Contest, 12, Com-
mander M'Murdo, all but captured her on one occa-
sion. Commander Crofton entered the navy, Novem-
ber, 1831 ; passed his examination June, 1838 ;
served as mate of the Wellesley, 72, in the attack on
the batteries and defences of Amoy, August, 1841,
and commanded the ship's pinnace at the reduction of
Chinghae. Was promoted January, 1842, and as a
lieutenant before his appointment to the Rifleman,
served in the Devastation, steam-sloop, for some time
as additional of the Howe, 120. We are glad to
find that the Admiralty are at length bekinning to
turn a deaf ear to the complaints of the Brazilians
against naval officers for their too great activity in
suppressing the slave-trade ; and that, instead of trying
them by court-martial, or placing them on
their black list, for doing their duty ho-
nestly and zealously, they are determined to
give them every encouragement by promoting
them. Let the Government only show the slave-
owners at Brazils, and the slave-dealers on the coast
of Africa, that they are determined to take full ad-
vantlge of the powers they possess, by existing
treaties; to put down the slave-traffic—that they will
no longer listen to stories from commanders-in-chief,
derived from slave-owners and slaver-captains; that
they will not henceforth allow commanders of any of
her Majesty's cruisers to give up their cabins to, or to
make boon companions of captured captains of
players, under any circumstances whatever ; let them
show by the promotion of officers who have rendered
themselves obnoxious to the Brazilians by their gal-
lantry, zeal, and success in ferreting out, harassing,
and capturing the slave-ships, empty or full, that they
are really desirous of putting down the slave-trade,
and we shall soon hear of a very large falling-off in
the inhuman traffic, and of very, few slavers escaping
the vigilance of our cruisers. We trust that the gal-
lant commander of the Rifleman has not been pro-
moted for the purpcse of superseding him, but that
the complaints of the Brazilian slave-dealers will be
considered as additional recommendations to official
favour, and that he will be continued in command of
his vessel, to follow up with greater zeal that success
which every day's experience on the coast of Brazil
must ensure to an officer of his intelligence, spirit, and
deternaination.—Herald.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commander Jonas Archer Abbott, appointed a few
days since to the Coast-guard service, is to be in
command of Westport district, vice George Augustus
Henry, to the Southend district, vice Grant, deceased.
Lieutenant William Frederick Gloucester Fead
has been. removed from St. Alban's Head Coast-guard
station to No. 2 Battery (Folkestone), vice Mr. James
Connolly, whose appointment has been cancelled.
Lieutenant E. R. Power (1839) has recently been
appointed agent to the transport about to proceed
with stores for the Arctic ships. We trust that this
officer, who commanded the Locust steamer, in the
Mediterranean, will be lucky enough to get his pro-
motion on his return. If so, he will be more fortu-
nate than Lieutenant B. Griffiths (1815), now ap-
pointed, at an advanced period of life, superintendent
of liberated Africans at St. Helena, who was the last
naval officer in this country who had communication
with Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant Griffiths having
proceeded in charge of the Baretta, Junior transport,
with the Franklin expedition to the Whale Fish
lilands, with stores. Lieutenant Griffiths, during
his many years of active service in the war, suffered
shipwreck, and was severely wounded in one of the
sharp actions in which he was engaged.
Second Master—John G. Anderson (1843), of the
Athol, to the Resistance troop-ship.
Midshipmen—Charles Vyvyan, to the Encounter
screw-corvette, squadron of exercise; A. 0. Fulton,
to the Conflict screw-sloop, squadron of exercise.
Naval Cadets—William L. Bridges, to the En-
counter; A. G. R. Roe, to the Conflict; Henry L.
Percival, to the Indefatigable, squadron of exercise.
Masters' Assistant —D. 0. Burdwood, to the
Southampton, 50, flag-ship, Monte Video.
Gunner, George Corney ; boatswain, John Grigg,
carpenter, John Burton (acting), to the Resistance
troop-ship.
We regret to hear that Vice-Admiral Curry is
dangerously, ill at Devonport. The gallant officer,
we believe, is now at a very advanced age ; he com-
manded a bomb-vessel in the expedition to Egypt.
Commander Christopher William Betty (1832), on
the retired list of 1816, died at Cawsand, April 7, at
at advanced age. This gallant officer, who served 16
years afloat during the war, entered the navy, Aug.
1, 1793, as A. B , in the Invincible, 74 ; as midship-
man in the Majestic, 74, was in Lord Howe's action,
June 1, 1794 ; in the Mars, 82 guns, 634 men, was
present, April 21, 1798, at the capture, off Brest,
of the French ship Hercule, of 78 guns and 680 men,
after a deadly yard-arm and yard-arm conflict of
more than an hour's continuance, during which the
British sustained a loss of 30 killed and 60 wounded,
end the enemy of nearly 400 killed and wounded.
Was promoted as a reward for his meritorious conduct
on the above occasion to a lieutenancy, September
17th, 1801, in the Atlas, 98 ; was on board the
Dreadnought, 98, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Coning-
wood, and was slightly wounded in the ensuing battle
of Trafalgar. Not having been employed since
August 1813, he at length accepted the retired rank,
April 4th, 1832.
Paymaster and Purser Thomas Brett (1809) died
a few days since, at eenzance, Cornwall.
THE BOATS FOR, CAPTAIN AUSTIN'S ARCTIC Ex-
PEDITION —The four boats built by Mr. White, of
Cowes, for Captain Austin's ship, were received in
Portsmouth-yard on Thursday last, and probably will
be sent round to Woolwich in the early part of this
week in the Echo steam-tug. They are all beautifully
formed boats (something between a whale and a paddle-
box boat), built as life-boats, with hollow and water-
tight sides, from the gunwale to the upper ends of the
fore timbers. They are carvel built outside, with a
diagonal frame inside. Two of these boats are 30
feet each, fitted to pull ten double-banked oars; the
other two are 27-feet boats, fitted for eight' double-
banked oars. They are all sharp at both ends,'.and have
a spring, like whale-boats, and are fitted like whale-
boats, with a strong upright bit for towing or veering

ing that of being thrown bodily upon the rocks. But,
to avert any risk of this kind, a gentleman has been
engaged as commander who should know the course
between Great Britain and America almost as well as
if milestones had been placed along the road, viz., Capt.
Mathews, who has crossed the Atlantic 90 times as an
officer, and 26 of these as commander of the favourite
Great Western—a gentleman who, by the testimony of
all who sailed with him, is entitled to the character of
" every inch a seaman." The hands to be directed
by this able head appear to make up a very adtqaate
complement—these being in all devoted exclusively to
the business of the ship, first, second, and third officers,
twenty seamen, four engineers, nine firemen, and five
apprentices ; while to minister to the wants of the
passengers there are twelve stewards, two steward-
esses, one baker, one cook, four assistants, a band of
musicians, with brass and stringed instruments, and
lastly a doctor, with an ample medicine chest—a
functionary, however, who is in the meantime kept
in the background, for it is not conceived that any
one can be or should he ill when so many appliances
are at hand to keep him well. It is worth while to
mention, to the credit of Messrs. Tod and Macgregor
and the captain, that the crew is truly a picked one,
consisting of able and experienced, and mostly mar-
ried men, belonging to the port of Glasgow, who
have been made well aware that steady conduct will
ensure encouragement and permanence of situation,
but that negligence or a single case of drunkenness
on duty will cause the forfeit of everything.
After accommodating the passengers the ship has
room for 1,000 tons of cargo, which is already occu-
piod by manufactured goods, the product of Glasgow.
Wrought iron, we obierve, formed no small portion
of it. She also carries 400 tons of coal, but has the
advantage of being bark-rigged, with which she
shows she can bear heavy canvass and sail fast. As
we have formerly stated, the ship has beam engines
of 350-horse power, a screw of 13 feet diameter,
with a pitch of no less than 18 feet. To make all
safe as precaution can make it, we may mention that
the City carries six boats, viz., two life-boats, two
cutters, and two gigs, which in all are commodious
enough to carry 200 persons.
The state rooms are entered from the saloon by
lobbies, which are fitted up with patent lamps, enclosed
in glass cases. Each lamp lights a lobby and two state
rooms, and is placed under lock and key. The berths
in the first class are fitted up with beautiful Tourney
curtains, with fringe and silk hangings. Teach state
room contains two berths, with sofa, marble basin
stand, gilt mirror, and every convenient requisite for
comfort and cleanliness. There are also two large
state rooms, containing four bertha each, which
can be let as family rooms. They are di-
vided with damask curtains. The ladies' cabin
communicates with the saloon, and has also
a separate entrance to the main deck : it is fitted up
with rosewood sofas, covered with crimson Utrecht
velvet, and contains eight berths, adorned with silk
curtains, gilt mirrors, &c. The bulkheads and ceil-
ing are painted white and gold, with ornamented
panels of fruit and flowers. Each passenger has
drawers for clothes and other necessaries, furnished
with separate keys. In the entrance lobby to the
saloon is situated the captain's cabin ; and on the
other side is the steward's bar, fitted up with racks
for crystal, china, stone ware, &c., and glass cases for
containing silver plate, of which there is a large
supply.
The main deck forms an unbroken promenade, se-
cure from all weather, of upwards of 130 feet, along
which are placed ranges of state rooms. Abaft the
funnel are placed first-class rooms, fitted up in every
respect similar to the saloon berths. Before the fun-
nel are situate the second-class state rooms, done up
with mahogany sofas, covered with hair cloth, which
turn up to form beds, each room accommodating four
passengers. There is here also a ladies' cabin, with
separate entrance, and also some family rooms, con-
taining eight berths. In the centre, between the
funnel and the fore hatch, and enclosed by damask
curtains, is a clear space of 46 by 16} feet, which is
fitted up as a dining saloon for second-class pas-
sengers, and is capable of accommodating between 60
and 70 persons. The requisities of hot, cold, .and
shower bath are of course amply supplied.
We look upon this enterprise with considerable in-
terest. It is an effort to combine a reasonabe degree
of speed with certainty and cheapness, and it is in-
tended to link the west of Scotland with the principal
seaport of the New World. We may expect in due
course to see tourists taking advantage of the City
of Glasgow for a pleasure trp to the United States,
in the same way as they have hitherto made a voyage
along the Rhine or a run to the Highlands of Scot-
land ; and there is little doubt that the same facilities
and moderate scale of charge will induce our Yankee
riends to extend their personal acquaintance with
he land of their fathers.

on the 28th Ult.
MALTA, APRIL 12. —A melancholy event occurred
on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Indus on the day of her arrival in port. Dr.
Macdonald, -an officer of the Madras service, who,
after thirty-one years' service, was returning home,
was struck by a fit of apoplexy on the morning of the
10th inst., and in two hours expired. His :remains
were interred yesterday morning in the Lazaretto.
The wife and two sons of deceased were on board
when the melancholy event occurred.
The Volage left port yesterday to resume her sur-
veys in the waters of Candia.
The Triton, with mails from the lonian Islands
and Greece, arrived yesterday.
The French steamer from Beyrout and Alexandria,
by which duplicate papers from India are not unfre-
quently received, has not yet been telegraphed.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAT.—The Locust steam-vessel,
which arrived on Friday night from the Mediterra-
nean, has proceeded to WoolwiCh to be paid off.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir Henry Black-
wood, ordered home from the Mediterranean, will be
paid off at this port.
The Dragon steam-frigate, Captain W. H. Hall,
is ordered home from the Mediterranean to be
paid off.
The expedition now fitting out by Mr. Henry
Grinnell, of New York, to go in search of Sir John
Franklin, will be ready to sail by the Ist of May. It
consists of two vessels, called the Advance and Rescue,
which are to be fully equipped, guarded, and
strengthened in the most complete manner against the
ice, and provisioned for a two years' voyage. They
are to search the shores of Wellington's-inlet and
Cape Walker for copper canisters which Sir John
Franklin was instructed to throw overboard enclosing
notes of his voyages. Mr. Grinnell heads the list of
subscriptions for this object with 30,000 dollars.
There is some expectation that Lady Franklin
will visit America before the expedition starts. It
is to be under the command of Lieutenants de Haven
and Griffin.
The Simoon new steam-frigate, of 2,000 tons,
built of iron, and with screw power of 350 horses,
is daily expected at this port from Glasgow, in tow of
the Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. W.
Beauclerk, to be placed in the steam-basin. She is
rated only as an 18. gun corvette.
Itis reported that the crew of the Crocodile troop-
ship, lately bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Dixon,
at Queenstown, are ordered to be turned over to the
steam-ship Ajax, 60, at this port, which is destined as
the flag-ship on the above station in future.
Letters from the Rattler screw-sloop, Commander
Cumming, off Ambriz, west coast of Africa, dated
February 22, announce her capture of a fine prize,
with 550 slaves on hoard.
Letters from the Pluto steam-vessel, Lieut. Joliffe,
of Ambriz, dated the 14th of February, announce her
capture of a fine slaver lug of 180 tons, fitted for the
traffic, but having no slaves on board.
The schooner yacht Circassian hauled out of Hasler
lake yesterday, in order to prepare for her voyage to
St. Petersburgh, being sold to a Russian nobleman.
The out-pension of Greenwich Hospital,relinquished
by Captain Sparshott, has been bestowed on Captain
Richard Pridham.
Mr. Fulton, Master-Commander of the Hercules
store-ship, it is understood, will succeed to the Master
Attendant ship of Malta dockyard shortly.
Mr. John Baker, inspector of caulkers in this dock-
yard, to be foreman ; Mr. W. Ray, leading man, to
be inspector.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL I.9.—The sails of her Majesty's
ship Superb, 80, were bent yesterday, preparatory to
going into the Sound.
The packet-brig Petrel, having been repaired and
coppered, was taken out of dock on Wednesday, and
the packet Seagull was placed in dock for examination
and repair.
The merchant-barque Rawlings, Captain Daid, of
and from London for Quebec, came in this afternoon,
having received considerable damage when off the
Dodman in thick weather, at one o'clock this morn-
ing. She was in stays, when a large full-rigged ship
reaching in, with her port tacks aboard, attempted to
pass under the barque's stern, but her jib-boom caught
the lee-leach of the barque's mainsail, and carried
away the mizen topmast and rigging, and mainboom,
tore her main and mizen sails, and fetching a sliding
blow on the barque's port-quarter, broke down her
bulwarks, and stanchions quarter-badge, steering-
wheel, binnacle, &c., and did other serious damage to
her stern. The ship is supposed to be the Emigrant,
which left this port yesterday fore Moreton-bay.
Wind S.W. ; thick.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 20.—The Stromboli steam-
sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, is or-
dered to come round to Woolwich, and is expected to
accompany the vessels of Captain Austin's Arctic
expedition to the edge of the ice. The Stromboli was
employed on similar service when Captain Sir James
Clarke Ross's expedition left for the Arctic regions
In May, 1848.

SAILING OF THE FIRST STEAM-SHIP BE- ,
TWEEN GLASGOW AND NEW YORK.
The following is a fuller report of the sailing of
this vessel than appeared in The Sun of Thursday :
GREENOCK, TIIESDAY.—it 20 minutes past two
o'clock the first steamer, the City of Glasgow, in-
tended to connect the Clyde with New York, started
on her first trip from the Broomielaw. The event
gave occasion to something like a holiday in the city,
and it is computed that fully 100,000 people lined the
banks, and the good ship got under weigh amidst the
booming of guns, the strains of music, and the most
enthusiastic cheering from the shore. After ,gettiflg
clear of the narrow part of the river, the steamer
proceeded down the Clyde at the rate of 10i knots
an hour, although the pressure was only at the rate
of jib. upon the square inch. Oa reaching the
"Tail of the Bank," below Greenock, a select party
of ladies and gentlemen, who had accompanied their
friends down the river, left the ship by the pilot boat,
and the City got up full steam, and went right out
to sea, after a round of parting cheers. A painful
instance occurred just as the ship was leaving the
Broomielaw. A sheriff's officer appeared with a
judge's warrant, and took a young lady into custody,
at the instance of her brother, for debt. The lady
protested that it was an infamous case of oppression,
but as there was no opportunity of taking
the case before a magistrate, she was com-
pelled to accompany the officer amidst the
sympathy of all who witnessed the scene.
The City carries 110 passengers, amongst whom are
the Hon. Adam Ferrie, one of the members of the
Canadian Legislative Council, and his lady. There
are 52 first cabin passengers, at 20 guineas each, and
58 at 12 guineas each. Amongst them are upwards of
30 ladies. She is expected to make the passage in
fifteen or sixteen days. This ship was commenced to
be built only in August last, and she is already off to
sea; while the Simoon frigate, the building of which
commenced four years ago, has not left the Clyde.
Stich is the difference between public and private
enterprise. , .
The ship is as strong as iron plates, bars, straps,.
and rivets can make her, and she is divided into five
water-tight compartments, which would secure her
I against almost every contingency of accident, except-