Lieutenant G. C. Stovin, late in the command of the
Algerine brig, will be tried by Court-martial on Tuesday, on board the ship Victory, on a charge of repeated drunkenness. Lieutenant Stovin, on his pas- sage to the Cape, was displaced in command and put under arrest by Mr. Cardew, the mate, and third in seniority in the vessel, who assumed the command, and carried her into the Cape. This novel proceeding in the British Navy created so much difficulty in the East Indies, that Sir John Gore took every person out of her, and brought them to England.—Hampshire Telegraph.
Mina has written a letter from Montpelier to a friend in England, denying indignantly that be ever perpetrated the cruelties charged against him in the London newspapers, and, on their authority, by Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Grove Price-in the House of Commons.
The British brig Jessie, of Belfast, for St. John's, New Brunswick, was lost at sea previous to the 10th of June. The crew were ten days in the boats ; during which time eleven of them died of hunger, three only surviving, who were carried to Quebec.
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