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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1845.

mortar boats, and many others carry guns of the largest
calibre. We may hereafter enter more largely into the
particulars comprised in this return ; but we have
enough, we trust, to justify us in saying that no
Englishman can look on the actual force—availa-
ble of immediate extension—and gradually increasing
aggregate of our steam navy, without a proud but serene
consciousness of his country's maritime greatness, and
unbounded confidence, if she be but true to it, in the ado-
' quacy of its resource* to meet any exigencies at any
moment—so long as this confidence shall not generate a
laxity of administration in the civil departments of the
service. There is still much to do; and nothing is to
be considered certain, humanly speaking, whilst aught
remains to be done in that further progress to complete-
ness and efficiency which our honour and our interests
alike demands.

The more pacific character and generally-modified
tone of the last intelligence from the United States are
indications of a wholesome aspect in the relations of that
Government with our own, on which we heartily congra-
tulate our readers. In the recent Convention between
England and France for the repression of the slave-trade,
as well as in many of the discussions of the Chambers,
we perceive the grounds of a well-founded presumption
that the serious misunderstandings which of late years
have gone so near to precipitate a hostile collision be-
tween the two monarchies, are becoming day after day
less probable, or at least less dangerous. Yet still we
adhere to that fundamental maxim of an insular policy,
that the best guarantee for peace is a condition prepared
for war. And it is, therefore, that we give the Govern-
ment due credit for the unremitted exertions they are
making in the dock and building yards, and in the
manning of our ships, to get up the navy to that pitch of
efficiency which the periodical statements of Sir CHARLES
NAPIER, Captain BERKELEY, and other naval authori
ties, backed by the remonstrances of the Press, have
shown to be indispensable to the security and greatness
of this empire. We are willing to hope we shall hear
no more of such absurdities as the sending out ships of
war with peace complements, as they are called; the ab-
surdity of which may be thus illustrated: that if in war
time it takes so many hands to work a gun of a given
calibre and weight, and to handle sails of such and such
dimensions, and to work a ship of such a given tonnage,
in time of peace it will require no more than one-half of
the same hands to perform the same services and go
through the same work. An admirable device of the
Board of Admiralty to secure the loss of such ships
when gales and hurricanes take it into their heads to
blow, just the same as if they, too, were on a peace esta-
blishment, and for disgusting sailors in peace with the
double work which devolves on a ship's complement, re-
duced by one-half, that they will scarcely be tempted to
enter voluntarily in war time, when they must naturally,
though it be erroneously, even anticipate increased de-
mands on their physical energies. But it cannot be too
often insisted upon—first, " that in the event of a
war, its issue must be determined, so far as this
country is concerned, by the maintenance of a de-
cided superiority in that main arm of maritime power,
our steam navy ; and, secondly, that of all other de-
scriptions of naval force this it is which it is least
possible to provide and organise on a sudden emergency.
It follows that it should be a paramount object of any
English Minister's solicitude to be at all times prepared
with a fleet of war steam-vessels and ships that in point
of size and construction, of number, equipment, and effi-
ciency, shall be available for active service at the shortest
possible notice. Now, as to the requisites of size and
construction, we may reasonably hope that the awakened
vigilunoo of Parliament and the public, acting upon that
department of the national service which is more pecu-
liarly charged with the superintendence of naval affairs,
will have very shortly reformed past errors, adopted
all tried and successful improvements, and brought
to bear all the seal, perseverance, and industry
of a Board entrusted with enormous funds, and respon-
sible to a watchful and jealous people for their adminis-
tration in a manner to uphold the vital interests and
vindicate the honour of the country. With regard to the
essentials of equipment and efficiency, they may be, and
are, in reference to the number of the vessels, compara-
tive only. It is enough that there should be a nucleus
of first-class steam ships of war of the strongest force
and most formidable armament, fully manned, and
worked by the most powerful and best protected
machinery, provided you have the means of increasing
your steam fleet at the first outbreak of any hostile col-
lision, or in anticipation of its immediate advent, at a
very few days' notice. From recent revelations in the
House of Commons, it is to be concluded that we have
already something more than such a nucleus to boast of,
in a state of complete and effective preparation—and by
the time that the other large war steamers, already built,
shall have had those alterations and improvements com-
pleted of construction, position of engines, and adapta-
tion of the screw and the propeller, to the immediate adop-
tion of which Sir G. COCKBURN has pledged himself in the
most emphatic manner, we shall have a force of war
steamers superior to all the combined steamer fleets that
other maritime powers could bring against us. But if
we look at the number of armed steamers which England
at any moment would be in a condition to take up for
war service, whether on the high seas, or on the coasts
or up the lurbours and rivers of an enemy's country, her
own superiority in this supreme arm of naval power is
manifestly incontestible. The history of nations, per-
haps, does not present a parallel to such a cumulative
force.

ordinance was passed approving of the statutes of the
Company. The duration of the lease is fixed at forty-five
years. The Lyons and Avignon line was also adopted, and
the amendment of M. BOISSY D'ANGLAs, to have it pass
on the right bank of the Rhone, rejected. It was announced
in the Chamber, that, on Monday, the Minister of Marine
would propose an extraordinary vote of credit for 10,000,000
francs, to carry out the new treaty for the suppression of the
slave-trade. Some of the papers state, that Admiral Dung-
TIT TstorAits will be appointed to the command of the fleet,
to be stationed on the African coast, for carrying the treaty
into effect. He will hoist his flag in a fifty gun frigate, and
Captain BOUxT Vuni.AmEz, who attended the Duke DE
BROGLIE, in London, during the negotiations, will be the
second in command. The Minister of Marine had addressed
a circular to the Marine Prefects, recommending the use of
tubular boilers for the steamers of the royal navy, as the old
boilers became unfit for service. As these boilers are at pre-
sent entirely constructed abroad, the Minister recommend the
Prefectsto direct the attention of the iron-masters to the
subject, in order to induce them to supply such boilers
without having recourse to foreigners. The following
particulars of the arrival of the Royal Family at Biz),
appear in the Moniteur :—" On Wednesday, the KING, the
QUEEN, the Duchess of ORLEANS, the Count DE Penis, the
Duke DE CHARTRES, the Duke and Duchess of SAXE CO-
BURG, and the young Duke of WUItTEMBURG, attended by
Generals Count FRLANT and DE CHABANNES, MM. DE MONT-
GUYON and DE MONTMORENCY, two orderly officers, and the
suite of their Majesties and Royal Highnesses, were received
at the Vernon station by the Prefect, General LALAING
D'AUDENARDE, the Commandant of the National Guard, and
the other authorities. The royal party immediately entered
their carriages, and proceeded to the Chateau de Busy. The
KING soon afterwards came out again on foot, leading the
Count DE PARIS by the hand, and accompanied by the young
Dukes DE CHARTRES and WURTEMBURG, and reviewed the
troops drawn up on the road, by whom and a large assemblage of
the people he was received with loud and continued acclama-
tions. After the review his MAJESTY re-entered the chateau,
and received the Bishop of EvnEux, and the civil and mili-
tary authorities."
On Friday afternoon the royal party returned to Neuilly
in excellent health.

The annual general meeting of the proprietors of the
New Zealand Company, was productive of some ex-
traordinary disclosures touching the want of good faith
displayed by the Colonial Department in particular, and
by both the Home and the Colonial Secretaries per.
sonally, in their recent correspondence, er rather nego-
tiations with the Company. We have, on many for-
mer occasions, expressed a not very favourable opinion of
the good faith evinced by the Directors of this very
Company, in their dealings with settlers and emigrants'
whose purchases of lands, for any benefit they brought
to them, or any equivalent which they yielded for their
own good money, might just as well have
been made for land in Abyssinia or the Khyber
mountains. We are by no means prepared to say, that
the New Zealand Company have ever expurgated their
character from the imputations which have been cast
upon it by so many luckless victims of the peculiar me-
thod, in times past, of selling lands which they had not
the means of delivering, because they never were in
their authenticated and established possession. We can-
not see that any sort of reparation has yet been made
to those martyrs to their own credulity and the puffery
of the WAKEFIELD principle of making colonies pay
their own expenses, who voyaged 12,000 miles out to a
land of promise, and—if they did not die there--tra-
veiled 12,000 miles home again, only to record, in their
own experience, that they had been sold, if the
lands had not been delivered. But when we
see a meeting of so many gentlemen of mark and credit
assembling to hear, and voting unanimously to confirm
a "report," in which they not only accuse the Govern-
ment of positive duplicity, but make out a case to show
that, in these transactions with it, at least, they had to
choose the alternative of profit with dishonour, by
closing with the views of the Colonial Minister, or
honour without profit, by persisting in vindicating their
own claims, and the rights and the protection of the
colonists. We must suppose that the present Directors
of the New Zealand Company feel themselves strong
in the moral justice as well as legal bearings of the case
they have so well developed in the report which was
read at the proprietary meeting in question. We might
have been better pleased, to be sure, had Mr. SOAMES,
the Governor of the Company, been at his post, seeing
that he was not exempted, among other influen-
tial authorities, from the bitter denunciations of
deceived and defrauded purchasers)—instead of being
" detained by a particular engagement." But there were
among other Members f Parliament, Lord INGESTRE,
Mr. H. A. AGLIONBY, Mr. CHARLES BULLER, Mr. J.
A. SMITH, Mr. S. MAJORIBANKS, Mr. R. D. MANGLES
besides Sir Joins PIRIE, Baronet, General BRIGGS:
Captain NAIRN, Dr. Everts, &c., present on this occa-
sion ; and the report of the Committee which was read
undoubtedly must be taken as pledging all those parties
to the same views as it announced of the deportment of
Lord STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM—and of the in-
capacity, misconduct, and absurdities of the late Go-
vernor FITZROY. It appears that the cause of Mr. C.
BULLER'S deferring his motion relative to New Zealand,
which would have brought the whole conduct of the
Colonial Minister to the Company and to the colonists
under the review of Parliament, was a suggestion con-
fidentially given by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in an
interview which he had with Mr. BULLER about
a week prior to the day for which this
notice stood—that if it were, as a preliminary condi-
tion, withdrawn, the Government would be disposed to
settle the disputes between it and the Company amicably
—which it could not do, if it appeared to act under any
stress or pressure—•such as that of a pending motion for
such a Committee of Inquiry. Mr. BULLER consented,
had some personal conferences with Sir J. GRAHAM,
and by that Minister was induced to submit the specific
proposition he had tendered for the consideration of
Government in writing, for the opinion of Lord STAN-
LEY. That proposition went on the basis of obviating
all necessity for any fresh adjudication upon the mat-
ters immediately at issue, by constituting a new pro-
vince in New Zealand, which formed a part of the middle
and a part of the more northern districts of the island,
and vesting this in a new Company, in which the New
Zealand Company should merge, under arrangements
for the security of its present interests and property.
The proposition was discussed largely between Sir J.
GRAHAM, Mr. BULLER, and Lord STANLEY, who,
though he took some objections to particular details,
instructed Sir JAMES afterwards to inform Mr. BULLER.
that he did not look upon those objections as insuperable.
This produced a second written letter from Mr. CHARLES
BULLER to Lord STANLEY, who—after the motion had
been withdrawn, and the time for urging such matters
with effect on the House of Commons was fast waning
away—intimated to Mr. BULLER that Government now
found its objections to his propositions were insuperable
This cavalier treatment is as much characteristic of Lord
STANLEY (who never imagines that all the world should
not stand still when the Colonial office is of opinion that
it ought not to move), as the extraordinary account
given by Dr. EVANS of Governor FITZROY'S extrava-
gancies in New Zealand is of Downing-street patronage-
pets. For all these matters we must refer the reader to
our report. At parting we cannot help saying that the
law of poetical justice has been well observed in this affair.
If the New Zealand Company, at its outset, victimised
emigrant yeomen with some little money and much
less sagacity, the New Zealand Company e., its
Directors) has been absurdly victimised in its turn, by
Ministers of some little sagacity, and no scruples.
That Mr. CHARLES BULLER (" good, easy man 1")
should have been deluded into postponing his motion by
so notorious a political hocusser as Sir J. GRAHAM,
is, however, marvellous to us, who held a very high
opinion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's genera
shrewdness, as well as singular talent and ability.

A return, which was moved for by Admiral DUNDIS
on the 18th of March last, and was ordered to be printed
on the 2d instant by the House of Commons, is now before
us. It is entitled "A Return of the names and descrip-
tion of all steam-vessels registered in the ports of the
United Kingdom, when and where built, tons, horse-
power, length, breadth, draught of water, and what
armament capable of carrying." We believe that this
valuable document is mainly owing to the in-
quiries of a Commissioner, dispatched some year and a-
half ago by the Government to the principal eutports,
with the view of ascertaining how many of the larger
steamers engaged in the passage, or carrying, and the
coasting trade, could be converted in an interval of a
few days into vessels of offensive and defensive arma-
ments. The statistics of this paper are eminently satis-
factory ie, relation to those very important subjects of
inquiry. We have devoted some time to extract a few
results that may, in part, compensate for the want of
arrangement and simplicity which are to be complained
of in the preparation of the " return." The only claw-.
sification attempted in it is of ports. But there are no
added up aggregates to guide the judgment Of the
reader, or rather to facilitate it. We have summed up
a total of upwards of 800 steamers of all tonnage and
dimensions ; and the deductions to be made for disabled
or laid-up are so few, that they would scarcely infringe
upon that number. There are not twenty reported as
engaged in service abroad ; and of those the ma-
jority are serving in Egypt or in India. The whole
return is entirely exclusive, of course, of all steamers in
the QUEEN'S service, of whatever kind. For the port of
London are reported between 250 and 260 ; and of these
no less than 109 are armed, or capable of carrying the
armaments respectively assigned to them. These arma-
ments would comprise, of swivel guns, 2,3, and 4-
pounders, and " small guns," twenty-five; of 6-pounders,
ninety-four ; of 8,9, and 10-pounders, twenty ; of 12-
pounders, thirty-five ; of 12-pounder carronades, thir-
teen ; of 18-pounders, forty-five, and of 18-pounder
carronades a like number ; of 18 long pounders, thirty •
one ; of 24-pounders, two; of 32 long-pounders, fourteen;
and ditto carronades, fourteen ; of 68-pounders, two
guns. One steamer is pierced for twenty guns ; fifteen
will carry what are designated heavy guns, to the
number of about seventy ; and another will mount
ten guns. For Liverpool forty-two steamers are re-
ported;t
so
_feuignhdters, pounders6-and four
to on only four
foLduraPlt2e-dpofourndaearsa;rram
twelveaen p o
32-pounders, on 28 vessels. Bristol returns 27 steamers;
among them the Shamrock,
of 301 tons; the R
340 tons; the Osprey, of 228 tons ; the Great Western,'"'of
of 679 tons, and the majestic Great Britain, which
" may be fitted for carrying 40 guns." Of these 27
vessels, 12 are armed, or capable of carrying armaments.
nts.

The Madrid Gazette of the Ist inst. publishes a law,
passed by the Cortes, by which the sum of 159,000,000 reels
(1,590,0001.) is appropriated for the maintenance of the clergy,
and also a royal decree appointing a commission of three
clergymen and two civilians, the Archbishop of TOLEDO, pre-
sident, to superintend the expenditure. Also a decree con-
firming the contract entered into with the bank of San Fer-
nando opening a credit of 100,000,000 reals for the stipends
of the clergy and the maintenance of public worship durng
the present year. The Finance Minister was actively en-
gaged in organising the system for levying the
income-tax passed last session, and the Minister
of the Interior was preparing the organic laws.
Subscriptions had been opened for paying the fines
which may be imposed on the proprietors of the Espectador
and Clamor Publico. The QUEIS reached Valencia on the
29th of May. Intelligence of the abdication of Don CARLOS
had reached Madrid, but not in an official form.

The Three per Cents. closed at 32% for cash, and 33% at
60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 22% for cash, and 22% at
60 days.

The French Chamber of Deputies was engaged, during
the latter part of last week, in discussing the Bills for lines
of railway from Paris to Lyons, and from Lyons to Avignon
and the debate on the first Bill was brought to a close on
Saturday, when, without any material alteration, it was
adopted by a large majority. M. MURET DE BORT had pro-
posed an amendment, the object of which was to compel
the Lyons. Company to use the Orleans Railway line, as
a trunk common to both, as far as Corbeil, but the
Chamber negatived the amendment. The line will,
consequently, run from the Paris terminus, to be esta-
blished on the right bank of the Seine, near the site of the
Bastille, cross the communes of Bercy and Charenton, pass
Villeneuve Saint Georges, between the town and the Seine;
ascend to the high grounds of the Brie, by the valley of the
Yeres, and proceed along these grounds to the town of
; thence to Fontainebleau, near which town it will
pass ; it will then traverse the valley of the Loing, between
Moret and St. Mamet, and following the valley of the Seine,
arrive at Montereau, proceeding along the valley of the
Yonne, as far as La Roche ; thence ascend through the
valley of the Armaniion to Aisy ; then go through
the valleys the Brenne and the Oze ; cross at
Blaisy-Bas the high ground between the Seine and
the SaOne, and arrive at Dijon at such a point
as shall be determined on by the Government. The Chalons
to Lyons line will be established on the right bank of the
Saone, pass near Sennecey, on to Tournus and Macon, and
traverse the city of Lyons at a point to be decided on by the
Government before the public adjudication. The following
is article 64, which relates to caution money :—" Whoever
proposes to send in a tender for the adjudication must pre-
viously deposit in the Caisse des Depots et Consignations,
24,000,000 f. in cash, State stock, or public securities, of which
sum 6,000,000 f. shall be set apart specially as caution money
for the sections from Paris to Dijon, and from Chalons to
Lyons." The Finance Minister said, as the sum required
pre-
viously, as
reguired that
by
thes such ch sum
article, for caution money was only 16,000,000 f., out of the 24,000,000 f.,
he should propose
bebnt dthepaotsitthede
opal-
iouB,ooo,ooof, which was considered as part payment of the sum
to
bO paid the State for the works which they might
have executed on the line, 4041 be paid before the Royal

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers :

" The Mode, a Paris journal, says—' Whatever may be asserted
to the contrary, the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies is de-
termined on, and the new elections are to take place in the month
of November next.' "

" The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 4th instant announces
that, in consequence of the Minister of Commerce having re-
cently modified the quarantine regulations, without previously
consulting the Sanitary Board of that city, the members, consider-
ing their dignity compromised, and being unwilling to incur the
responsibility of acts to which they have not been parties, have all
sent in their resignations.

" The Egyptian steamer Nile arrived at Marseilles on the 2d
inst. from Leghorn, where she had called in on her passage from
Alexandria. Halim Bey, one of the sons of the Pacha of Egypt,
came passenger in that vessel, with 23 young Egyptians.
" A Vienna letter of the 29th ult. says One of our Archdukes
will go to Gotha to pay the compliments of the Court to the Queen
of England on her arrival there, and it is said that the King of
Prussia will have an interview with her Majesty, but it is net pro.
bable that this will take place at Berlin.'''
On the Paris Bourse the Three per Cents. closed on Sa-
turday at 84f. 35c. ex div. ; the Five per Cents. at 1221. 10c. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,223 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,1101.
Vierzon, 8251. ; Havre, 891 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 1,0501. ; Basle,
272 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 42% ; Spanish FL,-
siTes, 7%.

Hull returns 26 steamers, every one of which comes
within the more respectable category. Newcastle re:
turns the astonishing number of 146 steam-vessel*, a
large proportion of them of superior dimensions and
capabilities, Glasgow 61, of Yr*4 14119 are entire],

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAI_EVENING, JUNE 9, 1845,

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10

Ditto, Account — 41
Belgian 4% per Cent. — 99
Dutch, 21,11 per Cent .
PRICES OF PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSINGR
AILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 214 236
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 135
• Ditto % Shares
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% ...... 81% 8
Cliurnet Valley
Cork and Waterford „. 11/2
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton
Coventry and Leicester 1% 2
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 21/ lO3/ 11 .
Dublin and Galway 21,11...... 4%
Dublin and Mullingar... 2% —
Eastern Counties 14/. 165.... 2034 21
Ditto New 4/. 16s.
' Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....51.135. 4d ll4
Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d. 0%..
Eastern Union l5 .. ...
Ditto Extension .
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo 245 247 247
Ditto New
Ditto New
Great Western BO 2OO 205 205

_ 51%
214
4%

Ditto, Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2 % ... .. 5% 5l/s
Hull and Selby 5O 104% 1061,4
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20
London and Birmiughm(Stock)...239 240 238 238
Do ;New Thirds
Do. I,‘ Shares
London and Blackwall. 161. 136.4 d. 10
London and Brighton... 50
Do. New consolidated Bths 25 —
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 19% 20
Do. New l3s 4d 1 LA IIA
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
Lond. & S.Westem 411 6s 10d B3 80%........ 82
Do. New
London and York 2l/ . 3% VI 3I,E
Londonderry &Coleraine 21/L,••••••
Lynn and Dereham l% 3%14 2%
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Do. 1,4 Shares
Do. Quarters
Do. Sixteenths .. 314 9% 9%
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 22s. . 4%14 4
Midland... 100 .183
Do. New
Midland,Birm., Derby 100 144 143... ...... ... 143
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 .. 51 50% 50 5O
Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and Berwick 11,! 17% 17
Newry and Enniskillen. 21,4
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Oxford and Worcester... 2% 6 51/2 5
Perth and Inverness ... 2%
Preston and Wyre,
Richmond and West End

Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
South Devon...
Scottish Midland l%. . 3%
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%.....
South Eastern &Dover 3312 s 4d... 45%3/4
Do., No. 2.
Do~ No. 3
South Wales . ... 21/2 5141/ 5%
Trent Valley 2 . 19 . 19
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3%
Welch Midland
York and North Midland 50 107
Do. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 —
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 214% 2%
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 4%% 5%
Lyons and Avignon 2 —
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Over Yssel 413 s 4d 1%% ll%
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris:& Lyons, (Colon's) 2 ......
Paris and Rouen 2O —
Paris and Orleans 2O —
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Do. do. (Hainguerlot's) 2 ...... 2%
Paris and St. Quentin ... 2 —
Sambre and Meuse
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland

2%
2
10%

50

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 9.—Wind S.W., moderate breeze and cloudy.
DEAL, JUNE S.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W., very strong.—Acrd.
Carnatic, Hyne, Bombay ; Mountaineer, Sierra Leone ; Maria, Van
Caumenga, Feyen, Cotingruba ; a whaler, supposed the Sarah Ann,
South Seas for London ; Catherine, Greene, St. Kitts ; Hunter, of
Goole, New Orleans. Ski. Lady M`Naghten, Calcutta ; Justina,
Madras ; Hebrides, Bombay ; John Brewer, Aden ; Mary Irvine,
Mauritius ; Fairlie, Ascension ; Fox, Valparaiso ; Highbury, Ja-
maica ; Glasgow, Dalhousie ; Marquis of Bute, China ; Lady Hilda,
Barbadoes, and the rest of the outward bound, except Gilbert Hen.
derson and Thetis.

MILL, JUNE B.—A large barque, reported to be the Surrey, from
New Orleans, has got ashore this morning on the Sketter Sand,
where she remains high and dry.

REDCAR, JUNE 7.J-The Emanuel, Heinrick, from Antwerp to
Stockton, ran on the rocks off here yesterday, but was got off with
assistance, and into Middlesborough, without much damage.
YARMOUTH, JUNE B.—lt blew a heavy gale last night and this
morning at South, but is now more moderate.—Wind W. to 8.W.-..
The Virgo, of Shields, for Honfleur, with coals, has been assisted in
here leaky, having been in the Shipwash Sand. The Maria, from
Neath to London, with potatoes, has also been assisted in here with
damage.

HARwICU, JUNE B.—A coal-laden brig got ashore this morning on
the Cork Sand, but came off at high water, with aseLstanco, after
throwing part of cargo overboard, and is now at anchor near Cork
light-vessel. .

DRURT-LANB THEATRB.—Hundreds have been dis-
appointed of obtaining seats each night. Madame Anna Thillon
has appeared in The Enchantress, and so great an impression has
her performance made, that she plays only in this opera during her
stay in London.

The Queen Dowager and Household leave Marl-
borough House to-morrow, for Bushey Park.

HER MAJESTY'S BAL COSTUME.—The coiffures Of
the following distinguished personages, made and dressed by Mr.
Willis, of *mat Marlborough-street, attracted universal admira-
tion :—Prince Edward, Count Esterhasy, Marquis of Worcester,
Earl of Fife, Lord Clanricarde, Earl of Rosalyn, Earl of March,
the Hon. W. Bagot, Sir William Cavendish, Sir Watkins W.
Wynn, Captain Pitt, Lord Nelson, &e. &c.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND MR. TWYFORD.—O❑
Saturday a meeting of the Marylebone Vestry took place, when
several Members of Parliament and influential persons were pre-
sent. The Rev. Dr. Spry, the Rector, having taken the chair.
Mr. Gomm brought forward the motion of which he had given
notice, that the vestry call upon the Borough Members to bring
the case of Mr. Mayer before the House of Commons, on the
ground that the letter received by the vestry from Sir James
Graham was not satisfactory. Sir B. Hall, Sir Charles Napier;
and General Evans expressed their approbation of the conduct
pursued by the vestry, but said they considered the condemnation
of the course pursued ,by Mr. Twyford, circulated as it would be
throughout the country, sufficient puni,•hment for the fault. Mr.
Williams, M.P., also concurred in what the vestry had done, and
said he would be happy to move in the House of Commons for the
production of the correspondence between Sir J. Graham and Mr.
Twyford. Several other gentlemen having spoken, Mr. Gomm
asked permission to withdraw his motion, as the course which Mr.
Williams had declared his intention of pursuing would answer
every purpose aimed at by the vestry. This being assented to, the
vestry separated.

'The Constitutionnel states the report of the arrival
of M. d'Aubigny in Paris was unfounded. Immediately after his
arrival at Rochefort, in the Embuscade, whieh left Otaheite on the
20th January, and Brazil on the 12th of April, M. d'Aubigny pro.
seeded to Lorient to visit his family, and was there to await the
orders of the Minister of Marine. Count Ney, the French Charge
d'Affaires at the Court of Brazil, and Lieutenant-Colonel Favereau
who had the military command at the Marquesas, also arrived in the
Embuscade.

SALE OP A CADETSHIP.—Mr. John Henry Drew,
auctioneer, King William-street, and Mr. James Rallet, of Bays-
water, were charged before Mr. Hardwick, at Marlborough-street,
on Saturday, with being concerned in negotiating for the sale of a
cadetship in•the East India Company's service, in violation of the
49th statute of George 111., sec. 12d, which makes such proceed-
ings a misdemeanour. Mr. Clarkson attended to prosecute on be-
half of the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company,
and stated that the offence with which the defendants were
charged consisted in having negotiated for the sale of a
cadetship in the Company's service to a person named James
Matthews Boswell, the stepson of a gentleman named
Coppard. The amount of the sale of this cadetship was one
thousand guineas, which was to be paid by Mr. Coppard
into the hands of Mr. Sprye, on the part of the two parties
at the bar, and other parties who were not, but who would
shortly be, before the Court. A gentleman named Mr.
Shank, formerly a director of the East India Company, was the
person through whose intercession and influence this appointment
was said to be promised by the parties accused. After a lengthened
investigation, Mr. Hardwick agreed to admit both parties to bail,
upon entering into their own recognisance for 5001., and finding
two sureties to be bound in the sum of 5001. each.
THE. GRAND CALEDONIAN BALL.—This magnifi-
cent reunion takes place to-night, under auspices that will secure
a numerous and brilliant assemblage of our leading nobility. The
several ladies patronesses had disposed of the whole of their vouchers
on Friday last; but, owing to the urgent solicitations of some in-
fluential persons, we learn that a limited number will be issued at
double the ordinary charge. The exchange of vouchers has
already exceeded 900. Most of the *ores diplomatiqus have ac-
cepted the invitations of the ladies patronesses, and Prince Lieven,
Prince Galatain, and several distinguished foreigners, have signified
it as their intention to be at the ball, by the fact of applying for
vouchers. The members of the Royal Family will be received by
the ladies patronesses, and will meet in the saloon commonly called
the tea-room, where the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Ministers,
&c., will also assemble. It is said the splendid ballroom and con-
necting rooms, as well as the supper.room below, are all to be ar-
ranged precisely as at the Waverley ball last season. A number of
ladies have promised to be present in the superb dresses they
wore at the royal bal costume on Friday night ; and the Marquis
of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Lorn, and Lord Macdonald,
will be among the noblemen wearing the Highland garb, who fully
intend to appear in the rich additions to the national costume of
Scotland after the mode of 1740 to 1750. The Duchess of Suther-
land, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk. the Duchess of Somerset, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Breadalbane, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the
Countess of Roseberry, the Duchess de Coigny, the Marchioness
of Lorn, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, and above 500
personages of title have agreed to honour the ball by their presence.