Star.
London, England, 1827-03-15 00:00:00

NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.

A letter from Mr. Douglas, the botanist, to Dr.
Hooker, recently received, dated from the Great Falls,
on theColombiaßiver, contains the folloting paraAraph
" There is here a Mr. Macleod, who spent the Last five years
at Port Good Hupe, on the Mackenzie River. He informs me
that if the natives. with whom he is perfectly acquainted, are
worthy of credit, there is a North-West Passage. They describe
a very large river, that runs parallel with the Mackenzie, and
falls into the sea near Icy Cape, at the mouth of which there is an
establishment on an island, where ships come to trade. They a‘sert
that their people are very wicked, having hanged several of the
natives to the rigging. They wear their beards long. Some re-
liance, I should think, may be laid on their statement, as Mr.
Macleod shewed us some Russian coins, combs, and several articles
of hardware. very different from those furnished by the British
Company. Mr. Macleod caused the natives to assemble last
summer, for the purpose of accompanying him in his departure for
Hudsea's Bay. The sea Is said to be open after July."

The House of Commons, it is at present understood,
will adjourn for the Easter Recess on the 12th to the
SOtti of April.
EXTRAORDINARY SYRED.-Such was the extreme
alertness of one of the principal corn-millers who frequents Wake-
field market, 'to get the earliest information of the intended mea-
sures of Ministers respecting the Corn Laws, that he had an agent
in London upon the occasion, who left the House of Commons, as
soon as Mr. Secretary Caliente had developed his scheme, and ar-
rived in Wakefield within the short space of fourteen hours. Buying
began briskly at advanced prices, and much was done during the
laic week, with a continual progress In the price of wheat particu-
larly.-Leeib Auriot.
The RECORDER of LONDON yesterday made his Re-
port to the KING in Council, of the following prisoners
under sentence of d •ath in Newgate, namely,
Henry Dunn, aged 11, George Hall, 36, John Smith, 39,
Thomas Wilkinson, 17, Henry Wright, 19, Samuel Clark, 15,
Isaac Harris, 33, Anne Garnett, 30, Elisabeth Brown, 52,
Honor Baldwin, 25, Samuel Wilson, 34, William Davies, 26,
Daniel Burns 16, Will Jones, 14, Richard'. Hill, 50, and
Thomas Vanden, 23, for stealing property in a dwelling-boom
to the value of forty shillings; Henry Bayley, 20. Rich dI
Arnold, 20, John Andrew Meek, 16, Benjamin &Own
.20.1
John Adams, 18, Joseph Finch, 19, Theresa Davis, 40, •Ciarlesi
Lewis. 25, John Cranky, 23, Edward Webster, 20, Thomas
Williams,2o, James Wilson, 18, William Howard, 21, Frederick
Langley, 20, and Robert Yang, 54, foe burglary ; John Bunyan, IS
and George Home, 19, for horse stealing ; Royal Keats, 111, and W.
Keats, 19, for sheep stealing; Wm. Stevens, et, Thomas Brahney,
16, Joseph Whitehead, 14, Mary Ann Sullivan, 20, and Martha
Bellamy, 16, for robbery on the person ; James Wingfield, 25, for a
rape; Thomas Canning, 22, and Jonathan Batty, 15, for house-
breaking in the daytime; Daniel Davis, 20, for secreting and
.stealing a letter which came into his possession by virtue of his
employment at the General Poet Once; and Richard Hayes, 42,
for cattle stealing.
His MAJIISTIC was plea.ed to command that all the
said prisoners should be respired during his Royal plea-
su=e, excepting Royal Keats, Arses Wirtelbld,.Willians
Dovies, Daniel Davis, Robert Young; up‘n whom the
law is left to take its course, and tbey.are ordered for
execution on Tuesday next, the 20th instant.
Tire SetUpUIIOUSUeSS of the Dean of 'Westminuer in
folfilling the bequests in the wilrof the late Mr. Gifford
svas so rigid, iii .t, to the extreme regret:of the lovers
of epistolatory literature, he destroyed a most interest-
ing and very e.tensive correspondence between his de-
• eased ii.eird and .the fare ACCOMplibheli Mr. Georg Ellis,
.elating pritscidally to English literature, especirily the
Jistinguishttd Poeta who.fl Jurished during the reigns o'
&Izabal' and James 1; • • ••