... intelltarcnce The Driver steam sloop, Commander Johnson, arrived at Ma- deira on the 13th ult., from Plymouth. and after replenishing fuel sailed for Rio, en route to the Pacific. The Rattler, steam sloop, Commander Cumming, arrived at Madeira on the 26th ult. from Plymouth, and after coaling pro- ceeded for Cape Verd and Ascension. The Sappho, 12, Commander Mitchell, arrived at Madeira on the ...

... THE ORN TRADE FOR THE WEEK. (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette of March 30.) The position of the grain trade has not varied materially since our last weekly review. The prevalence of easterly wind has brought a large fleet of vessels, corn laden, to our shores from the Baltic, &c. and the arrivals of foreign produce have been liberal, as well at the outvorts as into London. quantity of ...

... SATURDAY. Eliznl>etli Cooper, living at East Carlton, said —I remember tlic ...

... intelltarnce Portsmouth, April 27. The Ringdove, 12, Alfred Luckraft acting commander, ar- rived at ten on Tuesday morning, from the China and East India station. She left Bombay on 21st December 1848. The Melampus, acting Captain Inglefield, was there, fitting out the Meanee, 80-gun ship, to couvey her to England, the senior of Melampus to be in charge; twenty men and boys were taken from the ...

... making too free with his master’s till, and on be- ing rather sharply interrogated, he admitted having taken L.1. He was searched, however, and L.8 were found upon him, the fruit of one day’s when he w: Police Office. Since the lad’s as accordingly sent to the the officers have recovered L.240, which the prisoner had stolen from Mr Miller in little more than six months. ...

... ran 4 ring round the young plans tations of Linthgirham Law ; he then turtied south, towafds iggan Shields, skirted Huntfield covert, and through Edmon- and.on to a covert at the foot pace up to this point was tremendous, and Tom Rintoul’s dar- lings might have been covered with a lady’s handkerchief. The fox turned sharp to the left, and the gallant varmint found the highest point of the ...

... the business of the Upper House has slack- ened, the sittings are of short duration, and the subjects under consideration, except in a few instances, are of com- paratively trivial inyport. It will afford your numerous readers gratification to learn that Lord Lansdowne has communicated the important fact, that an armistice had been agreed to between the new King of Sardinia and Marshal ...

... University of Giasgow—Dr George Gray, Professor of Oriental Languages. Presbytery of St Andrew’s—Messrs Milligan, Cameron, Fog- go, St Monance, Carruthers, Kembach, and Dr Buist, St ministers. Rebert Bayne Dalgleish, Esq. of Dura, and John Wood, Esq. banker, Colinsburgh, elders. Presbytery of Lerwick—Rev. Messrs Hamilton, Bressay, and is, Dunrossness, ministers. James Ogilvie Mack, Esq. ...

... HE BRAZILS. Falmouth, April 8, 10 P.at The Seagull packet, Lientenant Smales, haz just arrived with the mails from Rio de Janeiro, from whence she sailed on the 29th of February. Freight about L.20,000, of which L.16,000 is for the St John del Rey Mining Company. Passen gers—Dr Leslie, Messrs Dalgleish, Ameigi, Edward and Chas. Taylor. Exchange, 254. British ships of war at Rio de Janeiro ...

... Chatham, April 28. On Sunday afternoon, the 22d, arrived at this garrison fiom Gravesend, at which place the following troops disembarked from the Irish steam vessel Ajax, from Cork, being volunteers for regiments serving in India, viz.,10 privates from the 7th fusiliers, to the 10th regiment of foot; 50 privates from the 66th foot to the 29th foot, and two serjeants and 108 privates fiom the ...

... clerk of a respectable writer in that town, had absconded on the afiernoon of Wednesday the Lith inst. having previously obtained payment at a bank of L.490 by a cheque of his master’s, which was either forged or surreptitiously procured (it is uncertain which at present.) Immediately after drawing the money Young decamped, along with an elderly man, named Wiiliam Hay, with whom, it seems, he ...

... RELAND Court.—His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, the Countess of Clarendon and suite, arrived on Saturday evening, shortly after ten in Kingston harbour, from by HLM. mail packet Banshee, Lieutenant Smithett, R.N. commander. The Dragon frigate and the Admiralty steamers burned bluc lights, which had a striking effect as the Banshee approached the quay. The vessel was brought along- side ...