The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-06 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 15444.

them on board the flag-ships, instead of letting them

action, and expression. The' British Mu- may not join. Justice to Ireland, and full and corn-
seum is the proud depository of some of plete enjoyment of equal rights and privileges will be,
the most sublime conceptions of that genius which the grand feature of the evening. About thirty
has given to marble the all but immortal embodiment Members of the House of Commons, including the
of heroic fable—the epic grandeur of its divine representatives of some of the largest constituencies in
poetry. Surely the shrine, within which these pre- England, will attend the meeting, and the display of
cious and costly relics of an age of intellectual in- English and Irish eloquence will afford a rich treat to
spiration that has not yet been mated by its the great numbers who will attend. Every seat in the
parallel, are congregated and preserved, should be dress and first circles, is already engaged, and none
itself an edifice in some degree of kindred beauty or but ladies are admitted to the boxes.
magnificenc6. But when it is considered that within
the circuit of the same walls, which are thus destined
to shield the honoured fragments that still attest
the marvellous imagination and exquisite hand of a
LYSIPPITS or a PEIDIAS ; the glorious productions of
English mind, in all its infinite development, whether
in manuscript or in printed records; in every walk
of human learning, in every department of science,
philosophy, and poetry, every sentiment of a
genuine nationality must be interested in the dig-
nity and character of the edifice which is to be their
honoured domicile. We perceive with mortifica-
tion—and we participate in all the aqonishment
which our Contemporariesiare daily giving utterance
to, in this matter—that no such relations are likely to
be observed between the inestimable contents of the
building and the building itself. Exertions, quite
unknown hitherto in the sleepy history of the repa-
rations and additions that have been made, from time
to time, in and about Montague House, since it became
the British Museum, have indeed been put forth of late.
The staff of workmen and artificers, largely increased
in numbers, seems to have been incessantly and
actively occupied for some time past, as if the
selected architect of the new works were
anxious to anticipate--(we are almost tempted to say)
—the expression of any Parliamentary or public opi-
nion on the course of inviting public competition, to
which we have alluded. So far as we have been able
to collect from the aspects of the works in progress, or
to judge from the design which we have seen, we
cannot believe that in this instance the public will
find that they have to boast of a fabric above the
average of the more recent productions of the same
professor. As we predicted, some months ago, the
new structure is likely to be Greek enough in every
feature—except adaptation or fitness, graceful combi
nation, and elegance of detail. A small—subscription
club-house front; sober to Quakerism ; plain to po-
verty ; simple to frigidity ; inexpressive, meaningless,
unenriched—these will probably be found the true
features of the design, whatever public expectation
may have naturally looked for in their stead. Will
nobody in the Committee for superintending the
building and adornment of Mr. BARRY'S " Parlia-
ment Houses," make the necessary inquiries, from
his place in the House of Commons, or elsewhere,
to ascertain on whose responsibility the freehold, as
it were, of all designs and works for the British Mu-
seum has not only been given for so many years past,
—but seems destined to be continued during his life-
time,—to one and the same architect ? And why
it is that, more particularly in relation to the build-
ing now in course of erection, the designs for eleva-
tions, plans, interior arrangement, &0., &c., have nol
been opened to public competition ?

shift for themselves."
With regard to the complaints that masters in the
Royal Navy were seldom allowed to attain the rank
of lieutenant, although this was nominally open to
them, the reply of Sir GEORGE COCKBURN does not
appear to have been either conclusive or satisfactory.
The professional and scientific skill, the theoretical
and practical seamanship, the coolness, judgment, and
other moral qualifications, as well as the technical
ability requisite for the efficient discharge of their
very responsible duties, would seem to give these
officers an a priori claim to the advantages of promo-
tion as opportunities offered. We are much mistaken
if the " masters" of the present day in her MAJESTY'S
service, rate the point of honour so low as to find suf-
ficient compensation for their almost total exclusion
from the rank in question, in Sir GEORGE'S apologetic
defence of the Admiralty practice towards them,
namely, " that, as it was, the master of a line of battle
ship got greater pay than the first lieutenants, and
other masters of different classes got the same pay as
other lieutenants." How many a gallant BENBOW or
intrepid BoscAwEN, even in the earlier period of his
naval career, would have pitched into the sea a whole
1 year's salary of a First Lord of the Admiralty himself,
to be allowed but " to pluck bright honour" in the
well-earned distinction of an epaulette, from the
hand of official patronage ! Each of those brave
worthies, if we remember rightly, had been, in the
toilsome course of his perilous career—" a master."
Good fellows ! fine officers ! brave seamen !—these
masters, it seems. But then, quoth Sir GEORGE COCK-
BURN, " they were persons who went through the
mar er line of seamanship; and, though they were
opot
exc eamen, they were not the same class of.
*perso s as lieutenants, who, it should be remembered,
had to serve a considerable number of years before
they got their commissions." This is " ominous
stuff" to be uttered by a British Admiral, of Sir
GEORGE'S distinguished bravery and conduct ; but he
is of that new-fangled school—half civil, half mili-
tary—neither flesh nor fowl—that amphibious com-
pound of modern Admiralty Boards, the constitution
of which is so distasteful to the gallant NAPIER
What would some of the higher, thorough-sailor
class of Admirals of the old school, GELL
or RODNEY, STRACHAN Or NELSON, have
said to this disparaging estimate of masters of the
navy in general, and those of their own ships in par-
ticular ! " Coarse line of seamanship,"—we think we
hear not Joust Rosin's " angry spirit of the water
shriek,"—but the savoury spirits of tar and
picked oakum venting their sighs of passionate indig-
nation, at this disdainful notice of these who, for-
merly, lived so much among them. But Sir GEORGE
is unwilling to drive the masters to despair. In the
lottery of promotion there may be, it seems, some
half a dozen chances for their whole body : " The
masters were 'eligible to be made lieutenants when
any gallant act or particular good service was per-
formed by them."
We have long concurred in an opinion professed by
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, "that the standing of the petty
officers ought to be raised, so that they might be
more identified with the officers than with the men.
If that were done, there never would be any mutiny,
or if there were it would very soon be put down."
For what we stated, in a former article on the sub-
ject of steam men-of-war, we venture to cite the un-
impeachable and emphatic authority of Captain Rots.
This officer remarked—" It had been proposed to
provide 200 steam-ships for our navy ; but had they
200 officers who were so well acquainted with steam-
ships as to be qualified to take the command of those
vessels?" It was the same officer who, in common
with Sir CHARLES NAPIER, insisted on the palpable
disadvantage, as well as impropriety, of employing
aged, to the exclusion of younger and more vigorous,
officers in command. "He had told the House for
two years past, that if the Admiralty persisted in ap-
pointing to the command of ships officers who had
been a quarter of a century on shore, this state of
things must continue."
But perhaps the most striking feature in the whole
debate was the protest against the further implicit
adoption of all the plans of the present Surveyor of
the Navy, Sir W. SYMONDS. We offer no opinion
on the merits or deficiencies of this gentleman—the
Government naval architect; but the question of his
success in, or inadequacy to, that responsible office,
well deserves the most profound attention of Govern-
ment. It is a matter as to which not a fraction of
personal prepossessions or partialities should be
allowed to influence the judgment of the authorities.
Yet the authorities were broadly accused of over-
weening prepossessions on behalf of his models, and
partiality in favour of his opinions, by Captain DUN-
DAS, out of the House, Captains PECHELL and Boys
and Commodore NAPIER within it. Captain Rots
said, "He saw by the newspapers that a number of
what were called very magnificent frigates were in
course of construction; but he believed that nearly
all of them, before they were put in commission,
would be found to be worthless. He believed that
many of these ships, some of them built by Sir W.
SYMONDS—ships upon which millions of money had
been expended—would turn out to be fit only for
firewood."
It seems that for any officer to impute in his re-
ports to the Admiralty bad sailing, or other qualities,
to craft that have been turned out by Sir W.
SYMONDS, is a " damnable heresy." " But," said
Captain Rous, " the officers were well aware that, if
they reported unfavourably, there was at once an end
to their hopes of promotion. When the 18-gun brigs
were converted into ships, the officers in command
were required to report on their qualities. This was
known to be an Admiralty whim, and all the officers
reported favourably, except Captain DUNDAS, a son of
one of the Lords of the Admiralty, who said that his
vessel had been a very fine brig, and had been made
into a very bad ship. That officer, in consequence of
expressing this opinion, was remonstrated with, pri-
vately and publicly, but still he maintained that his
opinion was correct."
In relation to this subject, the complete failure of
the Water-Witch (built at West Cowes by Mr.
WHITE), purchased from her noble owner, and con-
verted from about the finest, fastest, and most beauti-
ful two-masted yacht that ever sailed, into a very
bad three-masted vessel of war, by the Government's
ship-builder, was largely dwelt upon. Captain Rots
did not hesitate to say, that no Government ship-
wright's reports were worthy of credit when they
were made of vessels not built by themselves ; that
all builders hated one another ; and those of our dock-
yards invariably disparaged the craft turned out of
private yards. How this may be we know not; but
the case of the " Water-Witch," which we saw our-
selves when on the stocks, whilst building for the Earl
of BELFAST, afterwards on various trips, prior to her
alterations, and subsequently, in the ruined state
described by Captains Boys and PECHELL, did go far
to show that a most searching inspection and reform
are needed in this department of our naval adminis-
tration. The matter is one which, if the allegations
we have quoted be well grounded, admits not of
delay in providing a present remedy for past errors.
and attempting to guard against the future peril to
our navy, which the practices complained of cannot
1 but have incurred.
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ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. - These
gardens, which have so long been one of the most
pleasing sources of amusement to all persons' in the
metropoli, changed owners on the Ist of this month.
Mr. Cross, whose highly estimable character raised
these gardens to public favour, has resigned the pro-
prietorship to Mr. Tyler, who, from the very com-
mencement of the gardens, has laboured to make
them what they now are. All the animals, and some
additional ones, w ill be exhibited as usual, whilst
many new objects to attract public attention will be
added. There will be every care taken to cater for
the public amusement, and a grand spectacle is already
in preparation, which will eclipse even the glories of
Vesuvius and llecla, and put the Temples of Elora in
the shade. We are informed that there is not a par-
ticle of truth in the paragraph which appeared in a
portion of the public papers of yesterday, and which
emanated from sheer envy, and from parties who had
laboured to prevent Mr. Tyler from reaping the re-
sult of his long and arduous labours in the service of
the public. We wish him that success which he de-
serves, and must achieve.

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have been re••
ceived. The Gazette publishes two dispatches from
General RONCALI, announcing that on the 26th he
would commence active operations against Alieant,
and after the reduction of the place would march on
Carthagena. Intelligence from that quarter, however,
is not to be depended on, for in another account, at
least a week previous, it was stated that RONCALI had
opened his batteries and Ns as pouring in shot on the
rebellious town. The Minister of Justice, at the re-
quest of the QUEEN, had left Madrid on the 27th of
February for Valencia to receive the ex-Regent
MARIA CHRISTINA. He was the bearer of an auto-
graph letter from the young QUEEN to her august
mother, and was accompanied by Messrs. FERNANDO
ALVAREZ and DOMINGO MORENO, two officers of his
Ministry, and M. SALVADOR BERMUDEZ DE CASTRO,
Secretary of the Council of Ministers.
On the 27th the Three per Cents. sold for 29i at
60 days; the Four per Cents. at 20 for cash, and 20}
at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 221 at 60 days.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
12:to 1 agst Sir Robert (t) 25 to 1 agst Merry Andrew
13 to 1 agst Pagan (t) 25 to 1 agst Jamie Forest
16 to I agst The Prior (t) '3O to I agst Greenfinch
16 to 1 agst Pharaoh (t) 30 to 1 agst Martyr
16 to I agst Cattonite 35 to 1 agst What
25 to 1 agst Tacita 40 to 1 agst Polish
25 to 1 agst Freedom 8 to 1 agst Kent's lot (t)
BY.
35 to 1 agst Loadstone
40 to 1 agst Campanero
40 to I agst Vat Colt
40 to 1 agst Apprentice
50 to 1 agst Telemachus
66 to I agst Sir Isaac
66 to 1 agst Sister to Grey
Momus colt

6 to 1 agst Ugly Buck
13 to 1 agst Rattan (t)
16 to 1 agst Orlando
20 to 1 agst Cockamaroo
20 to 1 agst Leander
28 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire
30 to 1 agst lonian
33 to 1 agst Voltri
33 to 1 agst Running Rein

The Paris papers have again reverted to the Ott,-
heite affair, in consequence of certain articles in the
London journals, but we find nothing new in their
remarks, nor any account whatever of the sums sub-
scribed to purchcse a sword for Admiral DUPETIT
THOUARS. A Ministerial paper, the Globe, thus
adverts to this foolish scheme for annoying the KING
and his Ministers The Opposition journals of
yesterday contained the joke of a subscription being
opened to offer a sword of honour to Admiral Du-
PETIT THOUARS. We are perfectly edified with the
patriotic subscriptions of the republic. It will be
with the sword of honour, maximum 50c., as with
the million of the Irish; and with M. DUPETIT
THOUARS as with O'CoNNELL, who declared that if
the million had been sent, it would not have been
accepted. M. DUPETIT THOUARS is, in fact, a man
of infinitely too much sense and too much tact,
to let himself be taken in by the compromising
nonsense of the Opposition. He will perceive
that the nation is rather with the imposing
majority of the Chamber, who have disap-
proved of his conduct, whilst they preserve to
him all their esteem, than with those singers of the
Marseillaise, who will come between two bacchana-
lian couplets, and bring their offerings to the office of
the National."
According to some of the papers, arrests have
lately taken place in the garrison of Paris, chiefly in
the 70th regiment of the line, but on what grounds
we do not learn. " Yesterday," says the National of
Monday, " and the day before, the report has been
circulated at Paris, of a military conspiracy having
been discovered. The information carried about by
the news-mongers is rather vague and contradictory,
but that which appears beyond a doubt, is that within
a few days past several non-commissioned officers of
a regiment quartered at Paris have been arrested. It
is even said that sundry superior officers are compro-
mised among others, a colonel and lieutenant-
colonel. In a day or two we shall know more about
this."
The four!of the Legitimatist Deputies, namely, MM.
de LARCY, BERRYER, the Duke de VALMY, and M.
BLIN DE BOURBON, have been returned at Cette,
Marseilles, Toulouse, and Doullens, by large majo-
rities, and no doubt remained that M. LAROCHEJAC-
QUELIN would also be returned. The funds on Mon-
day were a little lower than on the previous day, the
Three per Cents. closing at 82f. 75c., and the Fives
at 126 f. 35c.
The following telegraphic dispatch appears in the
Messager

10 to 1 agst The Princess
10 to 1 agst The Bee
12 to 1 agst Barricade
At the Manchester Garrison Races on Monday last, the
first match, one mile-and-a-half, was won by Mr. Crofton's
Pocket Venus, 7st 71b (G. Francis), beating Mr. Moloch's
Shrimp (Hobhouse), bolted ; and the second match, same
distance, by Mr. Muloch's Shrimp, 7st 111 b (Hobhouse)
beating Mr. Crofton's Pocket Venus, Bst 21bs (G. Francis).
The Scurry Stakes, catch weights, 1 mile-and-a-half, 4
subs., were won by Mr. Crofton's Pocket Venus (G.
Francis), beating Mr. Jones's Fair Maid of Hants (owner),
and Mr. Mulcaster's Bohemian Girl.
The Hurdle Race, list, two miles, was won by Mr.
Crofton's The Fair Penitent (Mr. Humphreys), beating Mr.
Adair's The Badger (Mr. Pratt), and Mr. Munro's Polly
Peachem (owner) easily.
The Half-Mile Race was won by Mr. Thelluson's Mise-
reri (owner), beating Mr. Jones's Fair Maid of Hants
(owner).

17 to 1 agst Boarding School
Miss

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, 1844.
TUESDAY.

Lord Normanby's Miss Morn's—Mr. Standish's Susan—
Mr. Metcalfe's Spinster—Mr Dawson's Surety—Mr. Har.
rison's Ferrous.

"PERPIGNAN, FEB. 29.

" Queen CHRISTINA arrived last evening at Figue •
ras, where she was received with enthusiasm. Te
Deum was chanted :on, the occasion. Her MAJESTY
was to leave to-day for Girona."
THE BOURSE--MoNDav, MARCH. 4.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. •••• 126 25 .. 126 30 •• 126 20 ;• 126 20
Four per Cents. .••• 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50 106 50
Three per Cents..• B2 75 .• 82 80 .• 82 70 •• 82 70
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesl 107 50 ..1107 50 .. 1107 50 • • 1107 50
5,000 f. SharessoBo —5OBO ..5080 —5OBO
Belgian Bank ..• •••••.• • . . • 660 .. 665 .. 660 .. 665
1841 ••.• . lOBO '..1080 ..1080 • •1080
Belgian Fivei .... -. .. lO4l .. 1041 • • 1041 .. 104 f
1840 .• •• lOB •.. 108 .• 108 .. 108
1842
Spanish Active
Passive .• • 6 .. 6 • • 5.1 • • 51,
Old Deferred.. • •
Portuguese Five per Cents• • 46 46 • • 46
50 .. 101 50
.. 46
Neapolitan lOl 80 .. 101 80 .. 101
106 • • 106 • • 106
Roman ....................106 • ..
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R.B. ••• • • ...... 355 .. 355 •. 355 355
~
L. 8... •• • • ...... 177 50 .. 177 50 .• 175 .. 175
Rouen .• • • ... ......... .... 837 50 .. 837 50 .. 837 50 .• 837 50
Rouen to Havre.
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale .••• • • . • •• 247 50 .• 247 50 .. 246 25 .. 246 25
Avignon to Marseilles.. .• 760 •• 760 760 • • 760
RAILWAY SIIARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
St. Germain .............. 830 .. 830 .• 830 • 830
Versailles, R.
.. 762 50 .. 76.5
.. 37 50 .., 355 355
L.8.............182 50 .. 182 50 .. 176 25 .. 176 25
Mignon to MarseMes.• • • • •
Rouen
Rotten to Havre.
........
Orleans .. • •
Strasburg 248 75 .. 248 75 .• 247 50 .. 247 50
to Bale.
676627
5500 ....
766850 .. 667 50 .. 675
Ro
460 460 .. 460
Montpellier to Cette •• • •
___:..-----n•--... •

We, some months ago, urged upon the consideration
of the Government the propriety, not to say, the
duty—of opening to public competition, the designs
for the new buildings to replace the old façade and
quadrangle of the British Museum. With what
signal success the latent genius of English art—un-
trammelled by the conventional intrigues, and
favouritisms of incorporated associations—may be
appealed to, when a worthy object of national emu-
lation is proposed for competition—was singularly
evinced in the recent collection of historical cartoon
drawings. The decoration of the halls and chambers
of the New Houses of Parliament offered a fine
scope to the talent of our native artists for design
in the highest branch of pictorial composition. The
result was most fortunate. It may be considered to
have called a new era of art into existence among us,
and will always be remembered to the honour of
those who so worthily responded to the summons of the
Legislature.
If the British Museum appeals less forcibly to that
enthusiasm which is based on historical associations
and reminiscences, than the seat of our ancient Con-
stiutional Legislature, it has claims at least as
powerful on the affection, the solicitude, and the
respect of every British scholar and student; of the
lovers of national science and philosophy ; and above
all, of the admirers of Greek sculpture, with all its
infinite varieties of idealized beauty, in form,

peers, have signified
Shrewsbury,
sbleuarrny,
I%tihtaht
seLveorradlsothßeardnor, Kinnaird, and
their approval of the dinner to be given to Mr. O'Con-
nell, next Tuesday ; and that the feelings expressed
by the promoters of this demonstration of English
concern for Ireland, find many
responses in the House
of Lords. One of the toasts is " The Seventy-eight
a
Peers who suprted Lord Normanbys motion,"
which will be acknowledged by Noble Lord. No
sentiment will be given at the dinner in which overy
friend to Ireland, be his political creed what it may,

The Tyro Stakes for two-yr-olds.
Mr. Merry's Collier—Mr. Ramsay's Mid-Lothian—Mr.
Heseltine's Fitzallan—Lord Zetland's Sister to Co-heiress—
Mr. Millbanke's f by Sheet-Anchor, out of .Lady Fulford—
Mr. Stephenson's Wynyard.
The Northern Oaks, for three-yr-old fillies. One mile.
_ _

WEDNESDAY.
Nominations for the Northumberland Plate.
Telegraph, 4 yrs—Sir Robert, 5 y-rs—lrony, 5 yrs—The
Shadow, aged—Deuce-Ace. 3 yrs—Arnagill, 6 yrs—Crikey-
Billy, 4 yrs—The Squire, 6 yrs--Heslington, 6 yrs—Priscilla
Tomboy, .5 yrs—Belle Dame, 5 yrs--Thirsk, 6 yrs--Queen
of the 'l'yne,-5 yrs--Arcanus, 5 yrs—Polish, 4 yrs—Poussin,
4 yrs—Sister to Grey Momus colt, 3 yrs—Little Benton, 4
yrs—Lady Skipsey, 4 yrs—Misconception, 3 yrs—Parthian,
4 yrs—Saddle-Bow, 3 yrs—Armido, 4 yrs—A British Yeo-
man, 4 yrs—Beaufront, 3 ,rs—Pagan, 6 yrs—Dog Billy, 3
yrs—Pompey, 4 yrs=Aristides, 4 yrs—Ermengardis, 6 yrs—
Moss Trooper, 5 yrs--What, 4 yrs—Armitage, 4 yrs—The
Attorney-General, 4 yrs—Dr. Sangrado, 3 yrs—Emilie, 4 yrs
—Mania, 4 yrs—The Currier, aged—The Castor, 4 yrs—
Advice, 3 yrs—Glossy, 4 yrs—Galanthus, 5 yrs—Quebec, 4'
yrs—Jamie Fal6haw, 4 yrs—Naworth, aged—The Era, 4
yrs—Whistle Binkie. 5 yrs—Riot, 6 yrs—Aristotle, 5 yrs—
Trueboy, 4 yrs—Broadholm, 4 yrs—Shocking Mama, 4 yrs
—Merry Andrew, 4 vrs—Muley Moloch colt, 4 yrs—The
Best-of-Three, 3 yrs —The Bashaw, 4 yrs—Winesour, 4 yrs—
Benbow, 4 yrs—Smike, 5 yrs—Dumpling, 4 yrs—Mickey
Free, 3 yrs—The Conqueror, 5 yrs—General Pollock, 4 yrs—
Bee's-wax, 5 yrs—The Cure, 3 yrs—Spinster, 3 yrs--Free-
dom, 4 yrs—Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs—The Prior, 5 yrs—Re-
triever, aged—Scalteen, 5 yrs—The Broken Down, aged—
John o'Crannt, 6 yrs-7-Red Rose, 6 yrs—Granite, 3 yrs—
Ameer, 4 yrs—Mustapha Muley, 6 yrs—Knight of the
Whistle, 6 yrs—Attilla, 5 yrs—Reviewer, 4 yrs—Hippona,
4 yrs.

The Corporation Plate.
Quebec, 4 yrs—Telegraph, 4 yrs—The Era, 4 yrs—Glossy,
4 yrs—Flaggon, 6 yrs—Ravensworth, 4 yrs—Betsy Bird,
4 yrs—Hampton colt, 3 yrs—Smike, 5 yrs—Zara, 6 yrs—The
Bashaw, 4 yrs--Dr. Taylor, 3 yrs—Beeswax, 5 yrs—Sir
Robert, 5 yrs—Armagill, 6 yrs—Godfrey, 3 yrs—Poussin,
4 yrs--Northumberland, 3 yrs -Hippona, 4 yrs.
THURSDAY.—The (sold Cup.
Pompey, 4 yrs--Trueboy, 4 yrs—The Cure, 3 yrs--Mus-
tapha Muley, 6 yrs—Best of Three, 3 yrs—Attila, 5 yrs—
Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs—Advice, 3 yrs—Ermengardis, 6 yrs
—Mickey Free, 3 yrs—Glossy, 4 yrs—Moss Trooper, 5 yrs—
The Shadow, aged—Northumberland, 3 yrs—Queen of Tyne,
5 yrs—Polish, 4 yrs—Nutwith, 4 yrs—Galanthus, 5 yrs—
Armitage, 4 yrs—Winesour, 4 yrs—Aristotle, 5 yrs.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARcit 6.—Wind this day at noon, fresh,
northerly breeze, and fine clear weather.
PORTS3IOUTH, Mmicit s.—Wind, N. to N.E., light airs.—
Arrd. Poictiei.s, London, for Madras. Sld. Colombo, Mau-
ritius and Bombay ; Richmond, Algoa Bay ; Vigilant, Cape
of Good Hope; Prince George (transport), West Indies ;
Princess Charlotte, Honduras ; Montreal, New York ; Milton,
Mobile. Off. Cleopitra, Bothwell, Demerara.
RAMSOATE, MARCH s.—Sld. Ida, Angra, Peguna ; Ana,
Havannah. The Autumn, in going out, damaged her bow-
sprit against the East-pier, and put back. The schooner
Kara, in leaving, got in contact with the barge Three Sisters,
and damaged her sails, &c.
DEA L, MARcit s.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Acrd. Sappho,
Dunlop, China ; Makur, Karberg, Batavia for Hamburgh ;
Tell, Keircks, Porto Cabello for Bremen ; Martha, Shields,
for Madras ; Sld. Pekin, Madras ; Scotia, steamer, Malta ;
Pleaides, St. John's, New. Brunswick. A large fleet of vessels
from the north for the westward have passed during the day.
YARMOUTH, Kiwi' s.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Meanwell, Rio.
POOLE, MARCH s,—Sld. Steadfast, Honduras ; John
Thompson, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Faith, Newfoundland.
TRIGNMOUTH, MARCH s.—Skl. Rover, Newfoundland.
SALCOMBE, Maucit s.—Sld. Patchina, for Africa.
PLYMOUTH, 3/anal s.—Wind variable.—Sld. Amazon,
Calcutta. _ _ _

FALMOUTH, MAncn 5 —Wind variable and light. —Off,
Habneb, Hacgvil, Buenos Ayres, and sailed for London. The
Royal William, Shepherd, from Newport to Venice, which
put in here yesterday with cargo shifted, has commenced
landing in order to restore the same.
SWANSEA, MAncn 4.—Arrd. Pulla,Adams, Valparaiso.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH s.—Wind northerly, moderate.—And
Rival, Augra Pegrina ; Thomas Leech, Golding, Pernambuco,
Jan. 25; Express, Maranham ; Denmark, Frost, New Orleans.
Sid. Amelia, Buenos Ayres ; Brazilian, Bahia ; Nightingale,
Pernambuco; John Heirocks, Berbice ; Victoria, Barbadoes ;
Mary Jane, Hayti ; Arno,' Havannah ; Elizabeth and War-
man, La Guayra ; Adrian and Glasgow, New Orleans ; Da-
mascus and Victory, Mobile; Roger Stewart and Washing-
ton, Charleston ; Jefferson, Virginia ; P. P. Nevins, Bal-
timore ; South Esk, Boston ; Caledonia (steamer), and
Adelaide, Halifax ; Caledonia, Montreal ; Creamore, New-
foundland. . •
CAMPBLETOWN, MARCH I.—The sloop Success, of Dundee,
went ashore on the Island of Gigher, 26th ult., and was ex-
pected to become a wreck ; crew saved.
Sumns, 4.—The William, of this port, ashore on
the Herd, went to pieces this afternoon, and the Evadne is
expected to break up this evening.
Dvnux, 4.—Arrd. Duchess of Kent, Atkinson,
Calcutta. Ski. Demerara, Demerara; Garonne, Antigua.
Hum,lll.micii moderate.—Sid. Constantia,
Grayell, Greenland.
LOUTH, MAucu 4.—Arrd. Pacha (sth ult.), Gibraltar.
WORTHING, MARCH 4.—The Oswy, Pilbeam, came off the
beach to-day, without apparent damage, and is expected to
proceed to Little Hampton.
GALWAY, MARCII 2.—lt is blowing a gale from N.N.W.

The Josephine, Marseilles to Falmouth, was spoken with
on the 23d ult., off Lisbon, by the Oscar, arrd. at Falmouth.

THE LATE LORD WALLACE.--We learn from good
authority that' his lath Lordship left, by his will, all his
property to the Hon. Colonel James Hope, of the Cold-
stream Guards, and his son ; with the remainder to the
Hon. Charles Hope. M.P., one of the Commissioners of
Greenwich Hospital. The above honourable gentlemen
are sons of the late, and brothers of the present Earl of
Hopetoun, and nephews of the late Lady New-
castle Wallace. Chronicle.
THE WOOD PAVEMENT IN CHEAPSIDE..---SEWERB
COURT, GUILDHALL.—The Paving Committee, in their re-
port, having recommended that the paving of Cheapside should
be forthwith commenced, orders have been given to Mr.
Stevens to complete the street with wood, according to Per-
ring's safety system, of which a specimen was laid down
last year, westward of Bow Church tower, in Cheapside, the
work to commence this day (Monday). • The policemen on
duty in Cheapside have kept an account of the number of
accidents which have occurred to horses during. the recent
alternation of rainy and frosty weather, upon the stone pave-
ment, and upon Perring's.
Rankin's, and Carey's wood pave-
ments respectively ; and it is expected that the City Com-
missioner will forwith furnish a correct return to the City
authorities. We regret to be obliged to state that the Com-
missioners of Sewers seemed to have adopted a resolute
fancy for the filth and puddle of their streets, which are in
several places impassable to any other individua
THE LOSS OF THE ELBERFELDT.—A petition to
the Corporation of London has been prepared by the Captain
and Mr. flush, the civil engineer, who were on board the
Elbcrfeldt Just before she went down, on Thursday, the 22d
of. February, about 50 miles east of the North Foreland light-
house, praying .that the Court of Common Council will
bestow some remuneration upon Captain Mays, commander
of the Charlotte, of Antwerp, and his crew, by whom the
greater part of the crew of the former vessel were saved. The
captain and crew of the Charlotte behaved with extraordi-
nary spirit and skill upon the occasion, and it is believed that
the GoTpPPlti9n-lYill testify their admiration of such conduct
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