LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 478, 11 May 1850, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

A Post-office order issued in December states—" A considerable number of newspapers addressed to the United States having lately been posted unpaid, there is reason to fear that many persons are under the impression that the payment of postage upon newspapers intended to be sent to that country is optional. The public therefore are again informed that unless the rate of postage upon these papers, namely, one penny, be paid in advance, they cannot be forwarded to their destination. It is desirable tliat postmasters should give the utmost publicity to this notice."

Rumour says that the Right Hon. Fox Maule is intended eventually to fill the office of Colonial Secretary/ should the retirement of Earl Grey be the result of the mismanagement with which the department has been charged, while under the presidency of the noble Earl. It is also understood that Mr. Maule will resign his office of Caledonian Railway Director, as incompatible with his newduties and dignity. The Islington Cattle Market is snid now to be most decidedly on the ascendant. Smithfield it is said is not only doomed, but the removal of the great metropolitan cattle market will tako place

sooner than its warmest friends had ever anticipated.

We received yesterday a letter from St. Leon do Nicaragua, dated the 6th of November, stating that Mr. Chatfield, the British agent in that vicinity, proceeded with an armed force, ou the 16th of October, to the island of Tigrc, in tho Bay of FonstM'u, and took violent possession of it in the name of her Majesty—a gr.tcious mime which, on this occasion, lifts been most unhappily put forward. The Honduras flag was pulled down by his orders, and the British flag hoisted iv its place. A superintendent was appointed, and a new system of government established. As soon as this was mado known to our minister Mr. Squiers, ho dispatched a messenger to Mr. Chatfield, informing him tliat the island now helonged to the United States by treaty of cession, and that he expected' he would immediately evacuate it.— Daily News, 201 h December.

An Em io rant Ship on Fire.—Miraculous Escape or- 400 Persons.—Tbo Toy fwith the West India mail, the chief intelligence of which will be found hi another column), brings an account cf tlie total loss ofthe cmTgrant ship Caleb Grum-haw, Capta'n Hoxie, by fire, IV, miles S. E. of tho island of Flo res, one . f the Azores. The emigrants, 390 in number, with the crew, were providentially saved from destruction. The cry of'fire' was raised at about eight o'clock on tho night of'the 12th ult. The decks were immediately flooded. On raising one of the fore hatches, the nre was discovered abreast of the chain locker. The heat was so intense that no one could live below, and tha immense quantities of water poured into the ship by the crow and passengers generated steam, and tho heat at leugtk became insufferable. But this was the only means by which the ship was kept from being rapidly consumed. The boats were towed aside of the burning vessel for five days and nights, filled with poor emigrants bewailing their fate, while about 60 wero on a raft, when a ship was seen bearing towards them, and which proved to be the barque Sarah, Captain Cook, bound from London to New Brunswick, iv ballast. As soon as the captain of the Sarah saw the signal of distress, he immediately approached the Caleb Grimshaw, but was only able to get on board, during the night of the 17th, two boatsful of passengers owing to the wind blowing hard. Tbe next day, the 18th, he got on board about 150 passengers. Night approaching, and the wind still increasing he was obliged to lay to. Oil the 19th there was a heavy sea, and no more cot 11 be got off. On the 20th about ten persons who had escaped fro "a the burning ship, volunteered to return and relieve those who were on board, as by this time there was no more water or provisions to be got -without raising the hatches, Tho mainmast was now settling down, and the upper deck was working each way. On this day the ship floated to the leeward of Floi-es into smooth water, and during" the night all the passengers that remain ■ ed on board were got off. Before the last ofthe crew left they lifted the hatches aud_ immediately the ship burst into a terrific blaze. The escape of all the persons, 399 in number, was most miraculous. Consider a ship filled with nearly 400 persons, oii fire for eight days and nights and not a single person lost his life ! Nothing but the continual flooding of the ship prevented her from beiug burnt to the water's edge, and every soul on board perishing bsfore relief could be had. The men and crew worked like horses. Tho conduct ofthe master of the Sarah was beyond all praise. For three days and nights did he hover about the burning ship amidst the most tempestons wea - ther, taking every opportunity to lower his boats to save some of the passengers. Nothing could exceed his heroism and humanity. To him under Divine Providence the unhappy emigrants owe their preservation. Although perpetually obliged by the tempestuous wind and heavy sea to leave them apparently to a dreadful fate, he always endeavoured to keep in sight, and cheer their aching hearts with a prospect of escape. The Sarah arrived at Fayal with the crew and passengers ofthe Caleb Grimshawin safety. The passengers had lost every thing on board, and were perfectly destitute, foe they had the greatest difficulty to get from the burning ship a sufficiency to keep them alive. Captain Hoxie chartered the Sarah fo take on the passengers to New York. The Sarah had not left Fayal when the Tay took her departure, but the American Consul was using the most strenuous efforts to arrange everything for her leaving. The Celeb Grimshaw belonged to Messrs Grimshaw, of Liverpool. The origin of the fire was not known.— London Daily News.

The Lixen Trade.—The Armagfi Guardian says,—•' It gives us pleasure to report a decided improvement in .hit. important branch of manufacturing industry in Ulster. In this locality tho change Air the better is gratifying. Weavers who could barely earn 3s. a-week--some four months ago, are at present in full employment, and earning (ss. weekly. Generally speaking, tho business is brisker now than it than it has been for the last ten years."

-head of a body of troops, and they made -r-asort of triumphal-entry into the town. "■'The Turkish soldiers lined the way as they passed along, and they were accompanied by the military bands of the garrison, playing martial airs. On the ..day after the arrival of this Italian bri•gade, a grand funeral service was performed in one of the churches, with the permission of the Pasha, for the repose of the souls of those who fell in the. late vstruggle in Hungary. M. de Iltoff and ■Count de Stunner have both complained loudly to the Grand Vizier of the conduct of the Governor of Adrianople, who gave so triumphal reception to these Italian rebels. Diplomatic relations are still suspended hy the Porte and the .■'•Allied Imperial Powers, and yet the representatives of Russia and Austria make their complaints as haughtily to the Grand Vizier as though they had, just placed the Porte under some great j . obligation.