- The Queen's ship Thalia brings intelligence from Rio de
Janeim to the 22d September. The Resistance had arrived there with the Forty-fifth Regiment on board, originally destined for the Cape of Good Hope; but, instead of proceeding thither, she was ordered to go at once with the troops to Monte Video, for which she sailed on the 14th or 15th of September. A detachment of the allied squadron in the River Plate sailed for the reduction of Calinea on the 29th August last. Oribe still held out, and was adopting severe measures against all the English and French within his reach.
Some anxiety is felt about the Great Britain steam-ship, which ought to have sailed from New York on the 25th of October, and has not yet arrived at Liver- pool. The Hibernia mail-steamer, which was to leave Boston on the 1st instant, had not arrived at Liverpool when the express departed yesterday.
At Marlborough Street Police-office, yesterday, Mr. Edward Powell, son of the Clerk to the Mint Solicitor, was charged with attempting to pass a bad sovereign. Although very young, Mr. Powell has managed the minor prosecutions at the Police-offices for uttering forged money; and the sovereign, with some others, pro- .baldy came into his possession officially. He visited Ellen Johnson, a girl whose business is ostensibly that of a dressmaker; and on taking leave he offered her a sovereign; which she refused as a bad one. He then offered her the choice of three or four others; but they were all bad, and she gave him into custody. The excuse anis, that he had made a change of clothes before he went out, and had forgotten
to transfer his genuine coin to the pockets of the trousers that he wore. The Magistrates considered that the second offer of bad money justified a suspicion of something more than mistake; and the young man was committed for trial.
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