12 JANUARY 1856, Page 9

The Royal Albert, 131, on her passage from the Crimea

to Malta, sprung a leak, caused by sonic defect in the screw-machinery. The water rushed in at the rate of half a ton a minute, and the ship put into San Nicholas in the island of Zea. Here the leak was stopped ; suds message published by the Admiralty today states that she arrived in safety at Malta on Monday.

The death of Mr. Sergeant Adams, the well-known Assistant-Judge on the Middlesex 13ench, is announced this morning. Mr. Adams expired on Thursday, after a short but severe illness.