Star.
London, England, 1831-03-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

St R—Your spirited advocacy of the cause of the Poles is
one among several reasons for your Paper being in deserved
estimation in this city.
The friends of the Poles have been proposing a subscrip-
tion, and to 'mike it general, and expressive of the feelings
of the nation, it is preferred that no person shall contribute
more than a ant LLING.
The idea was started last night in a small party, and
twenty-three shillings collected instanter, every one under-
taking to be a collector among his friends, so that in a few
days we are likely to have twenty. three times twenty-three
shillings.
We hope to get the librarians to concur and to open books.
We were at a loss as to the best focus for our collections,
and on naming the Proprietcrs of the STAR, a paper
which gave us the first hopes of Polish success, it was
agreed that I should solicit your concurrence and the pub-
lication of this note, as a suggestion for the country at
large.
If every friend to the brave Poles will take a very slight
trouble, you may, we presume, be soon the depositary of a
sum, which will do honour to the English people, and sub-
stantially serve a must interesting cause. CATO.
BATH, March 24th.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Maces &mem Tins —Dublin.2 ; Waterford. 1 ; Guernsey

and Jersey, 1 ; Holland, I ; Flanders, 1 ; France, 1.

MAR, MARCH .26 and 27 —*lna S.S.W.
PORTSMOUTH, Mama 26 and 27.—Wind S.S.E. to S.
FALMOUTH, MATCH 25 and 46.—Wind &E. to S.W. squally—Ar-
rived the Juno, Langstoke, from New York.
GREAVOCE, Maim' 25.—Arrived the Commodore Gribble, Hart,
from Charleston.

Ltvzsroor., Rialtos 26.—Arrived the Henry Thompson, Drew,
from Charleston.

Hoz:rust% Maims 26.—Arthred the Europe, Owens, from Trieste.
Dom, hl 27.—Arrived the Adour, Gretchen, from Ilam.
burgh, with 'ix feet water in her held, having struck a wreck in the
North Sea, bound to Cowes.

PINZANCI4 Ma.acu 26.—Arrived the Providence, Power, from St.
Michael's.

The Traveller, Henry, from Trieste, has arrived at Denman&
Extract of a letter from Capt. Riede, of the Sunbury, arrived at
New Orleans from Liverpool :—" We were brought to by a brigantine
betwixt the Cayman and Cape Antonio, which ordered our boat along
side showing and pointing them the ' long Tom,' if we did not im-
mediately. I sent the mace and three men; the boat returned with
two, and four Spaniards—or looking like such, but only armed with
knives—demanding bread, saying they would pay for it, having plenty
of dollars on board. They took about 10 ewt. of bread, one cask of
flour, one cask of peas, and one bag of rice, with every thing else
eatable they could lay their hands on, for which the mate returned
with 7,0 dollars. He reported her to be regularly armed, with 50
men, and 550 slaves, and quite out of provisions, basing only a few
yams oat board."
PORTSMOUTH—SATURDAY.
The Dryad, 42 guns, I ommodore Hayes, and the Favourite, 18
guns, Commodore Harrison, were at Siena Leone on the 20th January.
The Plumper gun-brig had arrived there with a Portuguese slaver,
having on board 500 slaves and 40 Portuguese. At the time of the
capture the Plumper had only six white men on board.—Mr. Herbert,
Mate of the Medina, shot himself, having stabbed a man, which occa-
sioned his death. The occurrence took place when employed on some
boat service, under an impression of mutinous conduct on the part of
the man.

The Gannet, 18, Commodore Sweny, was towed out of Plymouth har-
bour on Wednesday, having had the zinc sheathing taken off,
and replaced by copper. Sir Humphrey Davy's protectors having been
discontinued, it was determined to try the effect of a zinc, prepared in •
peculiar manner, as a sheathing for ships' bottoms, instead of copper.
It is now found, however, that zinc will not answer the purpose, on ac-
count of the brittleness, breaking off like glass, thus exposing the bottom
to injury, and impeding the ship's motion.
Tne Georgians convict ship, under the superintendence of Dr. Tarn,
arrived on Tuesday, from Deptford, and embarked 182 convicts on
Thursday, for Australia.,
The male convict ship Argyle, Lieut. Henry Gordon Brock, R. N.
Superintendent, with 250 convicts on board, sailed yesterday se'nnight,
from Plymouth, for Van Diemen's Land.
It is intended again to separate the West India from the Halifax
command. Rear-Admiral Lord James O'Brien will hoist his flag u
Commander-in-Chief on the North American station.

The Stag, 46,1 which is to carry the broad pendant of Sir T. Trove.
bridge, is to be armed with long 24-pounders. L'Aigk and Curacoa,
which are cutting down to flush-decked ship, are to be armed with
long 32-pounders. Capt. Mingaye will command one of them.
The Ariadne, Semarang, Dispatch, Nautilus, and Savage, are still at
Spithead, waiting for orders. The nature of the service up which it
is contemplated to employ these vessels has not transpired, and baffles
conjecture here.

Miss Linwood has outdone herself in her new picture of
Cais. All the world visit it, and admire it. It is in truth
one of the chief stars of the metropolis.
We are happy to see that the Mansion-house subscrip-
tion for the distress in the West of Ireland already exceeds
15001.

The failure or. Saturday of Cornelius Buller and Co.
proves to be of far less extent than was that day supposed.
By the statute 21 Geo. 111. chap. 49, any place opened
for public debate, on any subject whatsoever, upon Sunday,
and to which persons shall be admitted upon payment of
money, or by tickets sold for money, shall be deemed a
disorderly house. The keeper to forfeit 2001. the manager,
moderator, president, or chairman, 1001. and every person
receiving money or tickets, or delivering tickets, .501. recover-
able by any one who will sue for the same. The ostensible
keeper and every joint owner to be deemed a keeper. Penalty
for advertising such public meeting, 501. The penalties to
be sued for within six months.

Lord Erskine, on Friday, wok the oaths and his seat in
the House of Lords, for the first time, in the present session
of Parliament.

It transpired early on Saturday morning on 'Change, and
caused a considerable sensation, that a Director of the Bank
of England had stopped payment as a merchant, and was
also largely a defaulter by speculations in the funds. The
individual alluded to is Mr. Buller, carrying on business
under the firm of Cornelius.Btiller and Co. but without, we
believe, any copartnership. He is of very old standing in
the direction of the Bank, basing passed the chair several
years ago, and consequently bein_ a member of the " Com-
mittee of Treasury," with access to all the important and
secret operations of that corporation, which invariably
originate with such committee. As a mercantile failure, the
affair is of little moment, the house having long ago reduced
its transactions within very narrow limits. The a hole extent
of its outstanding obligations we have heard stated as low
its 30,0001. Wi.ll regard to the speculations in the funds,
they are of no great extent, the differences against him not
amounting, it is said, to more than 2.0001. but no small
scandal has been caused in the City, by the discovery
that a Bank Director, whose a cial knowledge gives
him a petit zielvantage over other merchants, has entered
into any such speculations at all. The uninitiated
have always been led to believe that that Court was quite in-
capable of engaging in similar transactions. His ape( Ca-
tions have, no doubt, }moved very injurious to other persons
besides himself, for, independently of the loss sustained by
the brokers he employed, who are responsibie, according to
the rules of the Stock-Exchange, for his transactions,
those who were in his confidence would be induced to
follow his example, on the strength of his character and
supposed access to official information. A Bank Director
would be presumed cognizant of numberless circum-
stances likely to affect the value of the funds, and in which
consequently his movements would take place with nearly
the absolute certainty of success. Mr. Buller has of course
now ceased to be a Bank Director, having been disqualified
by selling the amount of stock which made him eligible, in
the course of the last week. There alit be no contest
for the vacancy, as his successor, according to the old-
established practice in the Bank, is already fixed on by the
other Directors, and opposition in such cases, as all the
world knows, is now never thought of.— Times.