Star.
London, England, 1830-04-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenant Charles Burlton (1795) to the rank
of retired Commander, vice Tait, deceased ; Mr. Augustus Lavie,
of the Asia, and Mr. J. V. Sullivan, of the Undaunted, to the rank
of Lieutenant.

The Mary Ann, of Aberdeen, from Gibraltar to Newfoundland,
was detained on the 25th ult. off the island of St. George, by a
Portuguese brig of war, and carried into St. Michael's on the st)th.
It was supposed she would be sent to Lisbon.
The Janet Dunlop, Laren', from Honduras, and Eliza, Laroche,
from Charleston, have arrived in the Clyde.
DIAL, Aram 19.—Wind Y.N.W.—Arrived the Curler, Ry-
land, front Mauritius ; Jane, Hudson, from Demerara ; Persian,
Plunkett, from New South Wales ; and St. Vincent's Planter,
, from Jamaica. Arrived from London, the New York
Packet, Crosbie, for Jamaica. Sailed the Hon. Company's ships
Sir David Scott, Lord Lowther, and Earl of Balcarras, with the
rest of the outward-bound.
PLTMOUTII, Alan 18.—Wind W. and N.W.—Arrived the
Hibernia, M'Culcheau, from Sierra Leone ; Prudentia, Ribello,
from Fayal ; Cygnet, —, from St. Michael's ; and Clarence,
Cocker, from lieguesada.

FALMOUTH. Aran. 18.—Wind B.S.E.—Arrived off the port,
the Joseph Hume, Rakray, from Port-au-Prince.
HOLTHIAD, Aram 16.—Off the port, the Coßingwood, Guisse,
from Bengal, and Turner, —, front Bombay.
Leraitroot., APRIL 18.—Arrived the Harriet, APFarlane, and
Dorothy, Garnock, from Bombay; Horatio, Gotham, from Per-
nambuco; Midas, Watson, front 'Maranham ; Euphemia, Find-
later, front Nassau; Logan, Atkins, and Shenandoah, Rose, from
New Orleans.

The Spanish Minister had a long conference with the
Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury.
There are now three ships bound front Bristol to New
York, in which we understand between 400 and 500
passengers, emigrants from this neighbourhood, will em-
bark as settlers in America. About 100 persons have
also sailed from Bristol and Newport within the last three
weeks, to seek their fortunes in Quebec.—Cheltenham
Journal.

Extract of a private letter from an Officer of the ship
Lord Castlereagh, dated Singapore, Nov. 7 :—" We sailed
from China on the 26th Oct. at which time the whole of
the Company's ships for the season had arrived. The
Hon. Company's ship Inglis, Capt. Dudman, was the last,
and arrived on the 24th of Oct. Mr. Plow•den, the head of
the Factory in China, has stopped all the Company's
ships from going to Whampoa, and they are all lying at
Urmston's Bay, except the Bridgewater, and there they
are to remain until some settlement can be made with
the Chinese authorities about reducing the duties.—
Some of the ships have been in nearly three months.—
There are a number of reports about the stopping of the
ships—the Company keep it quite a secret, but the general
belief is that it is on account of the reduction of the duties.
The stoppage of the ships is very annoying to the Com-
manders, as they cannot sell their private trade. On the
9th Aug. we had one of the most severe tyfoons ever
known in China; the Bridgewater and Herefordshire were
lying between Macao and Lintin, and had only arrived
two or three days before. These, with most of the other
ships, suffered much from the storm."

A late legal decision in France is of importance to
foreigners. A Frenchman, after having been five years
in prison for debt, is *Aided to his discharge, and is
afterwards exonerated from all debts contracted previ-
ously to his arrest. But foreigners had not hitherto been
deemed entitled to this relief. An English clergyman of
the name of Sheppard, having served out his five years
at Ste. Pelagie, lately applied for his discharge, and,
after some litigation, his application was admitted to be
well founded. This decree will be likely to set at liberty
several foreigners who havebeen for years past tenanting
the dreary cells of the holy convent. Very lately, Mr
Swan, an American gentleman, was still at Ste. Pelagie,
of which place he had been an inmate for 23 years !
A set of Omnibus carriages are about to be established
at St. Petersburg, to run, during the summer, between
that capital and the neighbouring villages.—Hamturgh
Reporter.
VICE-Ctinwcu.t.on's Cot; RT.—Re Harris exparte
Tipton.—Under this title, the STAR of April 7th, con-
tained a report of certain proceedings which took place be-
fore the Vice Chancellor, upon a rule obtained by an attor-
ney, named Tipton, residing in Gloucester, calling upon
another attorney, Mr. Smallridge, of that city, to deposit in
that Court, for the purpose of their being used as evi-
dence on the trial of an indictment preferred by Tipton
against Smallridge, the proceedings under a commission
of bankruptcy issued against a person named Harris,
which commission had subsequently been superseded.
In applying to alter the order which had been granted
by the Court, our report stated that Knight, as Coun-
sel for Tipton, " disclaimed any imputation on Mr.
Smallridge, with respect to the indictment not being tried
at the present assizes." This report, it seems, as a matter of
local interest,has beencopied into the Gloucester Journal,
the leading paper of that county, and appears to have
given great umbrage to some person, who, under the
signature of " W. C. Ward,"--but without explaining
in the slightest degree who he is, or what ho is, or how
he became interested in the matter, or by what right he
interferes,—has addressed a long, bombastical, and non-
sensical letter to the Editors of the Gloucester Journal,
endeavouring to impugn the accuracy of the report,
(without denying one allegation in it,) and, consequently,
the integrity of the paper in which it originally appeared.
It becomes us, therefore, to say that we have satisfied our-
selves of the correctness of our reporter's statement ; and
that if " W. C. Ward,"--whoever he may be,—knows
any thing at all about the business, he must know
that he has attempted to palm a wilful misrepre-
sentation upon tho public : for lie must be very well
aware that Mr. Knight, as Tipton's Counsel, volun-
tarily acquitted Mr. Smallridge of any imputation what-
ever with respect to the delay in proceeding to trial;
and that Mr. Knight could not, or did not, deny the alle-
gation of Mr. Smallridge's Counsel, that " be had used
every exertion to induce Tipton to go to trial at the pre-
sent Assizes, but could not." We should like to know if
this " W.C. Ward" is the same " W.C. Ward" against
whom a bill of indictment was preferred, and found true
by the Gloucester City Grand Jury, at the present A mixes,
for obtaining money on a watch alleged to be gold, which
was in fact base metal, under the circumstances detailed
in the STA a of Saturday last ?