We have authority to stat...
The Times, 1824-06-21T00:00:00

*Ye have authority to state, that S. R. Lushington, Esq., M. P., bas declined acceDting the appointUent of Go- vernor of Bombay, and that the situation bas consequentlv de- velved upon Sit Johtr i[alcolm, who will, it is understood, forth- with proceed to take upon him the government of that important part of our East India possessions. This wasfinallyarrangedduring the last week.-Kcnt Herald. The preparations wvhich have been making for the bom- bardment of Algiers and the annoyance of the Dey are now com- pleted, and the last of the vessels ordered upon the service vill sail to-morrow, should the weather moderate (it now blows strong from the south-east, with constant rain). His Majesty's steam vessel Lightnzing, with Mr. Gaze (master-attendant) on board, accompanied by the Admiral Berkeley transport, Lieutenant Safiders (laden with coals), sailed on Sunday; and the Algerine, I6f, CapLtHon. M. Stop- ford, with the niortar-vessels, Falmnouth, ILieutenant Laws, and Goodwill. Lieutenant Therne, sailed on Tuesday, for Algiers-bay; the Infernal bomb, Captain Barclay, (which arrived here on Tues- day Irom Chatham), rhe Hanzoaze mortal-vessel, Lieutenant Afac Caualand, and the Industry tranport, with ordnance stores,will pro- bably sail to-morrow for the same destination..-Portsmou,t paper. We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 11th March. They are filled with a trial which has excited the greatest interest at Cape Town, H. N. Fiscal v. Lancelot Ccoke, Wim. Edwards, and a. B. Hoffman, for a libel. The cause of this ac- tion was a memorial of Lancelot Cooke to the Lordsof the Treasury, which had been published at the Cape charging Charles Blair, cel- lector of the customs, with cruelty in the traffic of slaves, corrupt practices in his oflicial capacity, and of using the most violent and insultrng language to the memorialisL After a very stormy trial whlich bad been adjourned froni clay to day, the defendants denying the competency of the Court, and after the mnost abusive language used bh all parties, the result wvas " the Court, afterdeliberating for a short time, confirmed the sentence appealea from, and condemned the first defendant, Alr. Cooke, in all prior exnenses; and fixed the costs on this appeal at 15 rix-dollars." The Fiscal and the defend- ants severallv appealed againist the determination of the Court in re- fusing to go into the examination of any witnesses whatever. Parliament, it is said, wvill be prorogued on Thursday next; but it is not known whetber His Majesty wil do it in person orby commission. SL-venty-six bills received, the Royal assent, by comnmis- sion, on Thrrday, and thus became Acts of Parliament. Amongst them were the bills making very important alterations and greatly increasing the severities and strictness of the laws regarding Insol- vent Debtors, Savings 13anks. &c. The Silk AIanufacturer's NVages Bill, or rather the ' Spitalfields Acts" Repeal Bill, Lord Stafiord's Reversal of Attainder Bill, and Lords lMlarr, Strathallan, Kenmuir, and Nairn's Restoration Bills, also obtained the Royal assent, and became lawq3. OxFoRaD, June 19.-Yesterday the Rev. William H. Coleridge, Student of Christ Church, and Bishop of Barbadoes, amd the Rev. John Stedman, of Pembroke College, were admiited Doctors in Divinity. A gentlemarn, notv in Canterbury, who recently returned from India, Landed at St. Helena, and cut a slip from the willow- tree which shades the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon, upon that secluded rock. The dlip of willow is planted in tlis city.-Kcnt Herald. MATIIEWS.-A letter received at Boston from an Ame- rican'lady now in Londoni say" I have been present at ' Ma- thews at Home,' since his Americai toar, and was very agreeably disappointed in finding, in taking offsomeof our peculiarities, there was nothing ofietrsive to our native country, although his perform- ance abounded with wit, drollery, and well-told anecdotes."_?BaltL more Chronicle. ExTRAortDINARY VEGETATbOij.-The extraordinarv progress of vegctation during seasonable and plentiful rain bas frequently excited adimiration and surprise; butthat seeds, after be- ing sown, should arrive to perfection in as insay seconds as by the process of nature they requtire days in the finest climates, is a curt,- sity which,few persons have witnessed. Franklin was the first who applied the mighty power of electricity to the purposes of vegetation, by which, at any season, a dish of salad, turnips, &c., might be obtained in a few seconds. l;Ye were exceedingly amused with this experiment on Monday evening, when it, was admirably perforamed by Mir. Charles to a most fashionable andnumerous audierce. Upon this occasion? the lady of .Ir. Waller O'Grady, who with most of the Lord Chief Baron'sTfamily was present. at the request of Mlir. Charles, placed somtSnould in a tin mase and shook some seeds over it. In three seconds from the time Dir. Charles applied it to the electrifying machine' the cover was remsoved,.when there apxpear. cd a plentiful growth of tongue-grass and parslcy. .Mlr. Charles very politely promised a lady presenlt to produce the-same eflect on some flowver seeds, whielt tshe requested permission to send to him for ' that purpose next mnomning..Dabl;n * recma,r';Jouruo(,