The following changes hav...
The Times, 1824-12-20T00:00:00

The followinig changes have, it is said, taken place in the Colonial Governments :-Lord Combermere succeeds Sir Edward Paget as Commanderm-inChief in Bnigal. Thc Mlarquis of Hulnt. Iev succeeds Lord Clarles Somorset at tihe Cape of Good Hope, where Sir WVilliam Plaskett is appointed Colonial Secretary, in the room of Colonel Bird. Lord Howard of Efringham relieves Sir Henry Yarde as Governor of Barbadoes; and Major-jeneral Dar. ling proceeds to New South 'Vales to succeed Sir Thomas Brisbane. From the agents to Lloyd's at Maracaybo, October 4, 182X1:-Tiie tollowing directiona will probably be useful to a Cap. pin coming herewfor the first time:-" In proceedingdown the Gulf, as boa--aa he sees Fort San Carlos, whlch appears like a white-spot, he must bring it to bear S.W.: then hekahould steer t.est, in seven fathoms water, until the Fort, commnenced on Baso Sito, beairs south half east: lhe is thlQn abreast of the creather.bar, and has nothiig fur- ther to do-but tb!low the pilot'odirectlon.` - We have much pleasure ii stating, that Stepheii Cur tis and George Barnea, the two men vho, at the risk of their lives, descen(ded, with the assistance of a rope, the perpendicular cliff at ChristchurCl Head, during the late dreadful tempest, and saved two of the crew of the fJero stoop. of Southampton, have been reward. ed for thcir humanity and intrepidity by the surn of 101., which was awarded to them bv the Royal National Institution for the Preser- vation of Lives froin Shipwreck. The office of this excellent insti- tution is at 12, Austinfriars. The mode to be adopted to obtain a reward of this description is hy petition, stating thefacts, properly authenticated by the minister, churchwardens, and principal in. habitants.-Hampshirc Telegraph-. PORTSMOUTir, Dec. 18-.We regret to have again to repeat to the shipping interest, the detention here of-upwarda of 100 sail of outward-bound merchantnien, by contrary winds: some of the ships have beeh two months out of the Downs, during which they have made repeated ineffectual struggles to clear, the Channel, but could not get to the westward of Plymouth. The ahip Thotas, BeUl, for St. Vincent's, came in again on Thursday evening from the Downs, whither she had been driven a second time, from off' Ply- mouth: she has sustained a loss of 3001. worth of donkies and mules by the veather. Thete are not less than 3,000 men in the transports, who are destined for various foreign stations. Mfajor- General Turner is going out with the detachmentsaof troops to the coast of Africa and Archdeacon Scott (the first clerical appoint. ment of this rank to the colony) to New South Wales, in the JHer- cules. A namber of clergym?en are also embstked in the John Shand, for the nev sees in the West India islands.-Hamprhire Telegraph. THE FAIR CIRCASSIAN.-" I was standIng at the vil- lage of Carajula, with the rest of my party," says Sir Robert Por- ter, "enjoying the clear freshness of the evening, when a band belonging to my old acquaintance, Abul Hassan.Khan, (then Per- sian Ambassador in London), approac'hed the village. The people were on their return fromb England to Teheran ; and with them, in charge, mounted on .a sorry post horse, vias the celebrated fiair Cir- caesian ! His Excellency had purchased her at Constantinople, in his wa% to the WYest, where, I understand, both in Paris antid Lon. don, s e was noticed by our European ladies with much kindness; but the style In which I saw her now, pToduced a sad contrast to what she must then have experienced. When the poor creature, in approaching, discerned my Frangy appearance, in thc gladnees per- haps ot a grateful recollection, she was riding forward, to address me; but im a meoment, the rough fellow who was her conductor laid his whip over her shoulders, wUih so terrible an admonition besides, that closing both her lips and her veil, abc travelled on with doubtless heavy recolections. To interfere on behalf of a woman so aituated, woild cast a sort of contamination on her; and therefore have the effect of Don Qeixote's interruption of the boy?s Castigation from Pis mater-only redouble Xhe stripes."