We are requested to state, that Messrs. Mudie and Soo,
Newsventlers. No. 15, Co- ventry Street, have no eounexion with Mr. Christopher Miclie, Princes Street.
Private accounts confilm the statement we read in the Bombay papers of the drath of Commodore Elwin, at Bassadore, on the 17th (Whine last, from lever, after an ill [WES of a few days. This event has deprived the Indian Navy of an amiable and excellent officer. Commodore EN in had been engaged for some years previous to taking the command in the Persian Gulf, in the survey of the Red Sea, whith has been carried on under the orders of Government, and Inel completed his portion of it, exit- /ing from Juddah to the Straits, in a most masterly manner.