The correspondence between the East India Directors and Sir Joh n
Hobhouse, relative to the cancelling of Lord Heytesbury's appointment to the Indian Governorship, has been published in the newspapers. It is very long, and not particularly interesting ; but proves that the Directors were very anxious to have a Tory GovernorGeneral, and that Sir John Hobhouse was determined not to be a party to the appointment of any person whose political opinions were opposed to those of the Government. Sir John deserves praise for his firmness in this affair.
Detachments of recruits, inlisted in Glasgow for the service of the Queen of Spain, are now daily leaving the Broomielaw for Greenock, where the ship Jamaica has been engaged as a receiving or tender ship. This vessel is moored to the tail of the bank ; and the recruits, as they arrive, are put on board of her, where they are to be kept till a steamer arrives to take them to Spain. General Evans is now on his voyage to St. Sebastian, to join that part of the British force already assembled there. He was loudly cheered by a numerous body of friends and spectators, on leaving the Falcon, at Gravesend, on Wednesday night at twelve o'clock ; and embarked in an eight-oared cutter, which conveyed him on board the Isabella, for St Sebastian. It is expected that the British troops will be ready to take the field early in September.—Courier. His Majesty's sloop Jaseur has stopped and detained at Gibraltar, on suspicion of being fitted out for a slave ship, the Cazador, a fine Spanish brig, with a crew of sixty men. She was ready for an imme diate start, having her sails stopped with rope-yarns, and her cable (iron) unshackled, ready to slip. The officer of the Jaseur imme diately ordered her crew below, planted his sentinels, arid in a few moments had her in complete possession. On search, it was ascertained beyond doubt that she was so intended; the shackles being
found on board, as well as an extraordinary proportion of' powder, arms, and water, the slave-deck, and in fact every thing specified in the Act of Parliament of 1825 as necessary for her condemnation.—Times.
Sir Granville Temple' an officer of the Fifteenth (British) Hussars, who was riding close to Marshal Mortier at the moment of the explosion of the infernal machine, was grazed by two of the bulls from it. His horse was struck by another, and he himself covered with the blood of the illustrious Marshal.
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